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16 Jan 2013, 10:24 pm
The GOP hit its high water in the the states in the 2010 elections; Democrats gained some state house ground in 2012. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 12:04 pm
If the GOP wants to continue fighting DOMA, they should do so with their own money, not with ours. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 12:04 pm
If the GOP wants to continue fighting DOMA, they should do so with their own money, not with ours. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 3:00 am
The three facts are straightforward (and he has some good charts to support them). 1) The US is not facing a fiscal crisis: our interest payments as a percent of our expenditures are considerably lower now than they have been in the past (including the past under GOP presidents). 2) Interest rates on US bonds are at historic lows, making borrowing even cheaper today than it has been in the past and causing even less worry about a "fiscal crisis" than borrowing might have caused… [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 10:40 am
House Republicans are seriously entertaining dramatic steps, including default or shutting down the government, to force President Barack Obama to finally cut spending by the end of March.The idea of allowing the country to default by refusing to increase the debt limit is getting more widespread and serious traction among House Republicans than people realize, though GOP leaders think shutting down the government is the much more likely outcome of the spending fights this winter. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 9:14 am
It also cleared three House GOP committees. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 9:14 am
It also cleared three House GOP committees. [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 9:13 pm
Ever since the neo-conservative crowd took over Republican foreign policy during the Bush 43 years, there has been a desperate need for a correction back towards the more traditional, realist policy... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 6:08 pm
Obama cannot "wimp out" on this debt ceiling issue (to use Krugman's term): if he lets the zanies in the GOP use these tactics to force changes in the safety net programs, he will have destroyed the Democratic party and the recovery from the Grand Recession in one fell swoop. [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 11:16 am
Dark? [read post]
11 Jan 2013, 12:42 pm
According to Jeremy Herb at The Hill‘s DefCon Hill blog, outgoing SecDef Leon Panetta called GOP attacks on Hagel’s stances on Iran, Israel and other foreign policy matters “unfair. [read post]
11 Jan 2013, 3:45 am
The GOP however is currently running deranged. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm
A few GOP Senators are supporting Boehner as well. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 10:31 am
Nicholas Kristof might not be able to assure all those Hagel-weary GOP Senators of their former colleague’s fitness for the SecDef post—but he sure tries his hardest. [read post]
9 Jan 2013, 1:55 pm
On the other side, as the news story in the Post notes, the GOP generally views him as a tough negotiator who stands his ground on issues that Democrats have tended to consider important. [read post]
9 Jan 2013, 4:29 am
Nathan Deal and the GOP-dominated state House and Senate." [read post]
8 Jan 2013, 8:57 am
So President Obama has “picked a fight” with the GOP by nominating Chuck Hagel as SecDef: here’s Maggie Haberman of Politico on the GOP’s plan to seek “payback;” Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post on the challenges facing the future SecDef (whether Hagel or someone else); Dana Milbank of the Post on why Hagel is ready for the nomination battle; Thomas Wallsten and Peter Hamburger of the Post on the uniqueness of a partisan battle over a… [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 9:02 am
Windsor – constitutionality of Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act’s benefits limited to married opposite-sex couples; also, question of standing for U.S. government and for House GOP leaders to appeal the case In association with Bloomberg Law [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 1:34 am
Wall Street Journal editorial: The Stealth Tax Hike: Why the New $450,000 Income Threshold Is a Political Fiction: Anyone still need a reason to abandon "grand bargains" and deals negotiated between this President and GOP Congressional leaders? [read post]
6 Jan 2013, 8:27 pm
CNN opinion: House GOP failed women on Violence Against Women Act, by Patty Murray: (CNN) -- This week, just over 250 days since the U.S. [read post]
