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Is anyone else experiencing the comments loading from oldest on top to newest on bottom? Started happening to me last night. I don't know if it's my computer or something else.

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Is anyone else experiencing the comments loading from oldest on top to newest on bottom? Started happening to me last night. I don't know if it's my computer or something else.

mine only does that when I'm not logged in. Other then that, all seems to be okay right now.

It seems intermittent for me.

Unless you choose to change the order, that should only happen when you are not logged in

Ohio Gov. John Kasich ® is considering accepting Obamacare's Medicaid expansion in his state via executive order, his office confirmed to TPM, after the state legislature stymied his efforts earlier this year.

The possibility was first reported by the Columbus Dispatch. “We continue to explore all our options and just want to get this done," Kasich spokesman Robert Nichols told TPM in an email Wednesday.

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What the hell? Maine 's gov just declared himself emperor of his state..

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What the hell? Maine 's gov just declared himself emperor of his state..

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What the hell? Maine 's gov just declared himself emperor of his state..

Idiot. Tool. Jerkface.

So, he just "overthrew" the Maine Constitution? Then the fucking president should call out the fucking national guard and invade the damn place. We would if Canada did this, wouldn't we?

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Looks like we are going to get a short term debt ceiling deal.

Ahhh, crisis politics is so much fun, isn't it?

and how long before we're back in the same boat?

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One source says the R debt limit hike may have a 'please negotiate with us' component but should be mostly clean.

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Even the Koch Brothers are bailing on the monster they created.

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In some good news, I have an interview this afternoon for holiday work.

Raine, I left some supportive comments on yesterday's blog. I hope that things are better today.

White House Rejects GOP Idea To Keep Government Closed Through November
Moments after House Republican leaders floated their latest plan for resolving the budget mess on Capitol Hill -- raise the debt ceiling for six weeks but leave the government shutdown in the meantime -- the White House was already shooting it down.

From a White House official:

The President has made clear that he will not pay a ransom for Congress doing its job and paying our bills. It is better for economic certainty for Congress to take the threat of default off the table for as long as possible, which is why we support the Senate Democrats’ efforts to raise the debt limit for a year with no extraneous political strings attached. The President also believes that the Republican Leadership in the House should allow for an up or down vote on the clean continuing resolution passed by the Senate that would pass with a bipartisan majority to reopen the government. Once Republicans in Congress act to remove the threat of default and end this harmful government shutdown, the President will be willing to negotiate on a broader budget agreement to create jobs, grow the economy, and put our fiscal house in order. While we are willing to look at any proposal Congress puts forward to end these manufactured crises, we will not allow a faction of the Republicans in the House to hold the economy hostage to its extraneous and extreme political demands. Congress needs to pass a clean debt limit increase and a funding bill to reopen the government.

Obama: The Only Thing GOP Isn't Demanding Is My Resignation
At a meeting with House Democrats on Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama talked strategy on the debt limit and continuing resolution debates, reiterating his argument that the party had to hold the line against concessions.

The meeting didn't produce major news, though after it was done, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her whip, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), both hinted they could support a short-term extension of the debt limit, which now seems to be the option that House Republicans are pursuing.

Instead, one Congress member at the meeting told The Huffington Post in an email that the most memorable moment was a quip from the president about how unbalanced the GOP's demands were.

"Obama said the Republican ransom list is so long, the only thing it doesn't include is his resignation," the lawmaker said.

-- Sam Stein

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OK, can we talk about baseball, or ponies, or cookies or something else now?

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Ugh.. I just can't listen to Ed Schultz. He sounds too much like Limbaugh when he gets like that.

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uhhh..... NO. FUCK THAT.

'The House Republican plan to extend the debt ceiling for six weeks would permanently ban the Treasury Department from using extraordinary measures to avoid default, congressional aides said.'

"The president will not pay ransom for ... " Carney began.

"You see it as a ransom, but it's a metaphor that doesn't serve our purposes ... " NPR correspondent Ari Shapiro shouted back with broad support from other confused reporters.

"You guys are just too literal then, right? Carney said.

"We just want to accurately report," Shapiro began before Carney interjected. "We're trying to be accurate in our description of what's going on."

The fact that these soldiers were set up to die in a no return operation is obvious they had knowledge that Obama didn't want leaked. This is the Seals that killed Osama Bin Laden. I don't believe this story. He is alive call me crazy but, Osama Bin Laden is our President Obama do your research. The CIA has been preparing for this since he was a boy. They have same height, bone structure, hands and ears both are left handed the Osama face was created by Hollywood. The fox is in the hen house.

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Mondo has been laying low. Taking FMLA.

What's going on, Mondo? You ok?