Good News for America, Bad News for the GOP – CBO Says Deficit Is Shrinking Faster Than at Any Time Since Post-World War II

Chart based on figures from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office showing the federal deficit for each year since the economy crashed at the end of the Bush administration

Good news, America. The federal deficit is shrinking faster than it has since the end of World War II, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Oddly enough, however, this good news for the country — this sure sign that the United States is finally recovering from the economic crash at the end of the Bush administration — is actually horrible news for the Republican Party, which for the past five years has pinned its hopes on defeating Pres. Obama and the Democrats by deliberately hobbling the recovery with the hope that a weak economy would benefit them politically.

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NBC Staffers Dreading Network’s Clinton Mini-Series Fallout

We know there’s this giant firewall, we know that we have nothing to do with it, and we’re going to only own the negative, whether its negative because, you know, the Clinton people are upset that it’s too tough on them or negative because the Republicans think it’s this glorification of her.

— NBC News’ White House correspondent Chuck Todd, on Morning Joe Thursday, calling NBC’s planned miniseries about Hillary Clinton a “total nightmare for NBC News.”

Exclusive: Pensito Review Obtains Partial al Qaeda Conference Call Transcript

Pensito Review has acquired a partial transcript of the recent conference call between 20 al Qaeda leaders that was intercepted by U.S. national security personnel and led to the temporary closing of 22 U.S. embassies. The call was first reported Wednesday by the Daily Beast. Here is the partial transcript that we have obtained from an anonymous source close to the investigation:

(ring)

Hello, welcome to the AT&T Conference Center. You have accessed the al Qaeda network sponsored by as-Sahab.

Your host, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has not yet arrived. Please hold, your terrorist masterminds conference will begin shortly.

To make your conference call experience as productive as possible, please listen closely to the following menu.

If you are a leader of al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, press one.

If you are a leader of al Qaeda in Yemen, press two.

If you are a leader of al Shabab, press three.

If you are a leader of another al Qaeda franchise, splinter group or renegade terrorist cell, press four.

If you are a mullah from an unincorporated tribal area who would like to become an al Qaeda franchisee, press five.

If you are a disaffected American or British subject seeking to join al Qaeda or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates, press six.

Please note that for the convenience of other conference participants, all callers except the host will have their lines muted to reduce the sounds of ongoing firefights, Arab Spring uprisings or U.S. drone attacks that could disrupt the call.

This conference call is moderated. If you would like to join the conversation and denounce the Western infidels, press the pound key and an operator will place your insane Islamist diatribe into the conference queue.

Please hold. Your conference will begin shortly.

Thank you for using AT&T.

(disconnect, dial tone)