Former Sen. Warren Rudman, a feisty centrist Republican from New Hampshire, died on Monday. Rudman was of a breed that’s rare in Washington today: the New England Republicans, as tight on fiscal discipline as they were generous in recognizing individual liberties. As National Journal’s John Aloysius Farrell writes, "Rudman performed...
Lawmakers ambled back into town on Tuesday for the first time since September. Lots on their plate during the lame-duck session, most important will be avoiding the so-called “FISCAL CLIFF” that has financial markets, economists and policymakers and the rest of us rattled because of its potential to send the...
Expiration of the Bush-era Tax cuts + Sequestration … An accident of timing … a result of a one-two punch … combines major across the board spending cuts to the Pentagon/domestics programs with tax increases.
If the U.S. government ends up careening off the "fiscal cliff," Republicans in Congress stand to shoulder most of the blame, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday. Breakdown: 53% said Republicans in Congress would be more to blame, 29% said Obama while 10% said both. Those kinds...
As President Lyndon Johnson said, “… two things that make leaders stupid are envy and sex.” Enough Said.
The Wall Street Journal reports: “… Republican Party leaders are falling into roughly two camps as they struggle to explain what happened and devise ways to broaden the party's base. Some top GOP officials worry their message is wrong for a rapidly diversifying population, and that fundamental shifts in policy...
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