WSJ: […] he House Democratic Caucus was brimming with fury at being excluded from the negotiations that produced the agreement. In a closed-door meeting Thursday, the caucus passed a resolution stating that the tax-cut deal would not be brought to the House floor for a vote unless it was changed. “Just say no!” Democrats chanted before the vote, according to an aide in the meeting. Despite the angry caucus vote,

WHY ARE THEY HOLDING THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS HOSTAGE! Here’s what the GOP needs to do: immediately call for an actual tax cut — beyond the continuation of the current decade’s long tax rates — on all those paying taxes on incomes up to, say, $1 million a year. Go with 5-10%. And then they should follow Milton Friedman’s counsel and make the case for insisting those rates become “permanent”

At what point does it become comical to insist on calling yourself a conservative while at the same time claiming the case need be made that socialism is of necessity not consonant with the founding ideals of the American experiment? The TEA Party movement — and its electoral successes — stands as a pointed rebuke to those who told us how unhelpful it was for “purists” and “extremists” on the

2.1 million new legal (mostly low-wage) workers during a time of effective 17% unemployment just isn’t enough to help the economy recover. What we really need is a coerced return to a heavily unionized labor force. Because America is crying for a return to that Jimmy Carter-era prosperity! Washington Examiner: When labor lawyer Craig Becker’s nomination to the National Labor Relations Board was rejected by a bipartisan vote of the