by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 12, 2010 | Blog
A Center for American Progress report this week chronicles just how obstructionist conservatives in the Senate continue to be as they use the filibuster to block reform efforts in the Senate. Scott Lilly elaborates on a trend that we began chronicling more than two...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 10, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., introduced a bill today that is a meaningful response to the nation's jobs crisis. It still falls short of the need, but it would accomplish far more than the anemic measures that have been served up by Congress so far. The legislation...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay appeared to be dancing with the stars in his head Sunday when he said on CNN that "there is an argument to be made" that an extension unemployment benefits, such as the one that conservative Republican Sen. Jim Bunning...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 5, 2010 | Blog
As prominent Republicans continue to distance themselves from an internal Republican National Committee fund-raising presentation that emphasized "fear" as a primary motivator of "reactionary" potential donors, it pays to reexamine the evidence t
