Is Joni Ernst ready to pick up the Mantle of the Mayor of CrazyTown from Michele Bachmann after her years of glory in the House? More than you can you ever imagine.
Thanks for all the thoughtful replies you sent about my piece on Democratic politics and the seemingly unscalable cliff face of wage stagnation that has afflicted the country for roughly four decades. I want to follow up on that post by posing a troubling possibility. What if there is simply nothing we can do?
I keep getting asked to explain this piece or hearing from others who are responding to my follow-up this morning without having read the piece it was based on. So I’m reupping my post about wage stagnation, the Democratic party and the dearth of policy initiatives the latter has to deal with the former.
First they came for the bakers. Then they came for the rental pseudo-farms. A rural New York state wedding venue has become the latest religious liberty martyr in the fight against marrying gays and lesbians, drawing a $10,000 fine for refusing to host the wedding of Melisa and Jennie McCarthy.
Republicans now want to haul Jon Gruber before Congress to testify about his remarks on Obamacare, lack of transparency, and stupid voters.
Ed Kilgore blows up some of the myths about the 2014 elections that are already calcifying.
GOP used car salesman who didn’t raise any campaign money came from out of nowhere to defeat a seemingly entrenched Democratic leader that Republicans had bothered to challenge only once in 30 years.
Federal grand jury has subpoenaed outgoing Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) and three of his aides in a criminal probe. Apparently it has nothing to do with this.
The usually subdued Linda Greenhouse, who covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times for years, is apoplectic about the court’s surprise decision to take up Obamacare subsidies even as the circuit courts are still grappling with the issue.
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