Newt travels to France to speak at a rally on behalf of the MEK, a cult-like group the State Department calls a terrorist organization.
Is the Health Care mandate the ‘biggest tax increase in history’? Just look at this chart. Just look. That is all.
Sahil Kapur has the list of Republican governors who are already declaring they’ll refuse the Medicaid expansion offered under Obamacare.
It might make for good politics for those governors at the moment, but Jonathan Cohn has a good reminder that poor and disabled people are not the only beneficiaries of Medicaid; it’s a big boost to hospitals, too: Read More
Not quite yet. But Charlie Rangel’s primary victory last Tuesday is now looking very tenuous.
Do you remember this guy? Back in 2009, 13 year Jonathan Krohn was the toast of CPAC, the annual conservative political confab in DC. He wrote a book called ‘Defining Conservatism’ and talked the conservative talk pretty well for a 13 year old. He was blurbed by and chilled with Newt and Bill Bennett.
Now he’s 17 and he’s supporting Obama.
Why does the conservative rage at John Roberts run so deep? And why isn’t it going away any time soon? TPM Reader JB thinks he has the answers …
I think I understand the virulence of the reaction to Justice Roberts opinion on NFIB v. Sebelius, and the ease with which fairly implausible explanations (Roberts wanted to be liked by The New York Times!) for his upholding health care reform have been accepted by the most vocal conservatives.
Chris Christie gives Romney what may be impossible advice to follow.
Sen. McConnell throws cold water on ‘Obamacare’ repeal efforts, tells audience “it’s a lot harder to undo something than it is to stop it in the first place.”
TPM Reader KA on the ‘world of hurt‘ …
I think your post about conservative rage against Roberts is spot on. It reminds me of a moment from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. It is 1986 and Martin, a Justice Department contact of Roy Cohn’s explains to Joe, a young Mormon lawyer, the essence of the conservative agenda. In this scene, I think, Kushner captures the id of right-wing governing philosophy that has held sway since Reagan…