Tim Dickinson of the Rolling Stone broke it down. The day before Congress broke for its August recess, on an afternoon when most of official Washington was tying up loose ends and racing to get out of town, Sen. Ted…
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On his show The Daily Show, Jon Stewart continued his nightly hammering of the Republican shutdown and on the video below, he includes commentary about President Obama and his role or lack thereof in the shutdown. And in his ever…
A lot of the market indicators of how much the financial world is worrying about a debt default have been quite calm over the last week. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index, for example, is only about 1 percent below…
Yet another Republican who cannot figure out what they are trying to get from shutting down the government. We previously heard Marlin Stuzman of Indiana say he doesn’t know what Republicans want. And now Peter King of New York is joining…