The Congressional “Super Committee” is examining a lot of options in order to find ways to reduce the federal deficit; some good, some bad, but there is one that is absolutely the worse. The plan to raise taxes (mostly by changing rules on various tax deductions) on the oil and gas industry is a disaster in the making. While trumpeted

One day after Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) was thrown into a storm of controversy by her curious appointment to the congressional debt reduction supercommittee, the senior senator from Washington State may have given her critics additional fuel. While visiting a manufacturing firm in Richland, Wash., Murray pushed for passage of a new workforce training law that would require even more

For Washington state’s weary GOP, Thursday night happy hour just got a little happier courtesy of Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). It’s really just a case of one brain cell not knowing what the other is doing. While Murray’s DSCC staff has been cranking out fundraising letters using the Koch Brothers as a convenient enemy-of-the-moment, Murray has been stalking their company

On Wednesday the unelected National Labor Relations Board threatened action against aerospace giant Boeing if the company would not agree to build a new assembly line for the 787 Dreamliner in Washington State, a warning made in direct challenge to the company’s decision last fall to build planes in Charleston, South Carolina. As Angie Vogt wrote today at RedCounty.com: The