Day 8 on the road. I am completely out of touch with what's going on, so here's my lame-O open thread.
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45 comments (Latest Comment: 12/29/2012 13:03:28 by Raine)

Morning all & in the usual place
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Good Morning. It is Christmas Day.

It is also our 4,097th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,171
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,072

We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 406, 484, 400,000 .00
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12 comments (Latest Comment: 12/26/2012 01:17:43 by Scoopster)

Poor, poor, John. Poor, pour John, yes, pour him another drink. He wants to go home and sit at his favorite bar. Turn in the large gavel to someone else. Paul Ryan maybe? So far, it doesn't look like anyone really wants the job. It's become the 'hot potato' of Washington.

His own party abandons him on his Plan B. Some of them later admitting they thought they were talking about a form of birth control.
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6 comments (Latest Comment: 12/24/2012 05:26:11 by Raine)

Republicans have been critical of President Obama since before he initially took office. As Congress bickers and gets little done, they - and in particular House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) - have tried to paint the president as an ineffectual leader. During the Libya crisis, they castigated him for "leading from behind". As we go through the same and sadly familiar yearly exercise of trying to get a spending bill enacted, Boehner has declared that the president should act like an adult and show some leadership on budget negotiations.
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74 comments (Latest Comment: 12/22/2012 02:10:02 by TriSec)