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September 17, 2013
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Happy Tuesday.
ICYMI, Joan Walsh had a LOL-worthy series of tweets yesterday.
Hey, you want to go to war against GOP members for something? Go to war over this. They are wrong as a matter of policy and wrong as a matter of politics.
By the way, if I haven't mentioned how awesome Cuffy Miegs (sometime openblogger) is on Twitter before, well . . . you should just take a peek. Yeah. Follow dat.
WaPo's Nakamura sorta excuses Obama for his second term thus far -- "events overtook him" -- but it's such a half-hearted defense, the whole thing comes off as a mere litany of Obama's failed leadership. While there have been "unpredictable calamities," the decision to seize them to try and score political points off Republicans has been Obama's own folly, and there's nothing unpredictable about that.
There are 5 legislative days to avert a government shutdown. Thus far neither Cantor's nor Lee-Cruz's plan has been voted on. There's a question: who gets blamed for a shutdown if the GOP doesn't actually vote on a CR at all?
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