Can somebody please explain Jon Kyl's logic?

[The Mikado]

The latest buzz is that Reid is at the White House trying to sell Obama on a 2.5 trillion cut with no revenue increases to avoid having a second debt limit vote before the election. We now know the way to own Harry, and it's a beautiful thing.    Harry just doesn't want his vulnerable senators up in 2012 to face this little political problem. It simply terrifies him.  As I said, it's all about the 2012 election. Who knew? 

So Boehner is doing his thing, and Harry his, and it is all worse for the Dems than the deal that maybe Obama could have had until he decided he didn't want it. Or so it would appear.

So Harry Reid is to the right of Mitch McConnell on this?

[The Mikado]

(what is twitter by the way?)

Is this a serious question?

If so, Twitter is a service that allows you to post messages of 148 characters or less, with which you can start conversations and interact with people, share links (usually using a small url with bit.ly) etc.  It's great for PR and publicity, as well as spreading bare-bones headline news ("bin Laden dead" was all over Twitter a good 3 or 4 hours before the news services started reporting it because some guy on CNN told a friend of his who tweeted it hours before the network's fact checkers were able to confirm the rumor.)

[The Mikado]

For Torie: Joe is right in that Twitter's biggest problem is that you can't express more than a sentence at a time.  However, you can link to a 5,000 word essay you wrote on a subject!

The Twitter Republican Presidential Debate last week was one of the most hilarious things ever.  Watching people try to talk about the economy, debt ceiling, Libya, etc. in 148 character blurbs is hilarious (and it's no wonder Mitt Romney was too smart to participate!).

Twitter is a rare example of a new technology that has become more popular with the older people than younger people, and in an even rarer turn, many of the early adopters (including prominent members of the "twitterati" John McCain and Chuck Grassley) are prominent Republican leaders.