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...
Eric Cantor trying to negotiate year-end trigger bargain
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor tries to renege on debt ceiling deal (John Gress/Reuters)
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, ignoring a veto threat from the White House, is trying to build support for a renegotiation of the automatic spending cuts...
Tea party Republicans have sought plenty of stimulus for their own districts
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor likes government spending just fine,
when it comes to projects for his own state.
One of the most irritating aspects of the Republican obsession with "wasteful spending" and claiming "the government can't create jobs...
Eric Cantor rakes in Wall Street donations
You remember this, right? House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Occupy Wall Street:
CANTOR: I for one am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country. And believe it or not, some in this to...
Eric Cantor launches drive to make you realize how nice he is
Cantor, during one of his terribly nonconfrontational threats to defund
all of government rather than something-something-something.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, poster child for holding government hostage, holding disaster relief hostage, sabo...
