by Bill Scher | Sep 19, 2013 | Shutdown
After putting maximum pressure on House Republicans to threaten government shutdown if Obamacare is not repealed, he seems uninterested in pressuring his fellow Senators to follow suit. His statement last night put all the responsbility on the House: "Harry Reid will...
by Stan Collender | Sep 16, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Health, Shutdown
There are many reasons why the budget fight that will take pace over the next few weeks and months will be more difficult than any of the close-to-debacles that have occurred in recent years. The reasons include John Boehner (R-OH), who was already the weakest and...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 12, 2013 | Conservatism, Shutdown
They're back – and they're more extreme than ever. GOP House leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor are still pushing economic ideas disproved a century ago, peddling deep spending cuts that would inflict more misery on the already-beleaguered majority. But that's not...
by Bill Scher | Sep 12, 2013 | Shutdown
Yesterday the House leadership scrapped plans to vote on a bill to keep the government open. It was a conservative plan that would essentially maintain the sequester cuts. But it didn't tie Senate passage to the defunding of ObamaCare, so Tea Party Republicans were...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 11, 2013 | Shutdown
With Congress now poised to focus on a high-stakes debate on federal spending, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Cay Johnston advised a group of progressive leaders today that it's time to take the gloves off. "We need to stop beating around the bush...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 9, 2013 | Shutdown
Congress is coming back to Washington, and the Republican agenda of obstructing efforts to help jobs and the economy will continue. But in the next weeks they will make the economy worse with threats to shut down the entire government over Obamacare and blow up the...
