Everyone's all up in arms about how Willard said he was part of the middle class -- "the great middle class, the 80 to 90% of us in this country." Thing is, he didn't say he was part of the middle class, he just defined it. Watch the video. … [Read more...]

A big test of the seriousness and worthiness of our Democratic senate candidates will be the extent to which they comment on recent news related to the Federal Reserve Board's Federal Open Market Committee's recent decision to do some more … [Read more...]

Our junior senator has taken a lot of heat for his performance (or non-performance) during the recent debt-ceiling crisis. Regardless of his flaws (and they are manifold), not sure there's a real basis to criticize him on this particular … [Read more...]

Worried for a moment that somebody had hacked Dan Kennedy's Twitter account this morning. Yesterday, Kennedy posted this lovely call-to-arms on the need to spread the legalization of gay marriage yesterday (expanded here). Then, this … [Read more...]

This isn't the world's worst whopper -- Ezra Klein does a brilliant takedown of Paul Ryan's misrepresentation of Clinton on Medicare -- but it's the small stuff that adds up. Reporting on George Pataki's campaign to focus on the national … [Read more...]

The decision by major corporate law firm King & Spaulding to withdraw as counsel from John Boehner's regrettable defense of the regrettably named Defense of Marriage Act is wonderful news. It was, however, somewhat inevitable. In the … [Read more...]

Klein on the fiscal soundness of the amendment: I think "stupid" is the wrong word. "Dangerous" is more like it. And maybe "radical." This isn't just a Balanced Budget Amendment. It also includes a provision saying that tax increases would … [Read more...]

News that Sean Bielat took a salary during his run against Barney Frank -- and more or less hid the fact -- offers a terrific opportunity to pillory a pretty unappealing guy. We should all resist. Bielat took a salary, according to him, … [Read more...]

I'm going to steal this template nearly verbatim from Ezra Klein (on John Boehner). There are 2,457,167 households in the Commonwealth. There are 162,357 with incomes over $200,000. That's 6.6%. That number is not the right number for this … [Read more...]

Scott Brown has lost the leverage (and spotlight) that comes with being Senator Sixty. And Joe Battenfeld is probably right, it's tough to see how being a rank-and-file Republican is going to be an asset in the Commonwealth. To keep his … [Read more...]