A Republican pal says Feinstein didn’t hit Ted Cruz where she should have …
Unfortunately, in the heat of the battle, Dianne Feinstein didn’t make the key rebuttal to Cruz’s lame questions.
Undeniably, I watch CPAC from a certain vantage point. Probably fairly different from that of the attendees. But I’ve watched it remotely and had a roll in covering it for the last five years at least. And this year has a different feel to it. Read More
Turns out that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released quite a few more immigrant detainees in anticipation of sequestration than the agency originally claimed. And while Republican claims that dangerous criminals were set loose on an unsuspecting public were probably overblown, ICE says four people who were among the most serious offenders have been put back in detention.
So apparently Republicans are lying when they say that the Democrats new budget contains the largest tax increase in history.
Dick Morris tells CPAC to give up on abortion, immigration, and a balanced budget.
Ted Cruz mansplains the Constitution to Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein bites back.
I’ve been cautiously watching this. But TPM Reader IL points to increasing signs that — despite the self-inflicted fiscal cliff damage — the economy is moving toward a real take off. Maybe even enough to absorb the entirely counter-productive sequester damage …
At the end of 2012 the consensus among many economic forecasters was that the U.S. economy would experience sub-trend growth due to fiscal tightening from the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and any spending associated cuts from a deal on the sequester. Flat fourth quarter GDP numbers appeared to confirm this view. Goldman Sachs referred to this headwind as a “hump” and that the U.S. economy would not move “over the hump” until late 2013 which would then lead to above-trend growth in 2014.
We’re talking about some modest but important new gun regulations moving through Congress. But look at this: as the price a bill to prevent a government shutdown, Republicans snuck a series of pro-gun measures into the new government funding bill.
And they’re basically measures that make it harder to track gun running.
Rep. Gohmert tells CPAC: “Vietnam was winnable.”
And also the Senator from Pennsylvania explains how the left caused the financial crisis.