LiveBlog for Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Hal Sparks joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 9am ET / 6am PT for another edition of “Humpdays With Hal”

Christine Romans, CNN Business Correspondent, calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about how the debt ceiling negotiaions will affect you

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) calls in at 10:45am ET / 7:45am PT to talk about the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations

Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about the debt negotiations on Capitol Hill

House GOP leaders have postponed a vote on a plan to trade more than $1 trillion in spending cuts for an increase in the government’s borrowing cap that would be nearly as large.

Americans interested in responding posthaste to President Obama’s primetime call Monday to “make your voice heard” on the debt ceiling debate risked disappointment, as the Capitol Switchboard rang and rang, and scores of congressional websites crashed yesterday following Obama’s speech and the televised response from House Speaker John Boehner.

Democratic Rep. David Wu of Oregon announced Tuesday that he will resign amid the political fallout from an 18-year-old woman’s allegations of an unwanted sexual encounter with him.

A Norwegian cabinet minister will make a symbolic return on Wednesday to her bomb-damaged office as the nation tries to restore some normality after the massacre by a right-winger whose lawyer believes is insane.

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@Klassie was that for me? Thank you so much!!!

This guy is good - keeps it simple and focused on who's responsible for this debacle

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#9: I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming like the passengers in his car.

The stream of bonehead business reporter tripe spewed by Christine Romans has to be challenged. Plenty of blame for both sides? For what? Obama and Reid have offered what would, in a reasonable context that takes public opinion into account, be considered radically right-wing deficit reduction plans, but they're neither right-wing enough nor destructive enough for the Republicans to say yes. Apparently the Republicans are to blame for taking hostages over the debt ceiling and Democrats are, um, to blame for letting the Republicans do it.

I realize that Christine Romans is a business reporter and by definition knows nothing except what her business community handlers tell her to parrot on air, but does she get that the annual deficit as a percent of GDP is nowhere near historic highs? That simply allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire brings that annual deficit down drastically? When she complains that the stimulus failed, does she realize that the stimulus was half the size it needed to be and that at least half of what was spent was wasted on non-stimulative tax cuts that were demanded by the Republicans? Does she comprehend the impossibility of balancing the federal budget in a period of ~10% U3 unemployment and ~16% U6 unemployment?

Every time I hear jim doing the show tunes, I get an image of the frog from loony tunes singing. I wonder if marcus also makes that croaking sound when having to deal with his wife?

Boehner Bin Laden - ha ha :evil:

Stephanie mentioned the rate of gay teen suicide in Marcus Bachmann's state. I wanted to mention the Anderson Cooper special "The Sissy Boy experiment" and the Box Turtle Bulletin's reporting on the same thing under "What Are Little Boys Made Of." Make sure you have tissues when you watch, it is heartbreaking. George Rekers is not just a pathetic, closeted hypocrite with a bad comb-over. He is a self-hating gay man who is exorcising his demons on the backs of defenseless children. What he did to this child destroyed the entire family. The thing that hit me most, were the pictures of the little boy who was one of Rekers subjects. In the photos taken before Rekers "therapy" Kirk has the most beautiful smile. In all the pictures taken after therapy and throughout the rest of Kirk's abbreviated life that smile is gone. Kirk committed suicide in 2003 at the age of 38.

Marcus Bachmann is another George Rekers, right down to the lisp and the pray away the gay therapy. As pathetic and ridiculous as these men are,and as easy as it is to laugh at them, we cannot forget that they are also extremely dangerous to children.

sometimes the car has to crash before people wake up

Boehner-Cantor = Burns-Smithers

Morning all...

My car analogy goes something like this: What's that squealing noise coming out of DC? Oh, it's politicians doing donuts on the edge of a precipice...

time for the giant bong at the teabagger rally

Only if he showed it on twitter, Proud_Secular_Progressive

Ha! Stephanie's talking about going to the Cobbler now!

What is this, Narnia? :P

Shouldn't Boener have to resign for showing his caucus?

Yesterday morning in Dallas the LOW temperature was 86. This was the highest daily low ever. Any day, any year, ever. Yesterday was also the 25th straight day with a high of at least 100, with more in the forecast. You know, I'm beginning to doubt the "global cooling" stories I saw on Fox News last winter.

To take everyone's mind off the weather for a few minutes, here's a G4-TV interview with Aisha Tyler at Comic Con last weekend:
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/54307/Archers-Aisha-Tyl...