GOP Senators say national credit default might not be so bad.
Or if you click your heels three times, it might not even be default.
Chuck Hagel is in the late-phase trial balloon stage of being nominated as secretary of defense.
Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS), who represents coastal Mississippi, at the heart of Katrina devastation, voted ‘No’ for Sandy relief.
Former NRA Chief says banning certain semi-automatic firearms would be like a return to the days of Jim Crow.
Heads up that I’ll be doing a live chat with TPM Prime members at 4 p.m. this afternoon.
Topics include the fiscal cliff, the debt ceiling, taxes, health care and any of the myriad silly things Congress does. Get your questions in now.
Basically good-if-not great news throughout today’s payroll report from the Department of Labor. My basic breakdown is here. But I also want to emphasize that it, and basically all recent economic data, underscores the folly of a new debt limit fight.
Obviously I’m not saying that playing games with the debt ceiling would be legitimate way for Republicans to extract political concessions if the economy weren’t recovering, or if it were recovering more slowly. But at least they’d have a pretense to argue that the country required immediate policy changes to address an existing economic crisis. Read More
Joe Biden’s friskiest moments at yesterday’s swearing in ceremonies.
The gang’s back together … sort of. Also, the days when presidents didn’t hang with pro wrestling divas are over.