The GOP essentially wins yet another procedural round in the Senate. It should be noted as well that using various tyranny-of-the-minority tactics to prevent presidents from staffing their administrations is indefensible even by Senate standards; the increase in recess appointments is a perfectly justified way...
our broken institutions
Krugman, after correctly noting the death of irony:The bottom line, then, is that the crusade against health reform has relied, crucially, on utter hypocrisy: Republicans who hate Medicare, tried to.
I've been puzzling over the same questions Rob has -- that why both the White House and the Raul Grijalva set among House progressives seem publicly committed to positions that.
While I've been trying to ignore the news for the past 24 hours, itself ironic given I did a couple live BBC radio interviews about guess what yesterday morning (which was a bit of an adventure as I am at home playing single dad to...
I'll have a longer post following up on Rob's post below in the morning. Before that, one thing I'll say is that if Senate Dems really think that, in a.
Sad, but true. I'm particularly wary of trying to construct an argument that the filibuster is unconstitutional using the same kind of logic that's used to argue that health care.
What's especially rich about John Kyl holding up presidential appointments over trivial and irrelevant policy matters (in this case, a little stupid moralism about online gambling) is that Kyl was one of the many hacks who used to argue that the "advice and consent" clause...
At one of my wonkier venues, I have some thoughts about the issues that Matt and Ezra have also discussed recently. There's no question that the combination of increased partisanship.
I think Nate Silver's decimation of the reconciliation dodge is definitive. Granted, I roughly share his ideological priorities, and as a result I don't think there's a very serious argument.
Indeed, it's still true. And it's true that even if the votes he casts are much more inevitable than those of Lieberman, Nelson merits a substantial amount of contempt.
So your taxes can be free.The current estate tax mess is a story of almost mind-numbing greed and legislative incompetence. A quick summary: In 2001 Congress greatly decreased the (already.
Longtime readers will know that I believe that the president's role in passing new domestic initiatives (as opposed to applying existing regulations or putting issues on the agenda) is an.