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Republicans lose the Wall Street Journal on tax cut ‘fiasco’

John Boehner loses the Wall Street Journal (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)   With the looming reality of taxes going up for 160 million Americans next month, The Wall Street Journal places the blame squarely in the laps of the Republican leadership: GO...

Harry Reid: No payroll tax cut negotiations until House Republicans put down their gun

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Sam Stein: House Republican leadership is poised to reject a Senate-passed two-month payroll tax extension on Tuesday afternoon, pushing negotiations onto a committee of lawmakers from both chambers. But if Speaker John Boehn...

House Republicans dust off aggressive moves on job creation

Actually, the only thing House Republicans are moving on aggressively is wasting more time. Republicans spent yesterday boldly reaffirming "In God We Trust" as our national motto, and have now moved on to the 112th "do nothing" Congress' daily red mea...

Eric Cantor on House Republicans: We’re not lazy!

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (center) is working hard—on all the wrong things   If this pushback is any indication of what's going on inside House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's mind, then he doesn't have a clue about why public approval o...

House Republicans agree to repeal tax law they enacted, hope to declare mission accomplished on jobs

The Republican leadership still hasn't gotten serious about jobs (Reuters/Jason Reed)   Susan Crabtree: House Republicans are crowing about leading efforts to repeal an impending 3 percent withholding tax on government contractors as yet another...

How the dystopians are ruining John Boehner’s life

GOP Rep. Justin Amash John Boehner, as we well know, has a serious problem on his hands. While most of his caucus is generally content to loot the country on behalf of the oligarchs they serve, there's a hardcore contigent of true dystopians for whom...

The Onion awakens a sleeping giant

Well, it's about time. Yesterday the traditional media was finally outraged over House Republicans' repeated use of the hostage-taking strategy to pander to their tea party base. So, what happened? After watching the GOP shut down the FAA, threaten to...

The Onion awakens a sleeping giant

Well, it's about time. Yesterday the traditional media was finally outraged over House Republicans' repeated use of the hostage-taking strategy to pander to their tea party base. So, what happened? After watching the GOP shut down the FAA, threaten to...

House Democrats leave door open to ‘Gang of Six’ debt framework

Nancy Pelosi and Chris Van Hollen (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)   AP: Top House Democrats are making positive but cautious comments about a deficit-reduction proposal by a bipartisan group of senators called the Gang of Six. At a brief appearance wit...

House GOPers bow to tea party pressure on budget

After failing to impress their teahadist wing with an itemized list of $23.3 billion in spending cuts, House Republican leadership is now promising to cut President Obama's FY11 budget request by $100 billion.

In another victory for tea-party rebels in Congress, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers today scrapped his original...

House GOP meltdown over budget cuts

"We've been in the majority four weeks. We're not going to be perfect every day."
-- Speaker John Boehner, 2/9/11.

So according to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Politico, the GOP is having a bit of a meltdown over spending cuts. Here's the WSJ's take:

A...

House GOP in disarray. But is the Tea Party Caucus really behind it?

Yesterday's collapse of the House GOP's legislative agenda has the Beltway punditocracy examining the tea leaves.

WaPo:

House Republicans suffered an embarrassing setback Tuesday when they fell seven votes short of extending provisions of the Patriot Act, a vote that served as the first small uprising...

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