by | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. You would think that Phil Gramm -- the former Republican Texas senator who was one of the authors of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget process from the late 1980s -- would know how the law bearing his name works. At the...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Everyone agrees that there is only one question on voters' minds: who has a plausible plan to put this economy on the right track? Yet in the most expensive election in recorded history, candidates up and down the ticket aren't offering much of an answer. The...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog
Whether or nor history will record Mitt Romney's misadventures in Britain and Israel last week as the Republicans' equivalent of Michael Dukakis in a tank, remains to be seen. But whatever missteps Romney made abroad, he did not misspeak. Nor did anyone who spoke for...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog
A little over a year ago, I wrote: When conservatives start talking "welfare reform," progressives usually respond one of two ways. We either: (a) start inching towards the exits; or (b) stand in open-mouthed wonder, asking one another "Wait, they're not serious,...
