A Hand Worth Playing

Don't negotiate the debt ceiling.

If Republicans want to force a choice between gutting popular entitlements and destroying the economy, let them sink under it. This is their problem.

Federal expenditures are based on appropriations authorized by Congress.  The time and place to argue about spending is when making the decision to spend, not after spending the money and the bills are due.

I hope Obama has the nerve to play this hand.  I will enjoy seeing Republican heads explode.

Denial in Real Time

"There's no danger," said Michel Montini, a hotel operator and mountain guide. "There never was any danger. Peillex's pocket of water is a pocket of hot air."

Unlike climate change skeptics, most of whom will not actually experience the disasters they deny, Mr. Montini may actually live to see (and perhaps be killed by) that pocket of hot air.

Nature bats last.