Two from Truthout:

Tuesday 17 May 2011

William Rivers Pitt | The Kooky Konservative Klown Kar
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Say it ain't so, Donald. This is so depressing. I was actively looking forward to following the Trump For President crazy train for at least a few weeks longer, if not more. You couldn't stay in long enough to participate in one debate, Donald? It would have been the show of the year. 'Birth certificates the blacks love me derp derp derp ...' All lost forever now. The hairpiece has moved on. I know, I know, it was a joke campaign, a ploy to get people to watch some stupid reality show I am proud to say I've never even peeked at once. But you have to understand my perspective here: the quintessential excellence of Trump's absurd pre-candidacy was the fact that it dragged the fundamental derangement of the GOP base into the light for all to see."
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Robert Reich | The Battle Is Squared, and Why We Need Budget Jujitsu
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Technically, the federal government has now reached the limit of its capacity to borrow money. Raising the debt ceiling used to be a technical adjustment, made almost automatically. Now it's a political football. Democrats should never have agreed to linking it to an agreement on the long-term budget deficit. But now that the debt ceiling is in play, there's no end to what the radical right will demand. John Boehner is already using the classic 'they're making me' move, seemingly helpless in the face of Tea Party storm troopers who refuse to raise the ceiling unless they get their way."
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