and legitimately want no more military interventions i count myself one of those have forgotten the power of articulated encouragement that means saying what side you re on and why and what principles you back. in this case, they should stand with the people in independence square in kiev just as much as their predecessors stood with the people of the warsaw pact. just because it doesn t seem there is much you can do. doesn t mean there isn t a lot you can say. and in the saying, show to the world that your country, for all its woes limits, for all of its distractions still has a beating heart. senator rob portman who was on morning joe yesterday, said, quote, i think we need to stand with the people who are suppo supportisuppor supporting democracy and freedom. we should stick with it.
nothing. new fast acting advil. look for it in the white box. happy election night. it is an off year, indeed it is an off, off year in elections, that doesn t mean there isn t a lot going on in terms of tonight s elections that s going to have a big impact not only in the relations between the parties but in the way cities and states are governed around the country. chris christie has won his re-election in governor of new jersey. we have invented this idea that somehow projecting from the
the other side is refusing. brit, now we have had 800,000 plus federal workers furloughed, sent home. but essential government employees are t at work. is this a shutdown or is the word slimdown more accurate and does this distinction even matter when we discuss this? it does. look, there is a great many people not at work. their government functions aren t being carried out. there are applications for programs and so forth not processed. there is a lot of work not being done. people will in time if they don t already feel that. whether they will feel it to the extent that the original idea of defunding obama care failed completely. it s dead. it was a bad idea. it didn t work. that doesn t mean there isn t
at the end there was a snowstorm that prolonged the government being closed. it was noticeable. now remember, we have this thing i think the administration is more worried about. the debt limit is coming up. the white house is saying things about that that i have never heard that amazed me . the president said today in an interview with cnbc that this time the markets should be worried. there might be a default. the fact is in the usual meaning of the word default means you don t make payments on the national debt, there is no possibility of that. no realistic possibility unless the treasury department chose not to make payments. there would be tax revenue still coming in even if we weren t borrowing money. jay carney said, republicans demands to tank the world economy, collapse the world
the possibility that some reform to obama care may be extracted by republicans if they hold firm. they are in a position where they are out on a limb. if they backed down completely now, it would be a disaster for them politically. i don t think they will. i think this shutdown is going to go on for a while. the lion s share of pain, it seem, for the shutdown or slim down is felt at least immediately, i think by government employees worried about mortgages, paying day care or whatever. that s the immediate. then you have the show piece things like the monument. we had a couple on who wanted to get married at the grand canyon. they couldn t. it was shut down. that s where the pain is isolated. i m curious. how long can this drag out. it dragged out in 1995-96 for three weeks.