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 Threads
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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A good kind of discharge
Maybe my discharge petition idea was nuts, but with Boehner paralyzed it really might be our one way out of this mess. Plus the Democrats have warmed up to it in a hurry. The key targets of this strategy have not changed so check this post to see if you live in an especially key …
Deep thought
Will we start defaulting on October 17 if John Boehner does shoot the hostage? Maybe. Some very smart people figured out that date, but these guys are not gods. They just took current expense rates and extrapolated it forward. However, things happen. Maybe hurricane Karen hits Louisiana this week a little harder than expected, or …
Does this Qualify?
We’re in the biggest open enrollment period of my lifetime. Open Enrollment is when people who don’t have a plan can get a plan and those who have a plan can change plans without penalty. Open Enrollment is a common feature in any non-NHS system including the German, Dutch and Swiss as well as the …
Early Morning Open Thread: Red Meat
(Nick Anderson via GoComics.com) . Timothy Egan, in the NYTimes, condemns the Repubs to the “Wrong Side of History“: Sarah Palin finally got her death panels — a direct blow from the Republican House. In shutting down the government, leaving 800,000 people without a paycheck and draining the economy of $300 million a day, the …