I am in substantial agreement with Markos’s assessment of the battlefield over budget cuts. In particular, I agree that the Republican Party (writ large) can be described as psychopathically unconcerned with the welfare of...
Read MoreI went with CabinGirl to see Lincoln this afternoon. We loved it. Daniel Day Lewis was amazing. The screenplay was great. The cinematography was outstanding. I enjoyed it more than I’ve enjoyed a movie in a very long time....
Read MoreSteve Benen makes an observation: According to GOP leaders, policymakers need to replace the $1.2 trillion in automatic sequestration cuts with some other, comparable cuts, and need to come up with $1.5 trillion in cuts in order...
Read MoreI may be full of myself, but my sucks-to-awesome ratio is so far below Andrew Sullivan’s that I ought to be able to do this and retire tomorrow.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, today the Senate will swear in 20 women, an historic high. Sixteen of those women will be Democrats. They think that their relative lack of testosterone will make the Senate a less confrontational place....
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