The presidency seems to becoming more and more of a burden for Barack Obama, even though we are only halfway into the first year
Category: Politics
Measuring Republican nay-saying: The Index of Obstruction and Delay
Republicans can try to say it ain’t so, but a newly developed statistical measure says it is: The GOP’s delaying tactics and outright obstruction
Jobs policy has to be key to full economic recovery
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released statistics on eleven cities where workers are disappearing. Note that workers disappearing is different from jobs
If you’re going to tax internet sales, make it a federal tax
The U.S. Senate recently passed an online sales tax bill. At this point it is not certain whether it will become law, because there
So-called scandals are too nuanced to be investigated by Republicans
How many times have we heard the phrase, “this is too important to be left to politics?” Yes, when we’re discussing foreign policy or
Heritage Foundation to Congress: “Don’t legislate. Scandal-gate.”
This is what passes for “thinking” at the leading conservative “think tank,” the Heritage Foundation. Earlier this week [May 2013], the Heritage Foundation’s executive
How Republicans “starve the beast” by blocking agency appointments
I don’t know why we are surprised at dysfunctional behavior at the Internal Revenue Service: Any agency that has been denied a permanent director
Hog Hell: How a citizen lobby influenced policy in North Carolina
Over the past 20 years, the pork industry in the United States has increased productivity and cut costs through industrialization. The process of pork
ALEC’s “Most-Wanted” list
You can try to argue that ALEC [the American Legislative Exchange Council] is a private group and can do whatever it wants in the
Republicans use obscure rules to block Obama’s agenda and appointments
Once upon a time, Congressional representatives had the guts to bring up controversial bills, state their views openly, and go on the record with