Right Said Judd

The surprise factor of the Republican-for-Republican Senate seat swap is obscuring a fact about the Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) nomination for commerce secretary. Gregg is extremely conservative, a throwback to the era of New Hampshire Republican dominance. President Obama, after all, was the first Democrat to win a majority vote More…

Forget Emissions, This Is a Fight Over Labor

Well, I guess we saw this coming.

Senate Republicans last night killed efforts to grant Detroit’s automakers a $14 billion lifeline to prevent bankruptcies after compromise negotiations broke down over a provision to cut workers’ wages.

Very generally, Republicans wanted the Big Three’s union workers to cut their salary and More…