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...
Eric Cantor’s press secretary interrupts interview to claim Ronald Reagan never raised taxes
(Crooks & Liars)
Here's the baffling thing about modern conservatism. Yes, I know I've said it before, but until the media starts calling it out as the obvious pathology that it is, we just have to keep pointing it out.
Modern conservatism i...
House Republicans dish to The Hill on the John Boehner, Eric Cantor ‘soap opera’
Speaker John Boehner giving Minority Leader Eric Cantor the evil eye (Larry Downing/Reuters)
If there's one good thing the debacle of the payroll tax cut extension has done, it's the emergence of a new, and long overdue, traditional media narrative:...
Open thread for night owls: An utterly dysfunctional House
The Wall Street Journal:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who famously lost budget battles to President Bill Clinton amid two government shutdowns, had some advice to House Republicans at loggerheads with another Democratic president: Give in.
The ...
Open thread for night owls: An utterly dysfunctional House
The Wall Street Journal:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who famously lost budget battles to President Bill Clinton amid two government shutdowns, had some advice to House Republicans at loggerheads with another Democratic president: Give in.
The ...
All America’s problems solved; House GOP turns attention to nation’s critical statue shortage
On the job. Or not.
Think Progress:
While House Republicans couldn’t get their act together to approve an extension of the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits last night, they were able to do something far more frivolousness — commissio...
Democrats increasing pressure on GOP with second payroll tax cut vote next week
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with Sen. Chuck Schumer in background (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Greg Sargent gets the news from Senate Democrats.
For Senate Democrats, the most important vote on the payroll tax cut extension last night may not have...
GOP leadership ready to say yes on payroll tax cuts, unemployment but members aren’t
House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
at odds with rank and file Republicans. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
Conventional wisdom says that Republicans are preparing to say "yes" to extensions of both the payroll tax cut ext...
