
Philip Klein
For eight years, conservatives pounded their heads against the wall as Republicans not only squandered an opportunity to reduce the…
In an earlier post, I noted that the 52 percent public support for the stimulus bill reflected in the Gallup…
Dave Weigel makes some valid points as to why the unified Republican opposition to the stimulus package is different from…
Jim quotes Matthew Continetti as writing that, “The trick is to finance the welfare state in a way that allows…
I find myself of two minds in the wake of the House vote on the stimulus package. On the one…
The stimulus bill passed the House 244 to 188, without any Republicans voting in favor of it. No bipartisan cover…
The House just voted down the GOP alternative plan 266-170, with 9 Republicans voting against it and 2 Democrats voting…
In his just-concluded daily briefing, Robert Gibbs kept downplaying today’s House vote, saying it was just the beginning of a…
Matt Yglesias asks: Will the press let conservatives get away with simultaneously claiming that we can’t afford large new temporary…
USA Today: WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner picked a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist as a top aide Tuesday, the…