If you assume contemporary congressional Republicans are bargaining in good faith, you're almost certainly wrong.
Author: Scott Lemieux
Jon Chait, formerly the strongest defender of the Catfood Commission among liberal bloggers, sees new data about its inequities and jumps ship. A rare triumph for the self-correcting blogosphere! Albeit.
As a child of a constitutional democracy, I would first of all like to dissociate myself from Matt's claim that "[w]e [what do you mean we, white man? --ed.] follow.
The post below reminds me that I had been meaning to blog about these Dana Milbank speculations about how Clinton might have been better. He bases this around some discussions with Clinton campaign operatives -- let's call them "Park Menn." Exactly how would she have...
Tired of other greasy conservative hacks who once worked for Democrats getting all the attention, Mark Penn, Union Buster (TM) has decided to share his remarkable insight with us. What.
"I Got Mine, Fuck You. If I Don't Got Mine, Gimme Gimme Gimme!" Harris spent months condemning the idea of Americans being entitled to taxpayer-subsidized health care coverage. Now that.
I've mentioned this before, but shouldn't there be some statute of limitations that prevents Pat Caddell from being referred to as a "Democratic pollster?" At some point, having conducted some polls for Jimmy Carter in 1976 has to be trumped by having spent decades not...
As promised (threatened?),I have more on Chait's defense of Simpson/Bowles here. Compromising with median legislators who hold the cards because they're essentially indifferent to social problems is justifiable when if.
Shorter Ross Douthat: It's truly inexplicable that many Democrats oppose a deficit "compromise" made between a conservative nominal Democrat and a conservative Republican that includes such longstanding liberal preferences as.
There's nothing remotely "libertarian" about the Tea Party or its favored representatives. Misogyny, though, they're soaking in it.
On a business trip to lovely Eire without my laptop cable, I was spared further reading about inevitable Democratic attempts to make peace with the Simpson/Bowles abomination. But with a.
I was going to verify that Guinness is even better when tasted in its country of origin, but then remembered where I was and can verify instead that Beamish and.