by Bill Scher | Jan 25, 2013 | Blog
To get House conservatives to capitulate on temporarily suspending the debt limit without securing any spending cuts, Boehner made a stunning pledge: the upcoming House budget would eliminate the deficit in 10 years. As a talking point, that sounds great. As a budget,...
by Digby | Jan 24, 2013 | Blog
Following up on David's post below, here's the deal: Progressive senators working to dramatically alter Senate rules were defeated on Thursday, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and his counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), set to...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 24, 2013 | Blog
When Republicans get going on with their crazy, Democrats are learning to just say, "Please proceed." The public takes care of the rest. This month Republicans again threatened -- in public, no less! -- to force the United States into default and crash the economy if...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog
The election is over, but right-wingers are back at it with another big, out-of-context lie. This time they are claiming that Hillary Clinton said something that she did not say. There's an immediate context and a bigger context, both wildly distorted. As the...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog
In his review of Jared Diamond's new book, David Brooks is appropriately horrified by the stories of tribal women who were left to die rather than be cared for by their communities. He's so horrified, in fact, that he seems to reject Diamond's core thesis that these...
by Stan Collender | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog
Given what happened in July 2011 when they decided to do the opposite (you remember the anything-but-super committee, right?), we should all be happy House Republicans have agreed that this time they won't hold hostage the increase in the federal debt ceiling the...
