A big, sprawling criminal investigation into various aspects of Wisconsin politics yet no one can talk about it. Here’s what’s going on.
The idea that we’re going to get some sort of ‘grand bargain’ negotiation completed or frankly even started in the next eight weeks sounds basically ridiculous. And as important as ridiculous, simply unnecessary. In the short to medium term, the country’s fiscal gap is shrinking and despite House Republicans adding to the debt load by marginally increasing the costs of borrowing by the Defundo stunt, things are moving in the right direction. But given where we are, both politically and economically, the starting point for any grand bargain discussions needs to be a one for one formula between cuts and new revenue. And that means net new revenue. The earlier discussions were on the basis of zany 10:1 ratios and even then Republican leaders couldn’t actually get their caucuses to agree to any new revenue at all.
When we hear news of a mass shooting, especially a mass shooting on a military base, we prepare for really grim news. Happily, according to NBC News, this one seems to be emerging as considerably less so. Rather than a mass shooting, as we’re used to hearing about, this seems to have been an argument between a few National Guardsmen in which one doofus pulled out a gun and shot one fellow guardsman in the foot and another in the leg.
Perhaps we should coin the portmanteau, ‘derpfrag’ to describe this unfortunate but apparently nonlethal incident.
Flashback: GOP Wanted To ‘Fix’ Medicare Part D After ‘Horrendous’ Rollout.
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Did you know there was a new ‘truth’ movement about that lady who fainted at the President’s Obamacare event a few days ago? And Sarah Palin is on board!
Stupendous Daily Show segment last night on North Carolina’s new voting restrictions is a must watch — plus it led to today’s resignation of the local Republican official who said of the new voting restrictions: “If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it.” Watch.
NC GOP Precinct Chair not racist just needs Voter ID law because of “lazy black people that wants the government to give them everything.”