Stephen Colbert began Thursday's Late Show by urging people in the path of Hurricane Irma to get out of that path — and if they decide not to, to hunker down like billionaire Richard Branson did on his own private island: in the wine cellar, playing dice. "Because being in the path of a Category 5 hurricane wasn't enough of a gamble," he said.
"Now, I'm going to say something a little weird right now," Colbert said: "The Democrats won something." That something would be getting President Trump to agree to their three-month debt-limit plan, giving them leverage before next year's midterms. "Huge victory for the Dems, and you know what that means," Colbert said: "It's squandering time!" Probably. At some point. But for now, they're riding high and the GOP is furious. "So, we're finally seeing some deals happening, the art of the dealer is dealing it up with his art out there," Colbert said, and it might be because Trump finds it easier to make deals on Air Force One, which members of Congress are calling Trump's new boardroom. Colbert had a theory on that.
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