Month: September 2013

Does anyone remember when Mitch McConnell filibustered his own bill? It happened last December. He offered a bill that would have given the president the authority to raise the debt ceiling, subject only to a two-thirds majority...

If the House Republican caucus had more Steve LaTourettes, we might have a functioning government, but Steve LaTourette can still bite me. I understand his impulse to defend his good friend John Boehner, and I even understand...

Shorter Avik Roy: “There is no internecine war between Republicans. It’s just that Ted Cruz is an insufferable penis.” Okay, then. But can we ask what in the hell the House thinks it is doing? Because Ted Cruz...

There is something ironic about making Invisible Man invisible on school library shelves.

Back in July, Steve Benen noted that Nancy Pelosi had discussed the potential for using a discharge petition to force a vote on comprehensive immigration reform in the House of Representatives. Now that the Gang of Seven is...