- The rich will pay more taxes, Boehner says
- G.O.P. Seeks Fallback Position on Tax Fight NYT
- The GOP’s bizarre 'doomsday plan'--It's "meant to create a doomsday scenario in the event that Republicans have to compromise on tax rates."
- Drum: The GOP Thinks You Don't Know Shit From Shinola
- Pelosi Threatens "Discharge Petition" on Middle Class Tax Cuts
- George W. Bush Gradually Becoming a Non-Person--"The Wall Street Journal editorial page... takes to pleading with President Obama not to raise taxes because it will harm growth." Tries to bolster their so-called case with a "helpful chart" that omits the presidencies of both Bushes.
- Tax Burden for Most Americans Is Lower Than in the 1980s NYT
- Keyword Salad: 'Alan Simpson,' 'Old Coots,' 'Gangnam Style,' 'Debt Reduction'
- Race to the Bottom--"States should invest in public services and education, not subsidize big business by giving them billions a year in tax breaks." NYT
- Mr. Burns issues PSA explaining the "fiscal cliff" Salon
- Senate GOP kills disabilities treaty--Lamely claims that the treay, fashioned after the American Disabilities Act would threaten US sovereignity. Some Republicans did break ranks and brought the vote up to 61, which fell short of the required two-thirds.
- What the Republican Party has become--"Senate Republicans play politics with a landmark civil rights law -- championed by Bob Dole -- and hit a new low." And on a related note, Bernie Sanders has called out Boehner for wanting to cut benefits for disabled veterans. Salon
- O'Donnell rewrites the Senate's 'day of shame'
- Spoiling for a filibuster fight--"[T]he Senate's Republican minority has used the filibuster to demand 60 votes, not just for some legislation, but for all of it. The group has threatened to filibuster 348 times in the six years since Democrats took the majority."
- 17 bills that likely would have passed the Senate if it didn't have the filibuster
- Reid: Filibuster Reform Is Happening Whether Republicans Like It Or Not
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Filibuster Reform (But Were Afraid to Ask)
- Mitch McConnell's five biggest whoppers on the filibuster
- One month later, Republicans find plenty of blame for election loss
- Yes, Half of Republicans Think ACORN, Which Doesn't Exist, Stole the Election
- Sheldon Adelson Is A Low-Information Billionaire, Apparently
- Maddow On Dick Armey Quitting Tea Party Group: GOP Seems To Be 'Imploding Since The Election'
- Right Fears 'Purge' As GOP Leadership Takes Control
- The Amazing Reformation Of Mitt And Ann Romney
- Survey Answers, Why Don't More Americans Vote?--Too busy, too jaded.
- NAACP's Ben Jealous: The Koch brothers did us a favor--"The civil rights organization's youngest president discusses voter suppression and the perils of fighting the right." Salon
- Scott Walker's Plan To Eliminate Same-Day Voter Registration Opposed By Wisconsin Poll Workers
- Florida Secretary of State Changes Mind, Will Investigate 'Unacceptable' Voting Lines
- Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench
- Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate
- 'Fox & Friends' Hosts: Why Weren't We Invited to the White House with MSNBC?
- Nate Silver: Politico Covers Politics Like Sports But 'Not In An Intelligent Way At All'
- Greenwald: Progressive media claims they'll be 'tougher' on Obama now--"Given the rationale they have embraced, is there any reason to believe this will happen, or that it will matter if it does?"
- SC Governor Nikki Haley (R) censors State Newspaper
- Lines Blur as Texas Gives Industries a Bonanza NYT
- Speaking Truth to #ALEC
- 10 Corporations That Still Get New Gov't Contracts, Despite Alleged Misconduct
- My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court--When the corporate bottom line outweighs humanity.
- EU imposes record $1.9 billion cartel fine on Philips, five others
- Wal-Mart Nixed Paying Bangladesh Suppliers to Fight Fire
- Underwear factory fire in China kills 14
- 18th-century French chateau bulldozed 'by mistake'
