Everyone, Even Republican Voters, Think GOP Leaders In Congress Are Doing A Lousy Job
A Pew Research Poll finds that 72 percent of Americans, including 55 percent of Republicans, disapprove of the GOP leaders in Congress.
A Pew Research Poll finds that 72 percent of Americans, including 55 percent of Republicans, disapprove of the GOP leaders in Congress.
Fiorina did not pay workers from her failed 2010 California Senate campaign until she started this new bid for president of the U.S.
In a fiery statement after the Senate voted to advance a bill that would give President Obama fast track trade authority, Sen. Bernie Sanders hammered the Senate for siding with corporations while harming American workers.
It was prescient, then, that when President Obama addressed graduates of the Coast Guard Academy and told them that “denying it (climate change), or refusing to deal with it endangers our national security. Anything less is negligence. It is a dereliction of duty and it undermines the readiness of our forces,” he was describing and referring to Republicans.
According to a new poll, President Obama’s favorability rating has increased by four points to its highest level since 2013.
As Jeb has reminded us, Dubya is our problem, not his. Or Gohmert’s. Or the Republican Party’s, it seems
Nebraska’s unicameral legislature voted 32-15 to abolish the death penalty on Wednesday.
Republican climate change deniers got a dose of reality today, as President Obama told those who deny the science that they are endangering national security.
“The man has lost touch with reality,” they opine. This can be the only explanation for how Christie still thinks he can win the presidency “when New Jersey is in such rotten shape after his six years in office.”
Senator Cruz accuses the media of being obsessed with sex because they asked him questions about where he stands on LGBT issues.
Bernie Sanders reacted to the news that the big banks pled guilty to manipulating currency markets by blunting saying that fraud is the business model on Wall Street.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is keeping her eye on the big banks and she knows what they and their Republican friends are up to in Congress.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is trying to pull a fast one on the American people by claiming that he is filibustering the Patriot Act when he isn’t actually filibustering.
Republicans were wrong again. 12 million people have chosen private policies through Obamacare exchanges.
At a roundtable in New Hampshire, former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) announced that his last name is not his problem, it’s yours. And you need to get over it.
From Elizabeth Warren to Bernie Sanders, Democrats and liberals that the game is rigged against ordinary Americans. Today, the left got proof of actual Wall Street rigging as five of the biggest banks in the world were fined billions of dollars for illegally manipulating the currency market.
ere are two fronts in the dirty energy industry’s war on the climate with funding and legislative support from the Koch brothers on renewable energy and regulations to reduce carbon emissions. ere are two fronts in the dirty energy industry’s war on the climate with funding and legislative support from the Koch brothers on renewable energy and regulations to reduce carbon emissions.
WRKO in Boston became the latest major market radio station to drop Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh’s show will also be leaving 93.1 WIBC in Indianapolis on July 3.
In one stroke of his pen, perversely pretending to be a defender of the First Amendment,Jindal turned Louisiana into a theocracy.
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham insisted on Monday that the Iraq War was not a mistake.
Sanders’ positive campaign is refreshing, and he is avoiding the strategic errors committed by the Ralph Nader 2000 insurgent campaign.
“Republicans in Congress insist on using this issue to give relief to community banks as a Trojan Horse for rolling back protections for consumers and rolling back the rules for the biggest banks.”
A Pew poll examined the popularity of the two former presidents who share last names with current candidates and delivered more bad news for Republicans. Bill Clinton’s popularity remains high while more people have negative than a positive opinion of George W. Bush.
Unlike the Republican candidates who are falling over themselves to avoid saying that Bush got Iraq wrong, Sec. Clinton said it straight. It was a mistake.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled legislation today that would make tuition free at all public four-year colleges and universities by taxing Wall Street.
During a Health Subcommittee Hearing on Competition in Medicare, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) busted Republicans for trying to elimate competition in a Medicare program to raise prices on consumers to benefit corporations.
For the second time in a year, law enforcement officials held their violent aggression and hostility normally reserved for peaceful African Americans in check when a mass of armed white men began clubbing, stabbing, and shooting each other in Waco Texas.
A new study has found that Fox News is hurting the Republican Party by brainwashing millions of angry conservatives with misinformation.
It is hard to believe Jeb Bush really wants to be president, with the things he says. Maybe it’s just that he’s missing a Dick Cheney of his own
During a CBN interview, Jeb Bush suggested that the only way to fight poverty in America was to defend traditional marriage.
President Obama issued a veto threat to yet another Republican attempt to starve and deny science and science-based programs.
After the FEC ruled Guinta accepted over 300K in illegal donations, NH Republicans and prominent newspapers called for his resignation.
President Obama and former President Bill Clinton got more attention than the Republican presidential candidates combined with a good-natured exchange on Twitter.
Scott Walker’s troubles are growing as Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin are calling for a federal investigation into the governor’s jobs agency.
Republicans in the Senate have discovered yet another means of cutting Medicare to add insult to injury from the already damage-ridden Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement that benefits no-one but the big corporations who wrote the ill-advised proposal.
Big business is getting bashed and outmaneuvered by unions who have mobilized and are winning the battle over the TPP and trade agreements.
No more playing war on citizens with federally funded military-style equipment for local police. So says President Obama. Police need to have a “guardian”, not a warrior, mind-set about their communities.
Fox News has the oldest audience on television, and their struggles to attract young viewers mirror a Republican Party that according to a new study is literally dying off.
Too much can be made of the plethora of Republican candidates for 2016 – after all, they are all virtually clones of one another
If Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy were alive at this moment, I’m convinced, at 83, he would still be in the Senate. He’d be just as passionate, committed, intelligently informed and supportive of the issues and legislation that really mattered.
In contrast to the Republican plan to cut financial aid and make college more expensive for students, Sen. Bernie Sanders is set to propose legislation that would give students free tuition at four-year public colleges and universities.
CNN called out a major lie of omission that Fox News tried to pull off by editing out key comments from remarks made by President Obama.
Sen. Marco Rubio took a softball interview on Fox News and managed to humiliate himself by trying to both defend and move away from his support for the Iraq war.
One sentence is all it took for Scott Walker to reveal himself as the next in a long line of failed Republicans.
Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) have been forced to admit on the Sunday shows that the Obama approved raid on ISIS in Syria has been successful.
On CNN’s State Of The Union, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that his presidential campaign against corporate greed, the attempted Koch hostile takeover of the government, and income inequality has now raised over $4 million from 100,000 contributors.
Mat Staver’s “moral objectivity” is anything but objective, and seems to be based on what he needs to be true in any given situation
Instead of acknowledging that as an austerity-minded Republican his only priority and primary goal for serving in the House cutting infrastructure spending, Ryan warned that Congress is in no way going to “rush to judgment and try doubling the size of government programs” just because some people died in an accident he said was caused by “human error.”
B.B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015)
Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul are tied at 45 percent each in a recent poll of Kentucky voters.
A GOP effort to prohibit issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Texas, failed to come to a vote on Friday.
Recently, although Republicans love the Vatican’s support for opposition to equal rights for women and the LGBT community, there has been growing enmity over the Pope’s opposition to income inequality and anthropogenic climate change. The Pope finally went too far this past week when he failed to comply with Israel’s agenda that Palestine will never be a sovereign state.
Republicans made a big deal out of George Stephanopoulos’s donations to the Clinton Foundation, but an examination of the list of donors reveals that conservatives have donated millions of dollars to the charitable organization.
Bill Maher took down Jeb Bush and the myth that he is the smart one, by pointing out that after Bush’s recent campaign stumbles, there’s no such thing as a smart Bush.
Fox News seems to want to wish away Hillary Clinton, but even their numbers cannot disguise that the public still approves of Hillary Clinton
Friday Fox Follies was sure this week’s column would be a slam dunk after Michelle Obama’s forceful speech on race at Tuskegee University, aka Speechifying While Black™. But then her husband had to open his big mouth: Obama Swipes at Fox: Pushing Narrative That Poor People Are ‘Leeches’. No biggie. Add a few words here and there and — voila! — an All Obama!!! All The Time!!! column. However, that plan was dashed as Conservatives Quickly Try to Turn Stephanopoulos into the ‘Next Brian Williams.’
The U.S. House voted to block a measure permitting considering letting immigrants who arrived here illegally to serve in the military.
At a meeting with financial supporters on Thursday, Hillary Clinton vowed to put forth Supreme Court nominees that were committed to overturning the 2010 Citizens United ruling. Hillary Clinton’s decision to make opposing the Citizens United ruling a litmus test for Supreme Court nominees follows a similar pledge made by her Democratic primary opponent Bernie…
Speaker of the House John Boehner tried to avoid a question about the role that Republican budget cuts played in the deadly Philadelphia Amtrak derailment by yelling at a reporter, but all Boehner accomplished was increasing the pressure on Republicans.
There is a new leader in the Republican race to the bottom. Jeb Bush floated the idea that Obamacare can be repealed and replaced with an Apple Watch.
A jury in Boston has sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death.
Democrats and libertarian-leaning Republicans have unified around the common goal of killing some of the Patriot Act’s worst domestic spying programs with a filibuster.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and 17 Senate Democrats are urging President Obama to use his executive powers to help American workers.
President Obama released a statement mourning the passing of blues legend BB King today. Obama said that the blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend.
Now it appears that Ohio Republicans are on the verge of enacting an voter ID law that requires Ohio residents to pay a fee in order to cast a ballot.
You would think that being gay crashed Amtrak, but that heterosexuality is not to blame for even more deaths in the Germanwings crash
On Thursday, Bush finally relented and joined others in the GOP field in admitting that the Iraq War was a mistake.
There’s nothing “well regulated” about an angry white mob of uncoordinated, often untrained, sometimes criminally convicted civilians off firing away at the “other.”
Congressional Republicans are upset with Pope Francis for making political statements on issues like income inequality, climate change, and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
A new Rasmussen poll has found that First Lady Michelle Obama would be the strongest challenger to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton if she chose to run in 2016.
Democrats are on the offense and will be holding Republicans accountable for their votes on the GOP budget with an aggressive “Republican Accountability Project: Diplomas Not Debt!” campaign.
New data released today blew the Republican anti-Obamacare argument to smithereens as 137 million Americans are saving money due to the ACA’s free preventative services.
John Boehner cut off and yelled at a reporter today who asked if Republican budget cuts are to blame for deadly Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia.
The Republican activist and consultant who wrote the hit piece that is Clinton Cash and his publisher HarperCollins have changed “seven or eight” inaccurate passages in the Kindle version of the book. Amazon alerted readers, “significant revisions have been made.”
Former Senator Russ Feingold has announced that he is ready for a rematch in Wisconsin for the seat that he lost to tea party Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. Feingold also echoed a populist anti-Koch message in his announcement.
The tragic accident was, by all accounts, entirely due to perpetually inadequate funding for the nation’s transportation infrastructure; just one of the hallmarks of Republican governance when they control the nation’s purse-strings and yet another devious means to privatizing all aspects of government for the Koch brothers.
The invasion of Iraq and its bungled aftermath created millions of refugees. Rand Paul doesn’t think the United States owes them anything
Voters in Eureka Springs, Arkansas voted overwhelmingly to uphold the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance by a 71-29 percent margin.
“This is the 29th time in four months that Congress has tried to restrict abortion, which is outrageous,” Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, charged after Republicans passed yet another assault on women’s rights.
Jeb Bush’s admission that he is running for president while heading up a superPAC means that Bush is breaking the law, and the federal government must immediately investigate his illegal fundraising operation.
The Republican series on how to incentivize rape while claiming they don’t have a war on women continues. The House of Representatives has voted 242-184 to pass a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
A national PPP poll finds that 32 percent of Republican voters believe “the government is trying to take over Texas”.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his non-campaign campaign team continue to find new ways to embarrass themselves. Today’s lesson in failure got a fact of basic American history wrong.
House Republicans in the Appropriations Committee put their blinders on, ignored the deaths of seven Americans and voted to cut funding to Amtrak.
As President Obama expresses shock and grief over the tragic Amtrak derailment that left 6 dead and 200 hospitalized according to hospital officials, even Republicans don’t have faith that their own party will deal with the impending transportation funding bill responsibly.
Fox News responded to being called out by President Obama by suggesting that poverty would be solved if African-Americans would stop being lazy and go get jobs.
The so-called Universal Periodic Review (UPR) regularly looks at all of the 193 U.N. member nations, and if a special report last year is any indication, the United States is in for another round of criticism for violating 25 human rights standards.
Rush Limbaugh blames gay activists for Christianity’s demise even while he is one of the people driving Americans away from organized religion
On a 39-28 party-line vote, the Democratic-controlled Minnesota Senate approved a bill expanding voting rights on Monday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) celebrated his victory on TPP today by promising a very long battle against the controversial trade agreement.
After Senate Democrats successfully blocked the TPP from advancing, Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to throw a hypocritical tantrum where he lectured Democrats that blocking bills was not the answer.
President Obama is ripping Fox News and calling the network out by name while debunking their class warfare propaganda.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) handed a big win to the opponents of TPP by getting Senate Democrats to block fast track trade authority from moving forward.
While taking part in a discussion on overcoming poverty, President Obama exposed the empty language that Republicans are using to pretend that they care about the poor.
Former Congressman Allen West posted an anti-sharia law rant on his web page after seeing a young Walmart cashier was not selling alcohol.
Wall Street is openly worrying that Bernie Sanders is pushing Hillary Clinton to the left by calling for the biggest banks in America to be broken up.
Kansas has received its share of attention for its epic trickle down failure typical of conservative economics, and it is duly warranted. However, the governor of Kansas has not been tapped by the Koch brothers as their preferred Republican presidential candidate for 2016. That distinction goes to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker who has his state’s financial demise keeping pace with Kansas for the top Republican economic failure.
We need to call out the appalling in our midst. And we should never, ever, apologize for telling the truth about them