Today’s New York Times: Just when freshman House Republicans have finally learned their way to the Cannon Caucus Room, how to vote on a motion to proceed and which commissary serves the best tuna sandwiches, someone back home — worse, someone from their own party — wants to take it all away. “I am taking […]
Apparently not the Republicans. Check out Eric Cantor admitting that extending the Bush tax cuts will increase the deficit: Transcript (via Think Progress): GUTHRIE: [W]ill you just as simply acknowledge that passing these tax cuts worsens the budget deficit problem? I mean, you can’t deny that, right? CANTOR: Savannah, let’s look at it through the […]
Now that Blanche Lincoln has been able to hold onto her job, we are to expect little jabs from the right on how “the progressives lost big tonight”. That, despite being untrue, is to be expected, but this is not: A senior White House official just called me with a very pointed message for the […]
Yesterday morning Joe Scarborough was providing us with his infinite wisdom by declaring that Americans are mad because their taxes have gone up so much under Obama. Imagine how shocked I am to find out Scarborough is wrong about the tax issue: According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, the vast majority of […]
Yesterday during the President’s Q&A session with House Republicans Mike Pence asked President Obama why he won’t support across the board tax cuts like Reagan wanted. This has been a key issue for Republicans for decades and I am wondering why they never did it when they had total control of the government. Think about […]
Here is John Boehner on Sunday claiming no stimulus is being spent in Ohio: But there’s a problem. Ohio has been spending stimulus funds, and now John Boehner has been called out on his lie and had to issue a “clarification”: When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a […]
Wow what a liberal person he is. Here is what he said today during his radio address: The problem with our current system is clear: health care costs are rising rapidly, more than twice as fast as wages. These rising costs are driving up the price of health insurance and making it harder for working […]