Expect 2 years of griping on how the Republican's tiny margin in the Senate doesn't let them do anything they want, while overlooking that when Democrats had a larger margin they themselves shut down everything... and in two years we're almost certainly going to see all this reversed and then some.

It seems the United States leadership has somehow weathered this mass uprising and survived to govern another day ( Read more... )

So, one group is planning to descend on DC with between 10-30 million militia members and supporters by... tomorrow :)

Their goal? To displace the current US government 'Arab Spring' style.

Yesterday at the airport I saw... none of them ^^ Nor have I seen any on the roads today....

The Wire on how to manage your expectations for your overthrow ( Read more... )

Story linkDark SITH LORD 'Darth Vader' joins battle to rule, er, Ukraine ( Read more... )

Ok, so the Republicans have been blocking nominators to the point that the Democrats are planning on changing the rules, from 2/3rds majority required to simple majority.

Here's an article about itIt's called the nuclear option because it'll destroy the status quo, it'll be around even if things shift in the future. However, the current status quo ( Read more... )

gop-big-city-mayors-are-vanishing"In the year 2000, Republican mayors governed half of the country’s dozen largest cities by population. Some of the party’s most provocative leaders had come out of city hall, including New York’s Giuliani, Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, the celebrated policy wonk and ( Read more... )

As you probably all know by now, the government's restarting and the debt ceiling has been raised.

What you may not know is there was also a rules change snuck in to the measure:

NYMLink"The surrender terms negotiated by Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell have an interesting provision, which would change the way Congress votes on the next debt-limit ( Read more... )

It's a bit early, but Public Policy Polling has done a poll that indicates that, if Hillary Clinton ran for President tomorrow, against any of the current Republican potentials, she'd stand a good chance of winning.

Obama gets a Prehistoric Lizard named after him!

And, as you might guess from the name, it was so named because of their mutual good teeth.

*Edit* Changed to 'prehistoric lizard' for accuracy

They actually manage to do something halfway reasonable and agree to the Fiscal Cliff compromise... and then in the same day, they both decide to not do Sandy's disaster relief funding, and not renew the Violence Against Women Act ( Read more... )