If anything great should be remembered from this past election it should be the fact that Grover Norquist has become much less significant. The number of Republicans breaking with the Norquist pledge to not raise taxes keeps rising, with the latest one coming out today: Open criticism of Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax […]
Honestly this is one of those “common sense” bills that should already be in the books: Conservatives in the blogosphere found one small aspect of the president’s State of the Union address that they could praise: a bill banning insider trading by members of Congress. “Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members […]
Bob Cesca points to this line from Newt Gingrich: GINGRICH: “When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets.” As Bob points out, we only had two, not four balanced budgets. But there is something else here that has been eating away at me. More and more the right is trying to make it […]
Republicans are still pissed over President Obama’s recessed appointment, so now they want to take action. Of course that action won’t occur until they return from their recess, which is what they are arguing they aren’t in. Sound confusing? Well let me add to that. OK – let’s let Republican Congresswoman Diane Black add to […]
Some very good news on the SOPA front: Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will not support the Stop Online Piracy Act, according to a statement released by his office Monday. In the statement, Ryan calls the Internet “one of the most magnificent expressions of freedom and free enterprise in history” and says “it should stay that […]
The AP has put out a fact check of President Obama’s claim last night that everything in his jobs program is paid for: resident Barack Obama’s promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions. It will only be paid for if a committee he can’t control […]
Yes the headline is harsh, but so are the actions of the GOP. Tonight President Obama is to ask for an extension of the payroll tax cuts and even increase them. Hasn’t the right been telling us that tax cuts are what keeps the economy rolling? Well apparently not now: Congressional Republicans over the past […]
Hurricane Irene is continuing to gain steam in the Atlantic and is now predicted to reach Cat-4 status late Thursday, right before it hits the eastern seaboard of Florida. It will continue up the coast and weaken to a still strong Cat 3 as it hits Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia. Here is the current […]
When the S&P downgraded our credit rating last Friday one of the reasons they gave was the inability of Congress to raise revenues, IE tax increases. That’s rather interesting given the Republican front-runner’s handling of credit ratings in the past: Gov. Mitt Romney lobbied the credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s in 2004 to raise […]
A majority of people are against the handling of the debt crisis on the part of every party, but the vast majority disapprove of the way the Republicans are handling the issue than anyone else a CBS News poll finds. Approve Disapprove President Obama 43% 48% Democrats in Congress 31% 58% Republicans in Congress […]