Month: October 2013

This falls in the categoty of no shit, Sherlock. Said one GOP aide: “It’s the House of indecision. We don’t have the votes for a big deal, small deal, or short-term deal.” Thankfully, the president...

Jennifer Senior interviews Antonin Scalia and discovers that he thinks that the devil is “a real person” and that all Catholics believe that. SENIOR: Isn’t it terribly frightening to believe in the Devil? SCALIA:...

Harry Reid will give Senate Republicans the chance “to shut that whole thing down,” meaning the shutdown. The idea is that Senate Dems will move their own clean debt limit bill, rather than wait for the House GOP to...

On Monday, 10/7/13 Booman posted an article titled The Worst Bluffer in the World. In it he links to a Bloomberg.com article with the panicky headline A U.S. Default Seen as Catastrophe Dwarfing Lehman’s Fall....

While it is true that the Democrats’ willingness to pass a clean continuing resolution at sequester levels of funding constitutes a significant concession, I do have to wonder if it is quite the victory for the Republicans...