I should have added one thing to my reactions to Jamie Dimon’s testimony. First of all, a set of anti-foreclosure activists disrupted the hearing at the beginning, demanding Dimon to “stop foreclosures now!” As that wasn’t the point of the hearing, this went mostly unaddressed on the panel. But then unassuming Sen. Herb Kohl decided [...]

Paul Ryan will not take his Randian vision to the US Senate, staying in his leadership position as Chair of the House Budget Committee rather than run for the seat vacated by Sen. Herb Kohl. Ryan’s association with the deeply unpopular Medicare privatization plan would have been a very difficult hurdle for him in a [...]

Herb Kohl, one of the more enigmatic members of the Senate, will not seek re-election, according to Democratic sources in the state. He has served in the Senate since 1989. Kohl, 76, the wealthy owner of the eponymous discount clothing franchise and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Aging, has made less public comments [...]