TPM: In an interview with The New Republic, Politico editor-in-chief John Harris admitted that Silver wasn’t one of his lifelines in the 2012 campaign [...] “I admire how he has built a franchise,” Harris said. “I roll my eyes at how he gets up on his high horse quite a lot on different topics.” Jim [...]

Any time a Republican calls other Republicans “staggeringly stupid” the circular firing squad is going to delight Democratic partisans, but if you read carefully Charlie Dent’s comments on the abortion bill, the thing he’s taking exception to is the timing of the bill. He has a gripe with the House Republicans’ tactics, not the substance. Dent thinks that it makes [...]

CBO says we don’t have a deficit problem for 10 years, if we have one at all. Read it and weep austerians.

If we had a parliamentary form of government, this kind of stalemate in the governing coalition would lead to a new election. When the political system gets stuck in place, it’s time to give the voters the chance to break the logjam. Unfortunately, due to the district make-up of the US House, most Americans could [...]

Opposition party politicians frequently vote against bills they support on the merits just to screw over the other party’s President. No amount of “arm-twisting” can change anything if the whole point is opposition party-line votes against the President.

This has to be the stupidest position in American politics. Paul Krugman has been right about everything since 2008, but is a big meanie about it, so doesn’t count. When you’re fucking right that the people opposite you are trying to persuade the American government to enter into a years-long depression, the duty of the [...]