I saw a lot of questions on how this might be accomplished in the comments during the Syria debate: The United States and its partners are planning a series of rapid steps to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons program, a strategy that is intended to guard against backsliding by President Bashar al-Assad and limit the time …
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Open Thread: Lying to Each Other, and Themselves
(Nick Anderson via GoComics.com) . Gail Collins, in the NYTimes: … Over the past few years, Republicans have terrified their most fervent followers about Obamacare in order to disguise the fact that they no longer knew what to say about their old bête noir, entitlements. Now they can’t turn the temperature down. Let’s review. Not …
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Open Thread
Looks like we need one-I assume there’s some college football going on today, so have at it.
Early Morning Open Thread: GOP Victimology
(Matt Davies via GoComics.com) Mr. Charles P. Pierce, as always, goes to the rotten heart of the problem: … A largely unremarked element of the etiology of the prion disease currently afflicting the Republican party — and therefore, alas, the country — is the carefully cultivated, and by now deeply inculcated, sense of conservative victimhood …
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What the Fresh Hell?
Fell asleep in my chair and went to bed, woke up and couldn’t sleep, so I checked the website and it has been unattended for hours. There is no chance in hell I am wading into those other threads, so here is a fresh one for you. I apologize for leaving you alone for so …
Open Thread: Tailgunner Ted and the Chamber of Echoes
(Jeff Danziger’s website) Alex Pareene, at Salon, explains “How Ted Cruz is coordinating the (incoherent) conservative shutdown strategy“: … We sort of knew that while Ted Cruz was acting in defiance of Senate Republican leadership, he had a merry band of followers, consisting of a couple of other senators and a larger bloc of hard-liners …
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Open Thread: I {Heart} My Senator, Elizabeth Warren
Got an email from Senator Warren today: … Government is real, and it has three basic functions: *Provide for the national defense. *Put rules in place rules, like traffic lights and bank regulations, that are fair and transparent. *Build the things together that none of us can build alone – roads, schools, power grids – …
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