Obama slams Republicans for threat to blow up entire economy

[JimC]

The US has evidently decided to put itself in a permanent state of lurching from one cliff-hanger crisis to another...

Villains in black hats, tearful blondes tied to the railroad track, the hero in the distance on his white horse...

Tune in next week for the next gripping instalment!

[klr]

The US has evidently decided to put itself in a permanent state of lurching from one cliff-hanger crisis to another...

Villains in black hats, tearful blondes tied to the railroad track, the hero in the distance on his white horse...

Tune in next week for the next gripping instalment!

It's called "kicking the can down the road" ...

[JimC]

In the mean time, China will quietly invade Japan and the Philippines, and no one will notice until it's too late...

[klr]

In the mean time, China will quietly invade Japan and the Philippines, and no one will notice until it's too late...

Trust me, if that happened, we'd all notice very quickly.

... because the supply of iPhones would dry up.

[Tero]

There's iPhones made in them places? All Japanese goods are made in Taiwan now.

[klr]

There's iPhones made in them places? All Japanese goods are made in Taiwan now.

And all Taiwanese goods are made on the mainland. Where to go next ...

[subversive science]

There's iPhones made in them places? All Japanese goods are made in Taiwan now.

And all Taiwanese goods are made on the mainland. Where to go next ...

'Murka?

[Seth]

I've never seen you criticise him, as far as I can remember. But I have to admit, I haven't paid attention to anything you've written in about the last two years.

I'd say that speaks more to the capacity of your intellect than the quality of my arguments.

[Audley Strange]

The US has evidently decided to put itself in a permanent state of lurching from one cliff-hanger crisis to another...

Villains in black hats, tearful blondes tied to the railroad track, the hero in the distance on his white horse...

Tune in next week for the next gripping instalment!

The U.S. seems to have figured out we live in an age where "DRAMAH!" is actually more likely to keep them all in power than effective governance.

[Tero]

It's a noble mission

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume explained on "Special Report With Bret Baier" Monday night why Tea Party Republicans originally started their confrontation with Democrats over the bid to defund ObamaCare.

He argued that they're taking an unconventional approach, because the mainstream GOP has "utterly failed" to stop the growth of government.

Hume said:

"Veteran political observers on both the left and right are still trying to figure out what the House Tea Party caucus and its Senate pied piper Ted Cruz were thinking when they insisted on using the threat of a government shutdown to defund ObamaCare.

"It was a hopeless strategy that has not only failed in its stated goal, but helped send the Republican Party to its lowest favorability ratings ever.

"In conventional terms, it seems inexplicable, but Senator Cruz and his adherents do not view things in conventional terms. They look back over the past half-century, including the supposedly golden era of Ronald Reagan, and see the uninterrupted forward march of the American left. Entitlement spending never stopped growing. The regulatory state continued to expand. The national debt grew and grew and finally in the Obama years, exploded. They see an American population becoming unrecognizable from the free and self-reliant people they thought they knew. And they see the Republican Party as having utterly failed to stop the drift toward an unfree nation supervised by an overweening and bloated bureaucracy. They are not interested in Republican policies that merely slow the growth of this leviathan. They want to stop it and reverse it. And they want to show their supporters they'll try anything to bring that about.

"And if some of those things turn out to be reckless and doomed, well so be it."

[JimC]

And if some of those things turn out to be reckless and doomed, well so be it.

Kamikazi politics is alive and well in the US...

[cronus]

And if some of those things turn out to be reckless and doomed, well so be it.

Kamikazi politics is alive and well in the US...

This is Russian American Roulette...and next time we'll be a chamber down and in the same position...if you can move out of your city which ever city, it is a damned good time to do it. Food don't grow on concrete.

[Tero]

I actually look at Faux news website, well run compared to many news sites, and they have a pretty good scorecard.

Michelle B and states like Kansas Oklahoma Utah N Caroline voted no. That is what those people got elected on.

Colorado voted with Obama.

Graph and analysis. I think the vertical axis is vulnerability in next election.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/o ... eturn-live

[pErvinalia]

So all is now sweetness and light it would seem:

US shutdown: Senate reaches fiscal deal

Republican and Democratic leaders of the US Senate have struck a cross-party deal to end a partial government shutdown and raise the US debt limit.

Their bill must also pass the House, where a small group of Republicans are expected to join Democrats to send the bill to President Barack Obama.

The bill extends the federal borrowing limit until 7 February and funds the government to 15 January.

It comes just a day before the deadline to raise the $16.7tn (£10.5tn) limit.

...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24557469

Booooo! So the neoliberal capitalist system isn't going to implode?

[pErvinalia]

The US has evidently decided to put itself in a permanent state of lurching from one cliff-hanger crisis to another...

Villains in black hats, tearful blondes tied to the railroad track, the hero in the distance on his white horse...

Tune in next week for the next gripping instalment!