Bill Scher Posts

The back-to-back Bush and Obama administrations allow us to easily compare the effectiveness of liberal and conservative economic policies.

Despite Democrats winning the most votes for president and the Senate (Republicans won slightly more House votes), Democrats are nearly shut out of power.

Want a government that lets irresponsible corporations run wild, doesn’t ask the wealthiest to contribute their fair share to America’s prosperity and replicates the path that led us to economic ruin?

Donald Trump, being a politician, likes to say different things to different audiences.

Pope Francis is calling for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he calls the "structurally perverse" economic system of the rich exploiting the poor that is turning Earth into an "immense pile of filth."

On Thursday, Speaker Boehner warned that Congress may not be able to pass legislation to help address the influx of Central American child migrants, because too many Democrats are unwilling to alter the 2008 human trafficking law, and give President Obama’s Border Patrol agents expanded power to return unaccompanied minors home without judicial reviews.

Back in 2005, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee signed a law mandating Arkansas insurance plans provide contraception coverage, including church-affiliated organizations such as hospitals and universities.

On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired an odd hit piece on the Obama administration’s clean energy investments, strongly suggesting that it has wasted taxpayer money on pipe dreams. Thankfully, on Monday, Media Matters, the San Jose Mercury News and the National Memo (with a big assist from The New New Deal author Michael Grunwald) published solid takedowns. Media Matters also unconvered that 60 Minutes disingenuously edited one person’s comments.

Back in March, the Republican National Committee released an “autopsy” of its 2012 losses, which included 11 recommendations for how the party should change its image. As we end the year, let’s check in and see how that’s going.

Paul Ryan’s Wall Street Journal op-ed is being treated as an “olive branch” to the President because it doesn’t demand any changes to Obamacare and emphasizes the importance of raising the debt limit. The shifting demands are certainly a sign of panic among the Republican leadership, but Ryan’s offer is still just that: demands. The Republicans are still incapable of offering a concession.

The August congressional recess is here, and many members of Congress will head home and touch base with their constituents. Some will have town halls. Others might conclude: better not.

Especially if you’re a House Republican. Because then you might have to answer: What have you been doing instead of trying to create jobs?

Republican leaders understand political reality well enough to grasp that they can’t survive as the anti-immigrant party. They insist they want to pass some sort of immigration reform, just nothing “comprehensive” with too many “pages.”

With the House Republican caucus still squabbling over what ransom they should demand for an increase in the debt limit, Speaker John Boehner issued his own threat this weekend: Cuts greater than the essential increase.

This week, the Republican National Committee released its “autopsy” of its 2012 electoral defeat, officially titled the “Growth and Opportunity Project.”

In Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, Republican Sen. John Barrasso has an irate oped intended to rally the public against Democratic proposals to end filibuster abuse. But in his tirade he neglects to mention one important fact: the Democratic proposals still allow minority filibusters.