John Boehner: Those who have loaned us money, like in any proceeding, if you will, court proceeding, the bondholders usually get paid first. Same thing here.
The Congress has passed what is known as the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013, which will withhold the pay of all members of all members of congress if a budget resolution isn’t passed by April 15.
When 63% of GOP voters think they’re ‘out of touch’ and 1/3rd of GOP reps are afraid to do their job, it’s time to back slo-o-owly away from Debt Armageddon.
A fun-filled four minutes with Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity dishing on gun violence, Belgium’s murder rate, abortions, ‘white men’ in Obama’s cabinet, Diane Feinstein packing heat, and more.
In a case of extreme projection, disgraced former Speaker Newt Gingrich called the President a bully for not giving the Republicans everything they want.
Krugman sucks the air out of the room when Republicans are portrayed as reasonable on the debt ceiling.
It’s rare that Jon Stewart ‘screws the pooch,’ as they say, but on Thursday night’s show he apparently did just that, at least if a Nobel Prize winning economist can be believed.
In an effort to keep its audience as uninformed as possible, Fox News finds new ways to kill brain cells.
Karl Rove let the cat out of the bag and groups like the Financial Services Roundtable are making it yowl. I wonder what that cat will do?
Large survey shows distinct shift in party affiliation, cuing more Republican losses in 2014 mid-terms.
An honest effort to negotiate lowering the deficit would not and should not include holding the debt ceiling hostage again.
The 14th Amendment compelled recalcitrant southerners in Congress to help pay for the Civil War they started; now they can help pay for the wars they started in Iraq and Afghanistan.
McConnell says this is a country where 60% of the income is ‘earned’ by 20% of the population.
So it appears that the Republicans are going to drink Trump’s Kool-Aid and once again drive the American economy to the edge.
Sensible people would realize they are being sandbagged, and would swallow their principles and pass the thing in the interest of national unity and legislative responsibility.
Always outspoken and quite often hilarious, ‘The Donald’ has always been a source of amusement for this liberal and his take on the fiscal cliff doesn’t disappoint.
For two to three million unemployed people, as of yesterday, Saturday, December 29th, you have received your last $400-ish per week unemployment check.
He attempts to show righteous indignation at politicians for their level of irresponsibility in solving the country’s economic woes.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent a letter to Congress to officially inform them that this coming Monday, the United States will reach the artificial construct known as the debt ceiling.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid believes we’re headed over the fiscal cliff, thanks to Republican stubbornness and inaction.
