Who’s who in the Rove/Tea Party Civil War. How many do you know?
Are politicians really as driven by personal slights and perceived indignities as journalists portray them to be?
TPM Reader BS writes:
I never got what the problem was with this episode, and still don’t get what it is now.
House Republican who wants to impeach President Obama over guns invites Ted Nugent to State of the Union.
Chris Matthews says next Pope should get real about sex.
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For months now a number of conservatives have led me to believe that President Obama bought his re-election by showering gifts from the Treasury on growing liberal constituencies. So you can imagine my surprise when I noticed that many of those same conservatives are helping Ben Smith blow up his article about how Obamacare will actually screw over young people.
Now there’s no sense pretending a bunch of young, healthy taxpayers won’t be confronted with insurance premiums larger than their insurance subsidies, and thus be on the losing side of one of the ACA’s many reforms. It’s true. They will. If only somebody had pointed that out before the election!
But, of course, people have been writing about this “screwing” forever. Read More
Opponents of renewal of the Violence Against Women Act say the law should go because it’s unfair to men.
New Frontline episode airing Tuesday night on the last two year’s of budget battles recounts how the White House had not anticipated that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) would be in attendance at the 2011 speech where Obama ripped into the Ryan budget plan.
I was just reliving the glory of the last GOP rising star to take on the task of the State of the Union response, Gov. Bobby Jindal in 2009. Read More
Why Marco Rubio probably ain’t the savior DC Republicans and Beltway reporters imagine him to be.