A plain blog about politics

After a break, the Republicans are resuming their intense debate schedule with one on ABC tomorrow (Saturday) night and a second on Fox on ...

Sort of a Newt-centric roundup this time. Newt-tastic. Newt-errific. Newt-ational. The guy may be a snake-oil selling fraud, but he sure doe...

Theory one of the Newt surge is that it's caused by something about Newt, which suggests that it's real, much more real than the Cai...

Matt Glassman has a very interesting and useful post today about the complexity of counting filibusters . He's quite right that the char...

Ooh, this is a good one. JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was complaining about anti-Wall Street rhetoric and how much he already pays in tax...

Barack Obama, in his press briefing after the Senate defeated by filibuster the Richard Cordray nomination today, threatened a recess appoin...

Haven't you sat around some afternoon and re-cast the WH 2012 Republicans as...the WH 1988 Democrats? Sure you have. But if not, here...