Ezra Klein lays out the odds of the GOP reducing the deficit should they regain control of Congress: If Republicans take the House and the Senate, how much likelier is a full extension of the Bush tax cuts? I’d say it goes up to 70 percent, and the only reason I don’t say 100 percent […]
Things got beyond heated last night outside the Rand Paul/Jack Conway debate in Lexington last night: At one point, violence broke out when Lauren Valle of MoveOn.org approached Paul and tried to give him an “employee of the month award” from Republicorp. Republicorp is a fake business MoveOn created to symbolize what it says is […]
From TPM comes this email Dave Bartholomew, the chair of the Virginia Beach GOP, thought was funny enough to forward to other people: MY DOG I went down this morning to sign up my Dog for welfare. At first the lady said, “Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare”. So I explained to her that […]
Brian Sandoval, the GOP candidate for Governor of Nevada, is joining Meg Whitman in the ranks of uber-hypocrite: Channel 2 News in Nevada reported Monday night that a woman has stepped forward saying that the family of Republican Brian Sandoval, who is challenging Democrat Rory Reid for Nevada’s governorship, hired her to be a housekeeper […]
Oh this is really good. As you probably recall, many Republicans and conservatives who surely knew better got carried away with outrage when the Daily Caller published its thorougly bogus series of hit pieces alleging that Journolist represented some kind of shadowy liberal conspiracy to undermine our journalistic insitutions from within for the good of […]
With all the debate over Cordoba House in New York, something we never hear about is actual concerns. I’m not talking about the “all brownies are terrorists” kind of crap the GOP and FOX News pushes, but rather if there are any serious zoning type complaints. An example of this can be seen in Connecticut, […]
From Oliver Willis: I’ve just gotten off the phone with Atlanta Journal-Constitution political writer Jim Gallaway who says that Sen. Saxby Chambliss has confirmed that the ‘All faggots must die’ comment left here on JMG earlier today did indeed come from his Atlanta office. The comment was made over the repeal of DADT. Pretty interesting […]
The Defense Reauthorization Bill, which included repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, just fell to yet another GOP filibuster: Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation that would have repealed the law banning gays from serving openly in the military. The partisan vote was a defeat for Senate Democrats and gay rights advocates, who saw the bill […]
Things are getting interesting in the land of half term governors: Republican leaders are angry with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) for jeopardizing their chances of winning the Senate. Murkowski’s decision to mount a write-in campaign risks splitting the Republican vote between two candidates and could cost her party a safe GOP seat. “I am bothered […]
Sens. George Voinovich of Ohio and George LeMieux of Florida sided with Democrats to break a GOP filibuster on the small business bill. Remember when the GOP was all about reducing taxes, especially on small business? Yeah…neither do I.