A threat to filibuster a gun control law by a handful of Republican senators, including Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) receives a warning from the Wall Street Journal…
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Wonkbook: Obama’s budget calls the GOP’s bluffs
Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here. Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog. Over these last few months, the White House has been engaged in a systematic effort… Read more »
Lawrence O’Donnell: ‘Ignorance Is The First Requirement’ For GOP’s Love Of ‘Socialist’ Margaret Thatcher
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell delivered an unexpectedly laudatory eulogy for Margaret Thatcher on The Last Word Monday night, but it was not one that many of her Republican admirers would appreciate. While conservative columnist George Will credited Thatcher for helping to “bury socialism as a doctrine of governance” in his tribute to the former British prime… Read more »
The GOP’s not-really-a-replacement Obamacare ‘replacement’ plan
The Republicans’ stumbling block in their campaign to “repeal and replace” Obamacare has always been the whole “replace” part, since the GOP fundamentally does not believe in the goal of the reform: affordable access to health insurance and health care for everybody. If you can’t afford health insurance, that’s really not their problem, and you… Read more »