So, you know, deal with it.  Besides, other “pragmatic” Republicans agree.  It really was the best we could do: There’s a lot of anger, frustration, and disgust building in the righty grassroots in the past few weeks. Over the past week I saw a lot of comments on Twitter in the vein of “we have a spending problem! Why won’t Republicans insist we deal with that first!” Fume at Speaker

Rather than beat myself up trying to come up with new ways to express my disgust for the GOP this morning, allow me to just repeat a few things I wrote to Twitter last evening once the House passed the Senate “fiscal cliff” bill — itself a nightmare — without any changes, and then add a few more observations that I’ve since decided to share. 1. We have a one

Courtesy Geoff B, a release from the NRA-ILA, portions of which I’ll reprint here: Governor John Hickenlooper, a former member of a national anti-gun group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) founded and funded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was just recently joined by thirteen mayors in Colorado to coordinate with President Obama to help pass gun control measures here in Colorado and nationally. Governor Hickenlooper has also

“My friend John has been going through a tough spell at work lately. Though he’s a fair boss and a nicely tanned procedural leader of men, try as he might, he can’t seem to win the affections of a small band of rogues and roughnecks who seem to take pleasure in undermining his authority. “As it’s New Year’s Day — and the new year brings with it the promise of

This year is about battling for our liberty.   And I can’t be the only one here whose New Year’s resolutions included a determination to honor Capt Mal Reynolds and “aim to misbehave”  — for the country, my family, myself, and to affirm my deeply-held principles on individual autonomy and resistance to a tyrannical state run by a cabal of powerful liberal fascists and their corporate cronies. Plus, I’d like to

Or, bread and circuses.  Have at it!

n: a compromise reached on the basis of reaching a compromise and being able to say a compromise has been reached, regardless of whether the substance of the compromise actually works as a compromise in any meaningful way. See, eg., US Senate Republicans: Early Tuesday morning, the Senate approved a scaled-down package aimed at halting historic tax hikes for most Americans and postponing across-the-board spending cuts, just hours after Congress

That is, to the extent it’s possible. Take solace in family and friends and know that you won’t be alone in your sufferings. It’s barely 8:45 am here, and I’m already drinking. Take that as a sign. Also, I’m going to leave this post here as an open thread of sorts, for when we get the announcement that, naturally, the GOP has folded on the “fiscal cliff crisis” just in

So argues Louis Michael Seidman, who, as is routine with progressives from Woodrow Wilson onward, is gracious enough to keep the parts of the Constitution he likes, but bemoans the very checks and balances that serve to protect individuals from the government, and deny temporary demagogues the power to affect enormous sudden systemic change. He also (predictably) ignores that the Constitution contains an amendment process, a strategic rhetorical bracketing on

Reading through several emails I received this morning it occurred to me that, though each note addressed a disparate bit of leftist dogma, in the aggregate the emails were essentially talking to one another — combining to draw a picture of the contemporary Democratic Party and its complete usurpation by those historically referred to as the New Left. To try to make coherent the connectedness of these various strains of