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Does your representative work for you?
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U.S. stocks and the euro rose on Thursday but remained pressured by comments from top Republican lawmaker John Boehner
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks and the euro rose on Thursday but remained pressured by comments from top Republican lawmaker John Boehner, who indicated no substantive progress in the last two weeks in talks to reach a U.S. budget deal. Boehner, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said he had no idea what compromises…
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The Republican Party is looking for a new identity.
And they’re looking, literally, everywhere. At the Republican Governors Association in Las Vegas, former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour was the most … shall we say … direct, proclaiming, “We’ve got to give our political organizational activity a very serious proctology exam. We need to look everywhere.” http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83977.html#ixzz2Ca4JCdLq