Democrats could have tried to abolish this pointless and dangerous economic time bomb, but failed to do it.
Mitch McConnell
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The Real Republican Dilemma
Check out this week’s exit polls: The party’s defining positions don’t command popular support.
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Reconciliation Is Available to End Debt Limit Hostage-Taking
With the GOP likely to take over the House, Democrats can use the lame duck to effectively eliminate the debt limit and the leverage Republicans would wield.
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McConnell’s Mistake
Today on TAP: Packing the Court with anti-choice fanatics may have doomed Republicans’ prospects for winning a Senate majority.
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Republicans Just Exposed Their Greatest Weakness
Only a deranged political party votes against health care for wounded veterans out of pure spite.
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Senate Democrats Must Shoot Down Biden’s Anti-Abortion Court Nominee
It’s bad policy and worse politics.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Senate Moves Forward on Exceedingly Modest Drug Price Reform
The details on the latest in the endless negotiations on the Biden agenda
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Mitch McConnell Once Again Takes Advantage of Democratic Fecklessness
Today on TAP: Senate Democrats can’t move because they’re standing on their own feet.
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Will Congress Reform the Electoral Count Act?
Today on TAP: And would that make a difference?
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On Being American
Mitch McConnell reminded us that Americans often have trouble with the reality of fully American Black people. Expect more such flare-ups in the new Supreme Court fight.