Is the current Congress the worst ever for environmental issues? Almost certainly, though you could probably say the same thing for many issues. Worst Congress ever? There's a lot of competition. But this one is very competitive for the title.
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As the Pauls note below, the horrible debt deal is not a pleasant thing to come back to, and I'm sure it's not hard to convince most of our audience.
...will be stepping down. I think Matt is right in general that most sex scandals are survivable if the politician just refuses to resign. Certainly, Weiner could have stayed on.
I think this is an important point: arguments that various Democratic proposals on health care were once "Republican proposals" are misleading, in the sense that it's not as if Republicans.
It indeed doesn't get much more grimly hilarious than Dick Cheney's lawyer pretending to be aghast at the "kingly power" what would result from the president being able to appoint.
Again, there's no question that Reid should force a vote on the Ryan budget. The fact that Republicans are trying to convince Very Serious people that even mentioning the public votes of members of Congress is dirty pool tells you everything you need to know.
I endorse this, with one caveat: 1) There is no such a thing as a grand bargain. You cannot tie the hands of future Congresses. That a deal has been.
Obviously, it's a good thing that the particularly appalling language has been excised, but it shouldn't be forgotten that the "arbitrarily deny poor women access to essential health care" bill.
Shorter House Republicans: "It's outrageous that insurance companies would be expected to provide you with medical care in exchange for your money. People value the freedom to have their money be used for no useful purpose whatsover." Related: the war on logic.
It's appropriate that the day the predictably awful report of the Catfood Commission is released, Republicans have made clear exactly how credible their commitment to deficit reduction is: The Republican.
Predictably, the attempt to topple Pelosi worked out about as well as his NFL career did.