Republican Obstructionism

Alliance for Justice has released a new report on judicial selection in the first ten months of the Obama administration.

The claim by conservatives that they are innocent of incitement, does not hold up. Listening to the near-hysterical attacks on Obama, launched by the likes of radio's Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, can be frightening.

Rep. Eric Cantor is unimpressed with all the uproar over the revelation that he attended a Britney Spears concert while President Barack Obama convene...

Senator Bayh announced today the formation of a "Moderate Dems Working Group", or to put it in layman's terms, a group of 15 or so Bush Dog... I'm sorry... Blue Dog conservative Democratic Senators.

With the GOP holding steady in their tight paradigm of fear and retrenchment, and weighing down our country in the process, we will never be able to live a new story as Americans.

Mostly this is about the economic ignorance, real or feigned, underlying most GOP objections to this stimulus package.

It could be that our institutions are so corrupt, our political discourse so banal and polluted, that they are incapable of lifting us up from our national malaise.

Every day of delay is a day when more Americans get a pink slip. Let's hope that Senate Republicans stand with the President during this crisis rather than playing politics like the House GOP.

The Huffington Post's Sam Stein reported last year on the aggressive tactics Republican senators were using to obstruct an unprecedented number of bil...

Three years ago, the United States Senate nearly came to a stand still as the Republican majority, citing Democratic obstructionism over judicial appo...

It has become a routine in the Senate. Last Friday, congressional Republicans, with the aid of a handful of Democrats, successfully obstructed the pas...