- All 53 Democratic Senators have pledged to oppose Boehner’s debt ceiling plan, which now looks likely to pass the House today.
- The Obama administration plans to announce at end-of-business Friday which checks won’t go out if there’s no deal. Here’s the likely answer.
- Barclay’s points to Japan in arguing that a downgrade wouldn’t really matter economically. (A default, of course, would.)
- A handy chart of the Boehner and Reid proposals.
- Obama, Lincoln and the Radicals.
- McCain’s maverickiness no longer in remission.
- Herman Cain apologizes to Muslims.
- Message wars in Wisconsin aren’t about collective bargaining anymore.
- And political science vs. political reality.