Reid said, “There will be an opportunity in the Senate to vote on the Ryan budget to see if Republican senators like the Ryan budget as much as the House did.”

The press conference from a public official that actually matters today is not happening in the White House or on a tarmack in New Hampshire. Right now, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke is taking questions from reporters. It’s the first time in history that a Fed Chair is holding a press conference, but it comes at a difficult time in the history of the Fed.

And now that the mass ignorance of the Republican Party has been confirmed yet again, who wins? Why, Republicans of course!

A government contractor’s entire business model is based on trying to convince the politicians in power to give it large sums of taxpayer money. It should be evident to everyone that the potential for corruption is as enormous as the possible profits

It’s disturbing that a well-known issue about over-speculation and imbalance in the oil markets goes years without any attention. Better late than never, I suppose, with the fraud task force, but it’s pretty late.

It is nice to see both Paul Krugman and Matt Yglesias openly admitting that the Affordable Care Act is about as right-wing any insurance coverage expansion “reform” could be. From Yglesias’s The Sensible Conservative Alternative To The Affordable Care Act Is The Affordable Care Act: If you simply do what Ponnuru and Levin propose, every [...]

It’s come to this in America.

In a series of national security moves, the White House will nominate Leon Panetta to become the first Democratic Secretary of Defense since William Perry in 1996. Panetta will replace Robert Gates at the Pentagon. Current Afghan war commander David Petraeus will replace Panetta at the CIA. And Ambassador Ryan Crocker, who was ambassador to Iraq under President Bush, would move to Afghanistan to become the Ambassador there, replacing Karl Eikenberry. Crocker has also served as Ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and is one of the most experienced diplomats in the foreign service. Marine Lt. Gen. John Allen would replace Petraeus as the commander of the war effort in Afghanistan.

• So, can we leave now?
• That Obama’s a lucky guy.
• Ibid.
• Let the backlash begin.
• I’m sure tax cuts will take care of it.

Southern Republicans, a Galtian driven to secede.