by Dave Johnson | Oct 15, 2013 | Shutdown
The government has been shut down for two weeks, and the prospect of default and resulting economic chaos is on the horizon. There is no question the shutdown is damaging the recovery. We do not yet know how much damage, we just know damage is occurring. There is no...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 11, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Shutdown, This Is The GOP
Punishing the Poor In the first days of the shutdown, conservatives alternated between celebrating and downplaying the impact. RedState.com's Erick Erickson insisted Americans would barely notice the government shutdown. But the consequences of the government shutdown...
by Digby | Oct 11, 2013 | Conservatism, Shutdown
[fve]http://youtu.be/IIJ-nxOvpzU[/fve] Maybe today's Republicans don't know that the Greatest Generation went through the depression and WWII and their president throughout both was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, not Ronald Reagan. Eisenhower was to the left of Barack...
by Joshua Holland | Oct 11, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Shutdown, This Is The GOP
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) once claimed that “80 to 85 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists” and called those who worship in them “an enemy living amongst us.” He held McCarthyesque hearings into the supposed “radicalization of...
by Bill Scher | Oct 10, 2013 | Shutdown
In July, Speaker Boehner said, "We’re not going to raise the debt ceiling without real cuts in spending." On Sunday, Boehner said, "I'm not going to raise the debt limit without a serious conversation about dealing with problems that are driving the debt up." And...
by Digby | Oct 10, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Shutdown
Via Jake Tapper yesterday: There are conversations under way as to what we will discuss, you know, what we will negotiate over, what things will be on the table. But what we said is – open the government, pay our bills and let's have this honest conversation," said...
