Month: October 2013

I watched the president’s press conference. He made it abundantly clear that he isn’t going to make any concessions whatsoever until the government is open and our bills are paid. I guess that leaves John Boehner...

Back in November of 2012, I took a look at what it would take to win back control of the House of Representatives. My findings were grim. Any district that was won by 10,000 or less votes should be considered highly competitive....

It does not appear that John Boehner can pass a bill to raise the debt ceiling with only Republican votes. But, if he can, he can only do so by attaching all sorts of nonsense to it that the Senate will laugh out of the room....

I understand that the business community is fed up with the Tea Party’s brinkmanship on the debt ceiling, and I welcome their efforts to primary some of the extremists. However, I think it’s unfortunate that they are...

William S. Burroughs on why RNC Chairman Reince Priebus should not have bothered with his after-election report. “The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does...