Month: October 2013

On the surface, at least, Sen. Ted Cruz appears to agree with Markos Moulitsas that the best way to win midterm elections is to fire up the base. Moderation isn’t going to win more seats for the GOP in Congress in 2014,...

You may have heard that Senator Ted Cruz is carried on his wife’s Goldman Sachs-provided health insurance policy. What you probably haven’t heard is that the policy cost $40,543 in 2009. Austin Frakt used publicly...

Ted Rall posted a not so good and superficially inflammatory diary at dKos: Via Sarah Palin: How Obama’s Idiotic ACA Might Lead to Real Health Care Reform.  It’s sort of the mirror image of Booman’s...

Karen Tumulty has piece in the Washington Post on why West Virginia has moved from a solidly Democratic state to an increasingly Republican state (at least, on the national level). She’s starts out with an anecdote about...

Lou Reed has passed away. I am not happy.