GOP: Party of the Economic Elite
Jon Chait has a great new piece on the historical sources, hidden motivations, and overall incoherence of the contemporary GOP's anti-tax dogma. One implicit feature of Chait's analysis is that.
Joe Barton's apology to BP (which he retracted after being told by the GOP leadership that if he didn't he would lose his committee position) indicates the extent to which.
From an excellent NYT article about a woman buried under a mountain of debt following the dissolution of her marriage, loss of job, and large medical expenses, this shocking news about the bankruptcy bill disgracefully passed by Congress:Not surprisingly, such practices generated dazzling profits for...
Via Roy Edroso, Ross Douthat claims that "the GOP is now a working-class party." The linked article, as you might suspect, does little to actually substantiate the claim as it.