Sorry no Outlook or Underbuzzed yesterday, I was off the grid. Here's today's Morning EDition:
TODAY
- The president gives a handful of TV interviews about the debt-ceiling talks.
- The president meets with congressional leaders for new debt-ceiling talks at 4:15pm.
BUDGET
- The budget deficit is shrinking. Shrinking.
- GOP senators vote against spending on the military and veterans. (See the foreclosure story under Wall St. / Banks.)
- The Army Corps of Engineers has run out of money to protect you from flooding. Build your own damn dam.
- A clear set of choices emerges as Republicans and Democrats head back into talks, including a possible Camp David summit.
- House GOP Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) gets called out by the president.
- A lengthy account of the exchange.
- Even the way Cantor talks about the talks flouts historic precedents of comity.
- Fifty-two Republicans ask Obama to identify his spending priorities in event of default, thus confirming they know it will have consequences.
- Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) wants to protect military spending from a default (after accusing Obama of scare tactics for saying other spending might be frozen).
- Cantor signals possible openness to the cave of Sen. GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
- Cantor is apparently misleading his own caucus about what's happening in closed-door talks.
- Seniors push back hard against proposed entitlement cuts.
- Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) admits the GOP is getting hoist on their own petard. (Really wanted to say paultard, but what would be wrong.)
- How Republicans can raise taxes: Don't CALL them taxes.
- The choices Obama will have to make if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling.
- Moody's, Standard & Poor's issue warning signals on America's credit ratings.
- Wall St. is starting to think the GOP might just be stupid enough to do it. (Making people think you are can be good strategy.)
- Moody's pushes for austerity measures here, because they're working so well in Europe.
- The rich fear default, but they also fear progressive tax reform.
- Congressional Democrats sound open to McConnell's cave.
- Analysis: Cantor's going to own the outcome.
- Poll: Twice as many Americans blame Bush for the economy than blame Obama.
- Poll: More voters will blame the GOP than Obama if the US defaults.
- Poll: GOP is out of step with Americans on taxes; they stand with Obama.
- Nate Silver: Poll numbers show Dems should not back down.
- Poll PS: Public remains almost twice as concerned about jobs as deficit.
- Cantor admits obstructionism matters more to his party than anything does. No, really. Literally. Explicitly. Openly.
- VIDEO: McConnell admits his politics matter more to him than democracy does. No, really. Literally. Explicitly. Openly.
- VIDEO: Rep. Steve King (R-IA) admits his politics matter more to him than facts do. No, really. Literally. Explicitly. Openly.
- VIDEO: Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) admits his politics matter more to him than history does. No, really. Literally. Explicitly. Openly.
- VIDEO: Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) takes aim at his own party in new ad.
- VIDEO: Wonder how McConnell feels about Palin responding to his cave with "Don't retreat, reload."
CLASS WARFARE
- Charts: Poor and middle-class now pay nearly the same rates the rich do.
- The LA Times weighs in on ALEC.
JOBS
- Orszag: Brace yourselves for possible decades above past unemployment rates.
WALL ST. / BANKS
- Obama vows to veto spending bills that lack sufficient funding to enforce Dodd-Frank Wall St. regulation.
- Dems charge Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) with canceling financial-services hearing to defend Wall St. from adverse testimony.
- A rising number of active-duty military face foreclosure by the banks they're fighting for.
- VIDEO: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is afraid the government will "bully" the banks.
EDUCATION
- House GOP votes to let states steer fed money away from lower-income students.
- While rules fail to protect students from predatory lending, higher-ed CEOs cash in big-time.
WISCONSIN
- Poll: Fewer than half of voters oppose recalling six GOP state senators.
RIGHT-WING MEDIA
- Where's noun-verb-9/11 Giuliani on the Murdoch attempt to phonejack 9/11 victims?
- Staunch conservative Rep. Peter King (R-NY) joins the call for a Murdoch investigation.
- The Murdochs refuse to testify in the UK.
- ThinkProgress echoes the point I made earlier this week: Murdoch tried to weaken the laws he's accused of violating.
- Murdoch makes two magazine covers.
HOMOPHOBIA
- Rick Santorum defends his right to love pledges.
JUSTICE
- Prisoners near death protesting horrific conditions.
VOTING RIGHTS
- House Dems target racist voter-suppression measures.
MINNESOTA
- Well, if this won't make the public hate a shutdown, nothing will.
2012
- Report: Romney won't fight for a win in Iowa.
- When comparing fundraising prowess, don't forget the secret GOP cash.
- Democrats are likely to revive Romney's anti-jobs business record.
- VIDEO: Another Romney ad with a businessperson blaming Obama for the economy. Romney highlights the ad's star today.
(What I'm reading: Greg Sargent's Plum Line, Think Progress, Matt Yglesias, Talking Points Memo, TPMDC, Taegan Goddard's Political Wire, the Washington Monthly, CNN's PoliticalTicker, the National Journal, Ezra Klein, Politico's Playbook and Huddle, Dave Weigel, Wonkette, Firedoglake, the NYT Caucus, Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars. What my iPod has me listening to: Levitate by U2.)
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House GOP Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) gets called out by the president.
Eric news flash,,, guess who Starts and End meeting in the white house?
yes that`s right the PRESIDENT!!!! not you not anyone else.
to bad you have knifed Beohner in the back or you would have some one to go and cry with after being schooled.
funny Obama still playing Chess and the republicans are trying to get their checker board set up.
What is a real american? Would this not be a person who loves this country so much that they put the well being of this great nation and its citizens above all else? A person that is willing to put their person hates aside for the good of all, regardless of race or sexual orientation? The spoils of this fight will not be worth governing if the republicans can not come to the table and negotiate in good faith for the good of the American people and not for the 2012 elections which they are throwing away and I have great doubt that they will. Eric Cantor thinks he is a smart man and in fact, he is a dangerous man in the worst way.
I give credit where credit is due. The president is more brilliant a strategist that anyone gave him credit for.
ok ok
if you want it here it is
lmao AT YOU!!!!
easy no defends need.
He is doing the job just wish the White/Right wing could just do haft the job we be ok!
or if that side would believe in America and not MONEY! we be moving along.
but i know you have blinders on and will not be able to comprehend, which is ok.
LOL
Congressmen, it seems have forgotten how and why they are in Washington so see if this helps!!
Congressmen serve their congressional districts and have as their primary duty the responsibility to make the best decisions for their constituents as their elected representative to the federal government. No place in the framework of our Constitution does it indicate that their responsibility is to say whatever it takes to get elected and spend their term in office following blindly behind their parties flights of fancy, consequences be damned.
If every congressional member would follow their heart and common sense and think for themselves, we could accomplish the tasks at hand. If the founding fathers thought as they do, we would still be arguing over the preamble to the Constitution.
You overpriced bellhops need to have your head surgically removed from your parties behind and do the job your being paid and were elected to do or get the hell out of the way and let somebody else do it.
It’s not hard to walk if you take one step then another then another then another then another …………………..
Isn't life funny, the very man who some always said wasn't an American, wasn't born in this country they said. But he is the very one fighting to save this country. And the ones who loves to wrap themselves in the U.S. flag is all set to destroy this country.President Obama want to do what is best for this country, the Mitch McConnell and the Republicans are playing all for 2012. And protecting the rich. They are sabotaging this economy. Ad if the debt ceiling isn't raised it's all on Boehner, McConnell and the Republicans. I'm proud of the President for putting Eric Cantor in his place. It's to bad, Speaker Boehner doesn't have the guts to do so. Is Cantor the Speaker or is it Boehner? One thing the President let Cantor know that he wasn't President.
Read it and weep, Lets Go:
new Quinnipiac survey released Thursday showed that, 48%-34%, voters would blame Republicans instead of Obama if the debt limit is not raised and the nation defaults. Voters also support his call for a "balanced package" that includes both new revenues and spending cuts
Enjoy this one too:
Another metric no doubt pleasing to the White House: by a two-to-one margin, voters say they blame President George W. Bush over Obama for the economic recession. Fifty-four percent say Bush is more to blame while 27% point the finger at Obama; the split is 49%-24% among self-identified independents.
I think it was Lawrence O'Donnell who said Cantor wrote in his own yearbook that "I want what I want when I want it." I have a feeling he's used to getting pretty much everything he's always wanted. I'm glad Obama pinned his ears back!! I can't wait until 2012 when we get rid of these Tea Party Republicans and anyone else that subscribes to their idiotic views.