So much has been written about the bank rescue announcement by Treasury Secretary Geithner, and a clear verdict has set in -- the details were missing and the plan was far too scant to soothe the markets.
While we can't afford to waste time, we also can't afford to pass bad policy and potentially waste billions of dollars. We need to err on the side of a slightly slower pace, and reject "extraordinary politics" in service of kleptocracy.
Rep. Solis has been forced to wait and watch while a few Republican Senators try to make political hay of her husband's small business tax woes.
Yesterday the Senate deemed $0 as an appropriate amount to provide the nations' children with safer, healthy and more sustainable learning environments.
The economic dividends of a marriage equality bill in New Jersey will be great, and so will the moral ones.
"Endangerment finding," as promised by the Obama campaign, will please and solidify Obama's political base, but also will play into the hands of those who oppose climate policy action.
State Senator Robert Ford, who is of African American descent, is trying to get a bill passed that requires South Carolina to give workers a paid day off for Confederate Memorial Day.
Terrorism. Terrorists. Since the planes flew into the World Trade towers on September 11, 2001, these words have become almost synonymous with Islam and being a Muslim.
Grassley hasn't missed a vote since July 20, 1993, and he had a good excuse for that rare lapse. It was because he accompanied President Clinton to Iowa to view flood damage.
Just like the bell in the Polar Express, the Reagan myth still rings for at least 37 Republican senators and 188 GOP House members, as it does for all who truly believe in the right-wing blather of Limbaugh Hannity.
By obstinately opposing Obama's plan to create or save 4 million jobs, the Republican leadership could be leading its followers from their current political wilderness into "never-never" land.
Four families every minute enter the foreclosure process. It is no wonder that ACORN members are fighting back in the face of the economic maelstrom engulfing the country.
Geithner didn't offer a plan yesterday so much as a new faith-based initiative that is more notable for what it doesn't do than what it does.
