…Security, ThinkProgress, Oct. 27, 2010; GOP Budget proposes to Ration Medicare, Privatize Social Security, CrooksandLiars, Feb. 5, 2010 (discussing the GOP alternative to Obama’s budget proposals); GOP’s Pledge to America…
…followed by the GOP “believers” in market fundamentalism and greed-is-good philosophy, it is not such a surprise that the Democrats are adopting GOP-favored tax policies that benefit big corporations and…
…GOP is playing with dynamite here, the political ads practically write themselves. UPDATE: Skip Sauer of The Sports Economist was also all over this one on Tuesday, though somewhat cautious:…
…BILL”. Part of this bill seems to be the DeMint proposal to strip away the Social Security surplus, which will make the unified deficit as large as the general fund…
We heard three very different positions on Iraq from the Republicans this weekend. Let me start with the grown-up GOP position expressed by Sen. Lindsey Graham on Late Edition SEN….
…breaking fiscal impasse Countdown: GOP unity frays as shutdown grows near Budget Battle Ends Soon With Tea Party Loss: King, Corker – Bloomberg John Boehner’s only choice: Throw the Tea…
by Linda Beale GOP Senators fight facts: won’t hear Coretta Scott King’s views of Attorney General nominee Sessions GOP obstructionism is back again in full form. This time, instead of…
Via Salon, Digby writes: GOP leaders definitely knew about hacking — did they benefit too? McClatchy also reported that the Justice Department is looking into “whether Trump’s campaign pointed Russian…
Mother Jones tells the story here in graphic detail. The GOP’s Biggest Charter School Experiment Just Imploded How a washed-up lobbyist built a charter school empire and siphoned millions from…
Frederick Douglass, Andrew Johnson, and the Copperhead GOP I am currently reading David W. Blight’s biography of Frederick Douglass, the 19th century orator and champion of black equality. Today I…