Elizabeth Colbert Busch Shows What A Democrat Has To Do to Win in the South
Elizabeth Colbert Busch had to try to appeal to Democrats, Republicans and Independents in her Monday night debate with Mark Sanford.
Elizabeth Colbert Busch had to try to appeal to Democrats, Republicans and Independents in her Monday night debate with Mark Sanford.
By any conceivable standard, this has been a grueling month. The term War on Terror was given new significance as it became clear that enemy combatants do not exclusively hatch their plots over there.
A new Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind survey found that the call for Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016 is getting louder, as 63% of Democrats want her to run.
NBA player Jason Collins says he’s gay; the religious right says he is immoral and aberrant and so are we for supporting him
Republicans have assumed the power of life and death over Americans in need of basic sustenance, shelter, and healthcare.
Republicans can’t comprehend that President Obama isn’t about to rush into taking action against Syria without facts and evidence.
At a news conference today, President Obama announced that once again he is going to try to overcome congressional cowardice and close GITMO.
Sen. Richard Woodbury (I-Yarmouth) of Maine will introduce a state resolution Tuesday to support the overturning of Citizens United.
While Boston was on lockdown and under attack, Republicans were trying to invoke Simpson/Bowles again, which would have resulted in firing the government workers who were protecting our country.
A strong Elizabeth Colbert-Busch blew out Mark Sanford’s old tired Republican talking points, and also hit the former governor for his lies and scandals during their debate.
After the Jets waved Tim Tebow, it’s time to ask if his rabid fanbase is actually destroying his NFL career by turning him into an overhyped football version of Sarah Palin.
This evening at the Citadel, the two candidates for the SC District 1 Congressional seat, will debate for an hour and fifteen minutes. Here is what you need to know.
Tennessee Republican State Representative Andy Holt (R-Dresden) doesn’t seem to understand how to get away with creepy things and bad laws in the digital age.
Republicans are so out of touch with reality that many of them actually think that Mark Sanford his huge unfavorable rating is still the favorite against Elizabeth Colbert-Busch.
Instead of accepting reality, our media jumped into the distorted fun house mirror of Ms. Rose’s brain and pronounced that Satan really is afloat in New York City, and his name is Planned Parenthood.
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is claiming today that Congress shouldn’t pass any gun control measures, because they can’t stop terrorists from getting guns.
Five Senators in Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio are feeling the wrath of the public after failing to support a background checks measure, in what PPP called ‘serious backlash’.
Republicans typically oppose women’s equality as a matter of course, their non-stop attacks on Planned Parenthood are based on their allegiance to evangelical Christians.
After Republican Peter King called for Muslims to be religiously profiled, Rep. Keith Ellison shredded King’s claim that Muslims are the source of the terror threat against America.
During the Bush administration’s crusade against suspected terrorists who were tried in civilian court and not as “enemy combatants,” Republicans were silent until Barack Obama became president.
The queen of bitter jealousy had reared her ugly head as Sarah Palin attacked the White House Correspondents Dinner, despite the fact that it is a charity event that raises money for scholarships.
The consequences of Republican deregulation and their weakening of OSHA has been an ongoing threat of death for American workers.
Obama’s best line was when he suggested that if the Republicans were sincere about their new outreach efforts to attract minorities, they might want to do a test run by reaching out to the President.
Conan was Conan at the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight, when he hit, he was great, but when he missed it was rough. Here are Coco’s 8 best jokes.
President Obama brought the funny tonight with jokes about Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Michele Bachmann burning books and most of all himself.
Fox News has opened a new front in the war on America’s poor children that reveals no-one is safe from the GOP unless they are rich.
For ten years, Jon Stewart has been telling CNN what’s wrong with their network, and they have responding doing the very things that caused their downfall. Things like reviving Crossfire.
Some Republicans have conflated the identities of Muslims and Hispanics because they share similar skin color and to make their case that immigration reform is tantamount to inviting terror attacks.
Bill Maher called bullsh*t on the fact that taxpayers are going to help pay to maintain the library that George W. Bush is using as a propaganda tool to rewrite history.
The list of charges conservatives have leveled at the President that they claim are irrefutable impeachable offenses that demonstrate their complaints are a cover for racism and anger over losing.
Speaker of the House John Boehner put a statement that blaming Obama for the fight delays that he caused that might have been funny if it wasn’t so sad and pathetic.
Republicans rushed to fix the sequester airport delays that were about to impact them, but they refuse to reverse the sequester cuts that will push 140,000 low income families into homelessness.
Fox News is claiming that the education system has failed America, without realizing that they are the biggest cause of ignorance in this country,
Apparently if you actually exercise your First Amendment rights to be something other than Christian, you’re dangerous.
The concept of giving kind regards to a convicted war criminal whose only relationship to a library should be a weekly visit to a federal prison library reveals that many Americans have short memories
Rachel Maddow perfectly described the Republican attempt to rewrite the history of the Bush years by comparing it to the poop cruise.
Thursday marks the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, not to mention a think tank. What a waste of money.
Bryan Fischer dishonestly says liberals hate America and Christianity because they want to replace America as it was founded
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) along with Republican Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) introduced a bill today that would help to end homelessness among military veterans by 2015.
FreedomWorks gloated over ’embarrassed House leadership’ after Republicans were forced to pull a bill designed to repeal and replace ObamaCare, because it lacked support.
In his gentle smiling Bubba way, former president Bill Clinton began his speech at the Bush Library by mentioning that this library was the latest attempt by a former president to rewrite history.
In what could be a major blow to the Citizens United decision, it appears it well may be the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that deals a body blow to secretive campaign donations
While Republicans in some states remain dedicated to the war on voting, many more states are working to make voting more accessible.
A new CNN poll shows just how far away from sanity the Republican Party has drifted. According the poll, 80% of Republicans think George W. Bush’s presidency was a success.
The ugly racism of Donald Trump reared its head again, as the bigoted billionaire went on the attack against Jon Stewart for being Jewish.
The Republican Party is so afraid of Hillary Clinton that Fox News and Rep. Darrell Issa teamed up on a bogus Benghazi smear campaign designed to slow the momentum of the potential 2016 candidate.
Reid mocked the Republicans, ‘It seems House Republicans don’t want to be seen discussing even the possibility of compromise with Democrats, for fear that there will be a Tea Party revolt.’
The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today warned that the operation of the USA’s National Airspace System is being put in danger by compulsory furloughing, courtesy of the sequester cuts.
Simpson-Bowles learned their austerity policy is based on flawed data, but they are still using the erroneous information to argue for austerity.
Sixty-six Americans were killed in mass shootings by non-Muslims in 2012 alone, twice as many fatalities as from Muslim-American terrorism in all 11 years since 9/11
A perfect progressive storm could propel a Democrat to victory in Georgia’s open senate seat.
Republicans want bombing suspect treated as enemy combatant but it’s liberals who want increased government control?
The George W. Bush presidential library takes the laziest path imaginable towards the rewriting history of Bush’s disastrous eight years in office.
Mark Sanford’s reeling attempt at a political comeback didn’t need this, but it has come to the attention many that his campaign signs bear a striking resemblance to the Argentine flag.
A poll by EPIC/MRA has found that Rick Snyder will be facing a battle for reelection. Snyder has seen his approval rating plummet, and two unknown Democrats are tied with him in the poll.
Recent events revealed that according to the NRA, there are no Americans who should be restricted from owning guns and no reason for any American to destroy the guns they have.
The state of Texas continues to claim that there were 14 deaths in the recent fertilizer explosion. There are logical reason to suspect more.
The GOP: Sodomizing our shared reality – and you
The Republican Party’s worst nightmares are coming true. According to the latest PPP poll, Republican support for Mark Sanford has completely collapsed and Elizabeth Colbert Busch has leads, 50%-41%.
John Boehner praised the response of federal, state, and local law enforcement in the Boston area, while his House budget slashed funding for the hiring and training of cops.
In their rush to whip up paranoia and hate against Muslims, Fox News accidentally called for the racial profiling of Caucasians
The West, TX fertilizer plant’s owners deliberately concealed information from the Department of Homeland Security that may have prevented the accident as well as a future terror attack.
The Republicans are advocating violating the constitution in their efforts to designate the Boston suspect as an enemy combatant.
At the request of some Medford residents, Teamsters Local 25 will be forming a human shield at the funeral of Krystle Campbell to block a planned protest by the Westboro Baptist Church.
It started right on schedule early Saturday morning. The second guessing and the criticism over the choices made by law enforcement Friday morning regarding the pursuit of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Bill Maher pointed out that the NRA makes it harder to pinpoint and apprehend terrorists by opposing a gun registry and encoding gunpowder.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein shot down the idea that people armed with assault weapons could have kept themselves safe from the Boston bombers.
Republicans took to the Sunday morning shows to attack the FBI, and to lay the groundwork for blaming President Obama for the Boston bombings.
With Republicans inciting more anti-Muslim sentiment, there will be more incidents of racial and religious profiling that Republicans never extended to white Christians guilty of terrorist attacks.
The Benton County (Arkansas) Republican newsletter contained a call for Republican legislators who voted to expand Obamacare in the state to be shot.
Graham and McCain already jumped the gun Saturday, calling the terrorist an enemy combatant and suggesting in that WMD way that he was connected to terrorist cells.
With Republican support, the NRA successfully created an environment that made access to firearms easier for the alleged bombers.
President Obama said, ‘If anyone wants to know who we are; what America is; how we respond to evil and terror – that’s it. Selflessly. Compassionately. And unafraid.’
The capture of Boston bombing suspect Dzhoklar Tsarnaev was and will continue to be tragic theater with an endless stream of unanswered questions.
The Obama White House rebuked the war on terror by confirming that Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev will be read his Miranda rights and tried in civilian court.
There are some who are are already trying to take us down the “war on terror” path, but we are better than that. We can get it right this time.
A self-inspected Fertilizer Company storing Anhydrous Ammonia blew up Wednesday killing and injuring around 200. OSHA last inspected 2007
Follow the crazy: We shouldn’t implement any kind of gun safety legislation even after repeated mass shootings, but immigration reform should be killed because several immigrants allegedly bombed Boston.
Glenn Beck has accused the White House covering up suspects in the Boston terrorist attack, and is calling for President Obama to be impeached.
House Republicans praised Exxon and expect Americans to give them a “pat on the back” for saddling taxpayers with the cost of cleaning up their tar spill.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) claimed he couldn’t support aid for Sandy victims because of the ‘pork’, but now he’s calling for all available resources for Texas.
Our national week of tragedy continues, as MIT is on lockdown after a campus police officer was shot and killed.
If you buy a gun, opponents of background checks say it’s an invasion of privacy. Speaking in the Gallery of the Senate is another matter.
Now that he needs disaster relief after the fertilizer plant explosion in West, TX, Gov. Rick Perry is full of praise for, and thanks to President Obama.
You can follow the gun PAC money, but it doesn’t tell the whole tale. When the NRA says they’re ‘scoring’ a vote, they don’t need to contribute directly to get what they want.
CNN has shown their arrogance by getting the story about a suspect being arrested in the Boston Marathon wrong, adding a dash of racism, and refusing to apologize for their mistakes.
In Boston today, President Obama told the nation that the small stunted individuals who commit acts of terrorism can’t stop us.
Nancy Pelosi blasted Paul Ryan’s cowardly dodge in a letter to Speaker John Boehner, demanding that he appoint conferees for a budget reconciliation conference.
If you keep your eye on Paul Ryan, you’ll note that he’s running as fast as he can from the budget reconciliation process that he demanded.
Support from religious conservatives is in jeopardy as Republicans are accepting the idea the gay community deserves the same right to marry as heterosexual couples.
With more than 780 troops still on state active duty in Massachusetts, the National Guard’s warning about the sequester cuts should serve as an impetus for Republicans.
Today was a shameful day for America because 8% of the population, Ted Nugent and Wayne La Pierre, ALEC, and gun-crazed Republicans thumbed their noses at the great majority of Americans.
This is a dark moment for our country; a moment where the dank, putrid money running our legislators unveiled its morally bankrupt agenda: Profits before Our Children.
Four red state Democrats caved to the NRA on expanded background checks, while Sandy Hook parents watched from the Senate gallery.
CNN, the AP, and Fox News all reported than an arrest was imminent or had been made in the Boston Marathon bombing attack. They all got the story wrong.
More troubles for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District candidate, Mark Sanford. He’ll face a judge after his special election. This presents an opportunity for Elizabeth Colbert-Busch
John Boehner’s conservative caucus is ready to obstruct immigration reform and gun safety legislation because it is contrary to their ideology.
The Republican Party’s soul searching has come to this: They’ve decided to model the party on the success of Republican governors like Jindal and Brownback, as well as former President George W Bush.
Rush Limbaugh is leading the way for Republicans by comparing the Boston Marathon bomber to Bill Ayers, and claiming that environmentalists are the nation’s most violent terrorists.
One of the 16 Republicans who voted with Democrats on the gun control bill was targeted with a deadly ricin letter.