Posted by JM Ashby Governor Rick Scott of Florida has adamantly opposed over $2.4 billion dollars in funding for high-speed rail projects since taking office and now his wish has finally come true ...
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Emergency Priority
Posted by JM Ashby The conservative abortion fetish marches on today. What would a day be like without yet another anti-abortion bill being approved somewhere inside the continental United States...
Another Day, Another Abortion Bill
Posted by JM Ashby The conservative abortion fetish continues. House Republicans removed the "force-raped" language from their previous anti-abortion bill but left intact language that reduces access...
Doof Quote of the Day
Posted by JM Ashby George Will has graced us with his presence to explain to the world why liberals love trains. To progressives, the best thing about railroads is that people riding them are not in...
Shutdown Remains A Possibility
Posted by JM Ashby I'm beginning to get the idea that we're going to be seeing a lot of two-week extension bills over the next several months. Less than 24 hours after the President signed into the...
How To Save $2 Trillion by 2020
Posted by JM Ashby The Environmental Protection Agency, and more specifically, the Clean Air Act, was one of the first targets to be chosen for the Republican's first round of reckless budget cutting...
Zero Is Too High
Posted by JM Ashby The very serious Tim Pawlenty, a possible presidential contender who is currently making the rounds to pander to the Tea Party, continues to display his staggering level of...
The Conservative Abortion Fetish
Posted by JM Ashby I don't know about you, but I find this to be disgusting and distasteful. From my point of view, between calling a fetus to testify in court and putting bunnies in a blender, the...
Super Stupid
Posted by JM Ashby This should bother everyone. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Americans are split nearly evenly on whether a federal government shutdown resulting from a possible budget stalemate would be...
Bernanke Joins The Chorus
Posted by JM Ashby Although Bernanke's warnings are more subdued than that of his public counterparts, he is still flat-out saying that jobs, a lot of jobs, are going to be lost if Republicans are...
State Revenue Plummets
Posted by JM Ashby A variable that is sorely missing from the budget debate, not just locally, but nationally too, is revenue. If you don't have the revenue to keep up with the current status quo...
Boehner: Unions Have Bargaining “Machine Gun”
Posted by JM Ashby Welcome to the new incivility, same as the old incivility. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) used gun imagery Sunday while discussing public workers' collective bargaining rights...
Cantor Shrugs at Job Losses
Posted by JM Ashby "So be it." In his weekly Capitol briefing with reporters, Cantor acknowledged that the Republican stopgap budget bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR, might increase...
Playing Games With The Debt Ceiling
Posted by JM Ashby In addition to the very real prospect of a government shutdown occurring in the near future, Republicans are also intent on playing games with the national debt ceiling. I don't...
Doof Quote of the Day
Posted by JM Ashby "Every state has different demographics, every state has different problems," Hatch told The Utah Statesman. "It's good to allow them to work out their own problems rather than a...
Lose the Future
Posted by JM Ashby The projected job losses caused by the Republican's scorched-earth budget policies, which could number anywhere from 700,000 to 2 million, will not occur in a vacuum. Those losses...
Report: House Budget Would Kill 700,000 Jobs
Posted by JM Ashby "So be it." WASHINGTON – The Republican budget proposal to sharply cut federal spending would cost 700,000 jobs through 2012, according to the independent analyst Moody's. In a new...
The Tea Party Picks Their Man
Posted by JM Ashby Is any more confirmation needed that the Republicans will end up electing someone too extreme to have any chance of winning? In a 'presidential straw poll' of nearly 1,600...
Afternoon Awesome: 100,000 Strong
Posted by JM Ashby Good news everyone, this is what a real grassroots movement looks like. As you can see, the grass they stand on is real. It is not made of astroturf. I find this to be very...
Pawlenty: Obama is “Union-Coddling”
Posted by JM Ashby This is the guy? This is suppose to be the very serious candidate who will take on Obama? (Reuters) - Not known as a hard-hitting conservative, former Minnesota Governor Tim...