The News From D.C.

++Another American male commits mass slaughter--this time at D.C.'s Naval Yard. 

++Tan Man Boehner decides to "defund Obamacare" with his continuing resolution. All this maneuver does is close the government until both chambers can get it right.

++Eric Cantor wants to condition the debt ceiling hike on Obama approving the Keystone Pipeline. What other agenda items from the Romney campaign can the GOP sneak through?

++President Obama called the GOP's demands extortion and urged the Business Roundtable to use its influence on Congress to try and act normal. He said again there would be no negotiating over the debt ceiling.

++Rumors have Janet Yallin being nominated by President Obama to the Fed Chair next week.

++Now I hope President Obama would raise the debt ceiling on his own and invoke the Constitution.

++We are back to the Obama is weak meme. I guess people prefer the white male sociopathic form of leadership, which served us so well in the financial crisis and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

++The House Benghazi Crowd looks like they are lowering their sights and trying to nail Hillary.

++For those people who get off on the pseudo-drama of Congress, remember the budget,the debt ceiling and the immigration reform bill would have been solved by now if Boehner jettisoned the Hastert rule, which not a law but just an understanding among Republicans.

++Eric Cantor call off the House recess because he thought the Teabaggers might have to work next week.