At CPAC, conservatives lambasted Obama for all manner of fallacious sleights, but in one panel the underlying reason for all Republican extremism and hate was laid bare; sheer racial animus.
Who knew that CNN was pro-rape? CNN reporters could not contain their sorrow over the fact that the two Steubenville football players who raped a teenage girl have had their lives ruined.
On Face The Nation today, Rep. Paul Ryan reversed years of budgets and claims that the country faces an immediate debt crisis by admitting that there is no debt crisis.
On ABC’s This Week, Speaker John Boehner admitted that there is no immediate debt crisis, but in the next breath argued that the country should gut Medicare and Social Security anyway.
Two Steubenville High School football players were found guilty this morning of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl.
The votes are in, and Sen. Rand Paul has defeated Sen. Marco Rubio in the latest CPAC straw poll to determine which Republican won’t be president.
At CPAC, Sarah Palin stepped straight out of 2008 and offered America the same desperate, cartoonish, Obama hate that has made her a national joke.
No one denies that Portman loves his son, but the senator continued casting anti-gay votes long after his son revealed he was gay.
Rush Limbaugh is claiming that the emotional decisions of women, and shows like HBO’s Girls are ruining television.
Even though, he lost the election a confused Mitt Romney delivered his stump speech to CPAC.
Wayne LaPierre has adopted a new strategy to oppose any changes in gun laws that would prevent mass shootings. LaPierre is now claiming that arming women will prevent rapes.
Paul Ryan took the stage at CPAC, and completely ignored the reality that he and his ideas lost the 2012 election.
A bipartisan group of Senators decided that the oil industry should makes decisions reserved for the Executive Branch and they introduced a bill giving Congress supremacy over the President.
House Republicans proposed they will shut down the government unless they are allowed to restrict women’s access to contraception.
Sen Ted Cruz was mansplaining to Sen. Dianne Feinstein about how he cherry picks which amendments we put no restrictions on Thursday, when Feinstein hoisted him on the protruding petard of his hubris.
Rand Paul mocked wasteful federal spending on meth addicted monkeys, but a meth addicted monkey could have given a more lucid and truthful speech at CPAC.
The reason why Chris Hayes is moving to 8 PM is because MSNBC thinks that they can attract more viewers by not talking about issues that impact the working class.
There is no doubt the Kochs and their corporate arm ALEC are out to end the healthcare system starting with Medicare and Medicaid.
Since buying politicians wasn’t enough, the Koch brothers are busy developing a shiny new propaganda machine complete with Koch think tanks and Koch owned media
Finding out the identity of the 47% videographer was nice, but Scott Prouty’s real contribution is that he has given a voice to America’s working class silent majority.
Between Ryan’s budget and the CPAC lineup, it should be painfully apparent that the new extremist Republicans will not rest until poverty is rampant, children starve, and seniors perish.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) threatened to shut the government down if Obamacare wasn’t defunded, but Democrats called Cruz’s bluff and rejected his amendment to defund Obamacare, 45-52.
President Obama has thrown cold water on the Republican dreams that he was going to go all in on spending cuts by by telling ABC News that, “We don’t have an immediate debt crisis.”
Sarah Palin’s upcoming book complaining about the commercialism of Christmas doesn’t mean she’s back. Palin is just doing a drive-by cash pick up from the easily exploitable.
Paul Ryan admitted that his budget is based on the lie that Obamacare adds to the deficit, and without it being repealed, his budget doesn’t work.
Florida Republican Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll resigned abruptly Tuesday amid a gambling scandal and racketeering probe into Allied Veterans, a firm for which she once did public relations work.
The legislation being proposed by the GOP House is pathetic. Yet, little is heard from Democratic constituents. Activism is the answer.
The great journey to undo the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision took another step today when Sen. Bernie Sanders filed the constitutional amendment that will give power back to the people.
Americans are being held responsible for Republicans’ debt for two unnecessary wars, costly prescription plan, tax cuts for the rich, and gifts to the oil industry.
Costco is proving Republicans and the Wal-Mart wrong by paying workers a living wage while also earning record profits.
Fox News viewers responded to the idea that real men don’t rape with racial epithets and death threats.
Why waste time teaching kids how to read when the NRA will fund mandatory programs to teach kids how to use a gun? That’s just one version of efforts to mandate gun ownership and training.
All you uteri, gather round, the state has a job for you. You are hereby mandated to state control and surveillance as soon as you get pregnant.
Imagine if the press described second amendment protesters ‘violent’ and ‘angry’ today, just because they were armed. Then imagine if the ‘second amendment’ defenders were black and armed.
House Republicans overwhelmingly voted against the fiscal cliff deal, and they got busted today for trying to take credit for it by using the $600 billion in new revenue in Paul Ryan’s budget.
The long-awaited State Department report on the environmental impact of building the KeystoneXL pipeline was released and its results are a direct effect of spending cuts, and a Republican ploy.
The U.S. has an enormous number of military personnel and weaponry in the U.S. territory of Guam. It’s legit, but are other ‘occupations?’
What is curious is the support many on the left have given Rand Paul despite his well-known, and well-publicized, stance on issues that are repulsive to progressives and even right-leaning centrists.
Republicans have finally come out of the closet and admitted that they are blocking civilian trials for Gitmo detainees because they see it as a political advantage.
Unhappy with their losses and inability to impact policy enough, Freedom Works is deploying Tea Party missiles of mass destruction against the Republican Party.
Paul Ryan’s budget is so out of touch with reality that even Fox News had to call out his repeal Obamacare BS.
On ABC’s This Week, Jeb Bush lied about Obama’s record on the debt to cover up his family history of destroying the American economy.
This week, no less than eight former directors of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) signed onto a public letter to two Senators accusing the Obama Administration of abandoning the War on Drugs simply because he has indicated he plans to largely respect the decisions of voters in Colorado and Washington when they legalized marijuana in…
International Women’s Day celebrated the advances women have made – despite the Republican Party’s efforts to drag us back to the days when freedom was reserved for white men.
Bill Maher used the frothing with anger of the right at the very sight of Michelle Obama to tell people who have to politicize everything to get help.
Senate Republicans plan to withhold funding to keep the government running as hostage for a ransom of defunding the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
According to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, When in doubt and your opponent appears threatening, spread those cheeks and smile until it hurts.
Charles and David Koch are spending money to deny poor Americans healthcare for no readily apparent reason except the Kochs are genuinely evil, immoral men
Rush Limbaugh tried to take credit for the success of The Daily Show by claiming that his 1990s television was the forerunner of what Jon Stewart and company are doing today.
Georgia House Republicans passed a bill Thursday giving gun licenses to those who have received inpatient treatment for mental illness or substance abuse.
After John McCain called GOP Rep Amash a ‘wacko bird’, Amash accused McCain of coming up with that while having dinner with the President, as if having doing his job was a bad thing.
It turns out Rand Paul’s filibuster was big scam. Sen. Paul has wasted little time implementing the second part of his planned filibuster. He is now trying to cash in with a fundraising letter.
O’Keefe has to pay a former ACORN employee $100,000 for secretly recording him and making a deceptive video. In light of this, will the media finally apologize for helping to destroy ACORN?
The media has ignored the FEC complaint filed against a Boehner super PAC for taking $2.5 million in illegal donations, but they are trumpeting the baseless claim that Obama is selling access.
The primary purpose of House Bill 933 is to perpetuate the bloat of the defense budget and decimate domestic programs.
President Obama said today while signing the Violence Against Women Act, “I promise you this – not just as your President, but as a son, as a husband, as a father – I’m going to keep at it.”
John McCain’s criticism of Rand Paul’s filibuster has set off a chain reaction of chaos within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
After Megyn Kelly read Holder’s letter answering Rand Paul’s drone question in the simplest terms possible, the Republican senator declared victory for finally realizing what everyone else already knew.
It would be great if Rand Paul was truly against the harming of innocent Americans, but his track record against women and the civil rights movement suggests otherwise.
A new Quinnipiac University poll found that Hillary Clinton would trounce any of the top 3 Republican 2016 contenders, but Joe Biden would lose to Christie, struggle against Ryan, and defeat Rubio.
Texas Republicans were shocked to learn that their 2011 legislative efforts to defund family planning will result in more unplanned pregnancies and cost $273 million.
There is a group of Americans attempting to force a segment of the population to give up their constitutional rights and it is not President Obama, but Republicans and their legislative arm ALEC.
Despite their self-positioning on the political landscape and despite their claims of impartiality and independence, what Libertarians really are is a tool, a shill for the Republican Party.
Ever so desperate for the buzz that comes from humiliating the poor, Republicans want to people on social assistance to swap their constitutional rights for food.
In an interview with CNBC, Speaker of the House Boehner said that President Obama is sick for making post-sequester life hard for Republicans.
Why is it continually viable to discuss making the economy work for business, without any concern for the people who are responsible for the flush state of a company’s bottom line?
Americans can hardly take much more economic abuse from Republicans and Wall Street CEOs, panting to cut spending under the guise of debt or deficit reduction just to enrich wealthy industrialists.
Jon Stewart used the behavior of Republicans in 2012 to explain why the Voting Rights Act should be expanded, and slammed Justice Scalia for his judicial activism.
The increased oil production is not all good news for Americans though, because the glut of oil is keeping gas prices curiously high.
An FEC complaint was filed today against the John Boehner connected super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund for taking $2.5 million in illegal campaign contributions.
Paul Krugman got a taste of what President Obama deals with every single day during his debate with Joe Scarborough on Charlie Rose.
The NFL hates ’em, the GOP loves ’em: bad character guys. Who needs Nazis and the KKK? We already have the Republican Party.
Thirty years ago Ronald Reagan set in motion a movement that hastened America’s deterioration that another Republican president, George W. Bush, accelerated twelve years ago.
Koch brothers’ front group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), sent congratulations to Republicans and their supporters around the country for helping push the sequester cuts.
One woman’s tragic story provides a glimpse into the plethora of problems the U.S. faces with a lack of affordable housing and homelessness
After years of manipulation and buying off elected officials, a large percentage of radical right-wingers are planning a civil war.
While her husband is blaming ‘you people’ for his loss, Ann Romney is blaming the media for Mitt Romney’s defeat.
Bob Woodward has again changed his story on the ‘threatening’ White House email. On Face The Nation, Woodward says the email was never threatening.
On Fox News Sunday today, Mitt Romney blamed minorities for costing him the election, and poor people who like free things for his defeat.
On Meet the Press today, Speaker Boehner said, ‘I don’t know whether it’s going to hurt the econonmy or not. I don’t think anyone quite understands how the sequester is really going to work.’
A group of Americans are being scammed by immoral operatives, and as is usually the case, the scammers are motivated by sheer greed for power and control of America and its wealth.
There’s a national email movement to demand the defunding of ACA. It’s spearheaded by Heritage Action for America (HAA), an offshoot of the Heritage Foundation.
Victim shaming takes on a new dimension at UNC where a victim of rape is threatened with expulsion for seeking justice.
Bill Maher brought up a great point about GMO labeling. Even China requires GMO labeling, but the United States does not.
President of the Calfiornia Republican Assembly, Celeste Greig, said pregnancies by rape are rare ‘because it’s an act of violence, because the body is traumatized.’
Republicans are congratulating themselves for allowing the dreaded sequester to take effect knowing full well that in the first year of a ten year plan, about a million Americans will lose their jobs.
The President is right to tell Americans the devastating truth; Republicans are deliberately punishing people and reversing economic recovery.
President Obama and the White House are tapping into the power of The Force, and using everything this side of Jedi mind tricks to get Republicans to do the right thing on the sequester.
Ann Romney compared the end of the 2012 Presidential campaign to serving in their church, ‘And now all of a sudden, you’re released and you’re nobody. And we’re used to that.’
The President called the naughty Republican children to the big house today for a final attempt at reason on the sequester, probably to no avail.
Bob Woodward outed himself as a right wing shill by going on Sean Hannity’s show and praising Hannity for “digging into things.” Those things are wild Obama conspiracy theories.
Pat Robertson thinks there are demons in your underpantsr, so be sure to rebuke them before heading out of the house
