Nothing less than Fort Sumter will do
Michelle Bachman is rejoicing because the kingdom of heaven is nigh at hand. There is madness in the Republican enclaves America, and it is a madness that feeds on madness.…
No Face Savers
Once again I keep hearing that for Boehner to get himself out of this mess of his own creation, he will need some kind of face saving concession that he can take to his mouth breathers. However, if today is any indication, there will be no face saver for Boehner.
Today was spent easily boxing Boehner into yet another corner of his own making, after the Speaker's unwise comments on Sunday that he did not have the votes for either a clean CR or a clean debt ceiling vote. The response from all united Democrats everywhere was obvious to all: Prove it. Hold the vote. Do it now. That was the mantra today. But Boehner, being the weakest and most strategically dumb Speaker in the history of the United States, can't do that, for, as everyone knows, both bills would pass.
The only way out of this now for Boehner is for him to, pardon the expression, Ladies, man up. Take his medicine. Face the consequences. Allow votes on both clean bills, allowing both to pass. Yes, he will in all likelihood lose his job of Speaker as a result, but that is not our fault. It is his. If he does not do it, yes, he may remain Speaker, for a while. But being solely responsible for a continued government shutdown and then a debt default that plunges the nation in the Great Depression II, his name will go down in history as more infamous and loathsome than Herbert Hoover. And then the GOP will lose the House.
Late Night Video — Why Dummies Shut Down Government
Put down any liquids before you hit Play here. This is the best news coverage of the shutdown ever. (2 mins, 22 secs)
The Impeachment Scenario
Let's say the Republican traitors refuse to raise the debt ceiling (and yes, my Republican friends, I consider that to be an act of treason against the United States for the Constitution of the United States requires you to see to it that debts of the country are paid). What does the President do then?
I honestly don't know. But Professor Eric Posner reviews the ways Obama could justify unilaterally raising the debt ceiling.
QOTD — What Kind of Educational Summit Doesn’t Want to Listen to Its Practitioners?
And by practitioners, I mean teachers. Today, Governor Markell is participating in the NBC News Education Nation Summit in NYC. He is talking about early learning initiatives here, with Harriet Dichter, Executive Director of the Delaware Office of Early Learning.
“And you wanna know why they forgot the prosciutto in my sandwich? Satan.”
Scalia is being killed in the real world for his crazy-ass interview with New York Magazine. I'm loving seeing coverage like this on blogs like TheSuperficial which is a high traffic entertainment oriented blog.
(The interview) has already produced a goddamn orgy of quotes from him claiming to having secret gay friends to repudiating his own moderations. So here’s my favorite part where in the year 2013, a man who holds one of the most powerful and influential posts in our government talks about what he thinks The Devil is up to these days instead of possessing people and pigs like he used to in real life.
BREAKING: Jeff Christopher’s Idiotic & Vainglorious Claims Smacked Down by Supreme Court
I'm sure this will be appealed to God, who is the only judge Christopher recognizes.
Conclusion The judgment of the Superior Court is affirmed.
We hold that the term “conservator of the peace” in the 1776 Delaware Constitution and each successive Delaware Constitution has always been used only to describe a changing variety of public officials. That generic collective description has never defined the powers of any specifically named constitutional office holder. The Sheriff’s argument to the contrary is without merit.In other words: Stop trying to be a cop and do the job you were hired to do you idiot.
Republican Shutdown and Debt Default Apocalypse Open Thread, Day 6.
House Republican Ted Yoho (FL), a member of the treasonous Tea Party that is driving this Republican Shutdown and Debt Default, said this yesterday about the affects of a debt default.
"I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets."Morons. These traitors are literally morons. And for the record, the world's markets disagree violently with that assessment from the Teabagger.
Psst… Wilmington, wanna turn your declining fortunes around? David Byrne has something for you
While throwing money at the banking sector and big pharama haven't worked out - there is a business sector that can (very cheaply) drag Wilmington into a new golden age. David Byrne has what Wilmington needs.
Pulling Back the Curtain on GOP Intransigence
The NYT Sunday provides great reporting on how the GOP developed a detailed plan to invoke this budget crisis just so they could derail Obamacare. Starting with a letter that called for keeping the sequester cuts AND for defunding Obamacare, the GOP has had a scorched earth plan in place to try to get their way for most of this year:
Can Chip Flowers Manage His Department’s Budget? All Signs Point to No
In a bold act of *disclosure* this past Friday afternoon, at 4:30pm, State Treasurer Chip Flowers released his so-called "definitive and final report" on the problems his Agency has had with one employee in using her credit card in accordance with State regulations. This is a great example of the Friday afternoon data dump -- in which you hope that members of the media won't pay much attention and print your spin on this item. The Treasurer's "report" was dumped so late on Friday afternoon, that the press release that came with this thing didn't even get posted to the website yet. But perhaps this report was rushed out in an attempt to counterweight the News Journal article today that provides a big window into how mismanaged the expenses on Ms. Erika Benner's state-issued credit card were.







