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If You Think Republicans Have Learned A Lesson ...
If you think Repubicans have learned a lesson from their “defeat” over the shutdown and debt-ceiling hostage-taking, then you’re not paying attention to what they’re saying to each other. Here is a quick look around right-wing online media today.
Note To Obamacare Critics
As I watch the talking heads all clutch their pearls over the insurance exchange website, I can't help but notice that none of them seem to know what's really happening out here to people who have to deal with the private insurance.
Do We Need Another Rolls-Royce Showroom?
A tiny tax on global personal wealth over $1 million could ensure that no child anywhere on the planet has to live in extreme poverty.
Progressive Breakfast
No Movement Toward Grand Bargain Senate Minority Leader McConnell calls Obama's insistence on tax revenue for Social Security changes "$1 trillion ransom." Politico quotes: "Unfortunately, every discussion we've had about this in the past has had what I would call a...
The Road from Here: What About Medicare and Social Security?
In 12 weeks our new system of government-by-crisis will resume: more threats, more confrontations, more extreme rhetoric. This can only play out a few ways, most of which involve Medicare and Social Security cuts.
Republican Policies = More Children Need Help
Republicans are always saying their policies will bring prosperity, to get people to vote for them. But when their policies are actually put to the test we see very different results.
The GOP Is Held Together With Duct Tape
The GOP's shutdown debacle exposed a three-way-split within the party: Tea Party amateurs, cooler-headed conservatives and Establishment players. What's odd about this split is that it doesn't involve much in the way of ideological differences.
Progressive Breakfast
Reid, Union Push Back Hard Against Grand Bargain Sen. Majority Leader Reid draws line on Social Security, in HuffPost interview: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has no interest in a budget deal that trades sequestration relief for entitlement cuts,...
No Gloating – Well, Maybe a Little
Capitol Hill sources say House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi cautioned Democrats against “gloating” over the spectacular crash-and-burn that was the Republicans’ government shutdown – not even a little. So, what is permissible?
Republicans Have Done Real Damage to the Economy
Republicans believe that a bad economy works for them at election time. The thinking is that the public will turn on Democrats for not making things better. So they do what they can to make the economy bad. But maybe they went too far this time.
