…may not be treating the shutdown with the same basic reverence that many inside the Beltway are treating it with.
Then again, for all I know everybody on Capitol Hill is explicitly trying to roll to disbelieve right now.
Tag: shutdown
Tweet of the Day, Your Marital Problems Are Not My Business, @FLOTUS edition.
And I’m sorry to hear about them, Mrs. Obama.
Due to Congress’s failure to pass legislation to fund the government, updates to this account will be limited. #Shutdown
— FLOTUS (@FLOTUS) October 1, 2013
I mean, it must have been awful to have your own husband tell you that you’re not an essential part of the government.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
Tweet of the #Shutdown, This IS Definitive edition.
It’s perfect.
I HAD TO. pic.twitter.com/7T2oOaIAdP
— jon gabriel (@ExJon) October 1, 2013
Nancy Pelosi’s irrelevant budget objection.
It’s looking increasingly likely that Senate Democrats are unwilling to die on the hill of opposition to 4 billion dollars’ worth of cuts in the short-term emergency funding bill to supplement the continuing resolution that the Republicans had to pass in lieu of a proper budget that the Democrats refused to even offer last year – yes, that’s a bit of a run-on sentence. It’s not my fault. – anyway, Reid doesn’t particularly want to play chicken on this one, particularly since the cuts are to things that the President pretended to be in favor of cutting anyway*.
However, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi seems to have not gotten the memo, because she’s criticizing the cuts… and, by association, the President for suggesting them in the first place. Such a criticism requires only the highest, most logical rebuttal:
Sit down, Nancy.
Shut up, Nancy.
When we want your opinion we’ll ask you, Nancy.
Continue reading Nancy Pelosi’s irrelevant budget objection.