Meet Mitch McConnell: "Money, money, money."

How bad the Republicans must be that the stock market is going up on "hopes of fiscal discipline created by Democrat-controlled Congress"? (Emphasis mine.)

I decided to give one chunk of money to the DCCC, on the theory that (unlike giving to the DNC) it will actually be used for current Congressional races and not socked away for future presidential campaigns. As an added bonus, they have some sort of 3-for-1 matching donor deal going on. (Blue light in aisle 20!)

I gave another chunk of money to ( Read more... )

I posted this (more or less) in a comment to an earlier post, but I'll repeat it here:

This list on ActBlue seems to correlate well with the "toss-up" races listed on the NY election map and the recent polling on TPM, at least for the Senate races and the half-dozen or so House races I checked ( Read more... )

I would like to donate money to Democratic congressional races where the money is likely to make a difference. This means races that are close and winnable, as opposed to races where the Democrat is either a longshot or heavily favored.

Does anyone have a good current list of such (or a pointer to one)? ActBlue's fundraising pages are big ( Read more... )

Interesting short article in the Atlantic (subscription only, unfortunately) about why the "conservative"s' Starve the Beast strategy actually makes government bigger, not smaller. Spending as a share of GDP went up after Reagan and Bush II's tax cuts, and went down after Bush I and Clinton's tax increases. The explanation argued in the article ( Read more... )

Alaska is receiving $223 million from the federal government to build a bridge from Ketchikan to an island with a population of 50 people and no paved roads.

I was reading an article about the nickel redesign that's coming out--unlike the redesigned paper money, it actually does look better than the previous version--and, while looking at the new buffalo image, realized that I had no idea what was on the back of the current nickel. I actually had to go look at one, and discovered that I had never ( Read more... )