Warren Buffett has an op-ed in The NY Times bemoaning the fact that he and other super-wealthy investors pay a lower percentage of their income in taxes than their secretaries and other lower-paid staff members.  This is an argument frequently heard from Democrats.

But in making that argument Buffett misleadingly lumps federal income...

Here is your overnight debt bomb defusing news:

• Sam Stein at HuffPo says Boehner’s going to call Obama’s bluff on a short term extension:  “The Ohio Republican, in a briefing with his conference on Saturday, announced that he would press for a short-term deal, with major spending cuts paired with longer-term deficit-reduction strategies,...

Yawn.  Chuck “my flight attendant is a bitch and Scott Brown is an far-right teabagger” Schumer is threatening to use Newt’s criticism of Paul Ryan in the 2012 election cycle.

That should make a big difference. 

Just like this statement by a prominent Republican candidate ruined the careers and electoral prospects of...

Notice how Democrats have been talking lately about how Republicans in Congress are held hostage by Tea Party-backed new members?  And how for years Democrats have made sure to use the term “extremist” when referring to Tea Parties?

It’s a pre-planned line of attack by the Democratic Causus, and one of the enforcers...

According to Chuck Schumer, via Townhall (h/t @gpollowitz):

So if these are the three branches of government, what do we call the 57 states?

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In a fundraising e-mail supporting Martha Coakley in the special election to fill the seat vacated by Ted Kennedy, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) referred to then-candidate, now-Senator Scott Brown, as a “far-right tea-bagger.”

At the time Schumer made the comment, everyone knew what “teabagger” meant in Democratic parlance. Nice.

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