by Stan Collender | Jun 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
You would think that this poll showing "Americans' confidence in Congress is not only at its lowest point on record, but also is the worst Gallup has ever found for any institution it has measured since 1973" would be so embarrassing to those on Capital Hill that they...
by Stan Collender | May 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sunday, May 19, 2013, was one of the saddest and most notorious moments in the sordid history of the federal budget. Let's start from the beginning. It's December 2012 and House Republicans are facing a number of politically very difficult and unpalatable choices...
by Stan Collender | May 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
There was a time when a $200+ billion reduction in the federal budget deficit would have been big news and hailed as a singular achievement worthy of either fiscal sainthood or a dance-on-the-table party...or both. Yet yesterday's Congressional Budget Office report...
by Stan Collender | Apr 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last August and September, I did a series of eight posts about how, contrary to Tea Party and John Boehner assertions, federal spending was actually very popular. As I said at the time, Americans don't want less government; they just want government that costs less....
by Stan Collender | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog
This is not a post about House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) exercise and diet program. It is, however, a post about how he's planning to produce a budget that gets to balance in 10 years without actually balancing anything. What Ryan is proposing is...
