The polls are in: The GOP is losing the shutdown fight.

ICYMI from last night: Why there’s no escape hatch from a debt default. No 14th Amendment, no platinum coin. None.

I had no idea this was happening. Kansas and Arizona are rolling out a two-class voting system or what they’re calling ‘two-tiering’. Premium allows you to vote in all elections, the freeware version allows you only to vote in federal elections. It’s the latest in the voter suppression game.

The saddest thing about this mess is that Republican can’t even decide why they shutdown the government and started threatening debt default? Obamacare? Or maybe now it’s the debt? Or a new supercommittee to pursue the ‘grand bargain’. Now they just want to negotiate. Which thing?

Craig Smith, CEO of Swiss America, one of those companies that sells gold to morons on conservative media outlets assures Fox News’ Neil Cavuto viewers that debt default should turn out just fine. Watch.

Man on San Francisco commuter train repeatedly brandishes gun, only to have no one notice because they were all too absorbed in their iPhones. People only noticed when he finally randomly shot and killed a college student on the train.

Set aside for the moment the hilarity that Paul Ryan now wants to make entitlement reform the objective of the shutdown/default brinkmanship. Check out how conservatives are reacting to his failure to mention Obamacare in the same Wall Street Journal op-ed.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) says that at worst default will be a “managed catastrophe.”

Koch Industries: Don’t blame us for the government shutdown!

We’re hosting a live chat at TPMPrime (sub. req.) at 4:30 p.m. ET with Anthony Townsend, the author of “SMART CITIES: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia.” He will be discussing the intersection of politics and technology, and issues related to urban planning, civic engagement, and disaster preparedness. Please join in.