In Arizona, governing by conspiracy theory
In or about 1929, a state senator from the great state of Tennessee introduced a bill devoted to protecting the citizenry from the fearful menace known as the bogeyman. The bill contained no precise details of how to spot a bogeyman, or what to do i...
Prof. Jack Balkin on ‘Living Originalism’ and the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act
The progressive case for Originalism
[Living Originalism] allows [liberals] to claim that the Constitution belongs to [them]. It's not something that [just] belongs to people who dress up in tricorner hats and appear at Tea Party rallies. [...] Libe...
Tea party losing support, but Mitt Romney is still pandering to them
Used up.
There's a new ABC News/WaPo poll on public opinions of the tea party. The results (PDF) aren't great for the movement.
All told, 41 percent of Americans identify themselves as supporters of the movement, compared with a high of 47 per...
Arguments inside the Supreme Court, demonstrations outside
It's all the fun of a tea party rally.
"Real women buy their own birth control!" - tea party heckle yelled at pro-HCR demonstrators outside #SCOTUS
— @evanmc_s via Twitter for Android
According to POLITICO, the early crowd was solidly in the camp ...
Tea party opposes Georgia anti-picketing bill
Unlikely allies, for the moment at least.
Here's one way to know an anti-union bill has gone too far: when it draws the opposition of not just a local sheriff and Martin Luther King III, but of tea partiers. That is the case with Georgia's SB 469, wh...
This week in the War on Voting: Sharrrrrron Angle is back!
Since this fight needs a little levity every now and then, I bring you Sharrrrron Angle
She's going to be focusing her prodigious political skills to exposing "America's silent epidemic"—voter fraud. How it could possibly be silent when the Right ha...
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie guts greenhouse gas fund targeted by Koch Bros.’ Americans for Prosperity
(Caricature by DonkeyHotey)
As one of its many objectives, the Koch Bros.-founded and -financed Americans for Prosperity has been out to defund the seven-year-old Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. It seems to have succeeded in New Jersey. Republica...
2010: The Year of the Tea Party. 2012: Not so much
The benefits in the House for Republicans after the 2010 election were fairly straightforward: John Boehner got the Speaker's gavel, and with it, the ability to obstruct Obama's agenda. The drawbacks weren't so obvious.
Here's a blast from the p...
John Boehner seeks to cut tea party faction out of payroll tax cut extension negotiations
Speaker John Boehner eyes his bête noire, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Larry Downing/Reuters)
Congressional aides tell Reuters that House Speaker John Boehner will cut the tea party contingent in his caucus out of the negotiations in deal-making fo...
Tea party cave-in on payroll tax extension bodes well for Democrats in next skirmish
Speaker John Boehner sizing up his real opposition, Minority Leader Eric Cantor (Larry Downing/Reuters)
It would seem that the fun has just begun for House Speaker John Boehner, who now has to navigate to the middle class tax break that all sane Rep...
