You have made a mess. — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, scolding Republicans for manufacturing a Department of Homeland Security funding crisis (via The Associated
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I think a lot of people around here have to get serious about governing… It’s time for all these D.C. games to end, all these
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With only four legislative days left until the Republican Homeland Security Shutdown, Speaker Boehner made it clear that he has no plan to avoid a
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Now, the House of Representatives is about to show us the worst of government for the rich and powerful. The House is about to vote
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You often hear claims, sometimes from pundits who should know better, that nobody predicted a sluggish recovery, and that this proves that mainstream macroeconomics is
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California offers budgetary lessons for U.S., Stanford professor says A Stanford law professor says California Proposition 30, passed in 2012, is worth emulating at the
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Andy Hill’s proposed tax breaks would cost big in the long run The Washington Budget & Policy Center looks at the eighteen new tax breaks
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How the netroots + grassroots turned back the forces of austerity The Nation’s Mary Bottari explains how people-powered politics stopped the neoliberal and conservative campaign
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Republicans don’t want to govern because they can’t agree on policy directions Greg Sargent observes that while Republicans can agree on winning, they can’t agree
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Contrary to some accounts, he went through every gyration of combinations and found what we all know to be true: You can’t get everybody on
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About those A.I.G. bonuses that Democratic leaders in Congress are (justifiably) outraged about: We know it’s a bad time, but you should have listened to
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