John Boehner will never be described as a Profile in Courage. Yesterday, Boehner issued a statement following a senate cloture vote to a...

The House Republican caucus went fullblown clown show yesterday, as they tried -- and failed -- to fit their ideological square peg into r...

About a week ago, President Obama mentioned " phony scandals " that were drawing attention and effort away from the real work Wa...

House Republicans are all about saving taxpayers' money, right? Right? Well, actually not so much. It would be more accurate to say Hous...

I think I've narrowed down the reason for the War on Women -- this whole childbirth thing freaks conservatives right out. Watching the v...

You have to wonder why Rush Limbaugh holds such an exulted position in the Republican pantheon. Not only did Republicans put him in their t...

Say what you like about George W. Bush, but his policies -- with the aid of Republicans and feckless Democrats who followed him blindly -- m...

At this point, I have to ask, what do Republicans have against demand? I get that they like this pie-in-the-sky supply-side stuff, but it...

It's all but official; the House Republican Caucus is in a state of leaderless chaos. The Hill : The House stunned Republican leaders We...

One of the things I like to do with what I think of as my "long form" posts is kill two or more birds with one stone. It's oft...

It's hard to see how Democrats could lose this one -- at least, in a PR sense. As Democrats prepare a push to extend a payroll tax break...

Last night, Robert Reich made a decent point. Writing about the debt limit deal and yesterday's market sell-off, Reich wonders if Republ...

Seriously, what the hell is Sir John of Orange doing? Last night, Boehner finally had to abandon his attempt to get his debt limit bill pas...

Yesterday, the farthest-right congressional Republicans decided it was time to call in the troops. Facing criticism from all sides that they...

In the debt ceiling debate, there are no political winners. That's one message you could take away from a new CBS News poll showing tha...

The US hit the debt ceiling Monday. As things stand right now, we can stretch dollars until about August -- and then we go into default. I d...

What if the Speaker of the House gave a speech that was just all wrong? And what if the Speaker gave that speech to a bunch of people who kn...

Republicans have their eye on jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. You know this because they keep saying it . Which is good, because if they didn...

Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. And if some of th...

Part of the problem I have with Republicans is that they refuse to live in reality. For most, the cause is the fact that they don't have...