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Shutdown: Conservatives' Revenge Against the "47 Percent", Pt.2
Republicans are celebrating the consequences of the shutdown for two groups of Americans that conservatives despise: government workers and the millions of Americans who rely on the services those workers provide.
WWII Vets Don't Agree With Michele Bachmann
Maybe today's Republicans don't know that the Greatest Generation went through the depression and WWII, and their president throughout both was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, not Ronald Reagan.
The Radicalization of the GOP: the Most Important Political Story Today
The most important political story of our time is one that journalists wedded to the idea that ‘both sides do it’ are uncomfortable reporting: the wildly asymmetric polarization of our two major political parties.
Progressive Breakfast
Talks Intensify Around Short-Term Debt Limit Hike WH, House GOP leaders talk through night. AP: "No agreement was reported and plenty of hurdles remained, but both sides cast their meeting positively ... Obama planned a late-morning White House meeting Friday with GOP...
Democrats Must Reject Boehner’s Time-Bomb "Offer"
A time bomb with a six-week fuse is still a bomb. And as long as the Republicans are issuing threats and shutting down the government, they’re still playing with dynamite. Democrats must reject an offer like that.
Boehner Caves. Again.
Boehner's proposal for a short-term debt limit is a cave, just like the last one in January. The pattern is clear: Republicans talk tough about taking the debt limit hostage, then fold when staring default in the face.
Petition Shows Progressives United, Engaged Over Budget Fight
Wow! In just a day and a half we got more than 140,000 (and still rising fast) signatures on a petition to encourage Representatives to sign a “discharge petition” to force a vote to end the shutdown. Progressives are united.
Progressive Breakfast
Here Comes The Cave House GOP prepares to retreat. AP: "House Republican leaders are considering a short-term increase in the U.S. debt limit as a possible way to break the gridlock ... These officials said there is far less urgency inside the leadership about ending...
Madman Theory
The idea that the President did something wily by refusing to defund Obamacare is pretty funny. If anyone's done anything wily, it's the Republicans who deployed Nixon's madman theory. It seem to have persuaded the Democratic establishment.
The GOP Fights a Civil War As the Economy Hangs in the Balance
Tea Party Republicans have been endangering the economy, and some people are becoming unhappy. Now the GOP appears to be facing a showdown between ideological purity and self-interest. Who do you root for in that conflict?
