...does belong squarely on one side, although the inept response of Obama and many congressional Dems to the hostage-taking must be mentioned. And also, although this seems missing the reports I listened to while driving around lovely Oregon, the House vote is just a kabuki....
our broken institutions
I have a new TAP piece about the unacceptably high vacancy rates on the federal courts. The best symbol of Republican obstructionism, to me, isn't Liu. I believe he should.
is undemocratic and evil, unless it suits your agenda. Both houses of Congress tweak their rules on the first day of a new session. The rule changes for the 112th.
Needless to say, I don't have much to add to Krugman and Rortybomb. The deal, once you accept that the cave-in on extending the Bush tax cuts was inevitable, was better than expected. But the caveat pretty much swallows the good news. The die...
Liberals, nominal liberals, and man who in exchange for fifty bucks would write op-eds supporting companies selling cyanide to schoolchildren Lanny Davis sell out to the worst of the for-profit.
BTD asserts: The second problem with this question is Bowers not imagining what a GOP President and GOP Congress would have achieved with the elimination of the filibuster. You thought.
As if to illustrate the point made recently by Jon Chait, Doug Mataconis hauls some of the hoariest defenses of the electoral college out of the mothballs: Without it, Presidential candidates would concentrate their resources even more in the areas where the votes are, ignoring...
Obama's glacial pace in making federal court nominations is not, strictly speaking, an example of the kind of thing Krugman is talking about today. Making a couple dozen more nominations.
John Elwood, with respect to the trend toward more recess appointments by the president, and especially the recent intrasession appointment of Donald Berwick: It is certainly not without controversy, however;.
This is a really crucial point: Pat Garofalo has more on the policy substance here, noting that about 200,000 jobs could plausibly be lost as a result of the minority’s obstructionism here. And do note that if conditions do worsen many, many, many more Americans...
I'm very ambivalent about the Supreme Court's ruling today that the NLRB did not have the statutory authority to act with only two members. But, to be honest, my instinct.
For whatever reason, the filibuster has a romantic appeal to people who should know better, and you often hear from those who dislike the current rules that changing the rules.