Let’s hone in on the Matt Yglesias sentence doing all the work here, the one that holds the logic together, the one I boldfaced. “And the White House isn’t going to get away without giving something up in that fight.” This shows the major difference between Democrats and Republicans with respect to politics in the current era.

Sarah Palin’s movie opens with shots of celebrities like Matt Damon and Bill Maher wryly observing the oft repeated missive that she’s basically unqualified for county dog catcher.

The Senate will stay in session, working weekends as well as weekdays, until the debt limit issue is cleared, according to Majority Leader Harry Reid, in a statement.

These days you can get an original Xbox — with a few games thrown in — for about $40 bucks. The poor have it so damn easy in this country.

Someone should tell the President that if he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits before defense spending, he’s not in any position to be giving advice to progressives.

Will you take time to go visit the office of your member of Congress or Senator tomorrow, and remind them that the American people overwhelmingly oppose cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits, and that you will will not support them in 2012 if they take part in doing that?

If the Republicans were really worried about protecting the private sector from dangerous and unnecessary government uncertainty, they would vote to eliminate this foolish debt ceiling limit altogether.

Murdoch-owned papers are working overtime to defend Murdoch from blowback from the phone hacking scandal. And in a recent editorial addressing the business of news and those who are criticizing members of the News Corp family, the Wall Street Journal delivers a dig against papers like The Guardian that have done business with WikiLeaks.

Steve Benen had a look at Barack Obama’s last lecture, and let’s just say he had a different reaction.

As it turned out, Carmageddon was light on both the car and the “mageddon.” The 405 Freeway even reopened early. That’s what happens when federal, state and local government works together to solve a problem! For me, it was just another Southern California weekend. For the rest of the world…

• Republican debt temper tantrum backfires.
• The party of ideas.
• How the White House let the banksters walk.
• The Murdoch Mafia scandal grows.
• Real patriots trash the Constitution.