The junior senior senators
Senator Elizabeth Warren has served in the U.S. senate for just over 24 hours, but it’s very likely that she’ll soon be the senior senator from Massachusetts. If Senator John Kerry is confirmed as...
View ArticleBoehner wins a second term—but can he control his caucus?
John Boehner can breathe a sigh of relief. He won’t have to give up his gavel, having secured a second term as Speaker of the House on Thursday. But the Ohio Republican isn’t without his problems or...
View ArticleRepublicans lie about the deficit and get away with it
Republicans have been masterful in going on virtually any media outlet to lie about actually caring about the deficit, but no one is calling them out on it. There is a constant refrain from...
View ArticleThe political jokes that wrote themselves
For everything there is a time. And even in politics, the time to laugh at the sometimes-depressing ways of the Beltway came Friday on The Cycle with a visit from comedian Judy Gold. Not that the jokes...
View ArticleInside the brain of John Boehner
MSNBC host Alex Wagner and her panel on Friday delved deep inside the “psyche” of John Boehner. The panel explored what the newly re-elected speaker might be thinking following his grueling week of...
View ArticleHere we go again: GOPers threaten to shutdown government
Shut ‘er down. That’s what some Republicans are threatening to do to the government if they don’t get the spending cuts they want. Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn wrote in a Houston Chronicle op-ed...
View ArticleBachmann introduces first bill in 113th Congress…to repeal Obamacare
The 113th Congress is officially up and running, and many people are hoping it’s out with the old and on with the new. Unfortunately, things kicked off with a dose of old news. As it turns out, the...
View ArticleJoe Biden deserves his own reality show
A new White House petition asks Obama’s admistration to approve filming a C-SPAN show featuring Vice President Joe Biden. The show creator writes, “Vice President Joe Biden has a demonstrated ability...
View ArticleThe fiscal cliff deal: A tax hike for the real middle class
What was perhaps most revealing about the final deal reached by President Obama and congressional Republicans to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff”–or “fiscal curb,” as we’ve been calling it at Up w/...
View ArticleOnce homeless, Kyrsten Sinema now a congresswoman
After Saturday’s Melissa Harris-Perry, the host took a few minutes to continue the conversation with guest Kyrsten Sinema, the newly sworn-in Democratic congresswoman from Arizona. See the video above...
View ArticleWill Biden target violent video games? (And should he?)
Will the December massacre of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., be a tipping point in the long-running crusade against video game violence? Vice President Joe Biden met with video game industry...
View ArticleFirst Word: One month anniversary of Newtown shooting
Vice President Biden is meeting with House members today to talk about stopping gun violence, on the one month anniversary of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Biden will...
View ArticleGOP rep: A shutdown is ‘on the table’
Appearing on Jansing & Co. Monday, Rep. Marsha Blackburn said she’s willing to go into default or shut down the government over the debt ceiling if Republicans don’t get the cuts they think are...
View ArticleVillaraigosa: GOP has ‘poisoned the well’ on immigration reform
Comprehensive immigration reform needs to be done comprehensively, says Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. “The time is now,” Villaraigosa said on Jansing & Co. “We can’t wait another...
View ArticleNew, from the NRA! A shooting-game app
While criticizing video games and Hollywood movies as causes of gun violence, the National Rifle Association has released an iPhone app called “NRA: Practice Range.” The gun lobby offers the 3D app as...
View Article‘My son.’‘My daughter.’‘My dad.’ In a new ad, families ask for gun control
Mayors Against Illegal guns, the gun-control group led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has released a new tv ad calling for tighter gun control measures, the same day Vice President Biden...
View ArticleHuntsman: ‘Our nation works better when we have a viable two-party system’
Former Republican presidential candidate John Huntsman joined Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday to respond to critical comments made by former Secretary of State Colin Powell about the current state of...
View ArticleObama defends diversity of his administration
Under questioning, President Obama defended the diversity of his cabinet at a press conference on Monday, saying critics should wait for him to name his full second-term team before rushing to...
View ArticleObama has ‘some 19 areas’ to use executive orders for gun control
President Obama will have options on gun control—with, or without, the GOP. Rep. Jackie Speier, who met with Vice President Joe Biden earlier in the day Monday, said there were “some 19 areas”...
View ArticleBen Bernanke schools Congress: Raising debt ceiling ‘doesn’t create new...
While Republican lawmakers toy around with holding the debt ceiling hostage, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned on Monday it’s “very, very important” to raise the nation’s borrowing limit....
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