…20 Republican candidate debates and months of negative campaign ads), the GOP candidates all think that we need to prescribe an austerity budget for state and federal governments. “Too much…

…Percent’”, ABC News, Jan. 17, 2012. At a press conference following the GOP debate last night, GOP presumed favored candidate Mitt Romney acknowledged for the first time that his effective…

by Linda Beale GOP two-step approach problematic Discussion continued apace yesterday about the “supercommittee” and the idea of agreeing to agree someday on some revenue increases while going ahead with…

…this country’s infrastructure into nonembarassment). The GOP refused, because it was funded by a de minimis tax on millionaires. There’s no end to things that can be said about this…

…Levin did respond to the “it’s regulations and taxes that are killing job creation” GOP mantra. A recent poll of small business owners showed that small business owners aren’t worried…

…think?). These quotes just repeat the desired sound bites — “bringing the money home” will “create jobs and re-invest in America” (GOP representative Gregory Meeks, Sept. 9, 2011); “let’s bring…

The latest Washington Post ABC poll has some dramatic results ” Even among Republicans, 58 percent see the GOP as too resistant to a deal, up from 42 percent in…

I think this article “GOP freshmen get a tough lesson in politics” by David Fahrenthold in the Washington Post perfectly illustrates everything which is wrong with US political journalism. The…

…a mile below the Gulf of Mexico’s surface. Republican opponents quickly labeled it “Obama’s Katrina.” David Brooks of the New York Times takes another tack, arguing, “The real parallel could…

…Tuesday night, sending the pair into a June 8 runoff election. The winner will face GOP Rep. John Boozman, a rancher and ophthalmologist whose late brother, Fay Boozman, lost to…