When asked about the Voting Rights Act on Face The Nation, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s message to minority voters was that he has no interest in making sure that their votes will count.
During an interview on CNN, Rep. Darrell Issa embarrassed himself by first admitting that Hillary Clinton didn’t break a law for which there was a penalty, but he called for criminal charges against Clinton anyway.
Officer Matt Kenny was also involved in a fatal shooting of a white male in 2007.
On ABC’s This Week, former Sec. of State Colin Powell admitted that he used a private email account for public business. Powell’s explanation of why he used a private email account amounted to a death blow for Republicans who are trying to build a scandal out of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Rep. Adam Schiff dealt a death blow to the Clinton email scandal by going on CNN and revealing that members of the Benghazi committee have already read the Clinton emails, and they contain nothing.
One group that was glaringly absent from Selma on Saturday was any substantial representation of racist Republicans; most notably Republican leaders in Congress.
Jeb Bush can look at an Iraq wracked by civil war and marauding barbarians, and somehow imagine that America power is a force for good.
It turns abouta whole slew of Republicans looking at the White House in 2016 has used private emails for government business
Every U.S. state and the District of Columbia, saw their unemployment rate drop from 2013 to 2014.
There is a misconception among ignorant Americans that this nation was founded on the tenets of the bible and is therefore a Christian nation
President Obama used his speech in Selma to connect the past with the present while calling out Republican attempts to suppress the vote while urging the restoration of the Voting Rights Act.
It is not enough simply to remember Selma. The courageous men and women on the Edmund Pettus Bridge could not be deterred by brutal force. They marched forward with undaunted courage, staring death in the face. Members of Congress who lack the minimal courage required to pass legislation protecting the right to vote, have no business paying tribute to the marchers in Selma. By their inaction, their allegiance lies with the Alabama State Troopers who turned the marchers around.
Bill Maher used his New Rules segment to blow apart the Republican myth that President Obama doesn’t love his country in the right way.
It is difficult to have an intelligent conversation with somebody who wants a holiday which falls in the fall to be called the “mid-spring break”
Friday Fox Follies highlights Bill O’Reilly’s continued issues with the truth, Andrea Tantaros accusing the White House of being anti-Semitic and Fox’s hypocritical Ferguson coverage.
President Obama appeared to crush all Republican hope that Keystone XL will ever be approved while he is president during a town hall in South Carolina.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) quickly smacked down the Saudi government’s demand that the U.S. send ground troops to fight ISIS.
During a committee hearing, Alaska Representative Don Young (R), suggested that wolves could cure the homeless problem in some districts.
In a Friday morning interview, President Obama made it clear that Ferguson, Missouri’s racist police practices are not unique.
The Democratic members of the House’s Benghazi Select Committee have caught Republicans in a lie about Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Democrats are showing who’s really in charge of the House by vowing to protect John Boehner from the tea party coup that is building to overthrow him.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released February’s jobs numbers on Friday showing that the unemployment rate ticked down to 5.5%, the lowest rate the country has seen since May 2008, months before the financial crisis that rocked the American economy and led to huge job losses.
Speaker John A. Boehner boasted that Republicans primary duty was not to make laws, but eliminate them for their wealthy donors’ benefit. Now, the sitting Senate Majority Leader has went a step farther and issued a call to governors to become ‘law breakers’ to benefit the fossil fuel industry that bought control of Congress for Republicans.
The idea that Republicans would ever go along with further regulating the oil industry is laughable, and funding? Forget about it
They seem to think it’s a whale.
Passing up a deadline to appeal to the Supreme Court, Florida Governor Rick Scott ended efforts to require drug testing welfare recipients.
Senate Democrats forced Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to back off of a plan to turn a bill related to Iran into a partisan attack on President Obama.
The Republican crazy train is already derailing over the Hillary Clinton emails. House Select Benghazi Committee member Rep. Peter Roskam is already comparing Clinton to Richard Nixon.
Kris Kobach agreed with a caller that under Obama, eventually “any black person accused of a crime… is not going to be prosecuted.”
Experts and scholars are giving Republicans some very bad news. Voters are unlikely to give a damn about Hillary Clinton’s emails in 2016.
This week a MoveOn.org petition began circulating for the purpose of prosecuting Speaker of the House John A. Boehner for willfully breaking a federal law when he knowingly violated the 216 year-old Logan Act.
What Netanyahu and Republicans fear is peace, which would interrupt their cycle of fear, leaving Iran more reasonable than the GOP
Hours after the Department of Justice released a report Wednesday highlighting systemic racial discrimination committed by the Ferguson Police Department, protesters gathered in front of the police station in Ferguson to call for change and the dismantling of the current department.
Sen. Bernie Sanders applauded the Senate today for sending the message that United States is listening to the scientific community on climate change by sustaining President Obama’s veto of Keystone XL.
During a floor debate, Washington State Republican Senator, Jim Honeyford, stated that “colored” people are more likely to commit crimes.
Senate Democrats have successfully blocked the Republican attempt to override President Obama’s veto of Keystone XL.
A Hart Research Associates Poll released on March 2, finds that by a solid 63-29 majority, American voters want to keep Obamacare intact.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress continues to backfire, as key Democratic senators have withdrawn their support for a Senate bill that would have reviewed any nuclear agreement with Iran.
Potential 2016 GOP Presidential candidate Ben Carson appeared on CNN’s New Day Wednesday morning and told host Chris Cuomo that prisons prove that being gay is a choice.
What makes Netanyahu and Republicans ‘condescending insult’ even more infuriating and egregious is that he is demanding half-a-billion dollars more from American taxpayers for Israel’s military; more on that later.
We are already well on our way to becoming a 13th century-ish, Islamic State-like apparatus of repression
I attended the South Carolina State Democratic Party-sponsored John Spratt Issues Conference in Myrtle Beach late last week. The conference featured a number of prominent Democrats.
Since Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu arrived in the U.S., President Obama’s approval rating has increased by 5 points in the Gallup poll.
Sen. Bernie Sanders stood firmly behind the diplomacy of President Obama while shredding the warmongering speech that Netanyahu delivered to Congress.
David H. Petraeus plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified materials on Tuesday morning.
John Boehner was handed a devastating defeat by being forced by Democrats to give President Obama exactly what he wanted. The House passed a clean bill to fund Homeland Security for the rest of the year.
Immediately after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech before Congress, Republicans and conservatives made sure to deliver overwhelming praise, especially considering the controversy behind the address.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that he would allow for a clean funding bill for Homeland Security on Tuesday.
Speaker of the House John Boehner and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s conspiracy to humiliate President Obama and dominate the news backfired as the U.S. broadcast networks ignored the speech and refused to televise it live.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren became the eighth senator and fifty-sixth Democrat to announce that she will not be attending Netanyahu’s address to Congress.
Conservatives claim Obama is an anti-Semite. This is a stunning claim, particularly because Republicans, tea partiers, and so-called Christians are raging anti-Semites of the highest order.
Apparently, having integrity is a hanging offense according to Andrea Shea King, who fails to explain how bombing Iran will save us from ISIL
The combined disrespect from Speaker John Boehner and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left Uncle Sam black and blue.
On Monday, Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski announced that she planned to retire rather than seek re-election in 2016.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has joined eleven more Democrats in announcing that they won’t be attending Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. The total of Democrats who are not attending the speech has jumped to 53.
Senate Democrats blocked the motion to negotiate with the House on the Homeland Security funding bill that means that John Boehner is both out of options and quickly running out of time on his Homeland Security crisis.
On Monday’s episode of Fox News’s Outnumbered, co-host Andrea Tantaros reiterated her claim that the Obama White House is anti-Semitic.
There will be at least 42 Democrats skipping Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. Here is the list of those who have confirmed that they will not be attending.
On Monday morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) did what he does best, which is preen for the cameras and make a couple of appearances on cable news shows. McCain made his way over to MSNBC’s studio for an extended sit down with the Morning Joe crew.
The displease with the way Republicans invited Netanyahu without consulting President Obama has not diminished. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that by a margin of 48%-30% American voters disapproved of Republicans inviting a foreign leader to speak without telling the president.
Republicans were so certain that if they allowed the Koch brothers to buy them control of Congress, no matter how extreme their new allies were, they would show Americans what it means to govern Republican style. Thus far they have failed miserably due to ceding control of the party to Koch-funded extremists who are more than willing to endanger the homeland and the American people to prove they hate President Obama.
A third-hand rumor justifies every lie the Right Wing media tells itself about President Obama
This week Republican lawyers will be busy arguing two important cases before the Supreme Court.
There is a gross misconception among the people and pundits alike that extremism in the Republican Party is limited to one wing of the conservative movement.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) provided a sign that Netanyahu’s speech to Congress has backfired as the normally hawkish senator called out the Israeli Prime Minister’s arrogant statements on CNN.
Gov. Scott Walker demonstrated that he can’t even handle an interview on Fox News Sunday by dodging a question about whether or not he would send U.S. ground troops to combat ISIS.
Speaker Boehner delivered an absurdly delusional appearance on CBS’s Face The Nation where he blamed President Obama for all of his own failures as a leader.
White House sources are suggesting that John Boehner’s strategy of picking a fight with the president over his immigration executive actions has backfired and led to Boehner and Mitch McConnell giving Obama 99% of what he wants.
Pew tells us restrictions on religion were high or very high in 39% of countries and that Muslims are as likely to be persecuted as Christians
