and I’m just spitballing here — may flog seal cubs.” Hillary Clinton will likely announce her candidacy in the second quarter of this year, meaning her associates still have time to plant some last minute jabs at each other in the press. And a group of conservative lawmakers launched the comically named “Freedom Caucus.” There will undoubtedly be clashes with the bipartisan Tyranny Working Group and the Gang of Hate. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Monday, January 26th, 2015:
SNOW DELAYS BORDER BILL – Jake Sherman: “The House might have to delay consideration of its border security bill until the middle of February, Republican leadership sources said Monday. The leadership’s original plan was to have House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul’s (R-Texas) legislation on the floor this week. But the impending snow storm has left Congress with just two days in session, and GOP leaders fear they do not have enough time to canvass the House Republican Conference for support. Attendance might be light.” [Politico]
CBO FORECASTS STRONG ECONOMY, EMBIGGENING DEFICITS – “The federal budget deficit, which has fallen sharply during the past few years, is projected to hold steady relative to the size of the economy through 2018. Beyond that point, however, the gap between spending and revenues is projected to grow, further increasing federal debt relative to the size of the economy — which is already historically high.” [CBO.gov]
RICK PERRY GOES UNEMPLOYMENT RATE TRUTHER – That time Rick Perry danced with a group of orthodox Jews is no longer the former Texas Governor’s strangest moment near the Chosen People (okay, it still is, but this is still odd). Dave Jamieson: “After a two-year hiatus from politics, unemployment trutherism made its return to the Republican campaign trail on Monday, making a brief appearance alongside Rick Perry at an Iowa breakfast. According to Bloomberg Politics reporter Dave Weigel, the former Texas governor told a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition that they couldn’t trust the official unemployment rate coming out of Washington. ‘It’s been massaged, it’s been doctored,’ Perry said, as quoted in a tweet by Weigel. (Weigel told HuffPost he was in attendance for the speech.)..Back in 2012, such conspiracy theories became known as unemployment or BLS trutherism, in reference to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the division of the Labor Department that’s responsible for producing the unemployment rate. After some surprisingly upbeat jobs reports that bolstered the campaign of President Barack Obama, skeptical conservatives either implied or said outright that the numbers couldn’t be trusted.” [HuffPost]
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@elisefoley: People telling me to “stay tuned” or “stand by” just makes me want to shut my computer and walk away.
@delrayser: If people are flying drones over the WH fence, the solution is clearly to build another fence on top of the first fence.
@darth: “little higher…little hi…oh crap..uh oh”
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