The Grand Republican Strategy: We Win, You Pay!
No longer can a Republican run for president without admitting that the government must do something about our nation's most pressing problems -- but neither can he ask his friends in the One Percent to pay for it. Thus is born a new slogan: We win, you pay!
Even the Shutdown Can't Kill Old Republican Fallacies
Since the government started collecting economic data around World War II, we have accumulated plenty of evidence to measure each party's success at "dealing with the economy" -- and none of it makes Republicans look good.
The Republican Riddle: What the States Know That the Feds Don't
At the state level, Republicans are cynically and diabolically riding to victory on the wings of a big federal government while claiming to be doing the exact opposite.