Mr. Boehner backs down
From today’s editorials: The House GOP leader says he’ll compromsie on tax cuts. But he still needs to overcome the resistance of those who insist on tax breaks for the very rich. Yes, that was John...
View ArticlePoll: Get your own health care, Congress
Incoming and incumbent Republican members of Congress who campaigned against the federal health care law are being urged by Democrats and a majority of voters to stand by their positions and reject...
View ArticleCongress sees the light
From today’s editorials: Passage of a health care bill for 9/11 responders is the latest victory in a lame-duck session. “We are not doomed to endless gridlock,” the President says. Sen. Kirsten...
View ArticleMcConnell gets a humbug of an award
Jobs with Justice, a left-leaning worker-oriented site gave Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell it’s Scrooge of the Year Award for his role in helping to block legislation to benefit working people....
View ArticleCongress dithers as crisis worsens
Our opinion: The President calls a meeting on raising the debt limit. It’s time to get serious, and to be able to take care of other business as well. The partisan bickering is fierce, yet the progress...
View ArticleCrystal ball the debt ceiling
While the nation’s leaders are fighting it out in Washington over the debt ceiling and the federal deficit, it’s anyone’s guess how this bout will turn out. In one corner, we have House Speaker John...
View ArticleClass warfare? No, fairness
Our opinion: The President wants millionaires to pay their fair share of taxes. If that’s too radical, how can the deficit be brought under control? Only in an America with a Congress hijacked by the...
View ArticleA bad economy gets even worse
Our opinion: Unemployment is up, incomes are down, and still Congress refuses to pass a jobs bill. How long will the public put up with that? Here come the numbers — disheartening as they are...
View ArticleMitch McConnell is a bigger threat than Kim Jong Un
Guns are a greater threat to American lives than “the threat posed by North Korea,” says David Rothkopf in Philly.com, and Mitch McConnell’s vow to “to block any vote on even the most modest...
View ArticleIs McConnell too liberal?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell may be one of Washington’s top critics of the Obama administration, but some conservatives find him too soft. The Senate Conservatives Fund has spent $340,000 on...
View ArticleSenate GOP uses rule to quell dissent
It was “utterly absurd” for the U.S. Senate to selectively enforce a rule against impugning fellow senators for the purpose of silencing Sen. Elizabeth Warren in her denouncement of Alabama Sen. Jeff...
View ArticleWarren vs. McConnell, the video
Here’s a fuller video of the comments that got Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., silenced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kent., and his Republican conference. The warning from the chair...
View ArticleGOP closing in on the nuclear option
Democrats were willing to consider Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch despite opposition from progressives and the GOP’s treatment of Judge Merrick Garland, but Gorsuch’s smug and evasive...
View ArticleEditorial: Mr. McConnell’s moment
It is easy to be idealistic when one is in the minority, as Democrats are in the U.S. Senate these days. It’s harder to hold to high ideals when one is in power, as Republicans are right now. So the...
View ArticleEditorial: A bad rush on health care
Our opinion: Americans deserve more transparency and debate on a Senate health care bill that affects them so directly. Maybe Great Britain’s raucous House of Commons would be a fitting legislature to...
View ArticleA health bill with no heart
Our opinion: A revised Republican health care bill is barely better than the earlier one. The question is, will the Senate leave millions more people uninsured? It took seven years, but Republicans...
View ArticleMr. Obama gets four more years
Our opinion: As voters renew the President’s contract, we need the writers in Washington to come up with a new storyline. Four more years. That’s not a campaign chant any longer, but the chance voters...
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