Robert Samuelson gives away the show: Obama's behavior resembles a highly indebted family's taking an expensive round-the-world trip because it claims to have found ways to pay for it. It's self-indulgent and reckless. Chait: "Self-indulgent" -- what an interesting phrase. Let's consider both words, starting...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Arguments that the requirement to buy insurance or pay a tax in the Affordable Care Act are unconstitutional are not very convincing. But apparently we're going to see some that.
More please: President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass the Senate and.
Self-parody exhumed and killed again.
Over at Seriously, We Shelled Out $30 Million For This? Media, BadTasteInCocktailsPundit suggests that a little terrorism may not be such a bad thing, if the right targets are intimidated:.
I have some further discussion of my contentions (mostly but not entirely in agreement with Paul's piece) that 1)the bill is properly viewed as constitutional, 2)the Court is very, very.
Henry's give 'em enough rope approach to this remarkable McArdle post is a sound one. As an alternative, I'll try isolating a couple particularly instructive sentences: One cannot help but admire Nancy Pelosi's skill as a legislator. But it's also pretty worrying. Are we now...
You will be shocked to learn that highly implausible claims that executives who simultaneously knew nothing about the actions that destroyed their companies and have irreplacable expertise would flee en.
Black and Cole make a point that can't be made often enough: the pro-choice position is a principled moral position, reflecting important moral values. Women's equality and freedom are real.
Col. Mustard poses what he considers a difficult question: What if Barack Obama were not President, and Democrats did not control Congress. Would liberals be so willing to give the federal government this sweeping power? Yes. In fact, if the next Republican president wants to...
Some Republican just claimed that the health care bill would be the most "massively pro-abortion bill since Roe v. Wade." I suspect here that the "stupid or lying" question is,.
A great progressive moment. And what Yglesias said about Pelosi.