Month: January 2013

Here is some recent history, via Wikipedia: The majority of the majority is a governing principle (not a legal procedure) used by Republican Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to effectively limit the...

I’ve been busy celebrating my son’s third birthday this afternoon, so I have had to do a bit of reverse engineering to try to ascertain how things unfolded during the day. As I understand it, the House caucus met...

What do you think the odds are of Boehner getting the Senate bill to pass the House? I just don’t believe he can make it happen. I get all the issues progressives have with Obama as a weak negotiator. I’m personally...

I think today’s Krugman is Krugman at his very worst. A lot of progressives really do wait to see what he says before they make up their minds about whether something is good or bad, and he provides totally inadequate...

One hundred and fifty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In retrospect, it seems to have been somewhat more important than whatever the Senate was doing last night. While you probably want...