Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: PPP takes an early look at the 2013 Virginia governor’s race
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• VA-Gov: Public Policy Polling has a very early look at the 2013 gubernatorial race in Virginia, where Democrats would a...
Eric Cantor says it’s time to tax the poor
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor justifies his latest big tax break for millionaires by dragging out an old, big lie.
CANTOR: We also know that over 45 percent of the people in this country don’t pay income taxes at all, and we have to question whe...
Progressive business groups call for end to corporate tax loopholes
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, trying to change the subject on tax fairness. (John Gress/Reuters)
Next week, the House will vote on another Republican "jobs" bill; tax cuts, of course, for small business. A group of progressive organizations repr...
House Republicans will break the debt limit budget deal
John Boehner and Eric Cantor
ready to renege.
The signals have been being sent for weeks that House Republicans were ready to threaten, again, a government shutdown by reneging on the budget deal they agreed to last August during the debt limit deal....
Republican leaders haul out dusty procedure to beat defense cuts ‘sequestration’
Guess whose budget Republicans want to save
from the "sequestration" ax.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) hope to use an unusual procedural technique to keep cuts in Pentagon spending from happen...
John Boehner’s bad, bad week caps a bad, bad few months
Speaker John Boehner giving Majority Leader Eric Cantor the evil eye (Larry Downing/Reuters)
House Speaker John Boehner, recognizing that the "where's the jobs" needling wasn't just Democrats and progressives making fun of him but actually an importa...
Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Why are House Republican leaders fluffing Ben Quayle?
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• AZ-06: This sure is odd. I don't care about the Barney Frank business, but check this out:
House GOP Leaders are pushin...
Internal Republican poll confirms Americans think House GOP sucks
I can't imagine why America doesn't like these guys.
Republicans are nothing if not consistent—and it's taking a toll. Politico:
Long, drawn-out skirmishes over the debt ceiling, the supercommittee and the payroll tax holiday have led to a 6...
Senate approves cloture on STOCK Act
In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama highlighted one particular piece of legislation to restore the public's faith in their government:
“Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress, and I will sign it tomo...
2012 House GOP ‘agenda’: More investigations, more obstructionism
John Boehner. Not sure why he's still Speaker.
The Washington Post says House Republicans have settled on an agenda for the coming year:
Girding for President Obama’s effort to paint them as an obstacle to recovery, House Republicans have crafted a...
Republicans in disarray, and it’s delicious!
You'd be crying too if you had to deal with teabaggers politicians in Congress.
Sucks to be a House GOPer.
A year to the day since Ohio’s John Boehner and 87 eager freshmen took Washington by storm, House Republicans are bruised from battle, irrita...
