But have Michael Barone and George Will given us their shutdown predictions yet (via)? @Crewof42 @Raffiwilliams @joshtpm @jbouie @DrJamesPeterson I was told a new gallop pole is out & the american people r really blasting obama — Steven (@Steveadvil) October 7, 2013 Update. Heh indeedy. @Crewof42 @Raffiwilliams @joshtpm @jbouie @DrJamesPeterson was told Michael medvied is …
Open Threads
Quick reminder
Crazy people out there. Please pick up a phone and ask your Congressperson to support a discharge petition and stop talking crazy about he debt limit. Everything really might depend on it.
Mid-Morning Open Thread
I dislike flying and almost never board a plane. But a plane almost crashed into me this weekend while I was innocently consuming mimosas and jalapeno potato chips at a tailgating party prior to the Gators-Razorbacks game in Gainesville, Florida. A banner-towing plane went down. Luckily, there were no life-threatening injuries to the two people …
Monday Morning Open Thread
(Jerry van Amerongen – Ballard Street via GoComics.com) It’s a political cartoon, if you replace the name ‘Martin’ with ‘Ted Cruz (R-Tex)”… Another happy thought for a Monday morning — here’s Professor Krugman on “Shorting Out the Wiring“: … Ever since Reagan, the Beltway has treated Republicans as the natural party of government. Sunday talk …
Late Night Open Thread: Apocalyptica
(Tom Toles via GoComics.com) . The MSM is getting desperate, too. Jon Chait, in NYmag: … The debt ceiling turns out to be unexploded ordnance lying around the American form of government. Only custom or moral compunction stops the opposition party from using it to nullify the president’s powers, or, for that matter, the president …
Open Thread: The Notorious RBG
Nice little Washington Post “lifestyle” piece on Judge Ginsburg: … It shows what a different time it was in judicial politics that Ginsburg — a leader of the American Civil Liberties Union, a believer in the “evolving” Constitution and promoted by the White House as a supporter of abortion rights — was approved by the …
NFL Sunday Open Thread
So as not to put stuff in the beautiful pet tribute below that doesn’t belong there…