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Kagro in the Morning


Sep 18, 2013

Post-Navy Yard shooting, day two. Seems we've at least made progress on squashing the counter-productive reflex to insist that it's "too soon" to talk about mass shootings. I wonder if Keith Olbermann ever came around on that? Brian Beutler's "How to silence the NRA." Eric Boehlert's "The Growing Myth of Mass Shootings and 'Gun-Free Zones.'" Joan McCarter called in to help us round up other "hell in a hand basket" news. Simpson and Bowles are attempting to elbow their way back into the headlines. Speaker Boehner has once again lost control of House Republicans, and has had to cave to Teapublicans on the CR. And that chaos has now spread into the Senate, with David Vitter joining Ted Cruz at the head of the crazy parade. Joan lays out how we got here, step-by-step. Republicans claim to have (finally) come up with the "replace" part of "repeal & replace." But it's a secret. My Tom Friedman moment: the guy who came to measure for my new kitchen counters is a Sarah Palin fan who thinks Obama's decision not to immediately attack Syria was terrific. News breaks that the House Republican CR will briefly raise the debt ceiling. The NYT editorial, "The money behind the shutdown crisis." Gin and Tacos blog critiques The Corner, lest anyone think they're making sense on the CR machinations. Jonathan Bernstein's "Five biggest worries heading into the budget showdown." Matthew Cooper's "Navy Yard Shows Fallacy of NRA's 'More Guns' Solution."