`A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. No, Today’s Meeting Is Not An Epic Showdown I don’t want to turn into a curmudgeon about the news coverage of the GOP’s debt…
FIrST! With the worst cat.
And the worst cat of many …
Sympathies, David? He decorates himself like a Leni Riefenstahl movie set.
El segundo???
And here’s another bad cat…
The spending cuts need to start with the salaries of every Congressional Republican who voted in favor of this garbage proposed legislation. They are domestic terrorists, in thrall to their wealthy donors.
Seems to me that the closer we get to the ceiling, the more likely the only workable solution is a clean bill to raise it. The actual meat grinder of House/Senate conference doesn’t have time to play out anymore.
I was struck by Janet Yellen’s comment that "Congress stands behind the basic principle that America pays its bills. We’re not a deadbeat country.”
Interesting to me that a party that supports a deadbeat human being as a candidate would be willing to become a deadbeat country in order to gain political power. Biden probably should not lead with that during his “high stakes meeting” with the GOP leadership today.
Great!!! 
New rules for ME in the kitchen when i do the dishes!!! My wife’s rules just aren’t enough! Now Biden’s got to pile on, too!!! 
TFG will rack his brain to figure out how to undo that granny knot. That futile attempt will only delay the inevitable – a gag order. Anyone who hasn’t been living in a cave for the past seven years knows he cannot keep his stupid gob shut.
Seventh!
Not bad for three weeks downstream from a knee replacement.
“Instead, negotiations are typically slow, tedious, and not much happens until suddenly it happens.” This part sounds like catastrophe theory. I’m sure Stewart feels this. boo hoo
You have my sympathies and my congratulations. Knee replacement was the best thing a relative did for herself. It spared getting a hip (and knee) replaced further down the line.
Oh, and how about using the gas appliances you own, and changing to electric when they croak? None of them are immortal.
Or does that actually make sense?
Can’t. The founders were specific you can’t fuck with congressional salaries as they considered that type of leverage improper.
As such, at best the various departments would have to trim spending.
Biden would declare a budget emergency and direct what areas to cut.
He would have to target things that hurt republican districts most, but aren’t overt.
We could start by stopping Farm subsidy payments. Then certain defense contracts with red state footprints.
In a government shutdown, we shut out federal workers, there is some money.
Wish TPM would stop promoting Twitter in their Morning and evening memos.
I fully expect the jury foreman to signal the judge it is unnecessary for the jury to leave the courtroom.
It’s my third joint replacement, and, I hope, my last, barring injury. 2021’s hip was a walk in the park by comparison, but 2011’s shoulder was No. Fun. At. All.
The AJC has this story up about the civil war taking place within the state Republican Party, where the far-right segment of the party wants to expel those that they deem are not “true” Republicans, or as they like to say, they’re RINOs. Plus, they want to have the right to choose those candidates that can run as Republicans in future elections. That means Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other Republicans who rejected Donald Trump’s demands to overturn his election defeat are RINOS. So, if you’re not “Pro Life, Pro Guns, Pro God” Republican then you can’t join the Georgia state Republican Party. Or as my neighbor likes to tell the world, the only good Americans are “Pro Life, Pro Guns, Pro God!” She even has a baseball cap with that written on it and American is underneath it.
This is so sad and funny Putin found a tank for the May Day parade, and it is a T-34.
My therapist and I agreed one day that arguments over how to load the dishwasher are proxies for all kinds of, um, other stuff. (Full disclosure: Everything’s okay (now) in La Casa Buho.)
More seriously, these rules are intended to save water and electricity, which cost people money–and never mind costs to the environment when we use them. I thought conservatives were supposed to be in favor of saving stuff.
Biden’s opening offer should be that he will have Schumer put Kevin’s bill up for vote on the Senate for test vote if Kevin puts a clean debt limit increase up for a vote in the house.
Let the reps and senators be on record for the two opening bids.
Joe should publicly state this is the offer. Sounds incredibly fair and adult, but also fucks Republicans. Many in the senate can’t vote for the horrible cuts in Kev’s bill, and I think the clean bill has a decent chance of passing the house
After they finish playing games with the debt I fully expect Qevin to shut the government down on October 1st. Which is why this time I made sure I put 6 months of my salary in a rainy day fund. I fully expect the shutdown to go on for a while.
