Month: October 2013

This morning I spoke to and with a group of about 100 middle school students – something, by the way, I think everyone involved in politics should do on a regular basis. I love middle and high school classes because the...

Fun to see your name in lights. And I love the teaser (which I didn’t write).

Joshua Green is correct that the Senate has passed the point of no return and that a single determined senator has the power, by repeatedly refusing to grant their consent to motions, to push us past the Thursday day of default....

Rob Christenson has this mostly correct. [Rep. Renee] Ellmers [R-NC] has a voting record to the right of Michele Bachmann. And she is under fire for being ideologically impure. This is why we have gridlock. Most of the problem...

Brian Beutler’s analysis mirrors mine, although he puts more focus on the “neo-Confederate fantasists” who seem to have no idea how badly they have been beaten. Noam Scheiber’s analysis also mirrors mine,...