Year: 2016

The cynical among us were not surprised that the day after HRC won multiple state primaries on Tues, DNC chairwoman and Congresswoman DW Shultz co-sponsored a bill with the GOP to gut the new Consumer Protection Agency and delay...

By the end of August 2012, Steve Benen had documented 533 lies that Mitt Romney had told on the campaign trail. The general election is traditionally considered to begin in earnest after Labor Day. I’m sure Romney topped...

In the normal course of events, it’s a very bad sign when a witness is granted immunity by prosecutors. Unless a witness is likely to assist in a successful prosecution, there’s not much reason to shield them from...

BREAKING!!! HOTTEST THING EVER!!! NY Times: I have been writing here for years about the ongoing PermaGov fix. It has…so far…broken down in the face of Tump’s truly virtuoso understanding of how to use the...

Back when Rand Paul seemed like he might be a more popular politician, I spent some time thinking about what he’d need to do to win the Republican nomination. Obviously, if he was going to succeed, he was going to need a...