Shut Up Already About John Fetterman's Slob Chic
The Senate is an incompetent laughingstock regardless of what its members wear.
The Senate is an incompetent laughingstock regardless of what its members wear.
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When you use incorrect stats to bolster your claims, as Reuters did, all kinds of foolish conclusions follow.
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Fiscal irresponsibility might eventually shut down the government, but at the moment it’s all for show.
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America’s biggest fiscal challenge lies in the unchecked growth of federal health care and old-age entitlement programs.
Short-term solutions and governing from crisis to crisis isn't working.
The lack of oversight and the general absence of a long-term vision is creating inefficiency, waste, and red ink as far as the eye can see.
Since Congress designed and implemented the last budget process in 1974, only on four occasions have all of the appropriations bills for discretionary spending been passed on time.
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Rep. Justin Amash and some progressive lawmakers are trying to block it, but most Democrats seem happy to hand more spying powers to a president they are investigating for abusing his power.
Make no mistake about it, avoiding another shutdown is for the best.
Congressional leaders have reached a compromise. But Trump will have the final say.
Trump won much more than the Democrats did.
It will leave us with a bigger, more powerful, and more fragile federal government.
Assessing Elizabeth Warren's "tippy-top" tax, Howard Schultz's presidential candidacy, Donald Trump's shutdown-shutdown, and more
A lot of what government does is better done by somebody else-or not at all.
Sure, Trump and Congress have reopened Washington for three weeks, but congressional dysfunction and border-enforcement fantasia are with us for the long haul.
The outpouring of emotional and material support for federal workers during the shutdown is understandable, but mistaken.
"At a time when the nation's really divided, let's try to do something good," says BudTrader CEO Brad McLaughlin.
The shutdown rolls on, with no obvious solution in sight.
It's time to remove this vital function from the government budget.
The president's latest Twitter scare tactic to drum up support takes moments to disprove.
Farming out airport security and air traffic control would help to immunize air travel from the Congressional budget chaos.
Private citizens often step in to do what government officials say only the government can do.
Shutdown teaches us that much of government is NOT essential.
Trump's fast-food feast at the White House earned jeers, then backlash to the jeers. But who cares? This is comedy gold.
Spinning off America's air traffic control system from direct government control would immunize it from the shocks caused by government shutdowns.
Rebutting Krugman, cracking on Graham, and searching in vain for "freedom" in a caucus.
Blame normal TSA incompetence, not the government shutdown, for allowing a passenger to smuggle a firearm through security.
There's one fool-proof way to find out.
Trump's shutdown is a temporary, political fight that won't save any money or reduce the size of government.
Republicans embrace presidential authoritarianism, continuing a foul bipartisan tradition of legislating immigration through the executive branch.
Five years ago, McConnell declared the need to restore the Senate. Instead, he's broken it further.
Why do we need the government to do that in the first place?
The president's Oval Office address was misleading.
Some news outlets have insinuated that the government shutdown is to blame for several tragic deaths. Statistics say otherwise.
The president and his administration have a long track record of basing policy on dystopian falsehoods about terrorists and criminals streaming north.
Federal shutdown politics leads to really bad journalism about exactly two meals.
They have a profit-based incentive to keep the tourists coming.
The world will keep spinning, no matter how long the government shutdown lasts.