What a waste of time, effort and money. During the sixteen days that the government was shut down, the United States could have been funding scientific research, analyzing economic data and providing needed services to people who need them. It…
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Just over half the public says that it’s bad for the country that the GOP controls the House of Representatives, according to a new national poll conducted after the end of the partial government shutdown. And the CNN/ORC International survey…
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — “The premise was good,” said Bob McIntire, 53, an insurance executive here in deep red Bradley County, where the local Democrats would have trouble filling up a phone booth. The payoff, well, that was the problem. On…
A new report called “The Cost of Crisis-Driven Fiscal Policy” is confirming what we all know, that self inflected wounds is not good for you. The report concludes that crisis-driven government and the resulting fiscal policy uncertainty has directly harmed the…
In an interview with CNN host Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, Republican Rep.Peter King continued scolding his party for their dumb decision to follow first year Senator, Ted Cruz and his failed efforts to take away health care from the American…
I’ve used the tsunami wave metaphor in other posts about the decline of the Republican Party and its associated havoc-wreaking on the country over the past two years. Today we talk about the complete meltdown of the party. The debacle…
The Republican Party has been badly damaged in the ongoing government shutdown and debt limit standoff, with a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finding that a majority of Americans blame the GOP for the shutdown, and with the party’s…
In what veterans call an outrageous slight after the ultimate sacrifice, the shuttered federal government is withholding a $100,000 payment normally wired to relatives of fallen soldiers — including the families of five killed in Afghanistan over the weekend. The…
It wasn’t that long ago! As a matter of fact, Boehner said it right after President Obama won re-election in 2012. Back in November, when Americans went to the poll and overwhelmingly reelected President Obama who ran his entire campaign…
You can’t make this stuff up! On Sunday John Boehner basically said that because the president of the United States is not talking to him, or is not “having a conversation” with him, he, John Boehner, is willing to let…
On Sunday, Republican John Boehner told ABC’s Stephanopoulos that he didn’t have the votes in the House to pass a clean Continuing Resolution. But members of Boehner’s own party strongly disagree with Boehner’s conclusion. Rep. Peter King is one of…
Here’s a surprise: the shutdown was planned months ago. So the pleadings and forthright looks we’ve been getting from Ted Cruz and the orange-tinged scoldings from John Boehner and the laments of the lack of compromise by Republicans everywhere have…