Michael Matthew Bloomer, Feb. 17, 2013 Until a bridge collapses on Paul Ryan, here’s the GOP’s infrastructure policy. (For background on infrastructure policy, see The Ongoing GOP Attack On America’s Infrastructure) Please follow and...
“Mr. Mica said of his House colleagues, ‘They wouldn’t vote on a Mother’s Day resolution if it had extra spending on it.’“1 In August 2012, Mark Thoma, economist and Fellow at the American Century...
Michael Matthew Bloomer, February 14, 2013. Marco Rubio had high hopes for his GOP response to the State of the Union address, as did his GOP colleagues. Yet, Rubio, at the twelve-minute mark of...
Michael Matthew Bloomer, February 13, 2013. Congressman Steve Stockman is from Texas, and they do things bigger there. Bigger ain’t always better, but it is bigger and that seems awfully important to Texans. In this...
Michael Matthew Bloomer, January 3, 2013 Of the 427 votes cast, including one for “Present,” Eric Cantor nearly pulled off a palace coup by defeating John Boehner for the Speakership of the 113th Congress...
Michael Matthew Bloomer, January 1, 2013 Here’s the HuffPo headline:U.S. Fiscal Cliff Deal Leaves Republicans Angry, Deal In Jeopardy 1 The article uncovers a predictable rift between House and Senate Republicans. The House, according...
Another day, another weepy Republican congressloon – this time Utah’s Raul Labrador – moaning and groaning about how mean President Obama was to place the responsibility for the ever difficult fiscal cliff negotiations at...
More on this later, but how good a bill this is for progressives? Perhaps, unfortunately, this is the best we could get in light of the fact that the administration conceded too early –...
