by Bill Scher | Sep 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
GOP Squabbles Over Who Should Force Shutdown First... House Republicans slam Sen. Ted Cruz for suggesting he wouldn't fight in the Senate to pass the ObamaCare repeal he's demanded of the House. WSJ: "Rep. Sean Duffy (R., Wis.) tweeted that Messrs. Cruz and Lee...
by Bill Scher | Sep 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Poverty Rate Refuses To Budge Poverty rate stuck at 15%, finds Census. Time: "The poverty rate and the number of people living in poverty haven’t budged since 2011 despite the slowly improving economy ... Before the last recession began in 2007, the rate was 2.5...
by Bill Scher | Sep 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
GOP Running Out Of Tricks To Keep Government Open... Congress out of gimmicks. NYT: First came the 'supercommittee,' ... Then came the 'McConnell plan,' a way for Congress to raise the government’s debt limit without actually voting to do so. And in January there was...
by Bill Scher | Sep 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Summers Is Over Summers withdraws. Momentum for Yellen. AP: "David Jones, chief economist at DMJ Advisors and the author of several books on the Fed, said he saw Yellen's selection as a virtual certainty ... Yellen has long been considered a top candidate for the...
by Bill Scher | Sep 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Dems Ponder Response To GOP Budget "Crack Up" "The House GOP Is About to Crack Up" says TNR's Jonathan Cohn: "Conservatives seem determined to provoke a crisis, whether it's over funding the government past September 30 or increasing the Treasury's borrowing limit. If...
