Will House Republicans Grow a Pair And Oppose The Tax “Deal?”

By: hogan (Diary)  |  December 16th at 01:33 PM  | 

In the wake of yesterday’s indefensible 81-19 vote in the Senate to spend hundreds of billions of dollars that we do not have in exchange for temporary tax rate extensions we could have achieved anyway or the lapsing of which could have been plopped in the lap of the President, we are left hoping that Republicans in the House of Representatives will stand up and | Read More »

The Lamest Duck?

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  December 9th at 12:01 PM  | 

What will happen to Barack Obama’s presidency if his tax compromise is shot down with the help of his own party? The House Democratic caucus just voted against it, which puts the deal on life support, at best. Can Obama recover from that? One of the great questions of the past two years, ever since it became obvious that Democrats would suffer significant setbacks in | Read More »