Rep Bill Foster: 5 Days

I got this email from Congressman Bill Foster‘s office on Thursday of last week.  So now it’s more like 3...

GOP’s Latest Obamacare Sabotage Ploy

With the open enrollment  period for Obamacare Exchanges beginning on October 1, we’re starting to see local groups spring up...

Is the GOP House Majority Forever?

My new favorite blogger, Jonathan Chait, posted a sobering piece yesterday on the apparent imperviousness of the GOP’s House majority,...

More Sequester Damage: America’s Scientific Preeminence Threatened

More evidence today from Jonathan Cohn on the damage being done by the GOP’s reckless use of the sequester to...

Obamacare Subsidies Mean Big Savings for Americans

As we approach the next rollout milestone for Obamacare this fall, the GOP is becoming more and more desperate to...

Monstrous GOP, Part the 3,216th

I continue to be at a loss as to how any decent person, with even the slightest bit of concern...

Politics is a Team Sport

This piece today from Johnathan Cohn, on the way the Republican Senate candidate in Massachusetts is running away from his...

Wonkbook: The GOP’s Dangerous Obamacare Strategy

Wonkblog describes the Republican strategy on Obamacare (emphasis added): Republicans who’re unable to repeal it also refuse to permit any tweaks...

Fed Chair Bernanke: Congress, Get Your Foot Off The Brake!

The evidence is piling up more and more deeply that austerity (i.e., cutting spending) is the wrong policy for the...

Reich: The Hollowing-Out of Government

Thanks to my friend Bob Rohr for pointing out this great piece by Robert Reich.  Reich documents how the GOP...