by Digby | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
Chris Bowers caught the Very Serious Man of Integrity Paul Ryan in a slick little sleight of hand: Earlier today on national television, he attacked President Obama for even supposedly saying that healthcare drives the deficit (emphasis mine): "I don't think that the...
by Digby | Jan 24, 2013 | Blog
Following up on David's post below, here's the deal: Progressive senators working to dramatically alter Senate rules were defeated on Thursday, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and his counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), set to...
by Digby | Jan 23, 2013 | The Sequester
When it comes to beating back extremists, I'm all in favor of living to fight another day, so the idea of kicking the can down the road on some horrible debt deal never seems like the worst thing that could happen. But I can't figure out why everyone seems to believe...
by Digby | Jan 18, 2013 | Blog
I've never understood why so many people think the Social Security actuaries have always been innumerate morons, but perhaps that's just a result of the decades of propaganda about government workers. The fact is that from the very beginning the SSA accurately...
by Digby | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog
Glenn Thrush has an interesting analysis of President Obama's strategy on gun control and it's one with which I agree. This truly does seem to be a different approach than anything we saw from him in the first term: Over the years, Democrats have jokingly referred to...
