Among the interesting CBO economic projections in its new report out today: full economic recovery from the Great Recession will not be achieved until 2017.
If Rove and Crew want to shut down Steve King and other Tea Partiers who want to run for Senate this year, a new polls shows they may have quite a fight in store for them. Steve King starts out in a strong position for the Iowa Republican Senate nod.
Everybody’s sure immigration reform is coming. Except it has to get through the House GOP caucus and the House Judiciary Committee where pretty much everyone is hostile to reform.
As advertised, President Obama is calling on Congress to pay down the sequester for a few months with a mix of less abrupt spending cuts and new tax revenues. Specifically, he argues that Congress should buy itself time to hash out a unified budget — to create a glide path for further deficit reduction — instead of attempting to cobble together legislative priorities while the sequester takes its toll on government services and the economy.
“If congress can’t act immediately on a bigger package, if they can’t get a bigger package done by the time the sequester scheduled to go into effect, then I believe that they should at least pass a smaller package of spending cuts and tax reforms that would delay the economically damaging effects of the sequester for a few more months until congress finds a way to replace these cuts with a smarter solution,” Obama said. “Congress is already working towards a budget that would permently replace the sequester at the very least we should give them the chance to come up with this budget instead of making indiscriminate cuts now that will cost us jobs and significantly slow down our recovery.” Read More
A new poll says 39% of voters are less likely to support a NRA-backed candidate, 26% more likely.
Top House Republican says GOP prefers the sequesters big defense cuts to any new tax revenue.
I don’t know if anyone else is watching CNN from about 6:05 to about 6:10 eastern. But my God, they’re covering the possibly-Beyonce-related Super Bowl blackout investigation as something on a par with the investigation into 9/11. Missed warnings! Questions about the strength of the 9/11! A massive electricity intelligence failure and how can we be certain this never happens again?
You wouldn’t think that predicting Mitt Romney would win 890 electoral votes would have consequences. But apparently so. Dick Morris has been let go by Fox News.
Fox also recently dropped Sarah Palin but renewed the contract of Karl Rove.
DC Republicans devise new post-election message for pre-election agenda.
It’s being treated as a relatively minor story. And I understand the reasons. But the idea that the US Mail is no longer going to be delivered on Saturday is just mind blowing to me.