Tag: john boehner

The political obituaries of Barack Obama have all been written. And they will almost certainly all be wrong. Obama has three more years in office, which is like a 100 more years in presidential years.

Does it have to be citizenship or nothing? According to the New York Times, that's the question being asked in parts of the undocumented-immigrant community now that the Senate-passed reform bill has predictably stalled in the House.

House Speaker John Boehner has again lashed the House its minority Tea Party members and is opposing the workplace nondiscrimination act. He has adopted their unpopular position, if not their ugly, disgusted language.

The budget crisis may be a huge loss for Republicans, but the suicide caucus didn't lose. A government shutdown, a default cliff-dance, dysfunction. What they wanted was chaos, and chaos is what they got.

The crisis is nearly over - unless it isn't -- so it is time to ask ourselves what has been learned. My guess: Not much.

Whatever happens on Capitol Hill to default or to avoid default, Charlie Cook says Congressional leaders of yore would be ashamed. Of course they would. Isn't everyone?

You didn't have to be in the room to know what happened at the big White House shutdown confab Thursday.

Is the end nearing? Americans blame the GOP. The Senate's getting panicky about default. House leaders went to the White House. Koch brothers want you to know they're not responsible.

Rep. Mike Coffman has seen the light or maybe he's just seen the polls, but now he says he's absolutely, positively in favor of...

The crackup is coming. You don't have to be a political genius to spot it. Everyone knew it was coming eventually. The only surprise is that the fault lines are moving so quickly.