Day: September 30, 2013

While the debate over a looming shutdown of the federal government has raged in Washington D.C., a report from Roll Call notes that Republican Rep. Paul Ryan has been strangely silent in the debate, considering his role in crafting the House Republican budget (emphasis added). Rep. Paul D. Ryan, the…

Seventeen years ago, the federal government shut down, and it appears our government is headed for another shutdown to the unwillingness of House Republicans to move off their demands that funding for the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” be eliminated. Despite the fact that the Affordable Care Act…

Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness: As president and governor of California, the GOP icon led the worst policies on mental illness in generations – Dr. E. Fuller Torrey   One month prior to the [1980 presidential] election, President Carter had signed the Mental Health Systems Act,…

White Privilege and the 2nd Amendment – Josh Sager The gun-murder epidemic in the United States has provoked a great deal of discussion about the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms. On one side of this argument, there is the vast majority who want increased gun control, while, on…

Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel outpaced all contenders and,  just as the month of September is coming to a close, won the much coveted, ( it must be much coveted with so many GOP’ers at the state and national level displaying conduct worthy of the title ) Asshat of the…

As one might expect, there’s no shortage of shutdown commentary today. While some of this quasi-media coverage may amount to some fair background material (see a couple of these below) few have really gone beyond the much needed (but tad-bit-late-insufficient-contextualization). The Atlantic – Countdown to Shutdown: A Primer Where Budget…