Fiscal Cliff Countdown : Unchain Us, Majority Leader Reid, From Chained CPI Michael Matthew Bloomer, December 30, 2012 On Friday I wrote that a fiscal cliff deal that would appeal to enough GOP House and Senate legislators...
December 30, 2012 . . . NOTE: This posting is a republication of a piece I wrote in December 2011. It has application to the present “fiscal cliff” negotiations that some believe will result in...
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!...
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...
Tomorrow morning President Obama hosts some friends and enemies at his big white house. They’ll powwow about bills for this and bills for that. Who’ll pay them? Will we pay them at all? Can we...
Here’s how I looked when I was being the decider. They Really Will Say Anything. In Chicago on Thursday, former President George W. Bush was touting the November 9th publication of his his...
