by Dave Johnson | Jul 25, 2013 | This Is The GOP
Imagine a political party that keeps government from helping people, because that might lead people to support government. Imagine a political party that hurts parts of the country because those parts tend to not vote the way they want. Imagine a political party that...
by Bill Scher | Jul 23, 2013 | This Is The GOP
Republican leaders understand political reality well enough to grasp that they can't survive as the anti-immigrant party. They insist they want to pass some sort of immigration reform, just nothing "comprehensive" with too many "pages." And now they are starting to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 22, 2013 | This Is The GOP
House conservatives revealed a lot about themselves and their priorities when they passed a farm bill that did not include nutrition programs like SNAP – the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, known best as "food stamps" – but fast-tracked, without real...
by Stan Collender | Jul 18, 2013 | This Is The GOP
Make no mistake about it; House Republicans definitely prefer that a Republican be elected president. But what's been clear for years on things related to the budget has become even more obvious in recent weeks with the take-no-prisoner decisions House Republicans...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 18, 2013 | Student Debt Relief, This Is The GOP
Congress should do the right thing the right thing for our people, our country and our economy and provide a free college education to everyone who qualifies. Instead student loan rates doubled July 1 because our obstructed Congress couldn't and wouldn't act in time....
by Robert Borosage | Jul 12, 2013 | This Is The GOP
Conservative Republicans have turned the farm bill – normally a bipartisan grotesquerie of agribusiness subsidies and excess – from legislation to identity politics. They wanted to make a statement, even though they knew it couldn't survive the Senate or the White...
