SO WHERE’S YOUR BUDGET THEN, FOLKS? All 53 Senate Dems sign letter to Boehner: Your bill will never pass. “So that’s how this story ends. With the party of endless spending and entitlements unto death lecturing fiscal conservatives on how they’re leading the country into a credit downgrade. Perfecto.”

Related: Democrats see wiggle room on Obama’s Aug. 2 debt-limit deadline. “The Aug. 2 deadline for raising the nation’s debt ceiling might not be as rigid a cutoff date as the administration has been saying, according to some senior Senate Democrats.”