Obama is trying desperately to avoid the so-called
fiscal cliff by putting more Medicare and Social Security cuts on the table and letting all but all but the super-rich off the tax hook.
Boehner tried to cover his ass with House Republican loonies by coming up with a ludicrous "Plan B." But as
Krugman writes in a great NYT piece, Obama was once again "
saved from himself by the
rabid ferrets."
Hopefully the union leadership of the
We Are One Coalition will be saved from themselves by pension-grabbing ferrets,
Quinn and
Madigan.
What's that Smell?
Finally, as we head into this wet, cold, Chicago weekend, I'm wondering what that foul odor is, emanating from
