by Richard Eskow | Jan 9, 2011 | Blog
There are a lot of complicated issues out there, ones that require detailed analysis and serious number-crunching. The Senate will be debating its own filibuster procedures over the next three weeks, which will give us plenty of time to dig into the numbers. But the...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 9, 2011 | Blog
Did you think that, having regained control of the House, the GOP will stop being the "party of No" and start governing, or at least doing something about the challenges facing the country? Think again. The 112th Congress will not be the "Do...
by Bill Scher | Jan 9, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Today, the new House Republican leadership will spend two hours on the House floor reading the Constitution. This will be one of many acts from the House Republicans over the next two years which will not create any jobs. But I am hopeful that those doing the reading...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 9, 2011 | Blog
The Tea Party membership is being set up for yet another huge betrayal by the DC Republican establishment. The members had very clear expectations that specific spending cuts would fix the government's budget problems. The Republican leadership is betraying them by...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 9, 2011 | Blog
The new monthly job numbers are out. They are a little bit better than they have been, but they are not very good. We added very few jobs but the unemployment rate went down. This is a function of a really bad economy in which people are so discouraged they aren't...
by Bill Scher | Jan 9, 2011 | Blog
In the past year, conservative congresspeople have claimed to oppose nearly everything on the grounds that it would increase the deficit -- even when legislation was formally estimated to either cut the deficit (health care reform), have no impact on the deficit...
