Sane GOPers Tell the Crazy Republicans to Stop Talking to Themselves
Internal criticism is running wild as sane Republicans try to take back control of their party from the crazies who hijacked it after the 2008 election.
Internal criticism is running wild as sane Republicans try to take back control of their party from the crazies who hijacked it after the 2008 election.
For a decade, Ethiopian Jews seeking to immigrate to Israel were forced to take the birth control drug, Depo-Provera, by injection.
Sean Hannity completely loses it, when he gets confronted by a senior reporter at Think Progress on cowardly backing out of his offer to be waterboarded back in 2009.
Joe Scarborough has a message for those who are defending assault weapons, “If you go out and try to defend assault weapons, then you end up looking like a jackass.”
One can say with confidence that when Republicans find an economic policy that fails, they are duty-bound to repeat it regardless the consequences.
While the Senate may indeed find a bi-partisan path to citizenship for undocumenteds, look for any positives to be scuttled by the House.
A deadly tornado battered Adairsville, Georgia today, the district of Republican Congressman Robert Woodall, who opposed aid for Hurricane Sandy victims.
Listening to Wayne LaPierre testify against something as common sense as background checks is causing me to rethink my position. The more he talks, the more I support gun control.
While Wayne LaPierre was testifying against gun control in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee at least three people in Phoenix, AZ were victimized in another multiple shooting.
What Americans are witnessing today is the culmination of four years of ultra-right wing propaganda inciting fear of change and hatred for other Americans; all Americans.
Here are two pieces of news that may seem unrelated, but aren’t. President Obama’s job approval rating has hit a four year high of 60% at the same time as Fox News’ ratings plummet to a 12 year low.
Rachel Maddow called out the “brass” of Texas Republican Senator Cruz for claiming that decorated veterans Senator John Kerry (R-MA) and former Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) don’t support the military
Bitter old white male that he is, even John McCain knows immigration reform is not an option. You can either try and grow more fingers to plug up the cracks in the dike or you can learn how to swim
In 2011, Senate Republicans blocked Elizabeth Warren’s potential recess appointment to be the director of the CFPB. Now, she is now the senior senator from Massachusetts.
President Obama not only offered his own immigration reform plan, but he also planted the seeds for potential Republican self destruction.
Another blow to the Republican myth that America is a conservative nation was delivered when over six times more people watched the Obama/Clinton 60 Minutes interview than watch Fox News.
A Republican Representative laments working on immigration reform because there’s no point in Republicans trying to woo Latinos when they are uneducated and low-skilled.
While proclaiming that Fox News is the only network on the planet that delivers fair and balanced coverage of Obama, Sean Hannity told 10 lies about the president.
The new front in the Republicans class war is just getting underway as governors are proposing new tax schemes that raise taxes on the poor to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
Meet the Frankenfish, the genetically modified salmon that will soon hit your dinner plate.
Martin Bashir took down the tactics of the NRA against gun safety today, starting off with a clip of an ‘NRA mole’ who heckled father of a victim the Newtown tragedy.
Mitch McConnell is running away from doing battle with President Obama and hoping to focus attention on battles he thinks Republicans can win against Senate Democrats.
Terror has gripped House Republicans as they have finally realized that President Obama is already working to defeat them in 2014.
Republicans are intent on returning to policies that, thirty years later, finally bore fruit and nearly destroyed the nation’s economy.
Many in the media are calling the firing of Sarah Palin the end of an era, but what it truly represents is the ultimate failure of Fox News to influence elections and defeat President Obama.
Fox News responded to Obama’s criticism of their punishing of Republicans for bipartisanship with an edited propaganda clip that confirmed the president’s point about their bias.
While discussing immigration reform, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said, ‘We are losing dramatically the Hispanic vote, which we think should be ours, for a variety of reasons.’
The fact that President Obama sat down for a joint interview with Hillary Clinton was a not very subtle endorsement of his first term secretary of state’s potential 2016 presidential run.
The “Liberal Media”, is a tiresome and wholly inaccurate screed that is the centerpiece of right-wing propaganda.
President Obama’s response to a question about how he deals with the violence in Syria should serve as a major schooling to war hawks.
House Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn claimed that guns aren’t part of the root problem of school shootings. Rep. Blackburn tried to argue that guns have nothing to do with school shootings.
Paul Ryan (R-WI) spent an entire clip impugning President Obama’s motives and then wrapped it up by lecturing that we can’t move forward by impugning people’s motives.
President Obama is calling out Fox News and Rush Limbaugh by name for creating a toxic environment that makes bipartisanship impossible.
People actually willing to vocally support reproductive rights have become less and less common owing to the success of stigmatization
The Republican National Committee has decided that if they present detrimental legislation with a smile on the faces, their harmful agenda will be embraced by Americans.
Like every dirty trick Republicans use to steal elections, the American Legislative Exchange Council is behind Electoral College rigging efforts in blue states that overwhelmingly voted for Obama.
Ego met ineptitude as Sarah Palin hilariously thought that she could out fox Fox News, and manage the spin behind her firing.
Republicans have become the Tonya Hardings of politics. Paul Ryan echoed Speaker Boehner’s paranoia that the President will try to ‘divide’ them.
The judge who ruled that Obama’s recess appointments violated the constitution is a Jesse Helms crony who overturned the conviction of Oliver North and sided with Bush on indefinite detentions.
When Republican consultant David Avella tried to push the lie that Obama has not created any jobs, he was completely destroyed by Bill Maher and Howard Dean.
Republicans in Montana approved a House committee bill to end Election Day voter registration, claiming they want to make things more convenient for county election officials.
The fight to save public education and retain local control of those schools against hostile takeover attempts has now attracted nationwide attention.
I bring you sad news from the tundra, patriots. Sarah Palin will no longer be offering her “analysis” on Fox “News”. Yes, they have dropped her.
Oklahoma Pastor James Taylor says if you can refrigerate something (like shellfish) it isn’t an abomination anymore
Bernie Sanders explained that he voted no on filibuster reform, because the agreement would not stop the Republican perversion of democracy.
It can’t escape our collective liberal notice that by any standards this was a very bad week for the Republican Party and its stubbornly quaint platform.
After the president mentioned climate change in his inaugural address, 44 Republicans and 9 Democrats responded by sending a letter to Obama demanding immediate approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
California federal judge ordered Orly Taitz to show cause for why the failed Senate candidate should not be sanctioned for lying to the court.
The problem with the Senate’s new filibuster rules isn’t that they won’t be effective, but that the bipartisan agreement suggests that senators don’t even understand the problem.
The Press wasted time today asking Press Secretary Jay Carney for a reaction to Speaker John Boehner’s absurd attempt to blame the President for the Republican Party’s failures.
Chip Rogers, the disgraced former Georgia Senate Majority Leader and former treasurer of ALEC, is now a highly paid employee of Georgia Public Broadcasting.
Vice President Biden will speak with a group of Google+ users about the White House policy recommendations and answer their questions.
Sen. Ron Johnson was humiliated by Hillary Clinton yesterday, and made a complete idiot out of by John Kerry when he tried to bring up his Benghazi conspiracy today.
According to legislation proposed by New Mexico Republicans, if you get raped or molested, you are the criminal. If you don’t carry the fetus to term, you may face up to three years in prison.
According to most scholars of fascism, it historically attacked parliamentary liberalism, and attracted support primarily from the far right/ extreme right. In America fascism is the Republican Party.
John McCain said that he knew Chris Stevens well, and that on July 7th, Stevens expressed to McCain his ‘deep and grave’ concerns over security in Libya. Why didn’t McCain warn anyone?
One might think that the gospel, and all those deeply held religious values really are only wallet deep.
Conservatives seem completely confused and befuddled by reality, as evidenced by Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber and his recent scree
Speaker Boehner is tired of giving his funders pep talks, and he blames Obama. He says Obama wants to ‘annihilate’ the Republican Party, ‘shove us into the dustbin of history.’
Hillary Clinton’s performance at the Benghazi hearing has been so strong that it has triggered a right wing meltdown and claims by Hannity and Limbaugh that the hearing is staged.
A ‘proud Republican’ member of a Georgia anarchist militia has pled guilty to 30 charges for his part in the activities leading to the 2011 execution style murder of two teenagers.
The Senate reintroduced the Violence Against Women Act but this time they added a provision to give law enforcement the tools they need to test unprocessed rape kits.
Senate Republicans found themselves absolutely dominated by Sec. of State Hillary Clinton at today’s Benghazi hearing. Sec. Clinton didn’t just testify. She owned the room.
Rachel Maddow used the gerrymandering of Virginia to explain why it’s dangerous to leave Republicans in control of anything, especially without sufficient adult supervision.
There is a contingent of gun fanatics driven by racial prejudice and gun lobby fear mongering who desperately long to initiate a revolutionary war over attempts to stop the senseless gun violence.
GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Tuesday that he was cutting Medicaid services for Louisiana’s dying poor, among other services getting the ax.
Republicans are spreading their gerrymandering to the presidency by dreaming up a scheme for Soviet style elections where the loser wins.
After noting that he intends to interrogate Kerry mercilessly, McCain went on to say. ‘We will bring back for the only time waterboarding to get the truth out of him.’
The gun movement radicals are coming out of the woodwork post-Obama Executive Orders. The worst of them has threatened death for gun reform
President Obama and First Lady Michell Obama shared a sweet and loving slow dance to Jennifer Hudson’s version of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” at last night’s inaugural ball.
There’s good news for liberty on this 40th anniversary of Roe V Wade. For the first time ever, a majority of Americans support a woman as having the right to make her own medical decisions.
While the political debate over guns and violence rages on, Lone Star College near Houston became the fourth school shooting in the United States in the past 12 days.
After telling the American people how important the debt ceiling is for nearly two years, House Republicans have decided to now ignore the debt ceiling and hope it goes away.
Congressional Republicans’ latest scheme to force Congress to cut Medicare and Social Security could end up blowing up in their faces and giving Democrats a huge win.
If one analyzes the President’s speech carefully, every aspect he touched on was contrary to conservative ideology, and none more than we the people, together, will face the challenges ahead.
President Barack Obama and a number of other speakers and entertainers brightened up an inauguration that struck just the right tone.
Sen. Bernie Sanders praised President Obama’s second inaugural address as, ‘eloquent in its simplicity and inspiring in its basic theme that we’re all in this together.’
Today, the Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco, read his poem ‘One Today’ at the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Beyonce Sings the National Anthem at the 2013 Inauguration of Barack Obama.
Colin Powell brought reality down on the Republican Party in an appearance on ABC News by saying, ’26 percent favorability rating for the party right now. It ought to be telling them something.’
Obama the man made history with his first inaugural address. Today, Obama made history with the agenda laid out in his second inaugural.
As the nation remembers Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of an America where all men are created equal, it is evident that King’s dream is unattainable so long as Republicans promote inequality.
As our nation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr, conservatives choose NOT to remember him, but to misremember him as a conservative
The NRA is defending people like Richard Schmidt, convicted felon, neo-Nazi and potential terrorist who manage to buy gun weapons despite laws prohibiting convicting felons from owning them.
On the same day it was reported that a New Mexico teenager shot and killed 5 people including 3 children, Republican Sen. John Barrasso said on CNN that gun safety isn’t a ‘major issue.’
Rick Santorum is claiming that Obama is acting like a ‘sore winner.’ Santorum needs to remember that the president is acting like a winner because he won.
The burn and sting that Republicans were feeling today as they watched Obama take the oath of office is a reminder of their crushing defeat and failure.
The biggest threat to America, its people, and government is from domestic right-wing extremist groups that fall under the purview of the Republican Party.
While debunking the sickening Sandy Hook conspiracy theory may seem to dignify beyond what it deserves, it has to be done
What might an alien observer make of the seeming disease causing humans to shun science for superstition?
Today, grocery store shelves are stocked with GM foods. The Monsanto Company is the powerhouse that made that happen.
The Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, North Carolina has been closed after an accidental gun shooting in the Jim Graham Building injured two people.
If you believe easily debunked hysteria offered up by right wing cons and grifters, you are a victim of your own failure to think and hence should not be allowed to own a dangerous weapon.
Rep. Richard Nolan is the first Democratic to go the record describing the thinly veiled threats that he is getting from NRA members.
The current outrage from gun-fanatics that President Obama is sending federal forces to confiscate their precious firearms is a microcosm of the past four years of teabagger claims.
The same people who love Sarah Palin call Obama a dictator. But in 2008, then Gov. Palin stripped the militia of their guns and many powers.
The President’s 23 Executive Orders on gun control are now public. The Republicans are pushing back implying some may be unconstitutional
There is a growing movement to insert religion into the education system using taxpayer dollars.
The theory that Martin Luther King would have agreed with the NRA and other Second Amendment radicals is completely refuted by King’s comments on guns after JFK’s assassination.
The Republican Party is once again plotting a come back. And once again, they’re not addressing the flaws in their policy, but rather the message used to convey the policy to the public.