Month: July 2011

You can read Russell Berman and Sam Youngman’s version over at The Hill or Sam Stein’s more comprehensive and substantive piece at the Huffington Post. Basically, the talks at the White House this afternoon over...

It’s a rhetorical question , I know, but really, when the head of the Federal Reserve continues to claim that high unemployment will “persist” why does he also say the economy will continue to recover? The pace...

Here’s some reading material for anyone interested in The Nation’s exposé on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). They have obtained 800 pages of documents from this right-wing organization that has been...

I still blame John McCain. The Stupid was contained before he came along and weaponized it by selecting Palin as his veepee. Good luck getting the genie back in the bottle. We stuck with this crap for while.

Mitch McConnell would rather tear out his eyeballs with a claw hammer than operate under the constraints of a balanced budget amendment. But that didn’t keep him from saying the following on the floor of the Senate this...