So the party of “financial responsibility” is going to spend about $1.1 million just on reading the Constitution on the House floor: The amount I get is nearly $1.1 million. $1,071,872.87, to be exact, though of course this is more back-of-the-envelope than exact. When one chamber of Congress is in session but not working, we […]
There’s a lot of talk right now about earmarks. The Tea Party/GOP candidates, who campaigned heavily on getting rid of things like earmarks, have now reversed their positions since winning their elections. Examples of this can be seen in John Boehner and Rand Paul. But what about the non-Congressional supporters of the Tea Party/GOP? Well […]
A very interesting op-ed in today’s LA Times starts with: Congress should let the Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthiest Americans and use the additional tax revenues that are generated to invest in infrastructure and research. Now you probably think this is some whack, socialistic liberal or something. Of course you would be wrong. […]
The top story on Memeorandum right now is this one from The Washington Post: A revolt among big donors on Wall Street is hurting fundraising for the Democrats’ two congressional campaign committees, with contributions from the world’s financial capital down 65 percent from two years ago. The drop in support comes from many of the […]
I can’t help but laugh every time I hear some Republican say “passing this bill [health care reform] will cost the Democrats in November”. I keep wondering to myself if Coach K is calling up John Calipari and saying “if we meet in final four and you run a zone defense, it will cost you […]
Rep. Steve King is trying to justify the attack on the IRS in a discussion with Think Progress: TP: Do you think this attack, this terrorist attack, was motivated at all by a lot of the anti-tax rhetoric that’s popular in America right now? KING: I think if we’d abolished the IRS back when I […]
The last decade is by no doubt the Bush decade since he held office for 4/5 of it, so the fact that we had zero net job creating during the decade should really stick to his legacy. To put it in visual terms, check out this graph: You can only blame 9/11 for so much […]
When the Republicans pushed through the impeachment of Bill Clinton, they defended their actions with claims that he had “betrayed the trust in the American people”. In all honesty, it was their strongest argument. Now there is an investigation into an alleged vindictive abuse of powers by Palin. If this story proves to be true, […]
In the last decade we have seen our political climate severely changed by the Christian right. Motivating them has been the greatest accomplishment that the Republicans have pulled off. During the 1994 Republican take over of Congress, Newt Gingrich helped construct this new powerful base. While the now infamous “Contract with America” did not specifically […]
They must have taken a page right out of the old U.S.A. playbook on democracy: The daily newspaper El Universal reported 10 ballot boxes and a polling station report were found in a garbage dump in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Mexico City. Activists demonstrated outside offices of the government’s prosecutor for electoral […]