We still don’t know all the specifics. But this week Senate Democrats will introduce a budget that resets the fiscal policy debate to the status quo ante, before President Obama and John Boehner settled in for failed fiscal cliff negotiations. Read More
TPM Reader SW is no fan of Nancy Pelosi’s call for the feds to not interfere in Colorado’s decision to legalize marijuana within the state …
Maybe I’m missing something here, but did Nancy Pelosi just come out in favor of “nullification”?
I’ll post more thoughts on the House GOP’s new-budget-same-as-the-old budget shortly. But first I want to make a quick observation about one of Paul Ryan’s perceived inconsistencies, because I think it’s a big distraction from more important things.
At a press conference this morning, Ryan said there’s nothing hypocritical about Republicans preserving revenues from a recent income tax increase they claim to hate because “law is law.” “We’re not going to refight the past,” he reiterated.
This he said as he introduced a budget that proposes to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Read More