Sen John Cornyn

Empathy For The Devil

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics


Michelle Schweiger Schecter

Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216 was the venue for a skirmish that at times got awfully mean. Judge Sonia came in earnest, her cards laid out on the table.

What? "Political Self-Preservation?" Shocking!

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

Spector's no dummy. He knows the highly effective and stauchly conservative Club for Growth will lavish support and money on a much more radically right-wing 2010 GOP primary opponent.

John Conryn Vacationed In Caribbean On Texas Fraudster's Dime

TPMmuckraker | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics


So we already knew that Allen Stanford -- the Texas banker charged by the SEC today with running an $8 billion "fraud of shocking magnitude" -- had so...

Toyota Republicans Should Cut Their Own Pay

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business


Leo W. Gerard

Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.