Bob Corker
Coal Miner’s Donor
IT IS BOTH a pundit’s truism and a mathematical reality that Mitt Romney’s path to the White House runs through Ohio. And that path, in turn, runs through a firm called Murray Energy. READ MORE >>
Why Do Republicans Hate Democracy?
Richard Cordray, President Obama's choice to head the new consumer financial protection bureau, came to Capitol Hill for his confirmation hearings on Tuesday. And, by all accounts, even Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee were impressed. Via ABC News: READ MORE >>
Another Spending Showdown
With the national debt posing a fundamental threat to America's way of life, as so many Tea Parties have explained, another Obama initiative is being held up by Republicans due to concerns about big spending: READ MORE >>
Outsourced Racism
What Is McConnell Thinking?
Jonathan Bernstein, like me, puzzles over the Senate republicans stunningly inept strategy to fight on financial reform: I can think of three possibilities: READ MORE >>
Parsing Obama's Wall St. Speech
[Guest post by Noam Scheiber:] Substantively, there wasn’t a ton of news in Obama’s Wall Street speech earlier today. Certainly the proposals were familiar to anyone who’s followed the debate these last few months. READ MORE >>
Regulators, Mount Up
The Zeitgeist Shifts
The psychology of victory and defeat is a remarkable thing. A week ago, the Democrats were perceived to have an enormous political problem. Their agenda was stalled in Congress. There was a mass groundswell of public anger they had to contend with. READ MORE >>
New York's Second Senate Seat
Some 40-odd years ago, Chuck Schumer was my student. A few years after that, I became his student. No, not in a formal classroom sense, but in the political dimension. If you watch him, you learn a lot. He's a stand-up liberal, a New York liberal at that. But he is also an effective liberal, which means he sometimes compromises--a sin on the Upper West Side, where politics often means that you shouldn't compromise ... ever. READ MORE >>
'Climategate' Not Making Much Of A Splash In Congress
So are those leaked East Anglia e-mails having much effect on the Senate climate debate? It doesn't seem so. Here's The Hill's Ben Geman: Centrist Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) argues that the "climategate" e-mails should be probed on Capitol Hill, but the e-mails haven't changed her views on global warming. READ MORE >>
