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Do people still use the word "cop-out"?

Can the Democratic Party return to its populist roots? It’s an odd question. Unlimited corporate money is pouring into politics after the Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” decision. Dramatic economic inequality is being exposed by best-selling economist Thomas Piketty. Politician...

Of course, only 1.6% of the population is Muslim (that's .016). And Obama's a Christian. Go figure.

Let me guess. Jem is not a farmer.

With regard to "the people", there's always the possibility of managing one's finances as one did before credit cards. There was a brief return to this after the collapse, but it didn't last long. Government does the same thing. When it runs low on money, it borrows. And it runs low on money...

You're right. Bush was one of our greatest presidents. Everybody says so.

Is this a variation on I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours?

What is a legislature for?

If you really care that much, just google it. I doubt you'll have much trouble finding lists of Bush's shortcomings.

There ya go! That's worked out so well.

They did not, however, anticipate a situation in which the legislature would do nothing. This is simple enough for the legislature to resolve. Act.

If you want to decrease tax revenue, cut taxes. But then you'll have to cut back on services. What services do you want to reduce or eliminate?

They were/are both incompetent. Why bother with the rehash? OTOH, if you think Bush was great, then you certainly are entitled to your opinion.

Oh, I don't know. We could start with George Bush.

I'm sure everyone else got the point. Here's another: Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor they've got some pie chart or graph behind them and they're talking about trillions of dollars and how the debt is awful...

What I said was that conservatives make it easy.

Actually I thought Clinton was terrible, and his wife is not likely to be any better, if not worse.

The 57,000 children from Central America who have streamed across the U.S.-Mexico border this year were driven in large part by the United States itself. While Democrats and Republicans have been pointing fingers at each other, in reality the current wave of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala...

Of course, the title could be rephrased "Congress Scolded for Creating the Conditions Under Which Obama Has No Choice But to Act Alone." They can't even come up with an immigration bill.

Yes, I am and no, they weren't. And SNAP does need reform. But Conservatives (Republicans, TPs, whatever) go off the deep end too often and wind up saying things that make them look Dickensian. This tendency gives those who want to demonize them plenty of opportunities to do so.