House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner are challenging President Obama on his proposal to give tax cuts to businesses that create new jobs, as well as other facets of the Democrats’ agenda. Obama’s plan is to…
The President’s proposed tax on fifty of the largest financial institutions seeks to raise $90 billion in the next ten years, but there’s a chance it could go further. If the losses from the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program,…
House Appropriations Committee chair David Obey (D-Wisc), with an assist from Senator Carl Levin, wants a “war surtax” to pay for any troop increase in Afghanistan. His logic isn’t terrible:
“If we have to pay for the health care bill,…
House Republicans are telling the embattled (though you wouldn’t know it by that shit-eating grin) Charles Rangel to resign his chairmanship of the Ways & Means Committee by next week or they’ll introduce a resolution forcing him to do so.…
I wish I had had more time to write about the shitstorm that was, is, and will be California’s budget crisis–but alas, I had countless TPS Reports to affix with brand new cover pages. Still, when I came across this…
We’re young and in the prime of our lives. We’re not just healthy, we’re invincible. So no wonder Ezra Klein is the only American under-30 who can rouse himself to give a shit about health care policy.
But the bill…
The management at Wal-Mart has signaled its support for a law that would mandate all companies provide health insurance to their employees. As Justin Gardner at Donklephant points out, this is notable in part because Wal-Mart has in the past…
Well, it’s Tax Day, and that means that I’m not hungover on a Wednesday, for once, because I stayed up all last night trying to make a few hundred dollars appear out of thin air. That’s right, your Politicologist is…
TNR’s Jonathan Chait responds to a post by The Atlantic’s Ross Douthat here.The topic is the governing strategy of “Starving the Beast.”
The Reagan and Bush administrations, some conservatives argue, ran up deficits with tax cuts and military spending to…
This week I thought I’d share with you some things I learned about the Republicans from Matt Bai’s excellent NYT Magazine profile of Newt Gingrich and the GOP’s early attempts to regroup after last year’s election.
1. Gingrich thinks that…
