It was pretty much all about shutdown strategery, today. Last week, traditional media reporting on the Cruz-sade was all about "He can't! He won't!" And this week? He can and will. Daily Kos, including our radio programming, is still like getting (a correct) newspaper early. For a change of pace,
Greg Dworkin kicked off his round-up with the much-discussed retelling of the H-bomb near-accident over North Carolina in the 1960s, but we ended up back on the continuing Gop civil war (and the fantasy that it will lead to a 3rd party movement).
Markos shines a light on Hillary Clinton's nod to the old "common ground"-finding exercise &
rolls his eyes. A
WSJ editorial
laments the state of Ted's Cruz-sade (but gets the terminology wrong--remember when that disqualified you for debate?).
Armando calls in and helps game out the various possible outcomes.
The Hill notes that the Cruz-sade
robs the House of time to respond to the Senate. Helpless Gop Senators don't know what to do about Cruz being a vice chair of the NRSC
while undermining incumbents! Will Republicans
"win" on spending issues no matter what happens to Obamacare? Jonathan Bernstein's
"The Day after Shutdown."