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Jon Stewart on Marcus Bachmann
It’s very rare that I get to see any kind of “mainstream” political satire on TV, since I really only see online clips which MSM almost never caption. Rubbish Transcriber over at Slog was kind enough to do a quick transcription, so I thought I’d share this with anyone else who would also appreciate this but who doesn’t generally watch TV except ( Read more... ) -
guess who just blinked
Well, well, well well. What do we have here? U.S. corporations press Republicans for debt deal
Wall Street, big corporations and business groups are mounting an increasingly frantic lobbying campaign to persuade Republicans to raise the debt limit as fears of a national default grow.
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the takabisha
[Audio: whooshing air]
Wow. Apparently the world’s steepest roller coaster ride. Quite a view at the 2:00 mark. Via Nope, nope, nope, not riding on this, thanks for asking.
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“we’ll do everything we can to push a default through, but if it does happen, be nice to
So we all know that the Republican wackaloons (that would be all of them, right now) in Congress are busy at work making sure that this country stands a most excellent chance of defaulting on its payments because of their absolutely beknighted resistance to any kind of reasonable inter-party work on a budget. (IOW: “no taxes! no taxes nooooooo ( Read more... )
