Political Irony

One of the interesting ironies about the economic stimulus bill that just passed is that by most any measure it is the largest tax cut in US history. It includes $282 billion in tax cuts over two years. In comparison, Bush’s largest tax cuts (in 2004/2005) totaled $231 billion. So why did the Republicans just […]

Two days ago I posted a story about a Republican Congressman who claimed that FDR caused the Great Depression though his deficit spending (“borrow and spend”) — which would have been a neat time-travel trick since FDR didn’t get elected until almost four years after the Great Depression started. But as we know, most “big […]

Tennessee Republican legislators kick out their own Republican speaker, turning over control to the Democratic Party. And in Virginia, the Republicans plan a coup, but one of their own lets the tweet out of the bag. Rachel Maddow reports all the sordid (and ironic) political details: