Tuesday Stuff

And while all of this is going on, Mikey the Beloved and his pals have closed up shop for a little while; Obama is somewhat to blame for agreeing to the sequester also, though not primarily – this was the best he could come up with when dealing with those knuckleheads in the House who were holding the debt ceiling hostage, resulting in the 2011 Budget Control Act…as actor Bradley Whitford said on “Real Time” all those years ago, as far as the Repugs are concerned, “tax cuts are their Jesus” (for the one percent, of course, and nobody else)…

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Update 2/20/13: And here is a bit of history on this subject.

…and happy 73rd birthday to William “Smokey” Robinson.