Pick of Ryan Leaves House GOP Defenseless
[Also available in green]On April 15th, 2011, at 2:53 in the afternoon, the House of Representatives voted 235-193 for the Paul Ryan budget for fiscal year 2012. There was not a single Democrat...
View ArticleDestroy the $716 Billion Lie
[Also available in green]The 716 billion dollar lie is the central line of defense. It's like the Republicans' Maginot Line. If the lie can be breached with the blitz of truth, the GOP's argument will...
View ArticleA Campaign About Nothing
I knew that the Romney campaign reminded me of something. It's an episode of Seinfeld.
View ArticleWhy Romney's Secret Speech Will Matter
There are so many ways I could approach Mitt Romney's recently revealed secret speech. People will snark it to death. We can have hours of fun with this thing. If we're feeling really mischievous,...
View ArticleGetting the Crazy Out of the Philly Suburbs
During the Republican National Convention, I went to get a haircut because I was going to be appearing on an internet feed the next day and I was looking a little scraggly. When the middle-aged woman...
View ArticlePhilly Republicans Want to Kill Medicare
You don't wait until you have been in a car accident to purchase car insurance; you don't wait until your house has been flooded to buy flood insurance, and you don't wait until your home is ablaze to...
View ArticlePA-08: Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick's Contempt for Working Families
[Originally posted at Booman Tribune]Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district had about the most inauspicious beginning to his term that can possibly be imagined. He...
View ArticlePA-06: Tomorrow, Action Summit for Manan Trivedi
[The author is a consultant for Democracy for America]If my readers will indulge me for a moment, I want to talk briefly about something local. I live in Pennsylvania's Sixth District. My congressman...
View ArticleLying Romney in Couplets
[Also available in green]Let's do a little exercise. I am going to provide you with some couplets. They are things Mitt Romney said at different times about the same subject. And I want you to try...
View ArticleThe Wilderness
[Also available in green]That the Republican Party is demonstrating fractured views on foreign policy is only one small part of a much greater state of generalized disarray. The most obvious problem...
View ArticleMarco Rubio is Being Groomed for 2016
[Also available in green]Something I noticed in January, when Marco Rubio unfurled his support for comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, was that many voices on the right who...
View ArticleJohn Boehner and the Sequester
[Also available in green]If you've been following the debate over the impending "sequester," you have probably seen liberals quoting Speaker Boehner saying that he got 98 percent of what he wanted in...
View ArticleTreat the Tea Party Like the Addicts They Are
[Originally in green]Jonathan Bernstein is correct that you can tell who the target audience for an opinion piece is by looking for the "to-be-sure" paragraph. The "to-be-sure" paragraph is intended...
View ArticleWho Broke the Very Fabric of the Senate?
[Originally in green]The following excerpt raises so many issues: As senators in 2005, Obama and Biden publicly defended the filibuster and the requirement of a supermajority to change Senate rules....
View ArticleAbout That Ubiquitous Atwater Rosetta Stone Confession
[Also available in White and Green]I don't know if everyone is talking about race because Congress is deadlocked and, well, we have to talk about something more than Ukraine and the missing jet...
View ArticleA Heat-Fever Bacchanalian Feast of Stupid
[Also available in green]Charles Krauthammer is clearly nervous about the House Republicans' decision to go Full Metal Benghazi by creating a Select Committee to look into...what? So, he has some...
View ArticleWill Anyone Read This?
[Cross-posted in green]So, the DSCC is moving in with a big buy in South Dakota. So what? You don't live there, so what do you care? Hell, it exhausts me to even think about trying to explain the...
View ArticleRuth Marcus is the Latest "Liberal" Columnist to Defend Dennis Hastert
Looking at my archives, I realize that I’ve written about Ruth Marcus more often than I thought. It has never been flattering.Typically, I say things like “If Ruth Marcus suddenly sounds like Jane...
View ArticleOf Course, Trump Will Never Win
It’s gotten to the point that it appears almost like a nervous tic. Pundits and political scientists feel like it’s absolutely necessary to preface anything they have to say about Donald Trump with a...
View ArticleCoalition Government: How to Fix the House of Representatives
Ever since 2007, when the independent socialist Bernie Sanders graduated from the U.S. House of Representatives to the U.S. Senate, the House has been made up of some combination of 435 Republicans and...
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