Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that he no longer considers Syrian President Bashar Assad a political leader, labeling him as a “terrorist.” Erdogan also said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was “contradicting himself” in congratulating Syria. Erdogan’s remarks were first reported in the Turkish daily Hurriet Monday.
Referring to a comment by US Secretary of State John Kerry on the success of the chemical weapons cleanup in Syria, Erdogan was skeptical.
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Senator Tom Coburn
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Monday that the country would not default on its debt if lawmakers failed to strike a deal to raise the debt ceiling.
“I would dispel the rumor that is going around that you hear on every newscast that if we don’t raise the debt ceiling, we will default on our debt,” Coburn told CBS’s “This Morning.” “We won’t.”
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Updated: Elizabeth Sheld writing on Breitbart.com found an interesting contrast of how President Obama has managed to insert politics in the hyperbole around the government “shutdown.” The Amber Alert program is offline, but Michell Obama’s healthy child/exercise imitative is up and running healthy.
Thank you to the hundreds of people who have called and emailed my Oklahoma and Washington, DC offices this week to express their views on how to fund the federal government. While the House and Senate are clearly at an impasse on how to proceed, it is clear there are things Americans can agree upon.
There is bipartisan agreement in the House on things we can fund while we work on our differences with the President’s healthcare law. As of Thursday evening, the House has passed five “clean” spending bills in the past twenty-four hours to fund: the Department of Veterans Affairs and their important services, our national parks and monuments, the National Institutes of Health, the District of Columbia and the training programs for our Naitonal Gaurdsmen and women. Our veterans, like our active-duty military, deserve to have access to the services we promised them, regardless of conversations taking place in Washington. The Senate needs to act on these bills to get these services up and running.
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Update Add Day 4: Breitbart.com is providing a hilarious running account of crisis in government. Yes, the world may end at any moment, but you might as well go down smiling. Only media and politicians take themselves so insanely serious in breathtaking crisis.
Day 4, 11:25 – NBC News Credits Breitbart News’ ‘Echo Chamber’ with Helping GOP Hold Firm
Nothing is funnier than being accused by THE echo chamber of being part of an echo chamber. But that is what NBC News did today in a First Read piece that reeks of frustration over the fact that the mainstream media and NBC News now have competition for the Narrative and are being held accountable for their open- water carrying for Democrats and President Obama.