
Philip Klein
The House of Representatives just voted 234-188 to extend the Bush-era tax cuts to families earning under $250,000, denying Republicans…
The long-awaited report of President Obama’s deficit commission is out (read PDF here). I’ll be posting on its various proposals…
President Obama’s fiscal commission was tasked with trying to get deficits under control, but its proposals would dramatically accelerate the…
In an earlier post, Joe noted that Rep. Eric Cantor has said that military spending and entitlement cuts should be…
From Tunku Varadarajan article at the Daily Beast: This is “something of a disaster for U.S. diplomacy,” Charles Hill, a…
The news that somebody Gov. Tim Pawlenty pardoned is now accused of sexual assault is triggering a debate over how…
Eric Cantor’s office spent the day beating back a story in the Hill, which initially reported that the Republican whip…
It’s still unclear what the long term implications are of the North Korean shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, but a pair…
Later this morning, President Obama is set to announce support for a two-year pay freeze for all federal employees (save…
Earlier this morning, I noted that President Obama’s proposal to freeze the pay of federal employees (excluding the military) for…