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

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