In separate statements Sens. Bernie Sanders and Al Franken called the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons on the Syrian people inhumane and an atrocity.
Nothing gets in the way of the Republican House avoiding work. Not even voting on military action in Syria.
Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham claimed that isolated military strikes aren’t enough while Peter King accused Obama of giving up too much power.
Obama announced Saturday that he is taking the issue of Syria to Congress. This means that people who stand to profit from the matter will have a vote.
President Obama dropped a double bombshell today. He announced that he has decided on military action in Syria, but he will seek congressional authorization before he acts.
Foreign policy expert Sarah Palin weighed in on Syria and made Americans regret not electing her in 2008, “LET ALLAH SORT IT OUT ‘So we’re bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I’m the idiot?'”
Republicans certainly find revenue to fund billions of dollars for oil subsidies and agricultural corporations but they claim they do not have the money to stop cuts to Meals on Wheels
South Carolina senator Tim Scott declined an invitation to the March on Washington. Knowing his constituency, you can understand why.
When the 113th Congress returns to action, the re-jiggering the Postal Service will be front and center, to the advantage of big business.
It is not hard to know what to think about the U.S. attacking Syria. That’s wrong. And it’s wrong for a number of reasons
Yesterday many residents of Billings Montana stood up and rejected the rape culture that has become all too familiar in our communities.
In a way that was very unlike Bush, Obama stated that he has not made a decision on military action in Syria, but he said that any response would be short, and not involve troops on the ground.
Jim DeMint tried to scare his conservative audience saying that liberals are trying to take control of your entire life with ObamaCare.
Women who are involved in journalism are increasingly the targets of violent sexual threats by anonymous cowards in hopes of frightening them to stop expressing their opinions.
Bill O’Reilly has finally told a lie that was so big and untrue that even he had to apologize for it on Fox News.
Let’s face it: no fact stands a chance when it gets in the way of a fundamentalist Christian and a dollar.
The freedom that Martin Luther King espoused and envisioned remains elusive to Americans who call DC home because we don’t have voting representation in the House and no representation in the Senate.
Rush Limbaugh tried to shame the striking fast workers, but instead humiliated himself by revealing just how out of touch he is with real America.
Republican Arkansas State Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson is still pushing hard to arm teachers in the state’s schools, even after he accidentally shot a teacher during active shooter training.
Obama clearly understood the need to remind Americans of Jefferson’s words at the beginning of his speech, and it is evident that Republicans need to be reminded that “all men are created equal.”
According to the NRA, keeping like machine guns and short-barreled shotguns out of convicted felons hands = focusing on “law-abiding gun owners”.
Sen. Tim Scott’s office claimed that he wasn’t invited to the March on Washington event yesterday, but the truth is that every member of Congress including Scott was invited weeks ago.
In an interview with ABC, Shellie Zimmerman said that she had left her husband George the night before the shooting, and suddenly the murder of Trayvon Martin makes so much more sense.
John Boehner, Eric Cantor, John McCain, and every other Republican who were asked refused to attend the March on Washington event.
Here is a photo gallery of President Obama’s historic speech marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
Most Americans would love a situation where a financial institution paid them handsomely for repaying their debts, but that is precisely what Republicans expect from the American people.
The idea is that if they talk about the act of gay and lesbian sex – the actual nitty gritty of the sex act itself – people will be so turned off they will turn against marriage equality. \
We must not become complacent toward a powerful and dogged section of conservative leaders that seems unable to accept women as full partners in society, government and the home.
President Obama demonstrated the powerful politics of optimism today at the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
President Clinton took down the entire rationale of the Republican Party with one sentence. Clinton said, ‘A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.’
Here are the top five quotes from the commemoration of the March on Washington today.
A new Kaiser Health Tracking Poll released today found that Republicans are on the wrong course again, as 57% of respondents oppose their efforts to defund Obamacare.
Republicans are trying to claim Martin Luther King, Jr was a Republican again, as if this inaccuracy will make up for their racist disenfranchisement efforts.
President Obama is joining President Jimmy Carter, President Bill Clinton, members of the King family, and civil rights leaders for the “Let Freedom Ring” Commemoration to honor Dr. King’s legacy.
Oral-sex fearing Republican Ken Cuccinelli is relying on the national Republican party to rescue him from himself in the Virginia gubernatorial race.
Obama’s Organizing for Action is targeting taking the immigration reform fight to Speaker John Boehner with a new Spanish-language radio ad.
A MT judge gave a rapist little jail time, stating that his teen victim was “as much in control of the situation” as the middle-aged teacher who raped her.
Progressives sometimes criticize the south as backward, but that’s not entirely fair. For example, Louisiana Republicans have developed time travel
Without question, the ALEC inspired “Voter ID” law in NC, and in other red states, target votes by blacks and Hispanics. Make no mistake about it, ALEC has women’s votes in the cross hairs too.
John Boehner boasts about the sequester saving America but he cannot and will not explain how withholding food from seniors and children will preserve this country for even one day.
Younger viewers continue to tune out Fox News as the network’s ratings for the month of August hit their lowest level since 2001.
Bad news for Speaker Boehner and Republican leaders – President Obama won’t be falling for their debt ceiling threat this time around, just like he didn’t fall for it last time around.
The Republican Obamacare meltdown continues as Sarah Palin has aligned herself with a conservative group that’s running radio ads targeting Mitch McConnell on ACA funding.
Rep. Gary Miller (R-CA) told DREAMers that he get’s it, because he is from Arkansas and came ‘here’ when he was a year old.
Republicans keep telling the media that Obama is threatening to shut down the government in order to keep ObamaCare. This tactic isn’t going to work. Republicans will be blamed.
Americans’ confidence is near a fiver year high on growing optimism, so Speaker John Boehner threatened again that Republicans would not be raising the debt ceiling. This time he has new hostages.
I find it an indictment of our mainstream media that Miley Cyrus at the VMAs can attract such outraged responses, but Republican politicians, behaving in a much more outrageous fashion get a free pass
George Zimmerman is not only profiting from the killing of Trayvon Martin, but now he wants the taxpayers to pay for hundreds of thousands of dollars of his legal bills.
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is on the record saying he wants to fix the pre-clearance formula by the end of this year.
On his very first show back on weekdays, Ed Schultz brought the fire back to MSNBC by tearing apart the Republicans’ anti-Obamacare summer tour of lies.
I picture President Sarah Palin, in all her indignant, self-righteous power-hungry glory. Then, I picture the NSA and the vast security apparatus beyond them all under Palin’s control.
We’re commemorating 93 years of women’s suffrage today, so naturally I just had a Republican ask me how things have changed since before women got the vote.
Rand Paul says that the only way the poor can be free is if they are liberated from the servitude that comes with having food.
Trump wants to set the Tea Party on President Obama. “Maybe we have to get the Tea Party to go after these people because this could very well be a mini-IRS!”
We would all be better off if Republicans kept some of their fantasies in public restrooms where they belong
Americans affected by Republican economic policies can attest to the danger Republicans are to the people, and party insiders quietly admit that they are rapidly becoming a danger to themselves.
Maintaining water and sewer is a complicated process. Upon close examination, lots of potential for mischief and incompetence. Check it out
It’s good that Dr. King is not around to see his dream set back 50 years because it is contrary to Republicans and their supporters’ dream who still judge a man by the color of his skin
Conservatives couldn’t even get 30,000 patriots to participate in a 24 hour Facebook protest from their basement.
It’s being reported that current Republican congressional candidate, and potential San Diego Republican mayoral candidate Chris DeMaio has been repeatedly caught self-satisfying in public restrooms.
A prominent female donor to the Republican National Committee in 2012 is claiming that she was the only woman at many RNC meetings, and Republicans often assumed that she was the secretary.
Gen. Colin Powell didn’t pull any punches on Face The Nation today, when he bluntly warned Republicans that their plan to suppress the vote through voter ID laws is going to backfire.
Former Rep. Sen Jim DeMint announced on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday that national health care can’t provide good health care, not just Obamacare, but ALL national healthcare.
On Meet The Press today, Bobby Jindal excused the race based Republican attempt to delegitimize Obama by with a bogus claim that Democrats did the same thing to Bush.
By admitting on CNN’s State of the Union that he helps Texans sign up for Obamacare, Sen. Ted Cruz has sabotaged the GOP effort to defund the ACA with a government shutdown.
A poll released by Public Policy Polling reveals just how formidable a presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is and just how damaged the GOP brand has become in the Buckeye State.
According to Pat Buchanan, “whites are the only group that you can discriminate against legally in America now.”
Republicans don’t give a crap about women, and they don’t believe sexual harassment is any more real than they believe rape is.
It’s been a few days since Current TV became Al Jazeera news, and so far no reports of an intifada or domestic terrorist attack
The Kochs decided that the Tribune papers weren’t financially viable enough to use as Tea Party style propaganda outlets.
The President told the audience that the Republican plans to shut down the government unless the Affordable Care Act is defunded is not an economic plan.
Two members of the “sovereign citizen’s” movement were arrested in Las Vegas Tuesday night following an investigation that revealed they planned to execute cops.
A massive crowd attended the March on Washington today to honor Dr. King’s dream, and to let Republicans know that they are ready to fight for their rights.
Ted Cruz is another unqualified Republican who thinks he can be president by offering terrible advice. On Friday, he went all Palin, and tried to doom the GOP by urging the base not to “blink.”
David Usher of the Center for Marriage Policy fears innocent heterosexual men will become lesbian love slaves if marriage equality becomes the norm.
Nancy Pelosi took the torch for workers rights, urging Congress to act on Martin Luther King’s agenda by making the minimum wage a living wage.
Attorney General Eric Holder sent a wave of terror through vote suppressing Republicans by vowing to fight for the right of all Americans to vote.
Watch live the ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, including a roster of great speakers.
Fox News’ coverage of the events in Duncan and Decatur showcased what it has become: A network determined to appeal to its racist, bigoted base.
There has been a shift among evangelical Christians of late to openly oppose everything Jesus taught and trade in Christ for the NRA.
In Republican newspeak, eligible voter is code for voters who are rich, white, male and Republican.
Conservatives are so mad at ‘pathetic’ John Boehner for ‘caving’ over their latest economic terrorism plot that they are resolving to rename Obamacare ‘Boehnercare’.
Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli appears to be running against embattled Republican governor Bob McDonnell in his new ad.
After Obama outted Republicans as being afraid of Rush Limbaugh, the right wing talker was too dumb to understand that the president was mocking the GOP’s fear of him.
The outrage over the Trayvon Martin slaying was not the unique brutality of the crime, but rather it was the attitude of police and prosecutors towards the killing.
Mayor Bob Filner’s expected resignation and the subsequent special election might just cost the Republican Party a House seat.
My how the mighty have fallen. It turns out that Sarah Palin had to give up a whole lot of money to get her job back at Fox News. The Wasilla Washout had to surrender about $750,000/year.
In an interview on CNN, President Obama said that Republicans have admitted in private that they agree with him, but won’t act because they are afraid of Rush Limbaugh.
Gov. Steve Beshear used the Kentucky Farm Bureau Country Ham Breakfast to make a powerful case for Obamacare to 1,600 diners. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul weren’t expecting the onslaught.
Citing concerns for gun owners faced by “black mobs” Gun Owners of America isn’t even trying to hide its racist approach to gun control
The DOJ announced has announced that it will challenge Texas’ voter ID law because the law violates the Voting Rights Act as well as the 14th and 15th amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
Since 2011,Republican governors have taken their country back with the systematic demolition of the public education system and for Texas residents, the loss of paved roads.
Jindal’s presidential aspirations have to be considered a pipe dream given that he is no longer even politically viable in his own deep red state.
At a town hall in Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) called the Obama administration lawless and warned that the president is getting, “perilously close to impeachment.”
Desperate House leadership ordered a poll that shows that even Republicans are not on board with a government shut down, but conservatives aren’t buying.
After President Obama announced his plan to created an affordability ranking system for colleges, Republicans went completely insane and warned that it would lead to price controls a.k.a. socialism.
U.S. outlets were more critical of Obama and less critical of Bush than were Arab and European outlets, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University.
Colorado Republican State Sen. Vicki Marble put her racism on full display when she claimed at a public hearing that poverty is caused by black people eating too much fried chicken.
In an attempt to deny 30 million people healthcare, House Republicans are willing to cost the taxpayers $18.9 billion by refusing to raise the debt ceiling.
If you want to see what privatized relief would look like, think of Walmart. That’s the face of Republican disaster relief
