Ann Brickley says that climate legislation has the “potential to be misused and manipulated.” Misuse and manipulation? That sounds like what’s already happening under Big Oil.

Accidents happen? Is that what Rand Paul would say face-to-face to the families of the eleven oil rig workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion?

Not a single Republican voted against government rationing of health care last night. Why this profound ideological shift?

Republican John Duncan is rallying Republicans in opposition to continuing the U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan.

You can tell Rep. Michele Bachmann feels pretty strongly about health care reform legislation. Speaking in Colorado recently, she made these remarks about extending health care coverage for Americans: This is slavery. It’s nothing more than slavery…. This cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be [...]

Increasingly, the impression I get from Congressman Sensenbrenner’s Facebook account is that he has some extremely strange voices whispering in his ear.

Tax deductions in the United States exist for two significant purposes: to reward socially positive behavior (such as weatherizing a house) and to account the burdens associated with socially positive behavior (such as student loan interest). I struggle to place pet care expenses in either category. There’s no doubt that pet owners find personal satisfaction [...]

Last month, Republican Representative Lamar Smith of Texas teamed up with fellow Republicans Jack Kingston and Michele Bachmann to introduce the new Media Fairness Caucus of the 111th Congress. The goal of the Media Fairness Caucus, Rep. Smith explained: “is not to censor or condemn, but to encourage the media to adhere to the highest [...]

Not a single Democrat in Congress got an award from the National Taxpayers Union this year. Dozens of Republicans did. How does that qualify the National Taxpayers Union as nonpartisan?

Representative Arcuri has joined his Republican neighbor in opposing or neglecting much of the strong progressive legislation that’s been offered so far in this session of Congress. If voters in the 24th congressional district want to see a departure from the Bush-era record of regressive politics, Congressman Arcuri won’t be the leader to get them there.