Ezra Klein of the Washington Post is the subject of a fantastic profile in The New Republic. You may have seen him substituing as a host on various MSNBC shows or as a policy wonk on different news programs. What…
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San Diego Newspaper Aides Republican Candidates
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
If you listen to Republicans long enough, the subject of Liberal Media Bias will come up. They won’t have any problem with the Conservative Media Bias by outlets like Fox News or on political blogs like this one. In Orange…
Tea Party Tries to Occupy Congress; Advocates Cruel Spending Cuts
by Dan Chmielewski • • 6 Comments
Hat Tip to the Washington Posts’ WonkBlog for news that TeaParty has decided to launch their own version of Occupy by targeting Congress’ Supercommittee and advocate spending cuts that make Draconian sound almost generous. A branch of the TeaParty was…
Blame Bush? It’s Not Just for Democrats Anymore
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
The Republicans are crowing about this prospects in this Fall’s midterms and have been for quite some time. Traditionally, the president’s party loses seats in a midterm election and I do expect we’ll lose some seats in the House and…
Ezra Klein points out that GOP’s health-care policy ideas are in Health Care Reform Bill
by Chris Prevatt • • 3 Comments
At this point, I don’t think it’s well understood how many of the GOP’s central health-care policy ideas have already been included as compromises in the health-care bill. But the GOP’s “Solutions for America” homepage lays out four planks. All of them — are in the Senate health-care bill.
