lame duck
Just weeks after Joe Miller’s stunning midterm loss, facial hair has finally returned to the Senate, as Tom Coburn has, heroically, suddenly grown the goatee (“Van Dyke”) of Santa Claus’ evil twin or whatever. And, powered by a churning gizzard full of holiday douchenog, he managed to single-handedly slash today’s 9/11 first-responder health benefits bill [...]
Our government actually made some laws today! What a concept! DADT repeal: signed. 9/11 responder relief: passed. New START treaty: ratified. But Vampire Weekend frontman/KidsPost blogger Ezra Klein has a theory: The answer, I think, is that there are plenty of Senate Republicans who aren’t too comfortable with the class of conservatives who got elected [...]
If there’s one thing Republicans love, it’s diversity: diversity of ways to obstruct legislation. A letter was sent to Harry Reid this morning and signed by all 42 Senate Republicans letting him know that he won’t be able to pass any legislation until he lets them extend the Bush tax cuts for really rich people. [...]
In the past week or two, we have brought you some exciting, fun stories about how Democrats were probably going to cave on the Bush tax cuts and probably going to cave on repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” But somehow it has finally started to get through to Democrats that, despite what the Republicans do, [...]
