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Author: Scott Lemieux

End the Blue Slip

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On February 24, 2014
Pema Levy notes that despite the abolition of the filibuster on most judicial appointments gridlock persists: This brings us back to Burr and May-Parker. The White House's efforts to fill the bench are being stymied by the "blue slip" process, a Senate Judiciary Committee tradition...

A Second Bite at the Apple

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On February 21, 2014
Frenemies battle round 2 today; should be at least as much fun. How did the last meeting come out? I'm having trouble remembering... There are two bad ways of handicapping today's game. One would be to look at raw goal totals and Canada only beating...

Good Riddance, Chained CPI

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On February 20, 2014
Obama has gone from nominally supporting Social Security cuts attached to conditions that ensured they couldn't pass to explicitly not supporting them, and good. This comments thread is now particularly entertaining reading if you're a connoisseur of very high arrogance-to-knowledge ratios.
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