The Plum Line: Newsflash -- Recalls are legitimate in Wisconsin

Ezra Klein, on last night's events in Wisconsin: It seems to me that the system worked. Democrats were able to slow the process down and convince both voters in Wisconsin and the national media that there was something beyond business as usual happening in Madison. National and state polls sh...

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The Fix: Romney's tea party-friendly defense on health care

Mitt Romney made some of his most significant statements yet this weekend about the health care bill he signed as governor of Massachusetts, offering a preview of his defense for what many are expecting to be a potent line of attack for Romney's opponents.

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Ohio GOP Lawmaker Celebrates Being Pro-Life By Driving Drunk

Republican “moral math” alert! Ohio state representative Robert Mecklenborg was arrested for driving around drunk on an Indiana state highway, which is sort of an “anti-life” thing to do, you might say. But just a few days ago, he also voted for the Fetal Heartbeat Bill, one of those fake “pro-life” thingies that Republicans love. Do they [...]

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Wisconsin governor wins his battle with unions on collective bargaining

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has won his drive to strip the state's government workers of nearly all of their collective-bargaining rights, prevailing after a three-week standoff that brought tens of thousands of protesters to the Capitol and transfixed the political world.

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JP Morgan Calls For Corporate Tax Break That JP Morgan Analysts Found Won?t Work

As we’ve been documenting, a group of multinational corporations have launched a campaign called “WinAmerica,” in an attempt to convince Congress to approve what’s known as a tax repatriation holiday. This tax holiday would allow corporations to bring money that they have stashed overseas back to the U.S. at a dramatically lower tax rate (instead [...]

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Capehart: Bachmann bumps Palin as Tea Party Queen

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is pushing Sarah Palin off her throne as queen of the Tea Party. This considered opinion comes after watching Bachmann on "Meet the Press." I didn't agree with 99.9 percent of what she said, but in 12 minutes on MTP she demonstrated why she is a better leader of th...

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