Reid Wilson reports for National Journal on the concerted Republican effort to eliminate the Electoral College’s winner-take-all format in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin: Read More
Setting aside arguments about the policy substance underlying the fiscal cliff negotiations (and there’s obviously plenty to argue about), what puzzles me most is the idea that President Obama might shake hands on a deal that raises the debt limit enough to put off another big fight with House Republicans for about a year. Read More
President Obama makes Boehner a new offer, including raising the rate hike level from $250,000 to $400,000.
NRA goes dark on social media following school shooting.
Now that a budget deal is fairly close at hand, Democrats and Republicans are going to be asking themselves whether the framework President Obama and John Boehner are approaching is really the best possible outcome or whether the negotiators would be better served walking away from the talks all over again.
It’s an easier question for Republicans to answer than for Democrats, because the power balance is so out of whack. Read More
NBC News has announced that correspondent Richard Engel and his crew are safely out of Syria after being kidnapped and held since last Thursday.
Birther Arizona elector tells TPM: “Yeah, some people are going to say, ‘Oh, those stupid Arizonans, there they go again.’ But, you know, I’d rather be right than popular.”
It is a fact of life that there appears to be no limit to the appetite for or at least the supply of breezy contrarianism. But when it’s about kids getting shredded by in mass killings it’s even less appealing than it normally is. Which brings us to this now much-mocked article by Megan McArdle. After breezily rejecting all possible steps society can take to reduce the growing tide of mass-casualty shootings, Megan McArdle (no longer with The Atlantic, now with the DailyBeast) does have one practical idea: teach the kids to rush the gunman, mid-massacre … Read More
ICYMI over the weekend, this is by far the most interesting, thought-provoking reader email we got from in the wake of the Connecticut massacre.