Obama Threatens To Drop the Veto Hammer On House Republican Abortion Ban Bill
President Obama, through a White House policy statement, has threatened to veto the House’s bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks if it reaches his desk.
President Obama, through a White House policy statement, has threatened to veto the House’s bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks if it reaches his desk.
In their relentless search to discredit Democrats, the Republicans have come up with a line dancing “scandal.” Will any work ever be done?
The calls for Edward Snowden’s capture and arrest for treason, or his sainthood are little more than distraction from some real damage being leveled on the American people by Republicans.
Just when the Supreme Court was becoming way too predictable, Justice Scalia wrote the 7-2 majority opinion striking down Arizona’s version of a voter suppression law.
The AP have launched a vendetta to bring down President Obama, and they have made their agenda crystal clear through twisting stories to suit their narrative.
Making Rubio the face of immigration reform has backfired and he has become a target of ridicule, all of it due to his having no discernible ability to articulate his politics and beliefs.
The Fundamentalist Christian sense of self-importance paradoxically makes them essential to civilization, which existed long before the Bible
Politicians’ children are not immune from their fathers’ rhetoric, and neither are children of parents parroting demeaning remarks made during the long and perpetual campaigns Americans suffer through.
Sen. Marco Rubio embarrassed himself yet again on national television by putting his ignorance on full display while trying to bash President Obama on Syria.
Dick Cheney helped mislead the country into invading Iraq and has been convicted of war crimes, but he thinks Edward Snowden is a traitor.
Long a target for cuts by liberals, two fiscally conservatives groups have now also joined the call for reduced defense spending.
Sen. Bernie Sanders called out Monsanto for killing his amendment that would have given states the power require GMOs to be labeled on our food.
Not all liberals are progressive, and not all progressives are liberal. And when we discuss politics, we must recognize and respect our differences.
Over the past two weeks, Republicans, with the help of a number of Democrats, quietly took steps to re-deregulate derivative trading by eliminating crucial aspects of the 2010 financial reform bill.
Fifty three senators skipped Friday’s briefing on the secret NSA data mining program, because they wanted to go home early for Father’s Day weekend.
“There is a war on Christianity,” he said, well ahead of the Christmas season. “Not just from liberal elites here at home, but worldwide.”
As conservatives rage about the cost of Obama’s Africa trip, it is important to remember that George and Laura Bush made a combined 7 trips to Africa all on the taxpayers’ dime.
Former President Bill Clinton called out the tea party for discouraging bipartisanship by wanting people to check their brains at the door. Clinton explained why this strategy will fail.
Being found in possession of even a sliver of conscience and an ounce of common sense is proving to be a serious liability for certain Republican leaders.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation that would put strict limits on the domestic surveillance powers of the FBI and NSA.
After Bill Maher reportedly used the R-word in a joke about her son, Sarah Palin went into full exploitation mode and threatening violence against the comedian, and the media ate her fishy story up.
It is seriously amazing that there are 10% of Americans who have confidence in Congress and doubtless they are extremist conservatives who are that hopeful Republicans continue neutering government.
Bachmann says, ‘We will not successfully pass the torch of liberty if we have perpetual amnesty. It won’t happen.’
As 26 House Democrats take the Food Stamp Challenge, prominent millionaire Republican congressmen are poised to pass a bill that would cut $20 billion from the food stamp program.
When Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, the right-wing is saying that many awful things happened. Here’s much ado about nothing.
After getting dumped by Fox News, and promptly falling flat on her face and into oblivion, Sarah Palin went crawling back to Roger Ailes and got her old job back for likely less pay.
The warmongers aren’t going to like this, but the White House’s announcement that Syria has used chemical weapons doesn’t mean a Bush style regime change.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has reintroduced his bill that would require schools to use a universal financial aid award letter, so that students and families will know how much college will truly cost.
17 Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee disgustingly decided to protect rapists by voting not to remove sexual assault cases from the change of command.
Designed to divert attention away from the fact that health care reform is already working, the conservative media apparatus would now have us believe that a doctor shortage is the next danger.
Vile Republican men like Rep. Trent Franks will risk electoral defeat to condemn women to a life of second-class status as birth machines and to keep them banished at home barefoot and pregnant.
Ann Coulter didn’t stop with Hannity but called Marco Rubio the Jack Kervorkian of the Republican Party
The biggest scandal regarding taxpayer funded religious entitlements is the growing practice of campaigning from the pulpit that is forbidden according to IRS rules.
While experts find that rape-related pregnancy occurs with significant frequency, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) claimed, ‘The incidents of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.’
The agendas behind the NSA leak story are starting to revealed as Ron Paul is using Edward Snowden to raise money to help grow his organization.
John Boehner is trying to blame Obama and the Democrats for not supporting the House Republican bill that would raise loan rates for students.
Joe Biden let the truth fly Tuesday night, saying of Al Gore, ‘This man was elected president of the United States of America.’ He’s just one of several high placed Democrats on the warpath.
Announcing new legislation on Wednesday to withhold Congressional pay if the debt ceiling is not raised, Boxer said the House Republicans are losers with a deadbeat agenda.
The end of Big Military, it seems, leaves us with Even Bigger computers sifting Even Bigger data to identify and stop those small groups.
Glenn Beck has convinced himself that worship of Baal and Moloch led to Occupy Wall Street that he wrote a novel to prove it
In just a few months well over a 1,000 people, mostly workers have been killed in garment factories in Bangladesh. Safety violations abound.
An FBI investigation into money laundering, wire fraud, and mail fraud has not stopped Rep. Michele Bachmann from continuing to raise money for a reelection campaign that she isn’t running.
Franken and a panel of bipartisan Senators introduced a bill that would require the Attorney General to declassify significant Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC, aka FISA Court) opinions.
According to Republicans, Satan fills the emptiness yoga creates, allowing Satan into your soul
Sen. Robert Menendez responded to Sen. Ted Cruz’s claim that President Obama is the biggest obstacle to immigration reform by saying that Cruz suffers from Obamaphobia.
KYAnonymous, a hacker who helped to expose the Steubenville cover up of the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl, is possibly facing more prison time than the two convicted rapists.
NOW applauded the Obama administration’s move to stop defending age limits for Plan B, and vowed to defeat the radical right’s attack on women’s rights.
Calling him a fraud and propagandist, Howard Dean promised that Darrell Issa was about to be undressed by the ranking member.
What is stunning is that there are any Americans who so identify their way of life, and freedoms, with the fortunes of wealthy fascists that they become enemies of democracy and are willing to secede.
Rush Limbaugh actually spent time on his show trying to talk his callers out of impeaching President Obama. Could the Frankenstein of Obama hate be turning on its creator?
While discussing equal pay, President Obama called for not only a minimum wage increase, but a living wage for all workers.
A bipartisan majority of the Delaware state legislature has come together to call on Congress to overturn Citizens United. Delaware is the 15th state to reject Citizens United.
In case you were wondering what kind of fair and balanced coverage Fox News will be providing of the George Zimmerman trial, Megyn Kelly hosted former LAPD detective Mark Furman to discuss the case.
Fox News is playing editing clips of Rep. Elijah Cummings, and refusing to tell their viewers that a Republican was behind the IRS targeting of tea party groups.
S&P has issued their latest outlook for America, and they are upgrading America’s credit outlook from negative to stable. So where are the conservatives applauding this?
Darrell Issa is going to forge ahead, even after it was revealed that the IRS manager behind the extra review of Tea Party groups described himself as a conservative Republican.
Over the past month, state-level Republicans have quietly and with little exposure taken steps to privatize school systems, and restrict education to white wealthy children.
Paul Krugman smacked down the Republican lie that Obama hasn’t reached out to them by pointing out that every time the president tries to reach out, he gets his fingers ripped off.
Republicans and Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein are already going on record calling for the prosecution of NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) called out Darrell Issa today, and proved that President Obama was not involved in the IRS scandal by using transcripts that Issa refuses to fully release.
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced today that he will be proposing a youth jobs bill in the Senate that will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs for the nation’s young unemployed.
Fox News via Fox News Sunday is trying to create their own Obama scandals by editing video of the president’s remarks on the NSA/Verizon controversy.
The master of mendacity, Mitt Romney has called for special prosecutor to explore criminal issues and why the IRS reviewed liberal and conservative applications for social welfare designation.
Glenn Beck claimed that America is on its way to becoming a totalitarian state. Worse, he says, America will “dwarf what Germany did,” because of the iRS scandal.
What happens when a liberal tries to discuss the facts of the Obama scandals on Fox News? He gets his mic cut off.
Bill Maher, not only exposed the the legacy of Ronald Reagan for what it really is, he also slaughtered the Republican Party’s most sacred cow.
House Republicans voted to deport undocumented Mexicans who were brought here by their parents, went to school, learned the language, worked and paid taxes, and want nothing more than to be citizens.
This week, the President led an important conference with new initiatives on mental health, but it was overlooked in favor of other news.
The shame of our nation, Rush Limbaugh, hit a new low today by comparing the IRS scandal to the Holocaust.
Not sure whether to call it a social experiment, a marketing gimmick, or just plain scary. Granted it is voluntary – at least so far – but Progressive is wiretapping our cars.
The list of media cover-ups of Republicans’ applying a different standard to President Obama, an African American man, than a white George Bush is endless.
The Verizongate flap officially faded with a whimper today, as President Obama stood before the American people and explained what the program does.
Darrell Issa is whining about how mean President Obama is trying to vilify him (try not to laugh). And Republicans remain in complete denial about the path to destruction that they are on.
Yesterday’s revelations about the NSA’s PRISM program should spark conversations about privacy. And those discussions should move beyond George Orwell’s dystopian
Senator Al Franken used this opportunity wisely to call for greater transparency, within reason and with respect to national security issues.
The Boy Scouts of America leadership has voted to allow gay youngsters to join. Right-wingers are fleeing in droves; “BSA is too liberal.”
Paul’s vision of America has nothing to do with the United States Constitution and democracy and everything to do with the Bible and theocracy
Mitt Romney is still clinging to his skewed polls and claiming that if Hurricane Sandy wouldn’t have hit when it did, and he would have known about the IRS scandal, he would have won the election.
Rand Paul (R-KY) released an outraged statement in response to “news” that the government was collecting phone records. The only problem is that Congress has known about it for seven years.
Republicans are using a desperately ill 10-year-old child as a prop in a political campaign to smear Obamacare.
Speaker John Boehner said that President Obama must explain why the NSA program is important, but that he was sure that the intelligence committees were involved, and congress approved it.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) blamed the members of Congress who continue to support the Patriot Act for the news that the NSA has been collecting millions of telephone records from Verizon.
Lawrence O’Donnell explained that the real scandal in D.C. is that your representatives can loot the people’s money, take it right out of the treasury, in order to enrich themselves.
If Republicans really want criminal convictions, they can look into Willard Romney, John Boehner, Koch oil associate ERM, and conservative groups’ illegal activities.
The bad news keeps coming for Governor Scott Walker (R-WI), who’s thrown the state into what’s looking now like a long term economic contraction.
You wouldn’t think a progressive like myself would be agreeing with this governor, but I think he was on the right track.
‘Closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned’: Those are the words young, ‘winnable’ Obama voters associate with the ‘Republican Party’.
Ed Henry of Fox News tried to use Susan Rice’s appointment to revive the Benghazi conspiracy, but was immediately smacked down White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
President Obama’s appointments of Rice and Powers suggest he’s all done negotiating with Republicans.
While introducing National Security Adviser appointee Susan Rice, President Obama took a jab at Republicans by describing her as a patriot who puts her country first.
Liberals are still pining for Keith Olbermann to return to MSNBC, but on Wednesday it was announced that he’ll be covering Major League Baseball’s postseason at TBS.
The conservative manual for How to Handle a Heckler, Black Democratic First Lady Edition varies a lot from the manual for a Republican First Lady.
Lawmakers are beginning to call out the fact that social welfare groups should not be subsidized by the American taxpayers if they are violating the law with political activity.
President Obama is giving the political version of the one fingered salute to Republicans and their scandals by appointing Susan Rice to be National Security Adviser.
A conservative pundit put out a call for Republican candidates for office whose qualifications to serve are incompetence to keep government from working for the American people.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant’s comments blaming the nation’s education troubles on women joining the workforce are exactly why Republicans must be voted out of office.
Ultraviolet made an ad calling on Fox to fire the clown posse of Lou Dobbs, Erick Erickson, and Juan Williams, which they tried to run on Fox News. Of course, Fox refused to air their commercial.
Not only is Rick Snyder one of the most unpopular governors in the country, but he is trailing his Democratic opponent Mark Schauer, 42%-38%.
Republicans are livid at Gov. Chris Christie for holding a special election instead of appointing a Republican to fill Lautenberg’s Senate seat. GOPers say Christie’s 2016 chances are dead.
Senator Saxby Chambliss tried to school the military on how to avoid sexual assaults, but he only managed to show just how much he does not understand about rape and the military.