Good morning everyone, and welcome back to your quickly typed liveblog of the Sunday morning political coprophage chat shows. My name is Jason, and I have returned from my week away in lovely, pastoral Charlottesville, VA, which is about two hours from Washington and thus safely beyond the perimeter where Americans watch or talk about or are even aware of the existence of Sunday morning political shows. It was really like being in heaven, except there was a mediocre college football team.


As you probably know, the government is still basically shut down and we are approaching the debt ceiling deadline as well. On Friday, it looked like this long and torturous conversation that the House GOP was essentially having with itself was finally winding down, with the Senate tappy-tapping their feet and the House crazies working out some of their id exercises at the Valu-Voters Discount Roundup thingy, or whatever it was. Louis Gohmert said that John McCain was an al Qaeda sympathizer, and that just about sums up where things are right now, with that whole group of people.


If you picked "Sunday" -- as in today -- as your date-the-shutdown-ends pool, you're likely S.O.L., but, you know, join the rest of us. We have managed to get to the point where Paul Ryan is attempting to scam everyone, so at least it feels familiar. Meanwhile, Dr. Frankenstein is finally starting to regret the rough beast, formed from disparate parts of idiots, that he sent slouching toward the Potomac. Things could thus, end soon. Maybe even not badly. I would still practice making fire from dry sticks today if you get the chance.


Anyway, there are some inessential people who have not been furloughed and they're all about to host teevee shows that I have to watch, so let's get that started. As always, feel free to converse in the comments, drop me a line if you need to, follow me on Twitter if that's where you are in your life right now, and for this week's best reads, check out my Rebel Mouse page.


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