During his Reddit AMA on Friday, the incoming host of NBC's Meet the Press, Chuck Todd, was asked about President Obama's legacy. Todd's answer wasn't terrible: He broke an important ceiling — he’ll always be America’s first black president. That is not an insignificant legacy. ...read more
By Bob Cesca: As I watch the convention coverage and glance across the throng of Republican delegates, I can't help but to think, "Ah yes. This makes sense. The nation's most confused and contradictory Americans have gathered to nominate a liar for president." I know. I know. ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via TPM): Rep. Paul Ryan is a vocal critic of President Obama’s stimulus bill. As one of the GOP’s most outspoken critics of government spending, he has not only argued that the stimulus did not work, but that the entire premise of deficit ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via the Boston Globe): JANESVILLE, Wis. — In 2009, as Representative Paul Ryan was railing against President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package as a “wasteful spending spree,” he wrote at least four letters to Obama’s secretary of energy ...read more
Republican response to the Democratic president's budget proposal. Now, Republicans and some Democrats in Congress heard the message you sent us last November. You wanted us to cut spending first -- and we had a plan to do just that. It was a good plan. We tried to eliminate the ...read more
McCain wants a rewrite of the stimulus bill? Off the top of my head I can think of 69 million reasons why John McCain doesn't get a rewrite of the stimulus bill. ...read more
New president, same old GOP dirty tricks. Their flaw, as usual, is that somebody checked. When the last elephant is put down it'll yelp, "Somebody checked!!' Reports of a recent study by the Congressional Budget Office, showing that the vast majority of the money in the stimulus ...read more
