Kevin Drum has it in one short sentence: The Republican Party is bending its entire will, staking its very soul, fighting to its last breath, in service of a crusade to…. Make sure that the working poor don’t have access to affordable health care. He goes on to say: I just thought I’d mention that …
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So the House once again voted to delay the implementation of the Affordable Care Act for a year (presumably on the theory that a unicorn will arise and kill it before it comes up for activation then) and strip Congress and its staff from receiving any subsidies they might be eligible for to help pay …
Amazing. Cleveland, on the strength of a ten-game winning streak to end the season, has won a Wild Card spot. Texas and Tampa Bay have stumbled down the stretch and will have to play a tiebreaker tomorrow night to see who plays the Indians starting Wednesday in Cleveland. The rest of the early playoff schedule …
Bravely the House soldiers on toward a government shutdown at midnight Monday night, proud in its assertions that it knows best for the country, the other half of the legislative branch is full of traitors and knaves and the President is beyond the pale (heh heh! Get the joke?). The Senate and the White House …
He or his office groused after hearing President Obama warn the House not to shut down the government “The House will take action that reflects the fundamental fact that Americans don’t want a government shutdown and they don’t want the train wreck that is Obamacare,” Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said in a statement. “Grandstanding from …
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The GOP issued a list of demands it wants met before it will sign on to a continuing resolution to keep the government running. It’s interesting: it more or less matches the Romney campaign’s platform. . . . we have congressional Republicans, who think they’ve found a way for the GOP to present a policy …
I have nothing to add to this headline Cruz Likens Obamacare Defunding Skeptics To Nazi Appeasers other than to suggest that Ted Cruz has no desire to be a legislator and that he’s only using his Senate term as a springboard from which he can launch campaigns for higher office, whether Texas Governor or President …
Half of Colorado is floating away and its Congressional delegation is unanimous in requesting Federal disaster relief. Every member of Colorado’s congressional delegation, Republicans and Democrats, has come together to request emergency federal relief as our state recovers from this enormous natural disaster. Gov. John Hickenlooper has already stated that federal relief legislation may potentially …
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