I’ll believe it when I see it: House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) will mark out a firm Republican position regarding the debt ceiling in his speech this evening at the Economic Club of New York (7 p.m., watch live here). He will insist that while allowing the country to default would be “irresponsible,” voting to raise the debt limit without spending cuts and reforms would be far worse in
May 9, 2011
May 9, 2011
"April Marks 27 Straight Months of 8 Percent or Higher Unemployment"
Think we can make it 28? Yes we can!*
May 9, 2011
The new media narrative: the Tea Party is dead; compromise is the new black; Americans want the return of the weak-tea GOP status quo.
Let the Democrat/establishment GOP push for Mitch Daniels begin! Because hell, who, if not the Democrats, has our best interests at heart when it comes to picking a “serious” “adult” opponent to run against Barack Obama…?
May 9, 2011
Carter Country
Back during his presidential campaign, I wrote that Obama was Jimmy Carter with a tan. Such rhetorical Visigothery, at the time, made me unpopular with those who saw nothing but the crease in Obama’s pants and hadn’t yet realized the measures he’d gone to to hide Brother Billy in a Boston tenement. But the times, they are a changing: U-6 unemployment rose again to 15.9 percent, a total of 24.39