Over the course of the election, Stephen Colbert eschewed simply mocking the campaign finance regime established by Citizens United, opting instead for a massive, long-term critique. Colbert founded his own SuperPAC, fought for its rights before the Federal Election Commission,…
After the drubbing Republicans took at the polls, we’ve all expected a Republican freak out. But I didn’t expect it to reach the level of civil war this quickly. But Karl Rove, who presumably is now willing to admit the Mitt…
On this week’s podcast, I asked if the breakdown in GOP discipline may be related to the splintering of the Republican party under the weight of Tea Party groups, Paultards, and mavericky Alaskans who don’t care for your establishment tastes…
Joe, Nick, Allison and Kathryn are joined by Matt Raycroft of the Church of Bracketology podcast as we inadvertently earn our iTunes Explicit tag a few times over. We discuss the latest jobs report and discuss what it really means…
The DISCLOSE Act, a bill designed to prevent individuals and groups from anonymously funneling millions into campaigns, was blocked by Senate Republicans last week after Republicans looked around and realized they get the one-sided benefit of all this money. There is…
I encourage people to send me the Right wing email forwards that they get because I think we should all see what these folks are saying. I just got this one, which is a string of memes. Most of these…
Republicans in the Senate decided that allowing billionaires to give money to support candidates should be kept secret. As Kathryn and I discuss in this week’s podcast (coming out later today), this is ironic given that the Romney campaign is…
Tuesday link time: Have some fun learning about the people who give far, far, far, far more money to campaigns than you do. Yesterday I saw a conservative talking head object to the idea that this is “buying an election” because…
Elie Mystal of Abovethelaw.com joins Joe, Nick and Kathryn for a rousing discussion of “the least dangerous branch,” examining the Supreme Court decisions released on Monday and the predicting the outcome of Thursday’s Affordable Care Act challenge. Along the way,…
