by Digby | Oct 7, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Health, Shutdown, This Is The GOP
This should be interesting. Greg Sargent: Senate Dems will move their own clean debt limit bill, rather than wait for the House GOP to hold its own vote on either a clean CR funding the government (which Senate Dems have already passed with broad bipartisan support)...
by Digby | Oct 3, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Shutdown, This Is The GOP
Remember when we all assumed that sequestration could never hold and they'd just have to pull the plug and negotiate a reasonable budget when the going got tough? Yeah, that's worked out for us. I'm going to suggest that we all (myself included) stop assuming that...
by Digby | Oct 1, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Health, This Is The GOP
I think one of the major misunderstandings (willful, in many cases) of this budget mess is that it's about Republicans just running around willy-nilly screaming "nonononono" like toddlers having a temper tantrum. I know it looks that way, but that's not what's...
by Digby | Sep 30, 2013 | Conservatism, Health, Rick Perlstein
Listening to the Republicans lie outrageously on the Sunday shows about the catastrophic effects of a program that isn't even in effect (while denying that climate change exists!) is enough to give me a headache. It reminded me of this: Rick Perlstein wrote a...
by Digby | Sep 27, 2013 | Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
Matt Yglesias points out that the CW (which I believe as well) in which the WH ends up "negotiating" with Republicans over the debt ceiling the way mothers of children having a tantrum in the grocery store negotiate with them by giving them a candy bar, can no longer...
