A plain blog about politics

OK, folks, I need your help on this one. There needs to be a name for the kind of story which has no substantive importance at all, but ne...

And so, despite all the flashing lights and clear screams, John Thune has voted for the Kenyan socialist budget-busting midnight Christmas t...

I love Matt Yglesias's response to Jon Kyl's suggestion that having the Senate work on December 27 would somehow be an insult to Chr...

Greg Sargent has been following the manuevering over DADT closely, and he calls for a commitment from Harry Reid: If repeal is going to ha...

Noam Scheiber has the inside scoop on the question of who will (eventually) replace Larry Summers at the National Economic Council.  I ha...

Jonathan Chait and Ezra Klein both speculate today about the possibility of a GOP revolt against the tax cut deal, and tie it to economic ...

I was going to write a post arguing that the court decision on ACA yesterday really didn't matter at all -- because we already knew that...