Since he became the Republican nominee for governor of Florida last month, Ron DeSantis has made no secret of his racism, from his "monkey it up" crack regarding his opponent, African-American Andrew Gillum, on Fox News, to suggesting that immigrants are child molesters. In ...read more

The Banter Long Read: Evidence is coming out that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to cheat his way to the presidency, and his attorney general finds himself caught in the lies. Paul Manafort and Rick Gates have been indicted; George Papadopoulos has pled guilty; and ...read more

I've written many times about HA Goodman, the gadfly on the progressive movement.  Before he became Bagdad Bob for Bernie (as Bob Cesca so aptly put it), Goodman supported Rand Paul, Jim Webb and Martin O'Malley, all the while insisting that Clinton couldn't win the primary ...read more

by Stephen Silver The announcement earlier this week that Pennsylvania Congressman Chaka Fattah had been indicted on 29 counts of racketeering and public corruption led to all kinds of questions - from Fattah’s political future, to who might run for Fattah’s House seat, to the ...read more

The House of Representatives voted this morning on Congressman Paul Ryan's budget proposal.  It passed by a vote of 221 to 207.  The 221 yeahs were all Republican, 197 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted no.   You can read the official vote count here.  You can read the official ...read more

By Ben Cohen: We discuss the topic of Republican voter suppression in this weeks mailbag, but I thought it was worth expanding on a little given how serious the issue is. A reader asked whether we thought that the Republican's admission that they tried to stop minorities from ...read more

Michael Cohen in the Guardian makes a persuasive argument that Republicans don't have much to gain by holding the economy to ransom again during the 'fiscal cliff' negotiations: In the end, neither side has all that much to gain from dragging the fiscal cliff argument out. Now ...read more

Bit of insidery information for our readers - I spoke to a friend late last night who is working closely with Obama's campaign, and I was informed that internally, the Democrats are very confident of an Obama victory tonight, particularly in Ohio. Their own numbers (that always ...read more

Here's how some of the more prominent bloggers saw the debate going last night: Andrew Sullivan: I have to say that Biden did to Ryan what Cheney did to Edwards in style and demeanor and authoritah. Ryan was hampered by an insurmountable problem on the impossible mathematics of ...read more

The Conservative Party in Britain won the general election in 2010, inheriting one of the worst economies in recent history. New Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had failed to spot the inherent flaws in their economic platform and sat helpless as the financial sector ...read more

Welcome to this weeks edition of The Daily Banter mail bag! Today, Bob, Ben and Chez answer readers questions on the Democrat's tactics against the Republicans in Congress, whether we think Nancy Grace should be exiled to North Korea and how Mitt Romney is basically, well, ...read more

By Ben Cohen: Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman has been getting a huge amount of media attention over the past few weeks, in part due to a book he has written 'End This Depression Now!', but mostly because his message of economic sanity is resonating with the ...read more

By Chez Pazienza: Rush Limbaugh is a pompous buffoon -- we all know that. When he says something over-the-top, inflammatory and painfully divorced from reality, believe it or not I kind of accept it. I get that there's an argument to be made that the damage he's doing through ...read more

By Ben Cohen: Predictably, the Republicans in the Senate blocked the Democrat's 'Buffet Rule' bill that would tax millionaires at at least 30% of their income. It was predictable because of the Republicans pathological need to sabotage any measures that would help the economy - a ...read more