Some classic Lindsey Graham special pleading here:
We won’t be the last political party to overplay our hand. It might happen one day on the Democratic side. And if it did, would Republicans, for the good of the country, kinda give a little? We really did go too far. We screwed up. But their response is making things worse, not better.
We were expecting a newly revised plan from Speaker Boehner to come up for a vote this evening, but that has now been delayed indefinitely. House leadership is saying no decision has been made yet and leadership will be meeting soon. But it seems clear that Boehner lacks the GOP votes to get this revised plan through.
House GOP leadership confirms no vote tonight on their mythical debt plan.
After things collapsed on the House side, a Senate GOP aide told our Dylan Scott, “Ted Cruz and his Tortilla Coast Republicans are leading us to a default.”
Why today’s Supreme Court decision to accept a greenhouse gas case isn’t as worrisome as it might look.
A historical shutdown crisis you may not know about, involving Rutherford B. Hayes and the KKK.
For everyone who’s wondered about what whackadoo alternative universe the country’s fallen into these last two weeks, with Jim DeMint’s Heritage Action Fund and Senate Conservative’s Fund driving things forward, let’s remember this video from days after the 2012 election. Seriously. Just a moment. It will put it all in perspective. Watch.
Heritage Action CEO, who led the crusade to shutdown the government unless Obamacare was defunded or delayed: “Well, everybody understands that we’ll not be able to repeal this law until 2017.”
It’s not official yet, but all the indications coming from official channels are that Speaker Boehner will bring to a vote a bill that more or less cleanly raises the debt limit and ends the government shutdown. By doing so, Boehner will finally free so-called Republican moderates to join with Democrats in doing what they’ve wanted to do all along. Sahil Kapur has all the latest here.