Much has been written in the mainstream media over the last several years about the civil war in the Republican Party and it is not without merit. The Tea Party/conservative/libertarian wing has been at odds with the establishment, ruling class Republicans for quite some time.

  However in the aftermath of the midterm drubbing there seems to be a civil war brewing in the Democratic Party as well.

  Here is a taste:

Criticism of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law by a top Senate Democrat this week laid bare post-election tensions that could pose challenges for the party in upcoming fights with Republicans over taxes, energy and immigration.

In a high-profile speech on Tuesday dissecting Democrats’ losses in this month’s midterm elections, Charles Schumer, the No. 3 Senate Democrat, listed “a cascade of issues” botched by the White House, starting with Obama’s push for healthcare reforms soon after he…

  The investigation into the IRS targeting scandal may be about to heat up big time: Last week the IRS announced it miraculously found 30,000 of Lois Lerner’s supposedly lost emails (conveniently enough after the election) and today the IRS asked for an extension of the deadline to turn over certain documents which might have been shared with the White House.

  You may be wondering why I consider it good news that the IRS has requested this extension, after all are they not stonewalling once again? Maybe not for you see the IRS Treasury Inspector General has found so many documents–2,500 to be exact–which “potentially” could have been shared with the White House that they cannot meet the deadline. The admission that these documents were found leads me to believe this is not another attempt at stonewalling the investigation, however it could provide them with the time needed to…

President Barack Obama’s plan to bring illegal immigrants “out of the shadows” will make millions of them eligible for Social Security and Medicare benefits and likely allow them to eventually collect more than they have legally contributed, reports say.

That part of the plan has some Republicans stunned.

“First with Obamacare we were told we should pass it and then read it to find out what was in it,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski told The Washington Post.

“Now Obama overreached and acted unilaterally on immigration, which should have been vetted and authorized by Congress, and we’re finding out there’s more to the story than Obama and the Democrats originally told Americans.”

According to a federal law signed in 1996, people who have FICA payroll taxes collected under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act can collect Social Security and Medicare when they become eligible, if they are deemed “lawfully present…

The average price of the most popular ObamaCare health insurance plans rose 10 percent for 2015, according to a new study of premium figures published Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services HHS…Not only are premiums increasing, but if consumers do not pick a different plan, they could pay more due to annual changes in how subsidies are calculated.

That’s according to the administration itself — and we know how scrupulously transparent they are about reporting unhelpful news, don’t we?  This double-digit average increase for consumers who’ve signed up for Obamacare’s most popular plans speaks to another problem we addressed over the summer: Namely, as the exchanges’ so-called “benchmark” plans change from year to year, a large number of customers will be forced to decide between absorbing higher costs as previous benchmark plans hike their rates, and uprooting themselves from their existing plan — again, in many cases.  And, as usual, this doesn’t even…