WOUNDED BIRD

It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outra...

Dahlia Lithwick of Slate  and law Professor David S Cohen from Drexel University in The New York Times : There's no shortage of lega...

The GOP and others on TV and the internet remind us early and often about polls that show large numbers of people in the US believe the c...

Fox News and friends, including Sen David Vitter (R-LA), are freaking out over President Obama's extension by a few days of the deadli...

Email No. 1 Dear Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA):  I cannot understand why Republicans in the US Congress, who make much of personal respons...

Five Democrats voted against strengthening background checks for gun sales. Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska Sen...

Today I feel as though I've been trying with my bare hands to hold President Obama and Democrats in the Senate and the House accountable...

  The people of the country will blame you for the sequester.  The military/industrial complex will blame you for the sequester.  If the s...

Senator Marco Rubio (R - FL), who will give the official Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union speech tonight, ...

It’s looking increasingly as if House Republicans won’t crash the world economy by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, at least not right ...

It sure looks as if we’re going over the fiscal cliff, but that may be the least of our problems. The debt ceiling is a much bigger and mor...

Yes, I do feel a bit sorry for Boehner, who now has something else to cry about . He thought he was the leader of the Republican Party in ...

The right wing of the Republican Party (increasingly all that exists of the Republican Party) has a general problem of starting with its p...

From the New York Times : For a year now, Britain’s economy has been stuck in a vicious cycle of low growth, high unemployment and fiscal a...

You gave away the store in your "negotiations" with Republicans. Why bother with the circus mockery of "negotiations"? ...

What Sen. Vitter wrote: Dear Friend, If you didn't get a chance to watch President Obama's address on fiscal policy yesterday, you m...

...who blew the budget. The best of Obama's speech yesterday, in my humble opinion: America’s finances were in great shape by the year...

From Frank Rich at the New York Times : That’s not to say there is no fiscal mission in the right’s agenda, both nationally and locally — on...