++After passing the resolution to sue President Obama, Speaker Boehner requested the President deal with the border crisis by executive action,precisely the thing he's suing the President for the use of executive orders.
++The new House Whip is as bad as the old House Whip. Speaker Boehner had to pull the border bill from the floor because he didn't have the vote right. Carnival Cruz interfered with the House and persuaded the tea baggers to nix the bill.
++Governor Perry was amazed that the House was letting the border bill die.
++In the area if slim good news,The Sanders-Miller VA bill has gone to the President's desk. The Senate bought the bullet and passed the House version of the Highway Trust Fund bill that kept it solvent until May of next year.
++Senator Enzi put a hold on the diplomatic nominees by the Obama Administration,depriving us of an ambassador to Russia.
++Ruth Bader Ginsberg said she is sticking around for awhile and that her male colleagues are clueless about women's issues. She did say the Supreme Court will not dodge the issue of same sex marriage.
++The Competitive Enterprise Institute wants to hot-wire the case to the Supreme Court on subsidies for Obamacare. Interestingly, insurance premiums are rising where states opted out of having their own exchanges. Red states are scrambling to see whether they can get state exchanges up if their own lawsuit succeeds and dooms 5 million more Americans to lose their health insurance.
++Little Ricky Cantor is resigning from Congress on August 18th after his defeat in the primary.
++Senate Republicans are trying to holdup the border bill and the bill on wildfires.
++The umpteenth Gaza ceasefire is over because Hamas kidnapped an Israeli soldier.
++Ukrainian separatists ambushed soldiers trying to protect inspectors at the Airliner's crash sight. Russian soldiers have flashed Instagrams on them being inside the Ukraine fighting.
++Next week, President Obama hosts over 40 African nations at a first-ever summit.
++The economy added 209,000 new jobs, a lower than expected figure, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.2%. This was the first time in 15 years the economy added 200,000+ jobs for six straight months.
++The Social Security issued its 2014 report that the trust fund will be exhausted by 2090. Last year's report had SS exhausted by 2068. Medicare has added a few more years because of Obamacare.
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