by Terrance Heath | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Unable to govern and unwilling to be governed, the deepest dysfunctions of the House Republican conference are rising to the surface, as the party struggles to choose a new speaker. Rep. John Boehner’s resignation as House speaker was the first sign of just how bad...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Jobs and Growth, This Is The GOP
Republicans and the rich guys who imposed on American workers 35 years of stagnant wages now offer a prescription for easing this pain! Their solution for robber-baron-level income inequality is not the obvious: Give workers raises. They don’t want to increase the...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, a bunch of Republican Congressmen made fools of themselves during their own hearing to bring down Planned Parenthood. The GOP war on Planned Parenthood continued to follow the pattern of its anti-ACORN campaign this week, as what began with deceptively...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
As John Boehner eyes the exit, the line-up for the post-Boehner House GOP leadership is all white, all male, and as extreme as they wanna be. House Republicans will vote for new leadership in just one week. House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to resign from Congress...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy
Yesterday the House was presented with a "clean" continuing resolution to keep the government in operation. The House passed it overwhelmingly by 277-151. Wait, you thought this was controversial? You thought the House wanted to shut down the government over defunding...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
It has come to this. In the last hours before a government shutdown, the Republican-led Congress passed a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open for all of 72 more days (until December 11), with funding at current levels. The CR did not include the...