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...
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 –...
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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A HuffPo article about the ongoing Family Research Council “Values Voter Summit” that (dis)graced Washington D.C. last weekend quotes an entrepreneurial attendee, Mike Garner, “a 27-year-old hawking ‘Reagan was right’ buttons at the meeting:...
Yesterday, by unanimous consent, the United States Senate infuriated the House Tea Party Caucus by passing S. 2367 which would remove the term “lunatic” from several provisions of federal law. The entire House GOP...
I’m listening to CNN as the deplorable House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor (R-VA), talks about the House vote, just made, to force a conference on HR 3630, the payroll tax and unemployment extension proposal. ...
