So Which Republican Should We Do A Glowing Profile On This Week

There really is one every single week in the Times.

Jobs

Monthly jobs report comes out on Friday. I've been reading various news reports about the administration on the economy, somewhat related to Geithner's potential resgination at some point, and so much of it is about personalities and little about policy.


It's July 2011...

Tennis and Bad Movies

Fun afternoon.

Sunday Bobbleheads

Meet the Press has Wimbledon.

Face the Nation has Kasich, Deval Patrick, Scott Walker, and Villaraigosa.

This Week has a "Constitution Panel" and an "Immigration Panel." It's probably as horrible as it sounds.

Document the atrocities!

Wakey, Wakey

Billion, Trillion, What's The Difference

Don't know if this is the reporter's mistake or Schumer's.

“We need a willingness on both sides to give a little,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York. “We’ve given a lot. The vice president has said more than $1 billion in cuts has already been identified. And that would put us far down the road towards an agreement. The question is how to make up the rest.”

Europe Agrees To Give Billions To Big European Banks

Just fitting their tuxedo.

BBQ Time

Nothing fancy. Just franks and hamburgers. And beer.

Waste

Some waste is worse than others - and unoccupied housing can deteriorate pretty quickly - but, yes, in the context of the stimulus it was something people worried about way too much. A SUPERTRAIN with poorer than expected ridership* might cause you to rethink where you build the next one, but it's still a useful thing to have and at some point population growth will increase the ridership.

*But, yes, we've built plenty of highways to nowhere...

Incoherence

It's really hard to characterize just how weirdly and insanely the War on Terror has been conducted. On the one hand, pornoscanners and special shampoo transport requirements, on the other, gun shows.

So Now I Know

Got vaguely nostalgic for a certain era Superchunk and at the same time wondered, who dicks around on Twitter more pointlessly than anyone else on the planet?

Thread thread

Summer nights here are so short that I blinked and missed this one. Time for bed!

Signed,
Not Atrios

Time For A Glass of Wine

Afternoon Thread

I got nothin'.

Kangaroo Is Pretty Tasty

Don't know if it still is, but was pretty commonly available in restaurants in Europe in the aftermath of the Mad Cow scare. A nearby butcher sells it. So, yes, eat Kangaroo!

Lunch Thread

enjoy

Burn The Whole Thing Down

I have no idea what will happen with the debt ceiling issue, but I do know that even aside from the crass 'kill the economy to blame obama' gambit, there are lots of people who have an attraction to the idea of just burning the place down for the hell of it.

We will see.

Default

You're paying the risk premium for a reason.

Just default.

idiots.

Pretend

The NYT is the paper that shows up on my doorstep every morning, so it is my gauge of the traditional media. Apparently, when talking about European banksters, they can do more truth-telling.

Floyd Norris on extend and pretend, with feta.

As negotiations proceeded in Europe this spring over Greek Bailout II, Mr. Trichet laid down a line in the sand: Nothing must be done to force banks to take losses on the bad loans they have made to Greece.

Boon

Jesse Eisinger at ProPublica and the NYTimes, documents the bankster boon.