Taking the Brink out of Boehner’s Brinksmanship
Speaker of the House John Boehner is threatening to hold the debt-ceiling hostage again this coming fall in an attempt to prevent the Bush Tax Cuts from expiring. Under the current baseline agreed to...
View ArticleHouse GOP Thumbs Their Nose at the Pentagon Again
Via TPM, hidden inside the House Armed Services Committee defense budget, which the Obama Administration is now threatening to veto, is a ban on the Pentagon’s biofuel research. Earlier this week, the...
View ArticleJohn McCain’s Latest Nothingburger
Senator John McCain is engaging in a little bit of political grandstanding and posturing today by adding an amendment to the farm bill demanding a report from Leon Panetta on the potential harms that...
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Sequester
Artist – RJ Matson In other news, the Texas voter ID law that accepts gun licenses but not student IDs is being challenged in court tomorrow by the Department of Justice. Brings your guns to the...
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Chart of the Day
We’re only months away from sequestration, but as the chart below illustrates, the plans proposed by the two parties to avoid it aren’t even remotely similar. via the CAP A new Senate GOP tax plan...
View ArticleExpiration of the Bush Tax Cuts is Inevitable
Congressional leadership announced a tentative deal today to fund the federal government through March of next year at levels previously agreed to in the Budget Control Act (the debt ceiling deal)....
View ArticleHe’s Playin’ You, Virginia
Virginia — Paul Ryan thinks you’re stupid. “Now there’s one thing we’re going to have to deal with to make sure we protect jobs in Virginia and around America,” Ryan said. “And that is these...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Then. Paul Ryan Now.
Paul Ryan was for the defense cuts he did or did not vote for before he was against the defense cuts he did or did not vote for. Do you follow? Me neither. via ThinkProgress SEAN HANNITY (FOX NEWS,...
View ArticleReminder: John Boehner Got “98 Percent” of What He Wanted
When you look at this final agreement that we came to with the White House, I got 98 percent of what I wanted. I’m pretty happy. I’ve seen more than a few DC pundits and beltway thinkers grumble today...
View ArticlePaul Ryan is a Lying Sack
Responding to a frustrated man who works for the Environmental Protection Agency and has lost many hours of work and pay because of sequestration — Paul Ryan concocted this fantastical story. This was...
View ArticleReminder: John Boehner Got “98 Percent” of What He Wanted
When you look at this final agreement that we came to with the White House, I got 98 percent of what I wanted. I’m pretty happy. I’ve seen more than a few DC pundits and beltway thinkers grumble today...
View ArticlePaul Ryan is a Lying Sack
Responding to a frustrated man who works for the Environmental Protection Agency and has lost many hours of work and pay because of sequestration — Paul Ryan concocted this fantastical story. This was...
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