It’ll be interesting to see whether Obama actively resists the DC press framing of the government shutdown threat as a Republicans v. Obama fight. It’s a Ted Cruz v. Boehner fight, or a House conservatives v. Senate Republicans fight, or maybe just a Ted Cruz v. everyone fight.
Obama announces he just got off the phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani — the first direct communication between Iranian and American leaders since 1979. That puts the government shutdown/debt limit craziness in even starker relief.
Fox News went in to full defensive mode after President Obama warned Americans this week not to look to the network for helpful information on the Affordable Care Act.
Notwithstanding slow collapse of functioning state system in Washington, this is happening.
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In a genius move, House Republicans plan to add language delaying Obamacare into a temporary government funding bill and bring it to a vote this afternoon, a little more than 24 hours after defund Obamacare language in an earlier House GOP funding bill failed to make it through the Senate.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson and his wife have each published letters in the local paper in Cody laying into Lynne Cheney for telling Alan to “shut up” then lying about it.
Last week TPM hosted a rooftop party atop our DC office to celebrate the launch of our new publishing platform and the relaunch of TPMPrime. There I got a chance to meet Jamelle Bouie, one of several young journalists whose work I admire greatly but who I hadn’t yet had a chance to meet in person. We got to talking about the under-appreciated dangers of what amounts to our current Tea Party governance. Read More
At the height of Cruzapalooza, a number of conservatives claimed the press was ignoring Cruz’s ‘filibuster’ while they’d all but gone giddy over Wendy Davis’ filibuster in the Texas state legislature. Some reporters even fell for it. Tone can be subjective. But at least in terms of the quantity of press, the claim seems demonstrably false inasmuch as the national political news has been consumed by Cruz both before and after as well as during his ‘filibuster’ speech.
But look at this.
Sen. Collins denounces Tea Party legislative hostage taking strategy.