Rep. Allen West said Friday that the tea party movement has “schizophrenia” if it’s going to primary him for supporting House Speaker John Boehner’s bill to raise the debt ceiling.
There is only one thing worse than Republicans and Democrats failing to agree to lift the debt ceiling, and that is lifting the debt ceiling without a well- thought-out plan and with hasty cuts totaling trillions of dollars over a decade. Maybe you can grow without a plan. But if you cut without a plan, you will almost surely hit an artery or a bone that could really debilitate you. That, I fear, is where we are heading.
Sarah Palin’s flirtation with running for president was renewed Thursday with the announcement that she would visit Iowa over the Labor Day weekend to speak to a Tea Party group.
Sen. John McCain is attracting the ire of Tea Party conservatives, including a couple prominent ex-Senate candidates, after ridiculing them as “hobbits” during a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday.
The White House and automakers are expected to announce an agreement tomorrow to raise the fuel economy for vehicles, paving the way for a steady increase in mileage ratings.
Like mosquitoes, Amazon taxes are swarming in states like New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, North Carolina, and Colorado. Arizona, Hawaii, Minnesota, Mississippi and Vermont taxes are on the way. But California—often a leader when it comes to controversy—passed the newest and toughest of law. It requires many online merchants to collect California sales tax on shipments into California.
A dust up among a major House conservative bloc and the prospect of tens of billions of dollars in new spending cuts has Republican leadership feeling as if it quelled an uprising on the right after struggling to line up votes for much of the week.
If House Speaker John Boehner or his senior leadership team thought they had the support of the Tea Party movement, they better think again.
Is the government using cellular data to track Americans as they move around the U.S.?
By Dan Vergano and Liz Szabo, USATODAY.COM A universal flu vaccine that protects against all strains may be within reach in the next five years, replacing annual shots developed for specifics flu viruses, the chief of the National Institutes of Health predicts. Francis Collins told USA TODAY’s Editorial Board on Tuesday that he is “guardedly [...]
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