Stories by Steve Benen

Steve Benen is "blogger in chief" of the popular Washington Monthly online blog, Political Animal. His background includes publishing The Carpetbagger Report, and writing for a variety of publications, including Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect, the Huffington Post, and The Guardian. He has also appeared on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show," Air America Radio's "Sam Seder Show," and XM Radio's "POTUS '08."

Even the Threat of a Gov't Shutdown is Expensive

Posted on: Apr 7, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Paul Ryan's Budget Not About the Budget... It's About 'Repealing the 20th Century'

Posted on: Apr 6, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Government Shutdown? As Budget Talks Collapse, Boehner Moves the Goalposts

Posted on: Apr 5, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

GOP Plan to Destroy Medicare -- How Democrats Must Fight Back

Posted on: Apr 4, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Boehner Eyeing Blue Dogs For Budget Deal, But is Shutdown Inevitable?

Posted on: Mar 30, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Roy Moore to Turn GOP Primaries Into Even Bigger Freak Show

Posted on: Mar 29, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Fox Exec Boasted About Lying To Audience During '08 Campaign

Posted on: Mar 29, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Serial Philanderer Newt Gingrich Once Hated by Christian Right, Now Warning Against "Godlessness"

Posted on: Mar 28, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Michelle Bachmann Running in 2012?

Posted on: Mar 24, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

New Poll Shows Demand for More Ambitious Health Care Reform

Posted on: Mar 23, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Laughable: Glenn Beck Eyeing His Own Cable Channel

Posted on: Mar 23, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Even Scott Brown Opposes GOP Plan to Defund Planned Parenthood

Posted on: Mar 22, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

South Dakota's Odious New Anti-Abortion Law

Posted on: Mar 22, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

GOP, Echoing Big Banks, Terrified By Consumer Advocate Elizabeth Warren

Posted on: Mar 21, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Dept. of Manufactured, Silly Scandals: Outrage About Obama's NCAA Bracket

Posted on: Mar 17, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Absurd: Zero GOPers on Energy Cmte. Acknowledge Climate Change

Posted on: Mar 16, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

GOP Claims to Represent Popular Will, But is Doing the Opposite

Posted on: Mar 15, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Militia's Violent Plot Disrupted in Alaska

Posted on: Mar 12, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

House GOP Budget Includes Cuts to Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

Posted on: Mar 11, 2011, Source: Political Animal

Republicans' Preoccupation with "Procedure" Disappears in Wisconsin

Posted on: Mar 10, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

The GOP's Wildly Unpopular Spending Cuts

Posted on: Mar 9, 2011, Source: Political Animal

McCarthyesque Anti-Muslim Hearings Causing GOP Divisions?

Posted on: Mar 8, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

WI Democrats Holding Strong in Exile, Slam False WSJ Rumors of Imminent Return

Posted on: Mar 7, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Fox Suspends Gingrich and Santorum

Posted on: Mar 2, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

GOP Spending Plan Would Slow Economy

Posted on: Mar 1, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Government Budget Shutdown Likely Averted... For Now

Posted on: Feb 28, 2011, Source: Political Animal

The Consequences of the GOP's Budget Plan

Posted on: Feb 27, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Our Political Landscape Is a Warzone Thanks to Right-Wing Governors

Posted on: Feb 26, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Despicable: Tea Partier Asks "Who's Going to Shoot President Obama?" Gets Laughs

Posted on: Feb 25, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Yet Another Federal Judge Rules Health Care Constitutional, Says Dissenting Predecessors 'Ignore Reality'

Posted on: Feb 23, 2011, Source: Political Animal

Have Republicans Crossed Their Own "Beyond Redemption" Threshold?

Posted on: Feb 22, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Florida Gov. Rick Scott Rejects Job-Creating Rail Money, Gets Bucked by Senators in His Own State

Posted on: Feb 18, 2011, Source: Political Animal

Florida Gov. Absurdly Refuses Rail Funding, Enraging His Fellow Floridians

Posted on: Feb 17, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Maddow on Justice Thomas' Koch Brothers Scandal

Posted on: Feb 15, 2011, Source: Political Animal

Republicans' Stubborn, Wrongheaded Refusal to Denounce Birthers

Posted on: Feb 14, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

The Shocking Cuts Planned by the GOP

Posted on: Feb 13, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Is Florida Governor Rick Scott Some Kind of Super-Villain?

Posted on: Feb 11, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Government Shutdown Over GOP Budget Cuts? It's Not Just Schumer

Posted on: Feb 11, 2011, Source: Political Animal

Conservative State Lawmakers Pushing Passage of More and More Absurd Laws Banning Sharia

Posted on: Feb 10, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

Michele Bachmann Continues to Display her Impressive Confusion About the Constitution

Posted on: Feb 9, 2011, Source: Washington Monthly

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