Will the government shut down in March?
It seems like it will, according to David Dayen: The Senate is now off for a week. When they come back it’ll be February 28. The continuing resolution to fund the government expires on March 4. So...
View ArticleThose crazy Tea Partiers
According to E.J. Dionne, the House Republicans are now seeking to reprise and play two past Republican strategies. On the one hand, Dionne assumes they want to blackmail a Democratic President by...
View ArticleThe Republican Party hates poor and old folk
The Washington Post reports that: The top Senate Republican sought Thursday to clarify his party’s stance on Medicare heading into high-stakes talks with the White House, telling President Obama he...
View ArticleOn Obama’s centrism
How might one make Obama’s reactionary economic policies appear reasonable? Achieving this would be a real trick since a reactionary politics is nearly unreasonable by definition. A transformation such...
View ArticleA damning judgment of Boehner’s recent budget
Robert Greenstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities wrote: House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would require deep cuts in the years immediately ahead in Social Security and...
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