Bill Wilson, ALG: Barack Obama is threatening that if Congress does not increase the $14.294 trillion national debt ceiling, the nation will default. In a letter to Congress, Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner wrote, “Failure to raise the limit would precipitate a default by the United States.” It is a rather curious formulation. Note that the Administration is not saying that if we continue to borrow trillions of dollars year

Gee, if only we could have seen this coming: The Strengthen Social Security Campaign released a letter Tuesday from 300 organizations urging him to take Social Security off the table in deficit reduction talks. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal activist group, is circulating a petition among Obama donors and volunteers, asking them to withhold their support for the president’s re-election if he embraces cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.

See? Cute kittehs! Too bad both these little fuzzballs will be forced to live in Obama’s socialist America — where life is spent with a boot on the neck, crushing debt on the shoulders, and red tape tethering us to our tiny rental efficiency apartments. Just sayin’.

Naturally. Because he can’t very will wring more tax revenue out of those all this redistributed wealth is going to, after all. Newsmax: President Barack Obama will call tomorrow for a combination of reductions in entitlement spending and tax increases on higher-income Americans to address long-term fiscal debt while drawing a sharp contrast with the Republican alternative proposed by Representative Paul Ryan, according to a person familiar with the plan.

This gets so much better when you actually see it. Honestly. People pretended to think this guy was cool. They sold him to us that way. Me, I look at him and see Dwayne Wayne after a four-pack of Bartles & Jaymes’ fuzzy navels.

Don’t mess with the GOP Jungle cats! Rrrrawr! Now. Who wants a julep?

Women, children, minorities, and those people who own the rights to The Philadelphia Experiment hardest hit.

That budget compromise all you sensible pragmatic conservatives championed and then cheered about, Jen Rubin — labeling those of us disappointed with the crumbs we were fed silly extremists who Just Don’t Understand Washington and real fiscal leadership? A joke. No, really. Fortunately, I’ve told you all this repeatedly. But I guess it’s less important to get that message out broadly than it is to punish me and my ilk

Tits rule! Tuesday is Equal Pay Day—so dubbed by the National Committee for Pay Equity, which represents feminist groups including the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority, the National Council of Women’s Organizations and others. The day falls on April 12 because, according to feminist logic, women have to work that far into a calendar year before they earn what men already earned the year before. In years past, feminist