During his speech at the DNC, President Obama was interrupted by a heckler who claimed that he is planning a nuclear war with Russia. The president’s reaction was priceless.
President Obama issued a strong warning to Vladimir Putin today that any military intervention in Ukraine will come at a cost.
Through the end of February, Kentucky’s health insurance marketplace, Kynect, has enrolled over 265,000 people in healthcare coverage since open enrollment started in October.
Since there are nearly 340,000 veterans in Kentucky, Alison Lundergan Grimes called out Mitch McConnell for his vote to kill Sanders’ veterans benefits bill.
Rush Limbaugh is so desperate to stop Hillary Clinton from running for president that he is spreading a sleazy rumor about the former Sec. of State’s health.
PPP released a poll on Thursday showing that former Arkansas Governor and current Fox News TV show host Mike Huckabee has jumped to the front of a crowded field of 2016 Republican Presidential candidates.
Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) introduced a bill called “the Simple Fairness Act” today, meant to delay the individual mandate of Obamacare, but really designed to provide the GOP with free campaign material.
Five years ago, a grassroots movement emerged to stall Barack Obama’s progress. Today, that movement has mutated into a destructive force taking down the entire Republican Party.
Republicans accused President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for the GOP’s do nothing plan for 2014, and they sound like career criminals shifting blame for their inaction on the President.
It should raise alarm bells that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is supporting an establishment Republican who freely admits he wants to eliminate the minimum wage.
The war on women is not only costing the Republican Party elections, but their candidates’ sexist remarks are allowing Democrats to raise big money.
You would think, listening to them, that rather than a bill that persecutes gays being vetoed, a bill that persecutes Christians had been signed into law
For Democrats, there’s a lot of work to be done. The first obligation is to ignore the phony gloom and doom coming from the right-wing media.
Through hubris the Christian right has ensured its own demise. Jan Brewer’s veto is the latest sign that their influence is fading rapidly.
On Wednesday night’s The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly did his normal ‘just asking questions’ bit as a way to allow his true sexist, bigoted self to shine on through.
In a shameful display of partisan obstruction, the Mitch McConnell led Senate Republicans a blocked a bill that would have improved veterans benefits.
The Wendy Davis campaign is slamming both Ted Nugent and Greg Abbott with a powerful new ad that features rape survivor Nicole Anderson.
Bill Clinton is leading an effort by the Democratic Party to not only stop Republicans from stealing elections through voter suppression, but to also expand voting access.
In North Carolina, where Democrat Kay Hagan has taken a huge beating over Obamacare, the leading Republican opponent is now getting hammered for his stance on healthcare.
During a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) railed against the flood of anti-Obamacare ads that the billionaire Koch brothers are bankrolling.
In North Carolina, where Democrat Kay Hagan has taken a huge beating over Obamacare, the leading Republican opponent is now getting hammered for his stance on healthcare.
Many Americans fail to realize that true believers, particularly religious true believers, are convinced it is their mandate from god to transform America into a religious state.
It is difficult to see how passing laws that force everybody to obey Christian rules and suffer punishment if they do not, protects religious freedom.
It seems that the NFL was strongly hinting that they would move the inconsequential Pro Bowl to Arizona and then move Super Bowl XLIX to another city if SB 1062 was signed into law.
Jan Brewer vetoed SB 1062, the bill that would have allowed businesses to refuse services to people on religious grounds.
Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted Senate Republicans today for trying to betray the nation’s veterans by attempting to kill the veterans bill with a demand for sanctions against Iran.
Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) busted Republicans on Tuesday for trying to protect the secrecy of the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove.
On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that Texas’ amendment banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
A new Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll dealt a blow to Republicans by finding that support for repealing the ACA has hit an all time of low of 31%.
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was on for a 15-minute interview. Joe Scarborough found himself a new best friend.
Quinnipiac University released a poll on Wednesday that shows nothing but terrible news for Tom Corbett, Pennsylvania’s incumbent Republican Governor.
According to an IRS letter just released, Darrell Issa and the Republicans’ manufactured IRS investigation/campaign ad has cost the taxpayers $14 million dollars and counting.
McConnell said he did not see a path forward for tax reform this year, and it is likely because in Republican parlance “tax reform†entails giving major tax cuts to the richest 2%.
Hillary Clinton is a wide favorite among Democrats. According to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, 82% of Democrats want Clinton to run.
The pressure for Jan Brewer to veto Arizona’s SB 1062, just intensified as even Mitt Romney is calling for her to veto the bill.
The Religious Right wants to harness the tyranny of the majority if they can get it, and ignore the majority if they can’t
President Obama got in a strong jab at Fox News tonight for their constant misleading of people about the ACA.
In part two of a two-part series on attempts to dismantle the Postal Service, I’m here to present some other distasteful facts as they directly relate to USPS.
As Republicans continue to sputter and fight among themselves, the ACA continues to surge ahead as Obamacare enrollment has passed 4 million.
Republicans pushing for discriminatory laws based around ‘religious freedom’ will eventually see those same laws blow up in their faces.
According to the CBO, the latest Republican attempt to kill Obamacare through adding 10 more hours to the work week would cost 1 million workers their employer provided healthcare.
On Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton joined Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes at a campaign event and spoke on her behalf. Rand Paul had to give his two cents and it was awful.
Republicans are threatening to filibuster Sen Bernie Sanders’ bipartisan veterans bill, ostensibly because they want a better way to pay for it.
Former President Bill Clinton stormed into Louisville today, and combined with Democratic challenger Alison Lundargen Grimes to hammer Mitch McConnell.
It appears that Arizona’s Republican Governor, Jan Brewer, is going to take as much time as possible to decide on whether she will sign SB1062 into law or veto it.
The presumed front runners of late 2013 (Democrats: Hillary Clinton, Republicans: Chris Christie) have experienced a seismic shift on the right side of the political spectrum.
Rep. Cummings letter to Issa could not be more pointed or accusatory, and he denounced the liar Issa for accusing Clinton of committing treason.
Buchanan complains about “the growing intolerance of those who preach tolerance and the corruption of the concept of civil rights”
If I have a cause as a contributing writer to PoliticusUSA, it is to expose the ongoing and relentless attempts to render the Postal Service as a largely irrelevant errand boy for giant for-profit corporate interests.
On Friday, gay rights activist, acting legend and all-around awesome guy George Takei wrote an open letter to the state of Arizona regarding the passage of SB1062.
Kesha Rogers, a LaRouche supporter who equates Obama to Hitler and calls for his impeachment, is leading the Dem Senate primary in TX.
Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal tried to utilize media coverage of the nation’s governors meeting with the President on Monday to his advantage. It didn’t go well.
According to the latest Monmouth University Poll, Chris Christie’s approval rating has hit a new low, and some on the right are blaming Rachel Maddow for his decline.
This week, Bevin decided to release an attack ad against McConnell regarding his vote on the debt ceiling increase that took place earlier this month.
Quinnipiac University released a poll on Monday that shows support for marriage equality in Ohio hitting 50%.
Republicans are methodically defunding the Environmental Protection Agency to either abolish the agency or eliminate its ability to protect Americans from poison in the water they drink and toxins in the air they breathe.
Tea party Republican Senate challenger Milton Wolf offered the worst apology ever for posting pictures of dead people on the Internet.
“I think Rachel Maddow is quite good at what she does. I also think she’s a phony who doesn’t have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air”
President Obama has come up with a novel way to get around Republican obstruction. He is bypassing Congress and reaching out to the nation’s governors.
This abomination masquerading as legislation is precisely what the religious right and career criminals have dreamt of throughout their pathetic lives.
Things have gone from bad to worse for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Documents reveal that Walker illegally directed government employees to go to websites and support his campaign.
David Gregory shamed Meet The Press again today by trying to use the situation in Ukraine to create a fake Obama leadership crisis.
For Speaker of the House John Boehner, it is the prospect of the government attempting to improve the economic situation of underpaid workers that drives him to consider suicide.
Another Republican hope for 2016 crashed and burned today as Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got agitated and defensive while refusing answer questions about incriminating emails on Fox News Sunday.
For years, the Republican Party has tried, and succeeded, in brainwashing their base to believe that Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are Nazis.
Republicans, like the Nazis, want to enforce through legislation obedience to and a belief in a mythical white paradise
No state should have the ability to even present such legislation, and no governor should be given the opportunity to give such offensive legislation any consideration whatsoever.
Superior court Judge issued an injunction against North Carolina’s school voucher law because it is likely that suits challenging this law will succeed on the merits.
After Obama left Americans for “destroyed”, the press is just now waking up, according to Sarah Palin, who is still free after all of these many years of traitor-adjacent behavior to write and speak as she pleases.
There is a saying that a person is known by the company they keep, and the Republicans praising, excusing and defending Ted Nugent should be regarded as Nazi sympathizers.
A new PPP poll finds that voters disapprove of Sam Brownback’s job performance. He trails Democrat Paul Davis in his bid for re-election.
Sponsored by Rep. Rick Jasperse, R-Jasper, House Bill 875 would allow guns to be carried in churches, bars, and even some government buildings
The Koch Brothers SuperPAC, Americans for Prosperity, is currently running an ad in Michigan targeting Democratic Senate candidate Gary Peters, who is up for election in November. It is a lie.
Yesterday, Speaker John Boehner was against entitlement cuts, but after President Obama dropped Chained CPI, he criticized the president for not cutting entitlements.
A Georgia Republican who is in his first week of office has proposed a bill that would give sex offenders access to anywhere children gather, including schools and playgrounds.
One of the most damning exchanges in the Scott Walker emails surrounds the case of a mentally ill woman who starved to death in a county mental health facility. Walker’s aides dismissed the importance of her death by saying, “No one cares about crazy people.”
Mainstream media outlets like CNN and the Washington Post are encouraging racism, and racist attacks on President Obama, by falsely reporting that Ted Nugent’s latest hate speech was an apology to the president.
During an interview with conservative radio host Ben Ferguson on Friday, has-been rocker and right-wing nutjob Ted Nugent gave a non-apology for his comments last month
For a political party trying to be more inclusive, you would think that telling 74% of millennials they’re wrong would not be a step in the right direction.
During an interview with Arizona radio station KFYI on Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called President Obama ‘the most naive president in history’
Another day, another lie debunked. WaPo’s fact checker gave Darrell Issa’s stand down accusations against POTUS and Hillary Clinton Four Pinocchios.
Red State Republican tyranny has been put on full display South Carolina Republicans have cut funding for two colleges that had freshmen read books that had gay themes.
The White House announced that the President will be releasing his budget very soon. One thing that will not be included in that budget is chained CPI.
You have to go all the way back to 1976 – the year Paul McCartney and Wings made it to #1 with “Silly Love Songs” and Elton John and Kiki Dee followed close on their heels with #2’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, to find a below average temperature for January.
Rick Perry tried to explain the Republican Party’s Ted Nugent problem on CNN today by claiming that Bill Maher is just like the racist right wing former rock and roll star.
The Wendy Davis campaign has seized on the Texas Republican Party’s Ted Nugent problem and turned up the heat on her opponent, Greg Abbott and the rest of the Republicans that are silently standing behind Nugent’s remarks.
Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie held his first town hall meeting with the state’s citizens since the whole Bridgegate scandal broke open. Christie also pre-screened the audience so that no questions about Bridgegate were asked.
Quinnipiac University released a new poll on Thursday showing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds double-digit leads on nearly every potential GOP candidate.
Republicans aren’t even trying to hide their racism anymore. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is claiming that Barack Obama was only elected president because white people felt guilty about slavery.
Subpoenaed e-mails released this week, reveal that his staff office in Milwaukee was full of racists. If birds of a feather flock together, the e-mails suggest that Scott Walker is most comfortable when he is surrounded by racists.
By blocking the workforce’s efforts at creating a works council at the Chattanooga plant, Republicans also blocked VW expansion for Tennessee and the entire southern United States.
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) defended Ted Nugent as a passionate fighter for Second Amendment rights
Boykin assures the faithful, “I believe now – I’ve checked this out – I believe that sword he’ll be carrying when he comes back is an AR-15”
Cowardly Ted Nugent just can’t take the heat. After getting called out by Wolf Blitzer for calling President Obama a “subhuman mongrel,” Nugent canceled an interview on CNN 2 hours before it was supposed to air.
On a post on his blog, Real Time host Bill Maher claimed that MSNBC is turning into Fox News because they are as obsessed with Bridgegate as Fox is with Benghazi.
President Obama is warning the Ukrainian government that he is holding them responsible, and if they use violence against the protestors, there will be consequences.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) announced on Wednesday that they raised $6.6 million in the month of January.
An open carry bill that would have allowed citizens to openly carry firearms in public without a permit, was resoundingly rejected in SC.
A new Public Policy Polling survey of Louisiana found that Hillary Clinton would be the strongest Democratic presidential candidate in the state since her husband Bill was on the ballot in the 1990s.
Americans who value their freedoms, religious or otherwise, would do well to avoid the pitfalls of staying silent for fear of offending extremists because that silence has produced precisely what is plaguing this nation.
