“Yesterday Newt Gingrich laid out a new argument for why he should be the GOP presidential nominee: He’s got the most Twitter followers. But according to a former Gingrich staffer, he bought them.” [Gawker]

Joe Klein: “If [Obama] had cited the 14th Amendment and simply ordered Treasury to pay the bills, he would have been impeached by the radical Republicans. This would have guaranteed that the next 16 months would have been overwhelmed by an even worse version of the silliness visited upon our nation by the poisonous Limbaugh-Tea Party nihilists.” [Time, via Political Wire]

While you’re hearing today about the “$3 trillion deficit-reduction plan”, here’s the NYT chart from a week ago showing the (largely unpaid) costs of Bush and Obama policies. Just by coincidence, the wars and Bush tax cuts top $3.2 trillion.

…might as well cat blog.  How about a palate cleanser of a Daily Kitteh to take our minds off of the mayhem just inflicted upon 98% of this country, thanks to spineless Dems and pathologically insane tea baggers?  Say hi to Pippa, gang!

Title: “Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown”

Authors: David Wiedemer, Robert A. Wiedemer, Cindy S. Spitzer

Rank: 47

Blurb: “Recovery? What Recovery?”

Review: “Good read but much of the information contained within is now a little outdated. For example, one of the suggestions is to move investments to Europe but those markets have crashed as well.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Coming Economic Armageddon: What Bible Prophecy Warns about the New Global Economy”, by David Jeremiah

Footnote: The world is never lacking for financial-calamity books, but this one happens to be officially published August 2…

Aftershock [Fuck Amazon]

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In a week where we’ve seen Idiocracy referenced even more than usual, it’s fitting that MTV has released a preview for the return this fall of Mike Judge’s original idiots, Beavis and Butt-Head. Cowacornhole, dude!

[via Comics Alliance]