THE COMING WORLD WAR "O" PART DUH

COMMENT BY LONGNOW ON THE TED CRUZ FILIBUSTER:

Ah, Tailgunner and Senator Ted Cruz, will stand till the Alamo is taken back from Mexico.

Ah will stand, like a man made of green eggs & ham.

Ah will stand, till the stars fall from the sea. 

Ah will climb every mountain in ma black tennis shoes, 
bathrobe & pajamas so that Merkins like you & me can still be free...
from Fascistic, Marxistic, Sochallistic, anti-Christianic Obamacare. 

Ah am not a hysteric hieratic of Messianic Megalomanical proportions.
I am just a humble Harvard graduate civil servant savant 
looking to run against Perry fur governor de El Republico de Tejas.
Where else can ah go? Seek "asylum" in Russia?

OBAMACARE AS THE MOST DIVISIVE LEGISLATION IN US HISTORY?

Obamacare gets an astounding 93.5% score — almost every Democrat supported it, and no Republicans did so. But it’s possible to be divisive without having such a partisan split. 

For example, let’s look at the Civil Rights Act of 1964. According to Thompson’s graph, there’s only a “disagreement gap” of 16% — the model of comity. But that tells us little about the bill and a great deal about what the mid-20th century parties looked like. Both parties contained liberals and conservatives. Little separated the two parties, but a great deal divided them internally — particularly civil rights. Look at the roll call vote. Nearly every Representative from every former Confederate state voted no, while virtually every member from a non-Confederate state voted aye. That’s really divisive! It’s just not partisan, given how the parties of the day were organized.

WHAT OBAMACARE WILL COST:
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/09/25/what-obamacare-will-cost-you/

Drum suspects that Obama will act unilaterally, if need be:

[I]f the debt ceiling showdown lasts more than a couple of weeks, it’s likely that President Obama will simply order the Treasury to start auctioning bonds regardless. Maybe under the authority of the 14th Amendment, maybe under his authority as commander-in-chief. Maybe he’ll declare a state of emergency of some kind. Who knows? But eventually this is how things will work out, with Obama acting because he has to, and because he knows that courts will be loathe to intervene in a political dispute between the executive and legislative branches.