In case of impending default, start shutting down

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Thursday October 15, 2015 · 6:38 AM PDT

2015/10/15 · 06:38

I have a modest proposal to deal with the impending cash flow problem and to avoid a default on United States debt, on or about December 11, 2015. I've discussed the general questions it relates to in messages to a certain staff person at Daily Kos. Default is a real possibility, with the Republican Conference in turmoil. I'm linking to some related diaries -- my apologies if I don't link your relevant diary.

Laura Clawson has shown that Ben Carson doesn't understand the debt limit, but I suspect the same is true of much of the "Freedom" Caucus. We are, in Greg Sargent's words, being held "hostage", as another diary notes well.

The House Republicans are in chaos, and another diarist here has suggested a coalition government. One Democratic Congressman, Mark Takano, has suggested looking on Craigslist for a new Speaker.

While well-meaning, please see below the orange curls for possible solutions involving Executive action.

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Good idea?

14 votes Vote Now!

Good idea?

Yes

3 votes

4 votes

Pie

2 votes

Oh, I get it!

5 votes

Indiana gets marriage equality

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Wednesday June 25, 2014 · 8:59 AM PDT

2014/06/25 · 08:59

Breaking - Indiana - the Hoosier state - has gotten marriage equality, according to Lambda Legal!

Nazi wacko running for Library board

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Tuesday May 21, 2013 · 7:13 AM PDT

2013/05/21 · 07:13

Short diary. Place this in your "strange but true" file. Jose Lopez is one of two candidates in today's election for Albany (NY) Public Library Board Trustee.
See this YouTube where Lopz unfurls a swastika flag. He is anti-gay and pro-Nazi. I am concerned that, with low turnout, this guy could get elected.

Please tell your friends in the city of Albany, New York to go out and vote for John D. Davis, his opponent, who is also known as an environmentalist. Polls are open today, May 21, 2013, until 9:00 PM.

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Monday October 18, 2010 · 4:44 PM PDT

2010/10/18 · 16:44

OMG. I don't know where to start. Angle claims she's Asian:

I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

Both the Associated Press and CBS News have reported on this story.

But it gets better, as when she tells the tittering students:

"some of you look a little more Asian to me"

Jumping the shark refers to the exact moment a previously sucssesful person crashes and burns, much as "the Fonz" literally jumped a shark on "Happy Days" in 1977.

Angle has been doing so well in the polls lately. I did not know that sharks lived in Nevada.

Impeachment (w/ poll)

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Saturday April 14, 2007 · 9:04 AM PDT

2007/04/14 · 09:04

I've been one of the people at Daily Kos holding back on an endorsement of Impeachment. Aha, but now's the time to start talking Impeachment of Bush and Cheney! It's not the individual crimes that matter, but the cumulative effect of an illegal pattern of activity, and the cover-up of those crimes. Today's Doonesbury has inspired me.

Let me count the ways.

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I support Impeachment:

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I support Impeachment:

and have for years.

136 votes

and have since November 2006.

14 votes

and just now that I think of it.

2 votes

and pie.

3 votes

and 3.14159 ....

2 votes

for Democrats only (I am a Repuglican).

4 votes

A resolution is the 1st step

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Thursday February 15, 2007 · 12:09 PM PST

2007/02/15 · 12:09

Pardon and apologies if anyone else has diaried this specific topic.

In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne, Jr., argues that:

"The anti-surge resolution is a necessary first step, which is why those who are against a genuine change in our Iraq policy are fighting so hard to stop it."

He also points out that, at least in the Senate non-debate/filibuster, Republicans including Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) argued that Congress could not state

"its views, except though a vote to block funds for Iraq."

More below....

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Monday February 05, 2007 · 2:37 PM PST

2007/02/05 · 14:37

Do conservatives, on the whole, speak and write well?

I don't think so. I has not been in my experience. I have long thought that conservatives tended to be poor communicators, Ronald Reagan being an obvious example contra (pardon the pun).

Popular media news outlets tend to edit out the boring parts. They have to do so, being "all the news that fits, we print." TV, in particular, saves the great and interesting "sound bites", and airs those. However, it redacts the endlessly boring stuff. It leaves out the drunken tirades, the spittle, the name-calling, and ad hominem attacks, et cetera. It may or may not keep in the politically incorrect statements, depending on the supposed impact on news: "Dog bites man: not news. Man bites dog: news."

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Do conservatives communicate well?

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Do conservatives communicate well?

Yes.

11 votes

Hell no.

32 votes

Yes, but only orally (verbally).

1 vote

Yes, but they make frequent errors.

10 votes

Yes, but only in writing.

3 votes

It is I, or is it me?

3 votes

Dude, shut up!

7 votes

Episcopal Church

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Thursday January 25, 2007 · 2:26 PM PST

2007/01/25 · 14:26

The Episcopal Church USA in Virginia is falling apart, with some congregations voting to leave the American Church and join an Anglican Church in Nigeria.

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In case of impending default, start shutting down

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Nazi wacko running for Library board

Sharron Angle jumps the shark

Impeachment (w/ poll)

A resolution is the 1st step

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Episcopal Church