Jaime Fuller

The government may have been sacrificed in yesterday’s waning hours, but the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges opened for business as planned this morning. Obama was right: “The Affordable Care Act is moving forward. That funding is already in place. You can’t shut it down.” However, 22 states-mostly conservative strongholds-did prevent the Medicaid expansion part […]

So, it looks like we’re headed for a government shutdown, if Speaker John Boehner’s red baseball cap (and his onerous caucus) proves destiny. But turn that frown upside down! All this doom and gloom does nothing but good for political campaign coffers … even if the Washington region could bleed over $200 million a day […]

Fresh (95%): Rush Limbaugh – “Ted Cruz is fighting for freedom in the greatest tradition of American freedom fighters.” Fresh: (90%) Sarah Palin – “Maybe if Ted had worn pretty pink running shoes he’d have gotten more respect from the same leftwing media that gushed over the Texan state senator who filibustered in the Texas […]

Today’s Daily Meme

So … you may have heard of this government shutdown thing? Well, the drama goes on, and as ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee Chris Van Hollen puts it, “I don’t know the end of this movie. I don’t think anybody knows how it ends. And that’s a very dangerous place to be in.” […]

Ted Cruz has had quite a week. First, Speaker John Boehner announced yesterday that the House would sneak a Obamacare defunding resolution into their upcoming budget bill up for a vote on Friday… a bill that would be certain to fail in the Senate. Amid much WTF-ing from some of his fellow Senate Republicans, there […]

Yesterday, the Census Bureau released the latest data on our nation’s poorest residents. The news wasn’t reassuring. The U.S. poverty rate remained unchanged last year, stubbornly stuck at 15 percent. Twenty-two percent of Americans under age 18 were living in poverty in 2012. The gap between rich and poor households didn’t budge in any statistically […]

The congressional calendar this week is full of environment-centered hearings and events, so climate-change activists have seized upon the moment, named it “Climate Week,” and planned a week of protests. This week also marks the five-year anniversary of Keystone XL’s first application submission. Action isn’t centered around Capitol Hill alone-activists have been staging protests all […]

Yesterday, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers withdrew his nomination for the Federal Reserve chairmanship. The wave of Janet Yellen-speculation following in the announcement’s wakewas swift. Summers’s reasoning? “This is a complex moment in our national life. I have reluctantly concluded than any possible confirmation process for me would be acrimonious and would not serve the […]

New York City voters have chosen their candidates for November’s general election, and prognosticators, professional and recreational, have already bathed the papers, airwaves, and web with their thoughts about who will win. Elections around the country are also starting to ramp up as fall rushes near-let’s check in and see how the biggest (or most […]