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The Atlantic: "Five Reasons the House GOP Is to Blame"

.....Great chart at end of showing impact of Bush Wars and Tax Cuts

Still: When we look back on the destructive folly of this summer, none of us will be seen at our best. But the people threatening to bring out the worst are mostly in the House GOP. As David Brooks put it in his column three weeks ago:

>> If the debt ceiling talks fail, independent voters will see that Democrats were willing to compromise but Republicans were not. If responsible Republicans don't take control, independents will conclude that Republican fanaticism caused this default. They will conclude that Republicans are not fit to govern.
And they will be right.<<

One of the deficit charts, via the New York Times. For more on its background, see this earlier post.

 ---- The Atlantic: "Five Reasons the House GOP Is to Blame" - http://bit.ly/os7qwx

Reflector.com - Editorial: "Jobless ignored in Raleigh"

....Thank you so much for writing this editorial! I'm from Ayden and now live in Augusta, GA. In GA, NC and across this country, the jobless have been sent to the back of the "political bus". The 2010 Elections were all about jobs until the Republicans won. Now, they only talk about debt, taxes and repealing progressive legislation. It is time for all of us to seek the middle ground.....reducing waste and unnecessary government expenditures while taxing the wealthy and major corporations to help maintain necessary government services, fix our crumbling infrastructure and educate our children.  Read the Editorial and give them so feedback..

....The GOP-led Assembly aptly demonstrated its view of the unemployed by blocking an extension of their federal benefits for six weeks. Republican leaders attempted to cast blame on Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue for the delay, but it was Perdue who ultimately bypassed lawmakers to restore the payments after an unnecessary tug-of-war...... 

READ MORE HERE ---Reflector.com - Editorial: "Jobless ignored in Raleigh"

The Atlantic: "Ideology Trumps Accomplishment as 112th Congress Pursues Futile Bills"

.....21 GOP Bills listed in this article. Not one has anything to do with creating jobs..."WHERE ARE THE JOBS MR. BOEHNER!!"

The Atlantic: "Ideology Trumps Accomplishment as 112th Congress Pursues Futile Bills" - http://bit.ly/nEvhLg

CredoAction: "Tell President Obama: Use your 14th Amendment powers and end the crisis"

SIGN THE PETITION NOW -----



The petition reads:

"President Obama, I urge you to invoke your 14th Amendment powers and end this crisis. The 14th Amendment clearly states that the US government's debt 'shall not be questioned.' Extremist Republicans in the House have held America hostage for too long. It is time to act without them. It is time to use your 14th Amendment powers." 

CredoAction: "Tell President Obama: Use your 14th Amendment powers and end the crisis" ---   Read More Here - http://bit.ly/oT36k4

U. K Daily Mail: "Forget space race, China dips into the deep-sea dash by taking manned sub 5,000m below the surface"

With the GOP Nuts in charge of the House, we will be second or third in the Space Race Ocean Race....

 As part of the country's deep sea exploration programme, the manned Jiaolong underwater craft this week reached a staggering 5,057 metres below sea level in an 'international area' of the Pacific Ocean.The Jiaolong's crew of Tang Jialing, Fu Wentao and Ye Cong, now hope next year to take their titanium-hulled 26ft-long craft even deeper to 7,000 metres.

If that dive is successful, it will mean the Jiaolong, named after a mythical Chinese sea dragon, will bypass the Japanese craft Shinkai to become the world's deepest exploration vessel.

U. K Daily Mail: "Forget space race, China dips into the deep-sea dash by taking manned sub 5,000m below the surface"  Read More Here --- http://bit.ly/p7QRXI

AllThingsD.com - "Obama: I Want YOU to Crash John Boehner’s Web Server"

....Among sites that went down Boehner's --

AllThingsD.com - "Obama: I Want YOU to Crash John Boehner’s Web Server"

Among the sites that went down: That of Speaker of the House John Boehner, the Ohio Republican who addressed the nation after the president. Others down as of 8:30 am Pacific time were those of Elliot Engel, Democratic representative from New York; Sen. Jim DeMint, a Republican senator from South Carolina; and Rep. Michelle Bachmann, the Republican from Minnesota now running for president. (Bachmann’s appears to be variously up and down, but slow to respond.) The Wall Street Journal has more.
Meanwhile, the president’s Web site is operating normally... More Here --- http://ping.fm/EKxWU

LiveScience.com: "For Shifts in Belief, 10 Is the Magic Number"

.........can't we find 10% that believe "GOP Is Nuts"

 

--- LiveScience.com: "For Shifts in Belief, 10 Is the Magic Number" - More Here--- http://bit.ly/n23vPS

Daily Mail - UK: "Warren Buffett blasts Republicans for ‘playing Russian roulette' with debt cap defiance"



Warren Buffett blasts Republicans for ‘playing Russian roulette and trying blow America’s brains out’ with debt cap defiance. The self-made billionaire accused Congress of being reckless by refusing to raise the government borrowing limit beyond $14.3trillion. --- http://bit.ly/pJnxmT

Scary New GOP Poll - The Daily Beast

Nicholas Kamm, AFP / Getty Images


On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he's a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim—and 24 percent say "he may be the Antichrist."
To anyone who thinks the end of the health-care vote means a return to civility, wake up.
Obama Derangement Syndrome—pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism—has infected the Republican Party. Here's new data to prove it:

• 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist.

The belief that Obama is a “domestic enemy” is widely held—a sign of trouble yet to come.

• 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim
• 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president"
• 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"
• Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."