Month: December 2010

I like Jeff Merkley’s leadership on reforming the filibuster, but I feel like Charlie Brown lining up to kick the football. Nothing I’ve seen indicates that the Democrats in the Senate have the kind of intestinal...

I see that Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has chosen to get into a religious spat with Queen Idiot Sarah Palin. It’s a mistake to engage in civil debate with Palin, or any of her supporters. In her new book, “America by...

I think there should be no Christmas for Republicans. This morning the GOP voted against extending tax cuts to the middle class and then they voted against extending tax cuts to everyone who earns less than a million dollars a...

It was a time when higher taxes did not sink the economy. Instead, after Clinton passed a tax increase in 1993, the economy enjoyed an epic era of economic prosperity with over eight years without a recession in sight...

Things the Republicans don’t care about: More than two million jobless Americans are entering the holiday season seized with varying levels of foreboding, worry or even panic over what lies ahead as they cope with the...