On CNN just now, Indiana Gov. and probable presidential candidate Mitch Daniels (R) just suggested that the 2001 Bush tax cuts didn’t have any role in the deficits that grew under Bush’s watch. Specifically, he said that the deficits were caused by the collapse of the dot.com bubble. We’ll have video shortly.
With fresh fears that CPAC, the annual marquee conservative DC politics conference, will fall victim to homosexual subversion, Frank Gaffney raises a new threat: CPAC is being brought under Sharia Law.
Robert Gibbs on his departure: “I have been a member of his staff for almost seven years, and again it’s a remarkable privilege. It is in many ways the opportunity of a lifetime, one that I will be forever thankful and grateful for.”
I’m not sure this is surprising. But it’s fascinating to see an attempt to quantify it. According to a new study authored by a profs at Harvard and London Business School, people who have access to extremely high-end luxury goods and services (limos, private jets, etc.) become more focused on their own self-interest and less inclined to consider the impact of their actions on others. What the authors of the study drew from the data was that this tendency might be a factor in the reckless or self-dealing behavior of extremely highly-paid executives.
With only nine Democratic freshman in the House, it’s the smallest number of freshman from one party since the House grew to 435 members in 1912. Here’s how this freshman class stacks up historically: Read More
Appeals court throws out lawsuit by former inspector general Gerald Walpin, whose firing by the Obama Administration led conservatives to temporarily embrace the independence of inspectors general.
The 19 House Democrats who didn’t vote for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House.
Virginia revokes the vanity plate that b(eats) all vanity plates:
Brian Beutler gets the first look at the package of filibuster reforms that Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) will bring to the Senate floor today.
You can read it the proposal here.