Via Josh Marshall comes more GOP passing the buck on the Istook Amendment: WASHINGTON – Sen. Ted Stevens on Monday showed reporters a handwritten legislative proposal from an IRS employee…

…light of some GOP Social Security proposals to let individuals choose the upside potential of stocks, while having the Social Security be the ultimate guarantor, the following from Ippolito’s analysis…

…there. So I certainly wouldn’t imitate it,” he said on Fox News on March 17, 2000. The farce is the Illinois GOP asking Keyes to run; the tragedy is that…

Amensia over War versus “Send Me” The GOP reactions to last night speeches at the DNC in Boston are already contradicting themselves. While the RNC is saying two-thirds of the…

…hard over recent months to get Democrats elected this fall. In related news, the GOP is becoming ever bolder and more open about the fact that they are working hard…

Pot, Meet Kettle. Call it Black. This comes on the heels of GOP allegations that MoveOn is coordinating with the Kerry campaign. House GOP Committee Pays Soft Money Fine WASHINGTON…

…concept that the GOP will be generally helped just because a bill with some sort of benefit for seniors–no matter how lousy!– has been passed is so ridiculous. Seniors are…

…Washington Post. It’s not quite an attack on Dean, but it’s a clearly intentional distortion of facts that’s fairly obviously intended to belittle Howard Dean’s support and advance GOP strategy….

…even though the GOP controlled the entire process. The reason? Republicans did not want to anger Rep. Sherrod Brown (D), who threatened to run against Gov. Bob Taft if his…

…(GOP-appointed) Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) was issuing a report that suggested the use of a key word that might be in many conservative groups’ name was “inappropriate”…