by Linda Beale Republican “fiscal cliff” proposal House republican leaders have sent a letter to President Obama with their “fiscal cliff” proposal, which the Republicans cast as a “fair middle…

Steve Hutkins from Save The Post Office, “Why the USPS proposal to reduce service standards will cause “undue discrimination” The Postal Service’s plan to reduce service standards is now being…

The GOP’s extortion demands: cut Social Security or we’ll shoot the country in the foot The GOP created the fiscal cliff beginning with the “temporary” tax cuts passed in 2001,…

…us facing. Gerson then concludes with: A serious budget, of course, lies somewhere in the vast gap between the Ryan and Murray budget proposals. And much about the Republican future…

…(see the budgets Reagan sent to Congress). But it is only in this century that the absurdity of the idea that budget cuts have anything to do with the GOP…

…Social Security. MacLean calls this Ayn Rand-brand of hateful thinking followed by GOP House majority leader Paul Ryan “economic eugenics”. Since the GOP right-wing libertarians believe that only people who…

Republican strategists call for this change in tactics: To pass Social Security reform this year, top Republican strategists say, President Bush and the GOP-led Congress must redirect the debate by…

…the “On-budget” budget balance, you find that there is no significant reduction in the budget deficit in sight, as the following chart illustrates (figures in billions of $). The US…

Tuesday brief update on Arizona and GOP oral arguments in SCOTUS. “Hardcore GOP Position For Defanging VRA Falls Apart Under SCOTUS Questioning,” Tierney Sneed, TPM The Arizona case before the…

…of public employee unions and defund public pensions–die not inherit a budget shortfall. Like at the national level, GOP policies are driving the attack on public employee more than the…