How Politics Damaged Obama’s Recovery (CHART)
Republicans bucked historically bipartisan policies to thwart the president.
Keystone = higher gas prices
The project would increase domestic oil prices by more than $6 a barrel and prices at the pump in parts of the country by about 20 cents a gallon.
Blunt amendment killed
By a largely party-line vote, the Senate on Thursday blocked the Blunt amendment
Ann Teinaes: Politics Animated
Ann Teinaes cartoons and animations in the Washington Post present a biting satire of the news.
Springtime for Toxics
Hat makers no longer use mercury (and who wears hats these days?), but a lot of mercury gets into the atmosphere from old coal-burning power plants that lack modern pollution…
Hurt Obama, don’t hire
In a rambling letter titled “Call For A Strike of American Small Businesses Against The Movement for Global Socialism,”
ACLU challenges voter suppression law
There is only one form of "voter fraud" which can be addressed by photo ID laws restricting the right to vote at the polls --- the incredibly rare case of…
Colorado Dems and GOP respond to redistricting decision
“The reapportionment process is clearly broken; it allowed the Democrats to game the system
Grover Norquist: a misleading accounting of recent history
In his view, economic growth literally ends the day Democrats win power in Congress. That already begins to stretch the bounds of economic logic,