Another season of watching Walter White play chess on a level that would challenge Michael Corleone. I can hardly wait. Now here's the news...
In news from the nonfictional underworld of crime, British police have arrested Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch's former top person in Britain and the woman behind the phone-hacking scandal. Labour Party leader Ed Miliband calls for the dismantling of News International, a News Corp. subsidiary that owns several British newspapers.
GOP leadership are slowly convincing the nutjobs that, yes, going into default by not raising the debt ceiling is a real thing and should probably be avoided at any cost. Whether they can get reality to sink in on time in another question. We're talking about some real slow learners here.
Herman Cain really is a terrible anti-Muslim bigot. And anyone who would dismiss the First Amendment so cavalierly gets to STFU about how patriotic they are -- because they aren't.
Rudy Giuliani talks about running for president again.
Lindsey Graham joins in on the Republican debt alarmism. No, we are not becoming Greece. Not even close. If the situations were reversed and Democrats were talking like this, Republicans would play their "Reagan's optimism" card and accuse dems of running America down. Guaranteed.
Finally, after pulling Elizabeth Warren's nomination, the White House puts forward former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to be the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
