Three Days Until Fiscal Cliff — Will A House Progressive Uprising Scuttle A Deal? By Michael Matthew Bloomer, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Deadlines imminent! Tea Party cooperation missing! Economy jeopardized! Progressives restive! Obama miffed!...
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by Michael Matthew Bloomer, December 10, 2012 John Boehner, the wily Speaker of the House, is trying to simultaneously outthink and outmaneuver virtually everyone during the battle over the so-called “fiscal cliff.” He knows...
Yesterday, the words “Democrat” and “orgasm” were combined in one sentence by a man for whom the very idea of the latter word leaping from his mouth is enough to put even Charlie Sheen...
“My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” Grover Norquist, 20011 Despite his whoppingly wrong predictions...
Mitt’s definitely winning the class war. Based on the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) 2011 Poverty Guidelines, last year, for example, he could have financed as many as 34 families of eight with his 2011 speaking fees income...
Yesterday, I wrote about a provision in the House version of HR 3630, the payroll tax holiday and unemployment insurance extension proposal now battling it out with the Senate version of the bill. The...
Senator John Kyl (R-AZ), who adamantly opposes tax hikes, has found one he really wants to help inflate. How? By not extending the 2011 payroll tax holiday, he – and the GOP – would raise the...
