…GOP was ahead of the curve in bestowing women’s rights Today, many Americans under 40 have no idea how different the GOP (not the mention the country as a whole)…

by Linda Beale Hey, didn’t the GOP say it cared about deficits? Just when you think those on the radical right had gone about as far as they could go…

by Linda Beal Perry’s Flat Tax Proposal The Atlantic has a good summary article contrasting Perry’s Flat Tax proposal (an alternative choice to the income tax, that is modeled after…

by Linda Beale Welfare Spending: Medicare vs Corporate/Business Subsidies (or does the GOP really support WalMart’s behavior in Bangladesh?) As most readers know, the federal government is currently in what…

…safety net programs. Rove’s position essentially insists on the government folloowing the GOP’s long-debunked market fundamentalism that assumes that the “dynamics” of spending cuts to the GOP-hated so-called “entitlements” (and…

by Linda Beale GOP wants to repeal Dodd-Frank: instead they should listen to Nassim Taleb Nassim Taleb, the author of the book on long-tail events, suggests in a Nov. 6,…

Well the gloves came off this morning. What GOP Leaders deem wasteful in Senate stimulus bill STORY HIGHLIGHTS House Republicans unveil list of “wasteful” Senate stimulus spending Stimulus bill passed…

Via Joshua Marshall provides a link to the GOP’s weekend retreat reading material. There is a lot of misleading nonsense in this document, so it may attract a lot of…

by Linda Beale Dear GOP: a Daily Kos staff reminder on the constitutional process for changing the law The Tea Party/GOP coalition has often talked about the importance of the…

by Linda Beale Economic Terrorism: the Tea Party/GOP’s Hostage Taking Plan (Tom Tomorrow’s “Giant Killer Robots”) As the New York Times reported on Saturday: Stohlberg, A Federal Budget Crisis Months…