Tag: House

A/V Booth: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Explains Why She’s Resigning From Congress

Ear to the Ground: SOPA and PIPA Put on Hold

Cartoons: Shades of Boehner

Reports: Obama Benefits From Republican Civil War

A/V Booth: Obama Gives Boehner, Reid an Earful on Deadlock

Ear to the Ground: Krugman Deems PolitiFact ‘Useless and Irrelevant’

Reports: Dennis Kucinich on the NDAA and ‘War Without End’

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Reports: Government-Sponsored Sinner

Reports: The Republicans Aren’t Funny, They’re Scary

Ear to the Ground: Gov’t Shutdown Crisis Averted (Again)

Reports: 3 Signs Anti-Wall Streeters Are Succeeding

Reports: The Week Politics Changed

Ear to the Ground: No-Tax Pledge Is Paralyzing Congress

Ear to the Ground: Disaster Bill Rejection Boosts Likelihood of Government Shutdown

Ear to the Ground: From Top to Bottom, Supercommittee Is in the War Lobby’s Pocket

Ear to the Ground: House Rejects Government Funding Bill

Reports: How Much Has Obama Learned About Republicans?

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

Reports: Who Pays for God’s Revenge?

Ear to the Ground: Eric Cantor Exploits Disaster, Pushing Budget Cuts

Reports: How Obama Can Save His Presidency

Reports: Can America Still Lead?

Reports: A Downgrade’s GOP Fingerprints

Reports: Who Wants to Go Back to the ’50s?

Reports: Oh, What a Tea Party!

Reports: The World Has Been Watching

Ear to the Ground: House Democrats Rescue GOP to Pass Debt Compromise

Ear to the Ground: ‘A Terrible Deal’

Ear to the Ground: Debt Deal to Cut at Least $1 Trillion (Video)

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Boehner’s Bill, Senate Bats It Down

Reports: Why China Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank

Reports: Power of the Big Idea

Reports: Yes to Moderation, No to Centrism

Reports: Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security

Reports: The Money Melodrama in Washington

A/V Booth: Monday’s Obama-Boehner Debt Speeches, Minus the Grandstanding

Reports: After the Debt Ceiling Fiasco

Reports: The Limits of Compromise

Ear to the Ground: Senate Democrats Angry Over Obama ‘Sellout’

Reports: Republican Goofery Isn’t Limited to the Tea Party

Reports: Blowing Up the House

Reports: ‘Dysfunctional’ Too Polite to Describe Tea Party Congress

Reports: Why Did Congress Waste Six Months?

Reports: Obama Can’t Celebrate Yet

Ear to the Ground: Forget Congress, Alan Grayson Should Pull a Palin

Reports: Obama’s Raw Deal?

Reports: Washington Dysfunction: A Scorecard

Reports: Calling the GOP’s Bluff

Reports: John Dean Knows How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas

Reports: Obama Is Wrong on War Powers

Reports: Washington’s Deeper Immorality

Reports: The Party of Righteous Indignation

Reports: Cutting Kids’ Health Care Will Make Deficits Bigger

Reports: Our Imagination Deficit

Reports: From Wisconsin to Florida, Strong Winds of Political Remorse

Reports: A Medicare Moment for the GOP

Reports: Boehner’s Catholic Lessons

Reports: Will Symbols Trump Logic?

Reports: Will the Courts Wreck Health Care?

Reports: The Government: Credit Where Credit Is Due

Reports: Tough Enough

Ear to the Ground: House Rejects FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules

Reports: Why Not Bachmann?

Ear to the Ground: Government Agencies Prepare for Shutdown, Pols Fight Over Pocket Change

Reports: The End of Progressive Government?

A/V Booth: Obama Addresses His Third Muslim War

Reports: Paradox and Principle in the New Mideast

Reports: Spent Fuel’s Toxic Legacy

Ear to the Ground: House GOP Gangs Up on NPR

Reports: The American Inquisition of 2011

Reports: The GOP’s Ingenious Madman Strategy

Reports: The FCC, Net Neutrality and the Future Enrons of the Internet

Reports: Unintended Consequences

Reports: The Tea Party Is Winning

Ear to the Ground: House Votes to Slash Spending

Reports: The Leadership Vacuum

Reports: Republicans Cut Shirts From Budget

A/V Booth: Pols Debate Chrysler Super Bowl Ad

Reports: Barack Obama: Paradoxical Whig

Reports: Meat-Cleaver Budgeting

Reports: It’s Repeal That’s Ailing

Reports: Fudging the Facts on Health Care and Deficits

Ear to the Ground: House Huffs, Puffs, Blows Health Care Down

Ear to the Ground: Half of Younger Americans Have Pre-Existing Conditions

Reports: Health Care and the New Civility

Reports: Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

Reports: Turning the Tables on Health Care

Reports: Washington Loves a Paradox

Reports: The GOP Is Holding the Economy Hostage, and It’s Time to Call Its Bluff

Reports: Underwhelmer of the House

Reports: The House of Professors

Reports: Health Care Melodrama

Reports: Celebrating the New GOP Majority

Reports: Save Us From Our Devices

Reports: A Reality Check for the GOP

Cartoons: Holiday Foreclosures

Reports: The Pride of ‘Obama’s Orphans’

Reports: Undocumented Students Give Congress an F

Reports: ‘Don’t Ask’: Not Quite Fa La La Just Yet

Ear to the Ground: Congress Passes Obama-Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

Reports: Everything Is Negotiable, Except Nature

Cartoons: Let Me Cry for You, Argentina

Reports: Weeper of the House

Reports: Hold Your Nose and Vote ‘Aye’

Ear to the Ground: Angry House Dems Reject Bush-Obama Tax Cuts

Reports: Opportunity in a Tax Deal

Reports: Happy as a Hangman

Reports: Can Democrats ‘Up Their Game’?

Ear to the Ground: Those Dreadful Geico Commercials Are About to Get Quieter

Reports: The Grinch Who Stole Washington

Ear to the Ground: White House Proposes Federal Pay Freeze

Reports: Calling the Bluff on Deficits

Reports: Look Who’s the Decider Now

Ear to the Ground: House Leadership Same As It Ever Was

Ear to the Ground: Congress Convicts Rangel

Reports: Connecting the Dots on the Great Disconnect

Reports: Rank-and-File Frustration

Reports: Washington Laughs at ‘Revolution’

Reports: Wanted: Mojo All Around

Reports: A Recipe for Fascism

Reports: Why Pelosi Wants to Stay

Reports: A Speaker Who Stood Out

Reports: From Uprising to Hostile Takeover ... and Back Again

Reports: And Now for the Next Battle

Ear to the Ground: Republicans Take the House, Democrats Keep the Senate (Update)

Reports: The World Is Safer Without a Republican House

Reports: No Final Victories

Reports: The Mondo-Bizarro Campaign

Reports: Playing the Mommy Card

Reports: Annoyer in Chief

Reports: What If? So What?

Reports: A National Election, Like It or Not

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Brain’s Brain?

Reports: The GOP’s Triple Play

Cartoons: Auction House

Reports: Looney, and That’s No Debate

Reports: How Democracy Dies: Lessons From a Master

Reports: Needed: Competition for Black Votes

Reports: Tea Party Socialism

Cartoons: Lawyers Run America

Arts and Culture: Congress Dials Down TV Commercials

Ear to the Ground: Rahmbo Resignation Announcement Coming Friday

Reports: Look Who’s Killing Jobs Now

Reports: Obama and the Progressive Paradox

Ear to the Ground: China vs. the House of Representatives

Reports: This Joke’s on Congress

Reports: Retribution for a World Lost in Screens

Reports: The GOP’s Achilles’ Region

A/V Booth: Mr. Colbert Goes to Washington

Reports: Tough Love for Obama

Reports: The Wrong Tax Cut Debate

Reports: Will Big Tobacco’s Former Bagman Really Be the Next Speaker?

Reports: The Strange Death of Moderate Republicanism

Reports: A Chance for Supreme Court Damage Control

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Afraid of the D-Word

Reports: Why Barack Is Behind

Reports: Our Quick-Fix Electorate

Reports: What’s on Obama’s Next Page?

Reports: Obama and the Virtues of ‘Politicking’

Reports: The Equal Rites Awards—Again

Reports: Let’s Be Honest About Taxes

Reports: Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy

Reports: Boehner’s Bumper-Sticker Politics

Ear to the Ground: What the House’s Top Republican and Progressive Bloggers Have in Common

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Absurd Gay Marriage Position

Reports: Fox and Friends Trying to Bully and Buy Their Way Back to Power

Reports: Forget the ‘Party of No,’ Dems Need to Run Against Extremism

Arts and Culture: Norman Podhoretz in Black and White

Reports: Elites’ Democratic Days Are Numbered

Ear to the Ground: Maxine Waters Caught in Triple Ethical Tangle

Reports: Chris Dodd and the Politics of Joy

Reports: House of Entitlement

Ear to the Ground: Another Prominent Democrat Faces Ethics Charges

Reports: How Big Government Saved the Malibu

Cartoons: Rangel Rodeo

Ear to the Ground: House Approves ‘Online Ramps to the Internet’

Ear to the Ground: Ethics Panel Finds Wrongdoing by Rangel, Sources Say

Reports: An Electoral Dry Run Down Under

Reports: Celebrity Cures All

Reports: Calling All Future-Eaters

Reports: ‘A Good Year to Die’

Reports: A Change Election—in the Wrong Direction

Ear to the Ground: Newt Gingrich Won’t Go Away

Reports: Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick

Reports: Political Math and Political Passion

Reports: Show Us the Money

Ear to the Ground: Crisis of Capitalism

Ear to the Ground: Congress Tires of Lining Karzai’s Pockets

Ear to the Ground: Pack Your Bags, We’re Going to Cuba

Reports: Unhinged on the Right

Reports: We Can’t Afford War

Reports: Robert Byrd’s Redemption

Ear to the Ground: Byrd Dies After 57 Years in Congress

Reports: The Land Where Theories of Warfare Go to Die

Reports: After 41 Years, a Belated Victory for Butter

Reports: Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Happening

Reports: How Obama Changed the Right

Reports: The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger

Reports: Intoxicated on Fundraising

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