A growing number of Republicans seems to have concluded that the risk of a debt ceiling hostage caper outweighs the potential gains.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), the top filibuster reform supporter in the Senate, is answering your questions right now in a TPMPrime Live Chat. Join us.
We’re talking about whether Senate Democrats are going to push forward with deep or more modest filibuster reform. Here’s an update on the issues in play from Sahil Kapur from earlier this week.
When the New Hampshire Union Leader tells the House Republicans, Guys, don’t be nuts on this debt ceiling thing, you know Boehner and the House firebreathers are losing. Read More
One of the difficulties of the debt ceiling hostage dramas is that the mechanics are not readily understood. That makes public opinion squishy and tends to enable destructive behavior. But the public seems to be getting it this time. 58% of respondents in the new WaPo/ABC poll say the debt ceiling shouldn’t be held hostage to spending cuts, 36% say it should.
Today at TPMPrime we’re discussing Republican plans to rig the electoral college to keep competitive even with a shrinking voter base.
A NEH grant to a North Carolina community college library to purchase books about Islam is another example of Christians not being treated fairly, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) claims.
White House on NRA ad: “[T]o go so far as to make the safety of the President’s children the subject of an attack ad is repugnant and cowardly.”
A sample of the President’s remarks on gun control a short time ago: Read More
Read the letters from schoolchildren on gun violence that Obama cited today.