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
Gawker's mysteriously anonymous 'Mobutu Sese Seko' reminds jubilant Democrats and the liberal media not to proclaim the GOP dead just yet: There's a time for champagne, though, and that's election night. After that, reality sticks its head in the tent, and there's no bigger or ...read more
I watched as much of the first day of the Democratic Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina as I could stomach, and was left with the following thoughts. The negative: 1. As always, it was a slick marketing campaign under the guise of a political convention. We heard sound ...read more
The awesome Elizabeth Warren has penned a must read article in Politico on America's rigged economic system that prevents small businesses from flourishing and allows Big Business to get bigger and avoid paying their fair share of taxes: If a business takes its profits to the ...read more
By Ben Cohen: The fallout from the bitter recall election in Wisconsin is reverberating around political circles and the media. The Right is claiming victory in an election that they believe should never have happened, and the Left is busy licking its wounds and crying foul ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's victory over Barret Tom Barrett last night was another sad reflection of the corrupting influence of money in American elections. Organized labor took on Walker over his budget repair bill in 2011 that saw workers rights slashed, their ...read more
Americans have become more politically polarized than at any time in the past 25 years, according to a major survey released Monday by the Pew Research Center. Pew measured partisan differences on 48 areas that it has tracked since 1987, and the average partisan gap has nearly ...read more
By Ben Cohen: I went on the RT network yesterday to discuss the insidious effects of Super PACs on the Democratic process with Elizabeth Wahl. It's a very troubling topic and one that deserves a lot of attention. The decision made by the Supreme court to allow PACs (Political ...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
President Barack Obama will sign the JOBS Act into law Thursday, clinching a rare and hard-fought bipartisan victory for his presidency. But to secure the legislative win, he had to pick sides in a simmering feud between interest groups aligned with the Democratic Party. One ...read more
Senate Democrats are teeing up a vote on the “Buffett Rule” legislation on the eve of Tax Day, and are pledging to push the issue all year as a defining contrast between the parties ahead of the election. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scheduled the cloture vote for April ...read more
Mitt Romney tell CNN that he's not too fussed about Americans living in abject poverty: "By the way, I'm in this race because I care about Americans. I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about ...read more
Image via Wikipedia Mother Jones reports on the GOP's terrifying scheme to snatch the Presidency in 2012 by implementing new rules in the electoral system. The basic premise: Each state gets to determine how its electoral votes are allocated. Currently, 48 states and DC use a ...read more
Matt Taibbi has some choice words for the Democrats after the debt ceiling fiasco: The Republicans in this debt debate fought like wolves or alley thugs, biting and scratching and using blades and rocks and shards of glass and every weapon they could reach. The Democrats, ...read more
Chez Pazienza predicts the future for the disgraced Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner: So Weiner's out. That's okay, give it a year or so and he'll realize that that light at the end of the tunnel was always from the cable TV studio where he'll be hosting his own show. ...read more
Bob Cesca on predictable corporate media frenzy unleashed by the Anthony Weiner scandal: When Anthony Weiner, John Ensign and others unfurl their penises in public, they supercharge the Underpants-Media-Consumer Complex. The news media reports it because thousands of us watch ...read more
Chez Pazienza on America's inability to handle any issue involving sex: For the record, I really am tired of public "sex scandals" -- particularly ones where there was nothing unlawful involved -- further diminishing our cultural discourse in this country and distracting the ...read more
In my view, Rep. Anthony Weiner is a fantastic politician who has spent his career seriously challenging power. Sadly, it seems he's also a bit of a creep and not a very good husband. Today, Weiner confessed to sending lewd photographs of himself via twitter and facebook and ...read more
