Steve Benen looks at the serious thinking being done by the Republican policy shop. The Republican Study Committee has quite a laundry list in mind. These folks actually map out cutting $2.5 trillion from the budget without...
Read MoreI’m generally supportive of Obama’s preference for pragmatic progressivism, and I don’t mind too much that he’s positioned himself in the center of the Democratic Party. The leader of the party must take...
Read MoreI suppose that House Republicans had no choice but to pass a repeal of health care reform after all their crazed rhetoric on the campaign trail. But I wonder how far they are willing to go to mess with the implementation over...
Read MoreI can’t figure right-wingers out. They think the ideal man is John Wayne or Clint Eastwood, but they have no problem admitting to a national audience that they’re terrified to walk around Independence Hall in...
Read MoreTony Blankley was Newt Gingrich’s press secretary when the Speaker presided over the two government shutdowns of 1995. He thinks the Republicans can now shut down the government without losing the public relations battle....
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