Visualizing a Permanent Government Shutdown

Why is RedStateVT the Only Major Media Outlet Reporting This?
Two weeks ago Saturday Night Live, that ultra hip purveyor of New York Liberal thought, actually did a skit mocking Obamacare. Obama administration officials accustomed to watching SNL to get their yucks when Sarah Palin and John Boehner are maligned must have had seizures. You know your second term is in trouble when you are a Liberal president and SNL begins making fun of your signature policy issue. We at RedStateVT took extra satisfaction in SNL's swipe at the Obamacare provision which allows deadbeat 26 year olds to remain on dad's health insurance. 


Blow Back
This is bigger than Obamacare. This is about rich conservatives seeking to exert unlimited influence on our political system, and employing far-right Republicans who are animated, to varying degrees, by an innate hostility to this president, fear of diminishing influence and a disavowal of disagreeable truths.

This is about the fragility of our democracy: the possibility that a government by the people may swiftly give way to a government dominated by dark money and dark motives. (Charles M. Blow, NYT, 10/9/2013)

Writing about the McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission case before the Supreme Court, humorist Charles M. Blow dusts off his "Evil Republicans: Big Money in Politics" column. How can any serious columnist write an article on this subject which mentions the Koch Brothers, but fails to mention George Soros? 

Answer: Blow is not a serious journalist. 


Blue
This moment is reminiscent of Mr. Obama's bungling of the December 2010 Simpson-Bowles Commission report. He didn't just fail to act on its blueprint for righting the nation's finances—he acted as if he'd never heard of the commission that he appointed. (Karl Rove, WSJ, 10/9/2013)

Good reminder from Rove. Of course, the Legitimate Media gave Obama a pass on this. 

Too.