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Republicans Hilariously Floundering, Trying To Avoid Debt Limit Debacle
Congressional Republicans are really struggling to come up with a strategy for avoiding the blame if they refuse to raise the debt limit, allowing the Treasury to pay off the debts that Congress already voted to incur. Newt Gingrich already warned his party that...
Why DC Ignores Real Problems And What You Can Do About It
How many real and serious national problems can you list? And how many obvious solutions can you come up with literally off the top of your head? Now an experiment: list how many of them are being worked on by our DC elites or even discussed my our elite media? The answer is none. Why is this? And what can you do about it?
Gunning for Mitch
Who knows if this is serious? But McConnell could very well end up with a Tea Party challenger. Remember now Senator Rand Paul's primary election night speech? Everyone says the Tea Party is dying. But it was never really alive. It was the wingnut zombie reanimated after the ignominious failure of their Dear Leader George W. Bush. They never really go away. And Kentucky is a place where they might just be able to get the job done. Rand Paul won his primary against McConnell's handpicked candidate.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: "Death Panel" of GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "All 10 members of the GOP Governors’ Death Panel offer the same excuse for refusing to expand Medicaid in their states, or wanting to get full federal funding...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: "Death Panel" of GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "All 10 members of the GOP Governors’ Death Panel offer the same excuse for refusing to expand Medicaid in their states, or wanting to get full federal funding...
Progressive Breakfast
"Death Panel" of GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion
A growing number Republican Governors are refusing to expand their state Medicaid programs. The Supreme Court weakened the Medicaid expansion written into the Affordable Care Act, when it ruled that the federal government can't penalize states that refused the...
GOP Signaling Weakness
I hope Greg Sargent is right about this. It sure sounds like Boehner and McConnell are hedging to me. If they are,then that means any more "offers" from the Democrats to make a "big deal" are offers the Democrats want to make, not ones they have to make.
GOP Uses Government to Hurt, Not Help
Last week, as Congress opened its new session, two regular Joes - Sen. Manchin of West Virginia and Vice President Biden of Delaware - gave a hand to Sen. Mark Kirk, a Republican from Illinois, who'd suffered a stroke a year earlier. Joe and Joe assisted Sen. Kirk in...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Two New Fraud Deals OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "It must’ve been like old home week when the old gang of Wall Street and Washington insiders finalized a couple more cushy settlements last week. Everybody knew the drill: Ignore the potential...
