Duly Noted

TIL that at the end of Clinton's administration the United States was on track to pay off its debt AND have $2.3 trillion in savings

TIL that you can donate money to the US Department of Treasury to pay off their trillions in debt.

The old John McCain is back. Slams the Tea Party and urges passage of a debt ceiling increase. “It’s time we listened to the markets,” he said. “It’s time we listened to our constituents. But most of all, it’s time we listened to the American people and sit down and seriously negotiate something.”

Emergency team of 40 eighth-grade civics teachers dispatched to Washington earlier today in a last-ditch effort to teach congressional leaders how the government’s legislative process works.