My apologies for what is gonna be just a quick hit-and-run diary, but there could be a news story out there that might cast the current GOP intransigence in a whole new light.
I know—my spidey-sense is absolutely certain—that some of the Tea Party class in the House are turning a tidy profit in gold right now. If we could expose the fact that they're profiting from the current uncertainty—and stand to profit even more by a Treasury default—that would be a pretty juicy scoop.
I mean, think about it: the Tea Party are exactly the type of gun-owning, Glenn-Beck-loving, survivalist-pamphlet-reading, "the-Federal-Reserve-is-a-Freemason-conspiracy"-believing yahoos that love to buy gold as a hedge against the coming biblically-foretold end times. Of course some of them are sitting on gold.
Granted, these guys don't exactly notify Kos of every personal investment they make, but if we could find evidence that they stand to profit from default—and I just know some of them do—then we could bring a little heat to bear, no?
Anyway, that's my brainwave. If I lived in a TP district, maybe I could call precious-metals dealers in my area and just shoot the breeze with them about whether they have any famous clients—you know, actors, sports figures... maybe politicians?
Or maybe not. I'm probably not smart enough to figure out how to get this dirt. But I still think it'd be good dirt to get. These guys are evil enough, crazy enough—and most importantly, dumb enough—to try to turn a buck off the apocalypse, and to do it in a way that they could get caught.
Whaddaya think? Is there a way to bust 'em?