Greg Abbott’s Cover Up of Texas Enterprise Fund Fraud Cost Taxpayers $222 Million
Greg Abbott’s shady relationship with the Texas Enterprise fund is catching up with him.
Greg Abbott’s shady relationship with the Texas Enterprise fund is catching up with him.
During a debate with her Democratic opponent, Bruce Braley, Joni Ernst told the audience she is an independent leader, then recited Tea Party talking points on everything from “personhood” amendments to privatization of Social Security.
Mitt Romney continues to plot his 2016 comeback by taking another step towards opening the door to what could be a disastrous campaign against Hillary Clinton.
On Tuesday, not one but two shootings occurred at high schools in this nation. These two shootings represent the 85th and 86th school shootings since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT in late 2012.
Let us pray that this intruder can be stopped soon.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unloaded on Speaker of the House John Boehner for his suggestion that America should be troops on the ground in the Middle East.
Mitt Romney displays self pity, delusion, bizarre mood swings, and ye another excuse for his own mistakes. To start, Mitt fears being a “loser for life.”
While the mainstream media is obsessed with the contest for control of the Senate, Democrats are poised to wipe out the Republican governor class of 2010. Rick Snyder, Sam Brownback, Rick Scott, Tom Corbett, Scott Walker and others are facing a growing Democratic wave.
In the House Oversight Committee hearing which started Tuesday on the problems in the Secret Service, the Secret Service blamed the sequestration budget cuts for cuts in staffing.
During Monday night’s episode of The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly lashed out at comedian Stephen Colbert for lampooning his idiotic plan to create a 25,000 private mercenary army to take on the world’s problems, specifically radical Islamist terrorists.
The Supreme Court’s anti-democracy wing; Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy issued an announcement that their decision was not on the merits of the case because they had not yet heard any oral arguments defending voting restrictions. They just believed so strongly that since Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted invested such an incredible amount of time and energy to disenfranchise minority and working-class voters, and labeled his “appeal” an emergency.
For Williamson, facts are a “metaphysical dodge” and zygotes are people simply because he says so
The Koch brothers controlled branch of the Supreme Court of the United States, granted Jon Husted’s wish to uphold the Republicans restrictions on early voting in Ohio. From a legal perspective, there is room to suggest that since Husted “only” rolled back early voting by a week, it isn’t a big deal. In fact, there…
There are serious problems at the Secret Service as a new report reveals that the intruder who breached security made it hundreds of feet into the White House.
Mitch McConnell has gone full blown chicken. He is so afraid of debating Alison Lundergan Grimes that he is refusing to acknowledge offers to debate the Democrat.
On Monday, the AP ran a story detailing the efforts Ferguson government officials have taken to discourage media outlets from obtaining files from the city that are supposed to be legally available under public record laws. This is a similar tactic to one tried by Sarah Palin in 2008.
Rep Steve Southerland criticized his female opponent, Democrat Gwen Graham, tweeting about her, “math is hard”. This comes after his men-only invite to 12th century style fundraiser and demanding that Ms. Graham answer if she had been to a lingerie party.
The Republican clown car is gassed up and ready to crash and burn in 2016 as Ted Cruz will be running for president.
Crucial to their success is Republicans’ heavy dependence on one of the Koch brothers’ legislative arms, the American Legislative Exchange Council, to create template legislation for Republicans to block access to voting in what can only be termed as a direct assault on America’s rapidly waning democracy.
Think the gridlock is bad in Washington now? If Republicans take over the Senate, it’s only going to get worse. It’s all starting in the House, which is set to go even further to the “right”.
Kevin Williamson’s article, titled ‘Five Reasons Why You’re Too Dumb To Vote,’ claimed that the first reason someone would be too dumb to vote is if they got their voting advice from Lena Dunham.
Bad news for certain types who have been suggesting that there are “real” rapes and the obligatory non-real rapes, you know, the kind where the girl/woman asks for it because she was asleep or unconscious or drunk. Not anymore. At least not in California.
According to the Religious Right, Islam is the enemy, and ISIL, or ISIS as it is often called, is a manifestation of all the hate and intolerance inherent in the world’s second largest religion. When President Obama says that ISIL is not Islam, the Religious Right quakes in outrage. Islam is the enemy! Sarah Palin…
Republicans are big on dog whistle politics, particularly going into a midterm election where they have no apparent agenda to run on, and as is usually the case with Republicans, they are appealing to a dependable voting bloc that are rabid over socially conservative (read religious) issues.
During the most recent broadcast of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace spoke to neurosurgeon Ben Carson about Carson’s possible Presidential run in 2016. Wallace had to break it to Carson that he really doesn’t have any shot at winning in 2016.
As we head into precarious midterm elections, President Obama needs to stop trying to explain why he feels it’s necessary to strike ISIL and instead he needs to call out Republicans more.
Fearing the power of baby Charlotte, David Frum led the charge in mocking the birth of Chelsea Clinton’s baby.
PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona was able to speak with an activist in Ferguson this weekend. The activist, Kayla Reed, lives in the Ferguson area and has participated in the protests that have occurred since the death of Michael Brown on August 9th.
The appearance by Dep. National Sec. Advisor Tony Blinken on Fox News Sunday was an example of the Obama White House directly confronting right-wing propaganda at the source.
John Boehner’s desperation was showing on ABC’s This Week as he repeated the Republican big lie in order to blame President Obama for the fact that House Republicans refuse to do their jobs.
Shots were fired into and at the White House while Sasha was in residence, and the Secret Service supervisor ordered agents to stand down, and claimed there were no gun shots.
President Obama went off script while speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Awards Dinner Saturday evening and deployed a truth bomb on selfish Republicans.
These speakers want to fundamentally alter our way of life. In the ideal fake-Christian world, our freedom of religion would be an actual negation of freedom
How do you say winning? If you’re a conservative, you pick the driver of a very unpopular even, the government shutdown, as your next presidential pick because you enjoy losing badly.
On Thursday evening, September 25, democracy was permitted to return to Detroit when City Council members voted unanimously to restore full power to the city’s elected leaders.
Tea Party Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado is spending his seven week paid vacation “behind the scenes” urging military generals to resign in protest of President Obama’s policies.
At a recent Charlie Crist fundraiser in Tallahassee, Republican trackers took photos of car license plates driven by Democrats in a silly attempt to intimidate attendees. Here’s what those plates may have said:
Despite constant and disgraceful attacks from Conservatives, Attorney General Eric Holder left a powerful legacy as a champion for those without a voice.
Jindal is not only “acting” stupid about the reality of evolution and climate change, he is also feigning ignorance of America’s ascension as the biggest coal, oil, and natural gas producers and exporters in the world.
Baby Charlotte is here! Chelsea Clinton announced early Saturday morning that she and her husband Marc were celebrating the birth of their baby.
Dixie D’Souza writes, “I know Dinesh better than anyone and can attest to his flawed character and lack of truthfulness.”
Eric Bolling has been forced to apologize again, after his first apology for being a ridiculous rage-o-phile with decades stale jokes didn’t go over well.
During the past week, hundreds of students in Colorado were protesting conservative efforts to infuse their ideology and religion in textbooks for an advanced high school history class.
While speaking at the Values Voters Summit, Sarah Palin hit a new low by getting the address of the White House wrong.
Former one-term Republican Congressman and current Fox News conservative pundit Allen West demanded that the military not follow orders from its commander-in-chief.
Koch brothers front Americans For Prosperity is reaching into their bag of dirty tricks by sending hundreds of North Carolina voters and one cat incorrect voter registration information.
Sarah Palin gave her usual pep talk — including the requisite Palinism of “invicted” — to the “a couple hundred” attendees at a pancake breakfast with Senator Pat Roberts in Kansas.
It is beyond dispute that Republicans take advantage of their supporters’ stupidity, and Brownback must believe Kansas voters are the stupidest people in the nation
A tense standoff between protesters and local law enforcement occurred late Thursday evening in Ferguson after the town’s police chief Tom Jackson showed up at the scene and spoke to the crowd.
President Obama has nominated anyone to be the new Attorney General yet, but Ted Cruz is already signaling that he will lead the fight to obstruct the new nominee.
We are supposed to believe that “Republicans are working to create jobs for Americans. Democrats are working to save their own.”
The right-wing negativity critical of those individuals receiving food stamps and other welfare benefits irritates me. The recipients are always characterized by the political extremists as “lazy.”
ISIS is so bad, there is a Fatwa issued against them by their own religion.
During Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News’ Outnumbered, co-host (and longtime sufferer of Obama Derangement Syndrome) Andrea Tantaros spouted off that resigning Attorney General Eric Holder ran the Department of Justice “much like the Black Panthers would.”
Senate Republicans are already complaining, but the truth is that they are completely powerless to stop President Obama from appointing and Democrats from confirming Eric Holder’s replacement as attorney general.
Republicans have turned their outrage over Obama’s “latte salute” into a crass fundraising ploy that is disrespectful to all Marines who have served, fought, and bled for their country.
It may seem hard to believe but minus the first week where he had an interview with President Obama, Chuck Todd’s ratings on Meet The Press are worse than David Gregory’s.
Although advocates of marriage equality were victorious in two Supreme Court cases, the court avoided giving a direct answer to the central question of marriage equality.
According to new research on America’s world-leading economic inequality, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported that in 2014, the exceptionally rich United States has the distinction of the highest proportion of low-paying jobs among every developed nation in the world. The report is just in time for Republicans on the campaign trail to boast to their supporters that America is number one in having over a quarter of its workforce laboring for poverty wages.
Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning, but he is leaving behind a great record of fighting for justice for all Americans. Here is a look at some of Holder’s accomplishments as Attorney General.
Republicans are getting worried about their 2014 chances because Democrats have taken their fundraising advantage and spent it on registering hundreds of thousands of new voters including 60,000 new voters in 48 competitive House districts.
A white highway patrolman was charged with aggravated assault and battery after an unprovoked shooting of a black driver. The shooting was captured on the trooper’s dash cam.
Illinois Republicans are stooping particularly low with their support for a candidate who admitted she was registered to vote in two states and voted in both states during the 2008 and 2012 election cycles.
Losing at the polls in Kansas to independent candidate and X-Factor Chad Orman, incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is pulling out all stops. That means campaigning with 91-year-old former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole at Dodge City event in what Philip Rucker of the Washington Post styled a “geriatric rescue mission” – and if that…
The Bureau of Land Management finally took action against another group of anti-government activists who blatantly trespassed on federal land because like Bundy, they do not believe the federal government has a right to own land or that federal law applies to them.
Barbara Comstock (R-VA) fleeing a debate with Fairfax County supervisor Democrat John Foust after she compared immigrants to FedEx packages.
Republicans and conservatives are freaking over what they dubbed Obama’s “latte salute,” but truth is that there is no requirement that the president salutes, and thirty-eight presidents before Obama never saluted the troops.
On Tuesday, Republican candidate for Massachusetts Governor, Charlie Baker, called a Boston-area female reporter ‘sweetheart’ and patted her on her shoulder after she asked him a question.
With Republicans losing both the governor and Senate races in Kansas, the GOP is deploying the dream duo of Rick Perry and Sarah Palin to the state to help their sinking candidates.
There is something ugly happening in Georgia as Republicans are trying to stop Democrats from registering hundreds of thousands of new voters by launching a voter fraud investigation.
Even when they don’t show up for work, House Republicans are consumed by chaos and dysfunction. It is being reported that several groups of conservative House Republicans are plotting to overthrow Speaker John Boehner.
The Obama Doctrine at the UN: “America stands for something different. We believe that right makes might – that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones; that people should be able to choose their own future.”
Protests resumed in Ferguson Tuesday night that led to the arrests of seven people. One local store was damaged when a rock was thrown through a window. However, there was no looting of the store, despite local media outlets using that word in their headlines.
Larry Pratt, president of Gun Owners of America, appeared on Gordon Klingenschmitt’s “Pray in Jesus’ Name” yesterday and called liberals not only “insane zealots” but unmoored from our shared reality.
Midterms tend to be viewed, both individually and in the eyes of media pundits, as a referendum on the sitting President. But other writers and thinkers offer a deeper psychological assessment of these elections
It’s our home. Mother Earth. All we have. Treat it with respect.
On Monday, a U.S. District Court heard closing arguments in the case that challenges the most militant and vicious vote suppression law in America.
It is unfair and hypocritical for a person who has a job but refuses work to attribute laziness to a person who wants to work but cannot find employment, but that has been a defining characteristic of Republicans in Congress over the past four years.
Former Speaker of the House and current conservative pundit Newt Gingrich took to Twitter Tuesday morning to whine about President Obama’s statement about the airstrikes against ISIS that took place in Syria Monday night and early Tuesday.
After a lackluster debate performance, Greg Abbott is launching negative TV ads against Wendy Davis, but experts in Texas suggest that Republican’s negative shift might be a sign that the governor’s race is tightening.
Congress will only work eight days in the next three months, and are on pace to pass the fewest bills in sixty years, but for every hour that they are in DC, each member of Congress earns at least $608/hour.
A memorial dedicated to slain teenager Michael Brown was destroyed by a fire Tuesday morning. The memorial, made mostly of teddy bears and homemade signs, had been kept on the side of the street feet from where Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9th.
Speaker John Boehner feels entitled to not only be a complete failure as a legislator,but work fewer days while failing. For this he expects to be paid the same salary. But the unemployed are lazy and enjoy starving, in his opinion. What else can he possibly say, though, given the fact that he has to justify policies that require the death of compassion and the murder of empathy.
On Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, host Jon Stewart devoted the first segment of his program to the subject of climate change.
The fact that Greg Abbott refuses to denounce his surrogate’s position and lack of concern about victims of incest and rape speaks volumes.
Would-be martyr Ted Cruz will join pretend moderate Rand Paul and Bobby “Rooting for Obama to fail isn’t treason” Jindal in vying for the hate vote in 2014
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie likes to pretend that he’s a moderate, bipartisan straight-talker, but when it comes down to it, he’s a just as beholden to the Tea Party/Koch Brother agenda as any Republican.
Rick Scott’s lies are becoming more and more outrageous. Now his nose is sprouting azaleas.
The anti-science crowd loves science that gave them automobiles, medicine, electricity, sanitation, and ability to communicate easily with any location on Earth, and they depend on medical science to eliminate threats to their lives. It is curious, then, that when the preponderance of scientists from around the world warn them of an existential threat to their health, well-being, and their nation’s survival, the extremists claim it is “an attack on their way of life.”
In an interview Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted that the Republican plan is to win the Senate then begin work on taking health care away from the estimated 10.3 million people who have gotten coverage thanks to the ACA.
John Boehner left work early to go on a seven-week paid vacation, but the Speaker felt compelled to call the unemployed lazy while Congress is set to pass the fewest pieces of legislation in sixty years.
On Monday, the Washington Post published an article from their resident fact checker Glenn Kessler that highlighted an awful campaign ad from Georgia Republican David Perdue. Kessler ‘awarded’ the ad Four Pinocchios, meaning it is a complete and total lie.
Speaker of the House John Boehner had to find a new lawyer to represent him in his lawsuit against President Obama after his attorney quit because he was worried that the suit could harm his credibility.
Never ending GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted today that Senator Mitch McConnell might be the next Speaker.
Alison Lundergan Grimes (D-KY) is hitting Mitch McConnell (R-KY) hard with a new ad charging that when it comes to the basics like troop funding, the VA and the farm bill, Mitch McConnell has been MIA.
During an appearance at the Texas Tribune Festival on Sunday, Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry tried to use Joan Rivers’ death to defend HB2, the restrictive anti-abortion bill that was passed by the Texas legislature earlier this year, but later struck down by a federal judge.
A new internal poll from the Pryor campaign shows the Arkansas Democratic senator leading his Republican challenger Tom Cotton by three points, 46%-43%.
“Let no one consider themselves to be the ‘armour’ of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!”
A group of Catholic bishops in America found an easy means to exert control over Christian conservatives and manipulate them to re-establish Vatican control over theocratic and political matters to bring women into subjection to Catholic dogma.
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) criticized Congress for leaving Washington on a lengthy recess without having a debate or vote on a new authorization for use of military force (AUMF) to be used in regards to the conflict with ISIS in Syria and Iraq.