In its first post election national poll since the November elections, Public Policy Polling concluded: “Republicans are not handling elections well.” The released report (go here for complete results) also notes that Republicans are also “declining in numbers,” and 25% say they’d like their state to secede (56% don’t want that, and 19% are unsure). [...]
Tag Archives | Grover Norquist
Is Grover Over?
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive “I think we ought to take the 98 percent deal right now,” [Republican Rep. Tom Cole] said of freezing income tax rates for all but the top 2 percent of earners. “It doesn’t mean I agree with raising the top 2. [...]
AFP: Congress, Obama Set to Resume ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Talks
Congress, Obama set to resume ‘fiscal cliff’ talks (via AFP) Congress returns from its week-long Thanksgiving holiday on Monday, as lawmakers and President Barack Obama try to avert a looming fiscal crisis that could send the entire US economy plunging into recession again. Officials in Washington are hoping to find a way to avoid what [...]
Chambliss Blasts Grover Norquist, but Larger Fight Centered on Elizabeth Warren
“I care more about this country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.” – Senator Saxby Chambliss GROVER NORQUIST has no plan to pay down the debt, Chambliss charges. That’s because Norquist and the American right really do want to drown government in the bathtub. But if Republicans choose to listen to people championing this [...]
Grover Norquist Takes on Romney-Ryan on Defense Budget Bloat
CONSERVATISM IS DIFFERENT from neoconservative imperialism. Josh Rogin recently reported that Grover Norquist is ready to draw a line on this distinction, as well as fight it out on principles: “We can afford to have an adequate national defense which keeps us free and safe and keeps everybody afraid to throw a punch at us, [...]
Jobs Report Weak, But It Can’t Save Republicans from Romney
The main news in this report is a marked upswing in the rate of payroll job growth. The 163,000 rate shown in this report is likely to close to the economy’s underlying growth rate at this point. Many analysts became overly optimistic as a result of the weather boosted jobs gains last winter. They then [...]
The Roberts Court Respects Congress to Enact Laws, While CNN & FOX Blow the SCOTUS Moment
Today’s Supreme Court is often referred to as Anthony Kennedy’s Court. Although Kennedy is the swing justice who usually casts the deciding vote in close cases, the landmark ruling this week in the healthcare cases clearly marks the maturation of the “Roberts Court.” – The Roberts Court Is Born CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS and the majority [...]
Pres. Obama Can’t Afford to Trust Steve Doocy
It is elites who are creating a conventional wisdom that an incumbent president must run on his economic performance – and therefore must convince voters that things are moving in the right direction. They are wrong, and that will fail. The voters are very sophisticated about the character of the economy; they know who is [...]
Jeb Bush Carts Out Reagan to Club Republicans
TODAY’S REPUBLICANS have as much trouble with their identity as Democrats, with the wacky Tea Party wing giving them a semblance of spine. That’s a problem nationally, however, with Jeb Bush laying it out in a Bloomberg news article today. One of his biggest issues with Mitt Romney is on immigration and Hispanics, but it’s [...]
Progressive Notes: Trumka’s Plan, Roseanne, Black Caucus Grabs WH Attention, and Other Doings
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. The TV series, Roseanne, is seeing a surge in popularity again because the show talked alot about blue collar America. Here is a classic clip making the YouTube hits list. When a state house candidate shows up at her door to talk about tax breaks: Must [...]
The part where the light dawns.
via David Rogers It’s amateur hour in the White House briefing room, starring Pres. Obama, because he naively bet his whole position on the premise that he could serve up entitlements to seduce Republicans into making him look good with Independents, but instead gets caught in the age old Republican stiff-arm, which hit Obama and [...]
Comes a Worrisome ‘Gentleman’ Candidate
If anything, it’s McCain and Graham who are nurturing a rebirth of isolationism by going for the easy insult. Isolationism is an actual doctrine, with a rich and complicated intellectual history on the left and the right. It is not an adjective that can be accurately applied to anyone who disagrees with a specific course [...]
Norquist Loses as Ethanol Subsidies Go Down **UPDATED**
The Senate voted 73-27 Thursday to kill a major tax break that benefits the ethanol industry, handing a political win to a bipartisan group of lawmakers that call the incentive needless and expensive. – Senate kills off ethanol tax credits in possible break with tax pledge OMG. OMG! Republicans broke their “tax pledge,” as 33 [...]
A Second Term for the Sake of It
Norquist might have to take a hard line and pretend he’s appalled to see it crossed, but in focusing everyone on that line, he’s effectively distracting them from how far the goalposts have been moved. Instead of revenues being an assumed part of a deficit deal, with the only question being how much of the [...]
Recent Comments