Month: July 2010

My plan was to wake up early this morning and drive to Connecticut to meet friends and enjoy some music, but my stomach is killing me. It’s something I ate, I guess. I’m still hoping to go, but the outlook is...

I think it’s an incredible stretch to say that it was a mistake to not let the Republicans install the Nuclear Option in 2005, but I get what Chris Bowers is saying. If we didn’t have to contend with the 60-vote...

Correct: WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday rejected a bill to aid small businesses with expanded loan programs and tax breaks, a procedural blockade that underscored how fiercely determined the party’s leaders are to...

For the first time in years I am going to direct you to an article at The New Republic. Jonathan Cohn has something to say that you should hear. Here’s a teaser: …consider what happened after the climate change vote...

Consumer confidence is terrible; citizen confidence is worse: Only 11 percent of Americans have confidence in Congress.  No surprise there is record-setting anti-incumbency anger rampant among Americans.  But the sad...