Like clockwork, the self-important “pragmatists” in the Senate are banding into their little gang so they ride to the “rescue” and save us from ever having to decide something on principle. Then they clap themselves on the back for it! You can read it yourself, or you can trust that I’ve pulled the most important bit, here: As it would take time to enact such changes, the plan calls for

Visigothery! Somewhere, Terry Moran’s brother is poring over his OED with a magnifying glass and cursing the Tea Party for its hickspittle refusal to split rhetorical hairs. And he’s not alone.

…but should he try to use the 14th amendment to get around the separation of powers — and that trial balloon has been floated, and is garnering agreement from at least one former lawyer best known for a shrill wife and for slipping a bent cock into the mouth of an eager young intern before blowing a load on her dress — this bit from the Treasury General Counsel, George

One pissed off Chihuahua.

1. “Top U.S. Nuke Regulator: Fukushima Had No ‘Immediate Health Impacts;’ ‘Radiation Exposures … Were Able to Be Minimized’”. Meaning, no Godzilla, no Mothra, and no teenage samurai zombie cheerleaders terrorizing an already devastated Japanese countryside — though to be fair, I probably wouldn’t want to trip on Fukushima mushrooms anytime soon. 2. Which reminds me: four months on and still no letter. 3. For the record. 4. OUTLAW!

Veronique de Rugy. It can be done. Call their bluff. Mark Levin has been suggesting — and it’s a fair and quite frightening surmise — that Obama’s almost casual tempo leading up to the supposed drop dead date of August 2 can be explained by the President’s having made up his mind that, should a deal not be reached, he’s going to form shop for legal opinions that argue his

Democrat CEO Steve Wynn gets candid: Well, here’s our problem. There are a host of opportunities for expansion in Las Vegas, a host of opportunities to create tens of thousands of jobs in Las Vegas. I know that I could do 10,000 more myself and according to the Chamber of Commerce and the Visitors Convention Bureau, if we hired 10,000 employees, it would create another 20,000 additional jobs for a

I got $50 says Charles Johnson is killing himself right now for having backed this particular “historic” horse. (h/t JHo)

“White House threatens veto of Cut, Cap, and Balance bill.” Evidently, cutting spending, capping the percentage of GDP the government can claim, and amending the Constitution so that temporary politicians can no longer deficit spend us and future generations into economic slavery is a non-starter for this President. Instead, what we need is more spending, nationalized health care, and some high speed trains — otherwise the elderly and the middle

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky explains Social Security it to all the little people, who can’t possibly understand that kind of thing, their not being geniuses like, say, politicians: Here’s what I understand: there is no lock box, Social Security has been run as a Ponzi scheme, after August 2 revenues will be sufficient to pay service on the debt, Social Security, the military, veterans benefits, Medicare and Medicaid, the border patrol,