Month: October 2013

Chait Gets It, Sort Of

Jonathan Chait has the right idea, but he is making it needlessly complicated. Defecting Republican lawmakers don’t need to actually leave the party. They don’t need to rebrand themselves as independents. They...

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Surprise, Surprise, Surprise

What, US Chamber of Commerce, inveterate supporter of all things Republican and serial denouncer of President Obama and the Democrats for being anti-business, now you are having second thoughts about the monster you helped...

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As I Was Saying…

Remember, as pieces like this begin to proliferate, that you heard it from me first. Does this sound familiar? By some accounts, there are now enough Republican votes for Boehner to successfully bring a clean government-funding...

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Time Stops for No One

David Drucker, writing in the right-wing Washington Examiner, chooses to emphasize the divisions in the Republican Party and to amplify the message of the dissenters who never wanted a fight over ObamaCare that could lead to a...

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