Local Airport Closures Cause GOPers Sequestration Anxiety

We’ve noted previously that outside Washington D.C. — where politicians and reporters obsess endlessly over inconsequential but high-valence things like…

Irony Alert

DEAR SCALIA: YOLO (#scotusyolo)

My vote for most iconic sign outside the Supreme Court this morning goes to “DEAR SCALIA: Y.O.L.O. #scotusyoloO.” I confess…

Ted Olson To TPM: ‘Energized’ By SCOTUS Gay Marriage Oral Arguments

Minutes after oral arguments on California’s Prop 8 came to an end, TPM caught up with Ted Olson hustling out…

Napolitano: Border Security Trigger ‘Not The Way To Go’ In Immigration Reform

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano rejected the idea Tuesday that the federal government could treat a single metric of border…

The End Of Crisis Legislating

Later this week, President Obama will sign a bill that simultaneously averts a government shutdown and locks sequestration into law…

Profiles In Courage

If you tune into CSPAN-2 later today — and why wouldn’t you on a Friday evening? — you won’t be…

The 10 Republicans Who Voted Against The House GOP Budget

Here are the 10 Republicans who voted against the House GOP budget. Reps. Justin Amash (R-MI), Paul Broun (R-GA), Rick…

Three Years Running, House Republicans Pass Radical Budget

For the third year in a row House Republicans coalesced around a budget blueprint that calls for converting Medicare into…

Banner Week For The Filibuster

We’ve been monitoring the collapse of January’s Senate rules reform agreement over the past couple months, mostly through the lens…