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.
Pro-gun measures snuck into new Senate bill aimed at preventing government shutdown.