++Nancy Pelosi used these words to whip Democratic votes for the new budget deal. E.J. Dionne had an excellent column in the Amazon Post this afternoon how the new budget is basically austerity-lite and lacking in all the things the Democrats thought were necessary to bring the country back. But like Nancy Pelosi he said it was basically an old-fashioned compromise of splitting the difference.
++The Budget proposal is making its way through the House procedural steps. The House GOP made sure unemployment benefits were not included. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are pressing for at least a 45-day extension and Harry Reid re-assured Democrats that in January it will happen.
++Eric Erickson of Red State claims John Boehner's tantrums against the Right are strategic and will pave the way for immigration reform, which he believes would betray conservatives.
++Andrea Peyser at the New York Post said that Obama acted like a horny-frat boy with the Danish Prime Minister.
++The Hawaii health director who verified President Obama's birth certificate died today in a plane crash. Cue in the next conspiracy theories.
++In the late night Senate session, Chai Feldblum was confirmed as EEOC director by 54 to 41. Elizabeth Wolfords was confirmed to the district court in New York 70-29.
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