That's a clown suit question, bro.

Did you see the comment by Patrick that Glenn linked to? “I think it would be the ultimate act of honesty to dress the Secretary of the Tr...

Hope and change... into a clown costume.

Paul Krugman responds to the pushback he's received on "the trillion-dollar-coin thing": There seem to be two kinds of objecti...

Obama wants to "make this country a little fairer."

With "the Buffet Rule" : "If you make more than $1 million a year, you should pay at least the same percentage of your income...

"President Obama on Monday unveiled a $3.8 trillion spending plan that seeks to pump billions of dollars into the economy while raising taxes on the rich..."

"... to tame a soaring national debt now projected to grow significantly faster than previously forecast." President Obama, the de...

"Congress's special deficit-cutting committee bowed to reality Monday and called it quits..."

"... with both sides having concluded it was easier to swallow failure than any of the possible compromise deals offered...." Memb...

"The deficit-reduction supercommittee, stuck in a partisan deadlock, faces an almost certain collapse..."

"... raising the threat of disruptive military spending cuts and a resurgent public anger at Congress as it struggles with the basic ta...

Obama's bogus "Buffett Rule."

"Chart of the Day: 'Buffett Rule' Wouldn't Bring In Much Revenue." "The Buffett Alternative Tax: The rich don...

Today's Drudgetapostion: Qaddafi looking up, Obama looking down (and Irene coming up).

I love the kinetic energy here : Qaddafi's unbowed head aims up and to the right, in the position associated with optimism and progress...

"If you think balanced-budget amendments are the stuff of madmen or dreamers, you were in for a surprise this month."

Writes Bloomberg columnist/Harvard lawprof Noah Feldman. No, not the requirement of the U.S. debt-ceiling agreement that Congress vote up or...

Harry Reid names Patty Murray, Max Baucus, and John Kerry to the deficit-reduction "super-committee."

The WSJ reports , noting that these 3 "are considered neither ideological purists nor eager compromisers." Mr. Reid avoided choosi...

"The so-called 'right' or 'Tea Party' in this republic is being so thoroughly rolled and defeated..."

"... that I am struggling to come up with an adequate violent submission metaphor that does not involve prison rape . . . and they hone...

"I got 98 percent of what I wanted. I'm pretty happy."

Boehner.

NYT op-ed: "Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people."

By Joe Nocero , who is one of the regular columnists now. Quite aside from the outrage of comparing tea partiers to terrorists, Nocero is — ...

"Gabby is voting to support the bipartisan debt-ceiling compromise."

And, as the bill passes the house , presumably everyone is reminded of the new commitment to civility that went to hell somewhere between Ob...

Satan sandwich!

That's another meme... another phrase that will stick with us as we stumble forward into 2012: A fantastic bit of rhetoric from an enrag...

Mitt Romney opposes the debt-ceiling deal.

He said: While I appreciate the extraordinarily difficult situation President Obama’s lack of leadership has placed Republican Members of Co...

"We all remember that classic scene from The Godfather where the movie producer Jack Woltz wakes up with a horse's head in his bed."

So begins a TPM post , where you know without glancing ahead that it's some damned analogy for the debt-ceiling deal. Predictably: ... M...

The news media declare a big victory for conservatives... but why? I'm skeptical!

Wall Street Journal: "A Tea Party Triumph: The debt deal is a rare bipartisan victory for the forces of smaller government." New Y...

Senator Durbin says the debt agreement is "the final interment of John Maynard Keynes."

"He normally died in 1946 but it appears we are going to put him to his final rest with this agreement."

"You're Gonna Pay."

Everyone's talking about the anthem of the ages. ADDED: The Crack Emcee is talking about it. And not in a nice way.