Showing posts with label Boehner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boehner. Show all posts
Monday, October 3, 2016

Revisiting the stimulus negotiations

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I wrote long ago about the breakdown of bipartisanship in 2008/2009 even in the midst of the economic crisis. I was reminded of it today wh...
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Saturday, September 26, 2015

Peeling through the many reasons for Boehner's resignation

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Boehner's resignation is not a surprise to me. I don't know how he could stand the job. That said, I didn't know he would resign...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Last outpost of crazy headlines: Boehner's bartender

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"John Boehner’s bartender planned to poison him at Ohio country club" That's only part of the wackiness. Let's see--a...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

GOPers hate their House leaders

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It's no surprise that John Boehner held on to his position as Speaker of the House, despite all the conservative media that seem to hate...
Sunday, January 4, 2015

Will we see a battle for the GOP's soul?

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Is the GOP the party of the white working class traditionalists, or a modern business-friendly party? Is it for crony capitalism where every...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Short: Who gets punched in the nose?

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Blather, blather, blather. Boehner claims that Putin is aggressive because Obama stinks as a president: "When you look at this chaos...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

Is this the worst Congressional leadership ever?

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Criticizing the leadership of the other party is so common that it's almost a reflex. I don't want to bash Congressional leaders jus...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

The House postpones its summer vacation

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The House is too scared to recess for August vacation. Why? Because they haven't passed an emergency immigration bill in response to th...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

The Tea Party gears up to strike out, yet again

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The Tea Party really, REALLY wants to crucify Obama, but they'll settle for impeachment. Boehner is trying to buy them off with a pansy-...

Boehner spinning those wheels

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Congress is deadlocked, and therefore has nothing to do (well, close to nothing ). Boehner wants to present the semblance of activity and gr...
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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Day6: Thin strands of hope...

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... but probably not. Perhaps Boehner shifted today toward a fiscal settlement rather than insisting on emasculating Obamacare. But on clos...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Day2 roundup: GOP plan, maybe. Tea Party plan, no.

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So two days into the government shutdown, where are we? The GOP still seems to be scrambling around for a plan, but perhaps there are glimme...
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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Tea Party to GOP: Fight this one!

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There is somewhat of an internal GOP struggle over how the GOP in Congress should handle the next fiscal crisis point, which is March 27 whe...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Countdown to sequester

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Despite the [hollow] protests on each political side, the sequester is very likely to occur. That's because the sequester isn't goin...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Leader of the opposition

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Ed Morrissey of HotAir writes a couple of interesting columns on who will be the de facto leader of the Republicans. He correctly points o...
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Short: Inside the failed House revolt

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Breitbart.com was buzzing with rumors of an insurrection against Boehner before the vote on 1/2/13 that reinstated him as Speaker of the Hou...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Negotiation box score update - more FAIL

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Well, this isn't as much fun as I hoped it would be. The GOP is hopelessly mired in the idea that they can get a lot by giving a tiny ...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Breaking: Major fissures in the conservative world

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Is the US conservative universe collapsing? There are certainly a lot of odd tremors: A major leak from Fox News--a high-level Fox contri...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

Negotiation box scores

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The Atlantic Wire had a neat summary of the negotiation offers, and I think I'll steal the idea. It'll be fascinating to see the ev...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Negotiations at the edge of the fiscal cliff

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This will be an unsourced piece, and unfortunately, that means I'll be doing that reviled job called punditry. But I've actually bee...
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