The GOP and Obama’s Second Term: Rage of an Unprivileged Class, Pt. 1
It was, of course, to be expected that Republicans would not like President Obama’s inaugural address no matter what said. In fact, it’s safe to say that the only speech Republicans would have been...
View ArticleThe GOP and Obama’s Second Term: Rage of an Unprivileged Class, Pt. 2
In Part 1 of this series, I wrote that Republicans who were incensed that President Obama had nothing to say to them in his inaugural address should be far more worried the possibility that the...
View ArticleNo Budget No Pay Really Means No Budget
Anyone who thinks H.R. 325 — the No Budget No Pay law that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wants everyone to believe will do so much and be so important — will, in fact, make any difference is both...
View ArticleWill President Obama Betray Senate Democrats in State of the Union Speech?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ruled out Social Security cuts in any plan to replace the sequester. In the State of the Union address, President Obama can either stand with Harry Reid and...
View ArticleWill Obama’s “Bipartisan” Voting Commission Enable More Republican Obstruction?
Uh Oh, President Obama is being bipartisan again. You know what that means: Republican sabotage again enabled. This time he’s appointing a conservative operative to help “fix” voting problems. Will...
View ArticleEverybody Wins But The Country
Dave Weigel has the definitive post today on the Hagel nomination cock-up. He points out that Hagel himself is the only real loser here: He botched up his confirmation hearing, giving Republicans all...
View ArticleWho Would Oppose A Bill Fighting Chinese Hacking?
How come few if any of of the major-media articles reporting on Chinese hacking of computers in American businesses, news organizations and key infrastructure facilities mention that last year Senate...
View ArticleThis Is How A Filibuster Should Be Done
Yesterday we saw what a filibuster should be. Senator Rand Paul did it the right way by talking and talking, and he got his point across. Interestingly, what Senator Paul did is what the public thinks...
View ArticleRand Paul Peddles Himself as the Conservative for the Facebook Generation at...
Building on his media-star momentum coming out of last week’s 13-hour drone-focused filibuster, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., delivered a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference that put on...
View ArticleConservatives for States Rights … Until States Go Green
Republicans are always warning us of the scourge of federal power and glorifying the genius of the states – aka the laboratories of democracy. On clean energy standards, conservatives have been...
View ArticleReid Threatens Sternly Worded Letter Over Continuing Filibusters
For years now Senate Republicans have been filibustering … everything. At the end of last year there was an effort to convince Democrats in the Senate of the need to reform the filibuster so things We...
View ArticleWhen Senators Vote Against Voting (And Reporters Don’t Report It)
The New York Times got a key fact wrong today when it wrote that Mark Begich, the Democratic Senator from Alaska, “voted against a measure to expand background checks” for gun purchases. But we doubt...
View ArticleEnough Is Enough: Take Action Today To Fix A Broken Senate
Today, the Campaign for America’s Future is joining 100 other organizations in delivering a message to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell: Enough is...
View Article“So Be It” Sequesteration: Austerity By Another Name
Reports of austerity’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Yes, austerity has been on the ropes recently, since it was revealed the whole thing was based on a sloppy spreadsheet by a couple of academic...
View ArticleRepublican Judges Say Telling Employees They Have Rights Violates Employers’...
Republican judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cannot require employers to put up posters explaining to workers that they have the...
View ArticleRepublicans Say ‘My Way And No Highways’
Republicans are refusing to do their part in governing the country. They say “do it our way or we won’t let anything get done at all.” Their agenda is all ideology, all the time (and of course helping...
View ArticleThe ‘Party Of No’ Acts Out Again, Won’t Even Vote on EPA Nominee
Right-wing obstructionism reached another low today when Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee would not even show up to vote today on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be...
View ArticleNews Media Should Clearly Inform Public About Obstruction, Filibuster
A NY Times editorial says Republicans need public pressure to get them to stop obstructing … everything. Meanwhile NY Times and other news coverage tends to obscure the source and extent of the...
View ArticleCourting Disaster: GOP Obstruction and The Courts
Yesterday I wrote about how obstructionist Republican tactics are hollowing out our government, hobbling its agencies, and diminishing its responsiveness to the needs and concerns of ordinary...
View ArticleLatino Groups Fighting Obstruction Of Labor Secretary Nominee
Senate Republican obstruction of President Obama’s nominee for secretary of labor, Thomas Perez, got a strong rebuke from a coalition of Latino organizations that held a march and rally on Wednesday...
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