Here we go…again. It looks like the debt ceiling circus may actually be at the end of the endgame. The President trudged to the microphone tonight and announced a debt ceiling deal with the Republicans. He also mumbled some stuff about evil rich people, but we’re pretty much ignoring that as reflex at this point. […]
Back in the early days of the debt ceiling circus, before it became a maze of twisty little deal offers, all alike, the left-wing site Talking Points Memo was all atwitter. The entire debate — not just a couple early conservative suggestions, but the whole thing — was the beginning of a new dark age, […]
As I wrote yesterday, we seem to be in the endgame portion of the partisan debt ceiling circus. It’s entirely possible that the whole deal will be finished some time tomorrow and all the made-up talk of crisis will fade until the next time there’s some need for a few partisan points. We’ll see. You’ll […]
Here we go. ABC News is reporting tonight that Republicans have worked out a deal with the White House on a tentative debt ceiling agreement. The bullet points are: Debt ceiling increase of up to $2.8 trillion Spending cuts of roughly $1 trillion Special committee to recommend cuts of $1.8 trillion (or whatever it takes […]
You may think you have plumbed the depths of idiocy in the debt ceiling debate, but you have not. I warn you, if you continue to read this post, you will come across an idea so stupid that it may well blast large parts of knowledge from your brain that you may not be able […]
In a world where asking the President for his budget plan is a Republican talking point, encouraging your Twitter followers to spam your opponents then spamming then for four hours is a gimcrack PR maneuver. Note whose tweet is featured at the end of that article. Who am I? Who am I? I can’t hear […]
It’s not so much that President Obama has hamstrung the economy but that he’s methodically stalked it over the past two and a half years. And now he’s clubbing it to death. Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at […]
Now is the time at The Sundries Shack when we engage in blatant self-promotion! I started this week as the contributing blogger to the website Ending Spending. It’s a site devoted to, well, I think you can figure it out from the title. I’ll be writing about government spending, budgets, tax policy and all sorts […]
I really hadn’t planned on devoting half of Episode 104 to the debt ceiling debate, but then White House Spokesmouth Jay Carney went and gave a press conference so blatantly offensive that I couldn’t help but talk about it. Thankfully a friend came along and helped me understand what Carney was really trying to say […]
Congratulations to my friend and Stacy McCain’s co-blogger Smitty, who is now the proud father to a brand-new son. Young Jebediah Obadiah Zachariah Jedediah Smith — no, wait, that’s wrong — young Niklas Dietrich Smith is happy and health, as are his very proud parents. Keep the family in your prayers. Smitty is home on […]
