Month: February 2013

I used to dislike John McCain, but now I pretty much hate the guy. He filibusters Chuck Hagel, calls him unqualified, says he’s the most unimpressive nominee in all of recorded history, and then says he’s still a...

When the Republican Party was in its formative stage, it had a little problem. It took most of its members from the disintegrating Whig Party, and most of the rest from northern anti-slavery Democrats. But it needed a bigger...

Silly Steve M., we don’t need no stinking reprimands. We have precedent for this. If we want to make Sen. Ted Cruz behave himself, we just need to send Sander Levin over to the upper chamber to do a little Preston Brooks...

It is truly amazing that Congress appears to be totally helpless to avoid the sequester. And it really comes down to one thing. The Republicans can’t bring themselves to compromise. It’s basically a refusal to...

It is very strange to see Joe Scarborough trying to win an economics argument with Paul Krugman. Krugman doesn’t know politics as well as Scarborough, but he does have a Nobel Prize in economics. He also has a track...