Introducing: Washington Post Watch Introducing: Washington Post Watch
Today we unveil a new weekly feature called Washington Post Watch, though given the shoddiness of the WaPo's editorial pages we might as well call it Shooting Fish in a Barrel. I...
May 19, 2008 / Chris Hayes
This Week On Tap This Week On Tap
This week, election-season fireworks are expected as Sen. Harry Reid tries to shepherd through a series of House-backed votes on the $250-billion war supplemental bill, including ...
May 19, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Friday Capitol Letter Friday Capitol Letter
In the House....This week, members furiously tangled over the war supplemental spending bill, which would fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through at least March 2009. Whil...
May 16, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Farm Bill Follies Farm Bill Follies
Over on Swampland, Joe Klein takes justified digs at Obama and Clinton for their support of the $300-billion farm bill, which both Bush and McCain have opposed. There's a whole li...
May 16, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Medicaid vs. the War Medicaid vs. the War
This week, buried under the current Congressional tussle over war spending, a fight over the future of Medicaid has quietly been percolating. Last fall, the Bush administration at...
May 16, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Winter Soldiers, Part II Winter Soldiers, Part II
Over the past two months since this year's Winter Soldier event, a parade of luminaries has gone before Congress to testify about the Iraq War: distinguished generals, cabinet sec...
May 15, 2008 / Chris Hayes
More on Grover More on Grover
Two things: With the 500-word limit in my last post I wasn't able to include the obvious caveat that Norquist's worldview is odious and that's he a pretty malign influence in Ame...
May 15, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Vote-Movers, Deficits and the Blue Dogs Vote-Movers, Deficits and the Blue Dogs
At a talk at New America this afternoon, Grover Norquist hit upon one of my abiding obsessions in politics, the difference between what issues people respond to in polls and what ...
May 15, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Morning Links Morning Links
Some things to read this morning: 1) Digby on vote suppression and disenfranchisement in Missouri. 2) George Bush partying like it's 1939. Again.
May 15, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Trust, Verified Trust, Verified
In last week's lede editorial, the editors wrote: The stinging defeats of the Bush years (and, stretching back, of the age of Reagan) have induced a nagging self-doubt among many...
May 14, 2008 / Chris Hayes