I had a most unfortunate experience this morning. I turned on my TV and Speaker Boner was on it, giving his acceptance speech. I started getting a queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach and had to contend with a gloomy sense of malaise for most of the rest of the day. Not to mention that with all the orange on the TV screen, I was at first ( Read more... )

...John Boehner takes over the House this week and wants to repeal the healthcare law. Not that he has much of a chance of being successful with that, but, as I've said before, we're in for a long two years ( Read more... )

Congress is halfway to passing the compromise legislation which extends both tax cuts and jobless benefits. This puts the lie to Republican promises of concern about the deficit, since you don't reduce deficits by cutting revenue. Keep in mind that these tax cuts are for the people most able to afford to pay taxes in these tough economic times. ( Read more... )

Republicans block child nutrition bill ( Read more... )

Alaska Tea Party Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller worries that he "might"--just might--have child porn on his computer. And according to some speculation in Democratic forums, he just "might" have fabricated a scandal to deflect interest from the child porn he "might" have on his computer ( Read more... )

Republicans like to talk about reducing the deficit. But they don't do much more than talk, because if we're really serious about bringing down the deficit--projected by the Congressional Budget Office to be about $2 trillion by 2035--we're going to have to do one (or more) of four unpopular things ( Read more... )

A few good articles from The Nation:

In "Sex and the GOP", Betsy Reed surveys the assorted right-wing, anti-woman, corporate stooge females running in various campaigns across the country--people like Christine O'Donnell, Nikki Haley, Linda McMahon, Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, and of course our old dear friend Sarah Palin ( Read more... )

I've written before about the Tea Party and their ties to big corporations and the right-wing establishment. So I was very interested in "How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster", a Rolling Stone article dug up by moominmuppet, which is quite an excellent read.