by Terrance Heath | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog
The GOP is perhaps just beginning to digest the message of the 2012 election; in which the demographics of their coalition can be summed up as old, white, wealthy, and male — compared to the diverse coalition that gave Barack Obama a second term, helped the...
by Digby | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog
Josh Holland has a nice succinct rundown on the possible roadblocks to the immigration reform effort. It's a little bit more complicated than it seems at first: [C]onventional wisdom may be underestimating the degree of fractiousness that defines the conservative...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 29, 2013 | Blog
Last week, 11 European nations forged ahead to create a new tax while American Republicans walked backward into a no-new-tax trap. On Jan. 22, the European Union gave 11 member countries – including economic giants Germany and France – permission to institute a...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
Tim Geithner left office on Friday and the revisionism's already underway. By any objective measure except one, Geithner's tenure failed to achieve its goals. And that one success, in rescuing the mega-banks of Wall Street, may prove to be the undoing of Obama's...
by Stan Collender | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
It now looks like the Senate on Wednesday will pass the "no budget no pay" version of the debt ceiling increase that has already been adopted by the House. This will be the third GOP budget miscalculation, misstep and mistake in a row. The first was the fiscal cliff,...
by Digby | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
Chris Bowers caught the Very Serious Man of Integrity Paul Ryan in a slick little sleight of hand: Earlier today on national television, he attacked President Obama for even supposedly saying that healthcare drives the deficit (emphasis mine): "I don't think that the...
