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The therapists at Bachmann & Associates aren’t very good at turning gay people straight. I don’t just mean that the Lake Elmo, Minn., based Christian therapy clinic, founded by Rep. Michele Bachmann’s husband, professional counselor Marcus Bachmann, don’t know how to turn gays straight. Doctors say nobody does. Mainstream medicine has pretty much universally rejected [...]
Daily Sanity Watch: Paul Ryan seems very reasonable on TV except for one thing–the President has put $1.5 billion in budget cuts on the table (and more, for a grand deal that includes entitlements). Ryan has put zero revenue increases on the table. Once again, that number is…0. So who’s unwilling to compromise? Partisan hack [...]
With White House negotiations stalled and an Aug. 2 deadline looming, House Republicans will bring an alternative solution to rein in spending while raising the U.S.’s borrowing authority to the floor next week in a bid to break the debt-ceiling deadlock that threatens the U.S.’s credit and could spark a spreading fiscal calamity. But it’s [...]
The FBI is evaluating allegations that the phones of any victims of the 9/11 attacks or their families were hacked by reporters to see if the charges warrant investigations. “We’re aware of the allegations and we’re looking into the matter,” says Tim Flanelly, a spokesman for the New York field office of the Bureau. What [...]
With no deal and no meetings scheduled for Friday, President Obama will hold another press conference on debt talks. As Jay reports, McConnell and Reid are working in earnest on a contingency plan. The House GOP is keeping the door ajar. The debt ceiling issue isn’t zero-sum; everyone loses in the event of default. John McCain [...]
There is a certain irony in the fact that the two men who spoke the least at White House debt ceiling negotiations over the last week will likely be responsible for forging the path ahead. And like any grand compromise in Washington, no one will like it. Thursday’s final White House meeting between President Obama [...]
A day after a testy exchange between Barack Obama and Eric Cantor capped debt-limit negotiations at the White House, Democrats launched a coordinated attack against the House Majority Leader, portraying him as a primary obstacle to ongoing effort to reach a deal to raise the U.S.’s borrowing authority by the August 2 deadline. “Eric Cantor [...]
As I was saying…Washington is just too ugly for words. The rest of the world isn’t much of a bargain, either. I’m feeling the need to get outta here, hit the road, talk to actual people. And so–you knew it was coming–another road trip!
Walter Shapiro, writing in The New Republic, gets at the center of the Tim Pawlenty zeitgeist with a new profile, a piece that not only features the phrase “spurning dentistry” and tours the candidate’s childhood neighborhood, but also compares a portion of his gubernatorial career to smoking too much pot in college. The core of [...]
President Obama has managed to claim the moral high ground in his battle with Republicans over raising the debt ceiling by appearing to put good fiscal policy ahead of short-term political considerations. By putting a bigger deficit reduction package on the table than Republicans were proposing the President forced the GOP to defend tax loopholes [...]
