Month: March 2017

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Democrat Adam Schiff Nails Trump on For-Profit Business Posing as ‘Winter White House’

“@POTUS made Mar-A-Lago his “Winter White House.” It’s not. It’s a private for-profit business where dues just increased from $100k to $200k”

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Trump Fires All 46 Remaining US Attorneys Out Of Fear That Obama’s Out To Get Him

Less than a week after President Trump made his allegation that President Obama wiretapped him, he has fired all 46 remaining US attorneys that were appointed by Obama.

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Republican Congressman Falls Apart And Admits That Sick People Will Be Screwed On Trumpcare

Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX) fell apart while MSNBC’s Kate Snow was questioning him on what would happen if someone got sick while on the Republican Obamacare replacement plan. His answers revealed that folks would be screwed.

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Sean Spicer Wears An Upside-Down Flag Pin In Subconscious Cry For Help

Sean Spicer’s upside-down tie pin at the press briefing was either a subconscious cry for help or more proof that the White House is full of people who don’t pay attention to detail.

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Rachel Maddow Beats Fox News And Finishes #1 By Hammering Trump/Russia Scandal

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s special on the Trump/Russia scandal beat Fox News to be the most watched program on cable news regarding overall viewers and in the age 25-54 demographic for the 9 PM hour.

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Trump Kicks Reporters Out Of White House Photo Op For Asking Questions

President Trump’s security chief kicked reporters out of a White House photo op because they tried to do their jobs and ask the President questions.

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Red State Idiocy: The 10 States Who Will Lose The Most Under Trumpcare All Voted For Trump

The ten states where people will lose the most amount of financial help with purchasing their health insurance under the Republican Obamacare replacement, all were won by Donald Trump in 2016.

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CNN’s Jake Tapper Devastates Russian Propaganda Outlet RT’s Attack on Him

Russia’s state-sponsored TV network Russia Today (RT) tried to target CNN’s Jake Tapper, which prompted him to repeatedly share ugly facts about how Russia treats opponents.

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Desperate Sean Spicer Brags About Employment Numbers That Really Belong to President Obama

Well brace yourselves for this bit of tap dancing. During President Obama’s eight years as president, conservatives went so far over the edge to deny his economic successes that they accused the job numbers of being fake when they weren’t busy saying that the economy and job numbers didn’t really reflect on the president at all.

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White House Denies Knowledge of Donald Trump’s NSA Being An Agent of a Foreign Government

The White House couldn’t really say if they knew about Flynn’s work as a foreign agent whilst he served as top adviser to Donald Trump and at the time that President Trump appointed him to be the National Security Adviser.

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Sean Hannity Asks WikiLeaks to Help Blame Russian Hacking on the CIA

“In which Sean Hannity looks for a way to blame Americans for an attack on America that was carried out by Russia. “

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Historian Mocks Obama For Supposedly Promising to ‘Lower the Seas and Cool the Planet’

Victor Davis Hanson mocks, “He did manage to lecture Americans about the evils of the Crusades, and promise to lower the seas and cool the planet.”

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Resisting Trump’s Muslim Ban And For-Profit Mass Deportation Policy Goes High Tech

Opponents of Trump’s mass deportation and Muslim ban policies are using technology to fight back on behalf of the victims of these policies.

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Rachel Maddow Says Helping Trump Become POTUS Was Only The Beginning Of Russia’s Operation

Maddow says there is growing evidence that Moscow’s work didn’t end on Nov. 8, 2016 – that was only the opening act.

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Bernie Sanders Storms CNN To Blast Trump’s ‘Pathetic’ EPA Leader For Denying Climate Change

Sanders’ outrage came after the new EPA leader questioned whether CO2 was a contributing to climate change.

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Rep. Steve King Says Pre-Obamacare Health Care System Was ‘Absolutely’ Better

“If the American people had to decide between continuing with Obamacare the way it is … or going back to the way we were, I’d be for going back the way we were.”

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Trump Is Secretly Filling Government With Hundreds Of Lobbyists And Far-Right Conspiracy Theorists

The president is quietly expanding his reach into every level of the executive branch of government.

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Joy Reid Takes A Reality Hammer And Destroys The Conservative Argument Against Obamacare

During MSNBC’s MTP Daily, Joy Reid got into a philosophical argument with conservative columnist John Podhertaz and destroyed the conservative argument that health care should be a choice with a blast of reality.

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MSNBC Sticks It To Trump By Calling Hated Obamacare Replacement Trumpcare

The White House doesn’t want the American people to call the Republican Obamacare replacement that is going to take health care away from millions Trumpcare, but MSNBC has fully adopted the name that the White House hates the most.

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The Collusion Crumbles As Senator Says Russia And Wikileaks Work Together To Protect Trump

During an interview on MSNBC, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) suggested that Wikileaks and Russia are working to together to protect President Trump.

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House Republican Gets Schooled for False Claim that Canadians Come To The US for Healthcare

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) got taken down on MSNBC when he tried the false Republican canard that people in Canada come to the U.S. for medical care. Ali Velshi called baloney on it, “I grew up in Canada… Nobody I know ever came to the U.S. for health care.”

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Paul Ryan Mocked Across America For Laughably Bad Health Care PowerPoint Presentation

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s PowerPoint presentation on his Obamacare replacement and how a bill gets passed using reconciliation seemed more designed to educate President Trump and Congressional Republicans than the country at large, which is why Ryan is being mocked across the country for his presentation.

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Trump’s Top Medicaid Doctor Defies The White House By Opposing Obamacare Replacement

The top Medicaid doctor in the Trump administration has broken with HHS Secretary Tom Price, President Trump, and the Congressional Republican leadership by opposing the Republican Obamacare replacement plan.

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The Intrigue Grows As Trump Likes A Story Where Al Franken Accuses Jeff Sessions Of Perjury

As Donald Trump’s Russia story continues to grow, as parts of the unsubstantiated dossier become corroborated in part – substantiating parts of the dossier that contribute to the conclusion that Trump knowingly colluded with the Russians to help get himself elected, he “liked” a tweet about Senator Al Franken accusing Attorney Jeff Sessions of perjury.

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Opinion: Trump’s OMB Cuts Coast Guard and Airport Security To Fund Mexico Border Wall

Who needs counter-terrorism patrols and national security efforts to keep out terrorists when there is a desert wall to keep migrant workers from planting and harvesting fields.

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On International Women’s Day, Bill O’Reilly Calls Andrea Mitchell ‘Unruly’ For Asking Questions

When Andrea Mitchell was ejected from room for daring to ask Rex Tillerson questions, Bill O’Reilly celebrated IWD by calling her ‘Unruly’

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Opinion: Trump Lies and a Russian Profits As Keystone XL Will Not Use American Steel

A Russian oligarch’s company actively lobbied against provisions which mandated that Keystone XL’s steel be made in the U.S. so Trump elimination the provisions.

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Rachel Maddow Shows How The Pieces Are Coming Together To Blow Up Trump’s Russia Cover-Up

Rachel Maddow explains that each day another piece of the Trump/Russia scandal comes together, and the White House denials fall apart.

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Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney Says Nothing is Above Sean Spicer’s Pay Grade

“Actually, his ‘pay grade’ is the highest possible at WH – same as for chief of staff, national security and other senior personnel.”

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The Travel Industry Has Lost $185 million in Revenue Since Donald Trump Won the Election

As Trump holds photo ops with CEO’s; the Global Business Travel Association estimates a revenue loss of $185 million since Donald Trump was elected. Industry insiders call it the Trump Slump.

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Paul Krugman Warns GOP Trump Won’t Be Taking the Blame if AHCA Goes Down in Flames

“Prediction: if GOP health bill goes down in flames, Trump will deny that he ever supported it and place all blame on Congressional Rs.”

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Elizabeth Warren Laughs When Asked to Respond To Trump’s Claim That He Respects Women

Senator Elizabeth Warren isn’t buying President Trump’s lame attempt at pretending to support women. “Talk is cheap, put your money where your mouth is.”

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Chuck Todd Exposed TrumpCare’s Biggest Lie With One Question To A Republican Senator

On MSNBC’s MTP Daily, Chuck Todd asked Republican Sen. Tom Barrasso (R-WY) about whether people would have less money for health care under the Republican Obamacare replacement and Barrasso’s answer highlighted one of the big lies that TrumpCare is built on.

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Republicans Shove TrumpCare Down America’s Throat By Refusing To Allow States To Opt Out

Republicans have railed for years against “Obamacare mandates,” but today they refused to allow states to opt out of TrumpCare.

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Republicans Block Vote To Protect Seniors’ Health Care From TrumpCare Devastation

Republican House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) blocked a vote that would have protected seniors’ health care from the price increases that are built into TrumpCare.

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Putin Wants Ladies to Smile More Often on International Women’s Day

Women love to be told to smile by random men, it’s part of their freedom marches.

So Donald Trump’s best election buddy Russian President Vladimir Putin took International Women’s Day to remind men that they should support women so women could do important things, like “smile more often.”

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As Poll Shows Majority Want Jeff Sessions To Resign, He’s Nailed For Third Russia Contact

After a poll came out Wednesday showing that a majority of voters say Attorney General Jeff Sessions should resign because they believe he lied under oath about his meetings with a Russian ambassador, oops, he did it again — there was that one other time!

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Sean Spicer Screws Up And Lets Everyone Know People Will Be Losing Coverage Under TrumpCare

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tried to claim Wednesday that it doesn’t matter how many people will be covered under TrumpCare, that “is not the question.”

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We’re Spending $30 Million For Melania To Live In NYC As Trump Suspends Military Child Care

Taxpayers are footing the bill to the tune of an estimated $30 million for Melania Trump to live in New York City, while the President’s federal hiring freeze is causing the military to close down child care programs.

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Hey Donald Trump, ‘Respect’ Is a Verb and You Don’t Do It

Donald Trump’s twitter account managed to squeeze out a few bland sounding words of mild support for women on A Day Without Women and International Women’s Day, but the empty words only serve to highlight his predatory, grotesque presence in women’s lives.

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House Republican Busts Trump For Trying To Take Obama’s Name Off Obamacare And Call It His Own

Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) accused Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) and President Donald Trump of trying to take President Obama’s name off of Obamacare and call it their own.

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Obama Annihilates Trump With A Single Eye Roll And One Integrity Filled Sentence

President Obama’s real feelings about Donald Trump’s wiretap claims have been revealed and they can best be described as an eye roll and a single statement expressing concern for the American people.

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Elizabeth Warren Explains To Republicans How Capitalism Is Supposed To Work

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) explained to Republicans why a government that is run by corporations and only interested helping corporate interests doesn’t create a strong and free market during an interview on MSNBC.

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Rachel Maddow Perfectly Explains Why The People Will Have To Bring Down Trump Themselves

With all of the Congressional investigations being controlled by Republicans affiliated with the Trump campaign, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow showed why it would be up to the people and the press to find the answers on the Russia scandal that could bring down Trump.

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Twitter Mocks Trump After He Tweets ‘I Have Tremendous Respect for Women’

When Trump tweeted, “I have tremendous respect for women,” Twitter responded by asking, “Hopefully not by grabbing them anywhere?”

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Hospital Groups and American College of Physicians Say No to GOP Healthcare Plan

“We ask Congress to protect our patients, and find ways to maintain coverage for as many Americans as possible.”

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Sean Spicer Can’t Answer Why Trump Needs Obama Wiretap Allegation Investigated If He Has Proof

Sean Spicer couldn’t answer NBC’s Hallie Jackson when she asked why President Trump would ask Congress to investigate looking for information he already claims to have about President Obama personally ordering a wiretap on him.

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Rachel Maddow Drops Major Reality Check: Trump-Russia Collusion Looks Increasingly Likely

The MSNBC host told America to “get back to the main point,” which is that it’s slowly looking like the Trump campaign was working with Russia to topple Hillary Clinton.

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Obama’s Home State Files First Lawsuit Against Donald Trump’s New Travel Ban

The new Trump order reduces the number of people targeted, but the unconstitutional intent remains the same.

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Thanks To Trump, The U.S. Is No Longer One Of The Top 5 Countries In The World

“If the election had been global, about 60 percent of people would have backed Hillary Clinton, according to the survey of more than 21,000 people from 36 countries.”

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Even Right-Wing Breitbart Thinks The GOP Plan To Replace Obamacare Is Terrible

Opposition is opposition and, reasons aside, it’s good news that so many on both sides of the political spectrum are fighting against the latest GOP attack on the Affordable Care Act.

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Bernie Sanders Drops A Truth Bomb On The Media For Not Calling Out Trump’s Lies

Sen. Bernie Sanders responded to some media criticism he received for calling Trump a liar by pointing out to the press that they are misleading the public when they don’t call out Trump’s lies.

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Al Franken Accuses Jeff Sessions Of Perjury As Russia Scandal Roars Back To Bite Trump

Sen. Al Franken told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he thinks Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions committed perjury, and he wants Sessions back in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee to explain himself.

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Paul Ryan Tells Kids And Disabled People He’s Doing Them A Favor By Killing Their Health Care

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan called killing Obamacare and throwing millions of children, people with disabilities, seniors, and low-income families off of Medicaid an act of mercy.

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TrumpCare Gives A Tax Cut To The Wealthy While Gutting Vaccinations For Children

Buried in the Republican Obamacare replacement bill is a gutting federal funding for childhood vaccinations that would be an unprecedented and dangerous attack on America’s kids to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

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Trump and Ryan Face Humiliating Defeat As GOP Obamacare Replacement Opposition Avalanches

The White House is trying to defend Paul Ryan’s Obamacare replacement bill, but they may be too late as the GOP opposition to the House bill has grown into an avalanche.

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Trump HHS Secretary Deviously Refuses To Admit Plan Takes Away Health Care From Millions

The Trump administration sent HHS Secretary Tom Price out to promote the House Republican Obamacare replacement bill, and when he was asked by reporters if the Republican plan took health care away from millions of people, Price dodged the question.

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Paul Krugman Lays Waste to GOP’s Half-A$$ed Obamacare Replacement

Paul Krugman described the GOP’s Obamacare replacement as, “It’s not Obamacare 2.0. It’s Obamacare 0.5 – a half-assed attempt to preserve ACA successes without spending nearly enough money”

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Russia Mocks The US After Their Freedom Destroyer Donald Trump Ruins America

Donald Trump is already giving Russian President Vladimir Putin everything he ever dreamed of. Russia is laughing at the U.S. now, mocking its self destruction of the very values that made it stand in relief against an authoritarian dictatorship like Putin’s.

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Republican Obamacare Replacement Falls Apart Less Than 24 Hours After Being Unveiled

Opposition from conservative groups to the House Republican Obamacare replacement bill is loud and fierce, while in the Senate a top Republican is warning that the replacement bill does not have enough votes to pass. The bill is looking nearly dead less than 24 hours after being unveiled.

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Rep. Jason Chaffetz Tells Poor People To Stop Buying iPhones And Pay For Their Own Health Care

The Republican plan for lower income people after Obamacare is repealed to tell them to stop buying iPhones and purchase their own health care according to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT).

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Opinion: Yes, Foreigners Will Profit From Trump’s Infrastructure Plan

Besides billions of dollars in checks to foreigners investing in ‘approved’ projects they will own, Trump’s plan calls for taxpayers to pay tolls.

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Donald Trump Calls Bush’s Release of 113 Prisoners a ‘Terrible Decision’ by Obama

Trump tweeted about “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration” but 113 of them were released by President Bush

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Putin’s Puppet Trump Claims President Obama Let Putin Walk All Over Him

“For eight years Russia ‘ran over’ President Obama, got stronger and stronger, picked-off Crimea and added missiles. Weak!”

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What Trump Calls a ‘Spirit of Optimism’ Sweeping Country is Actually a Wave of BS

Ben Carson says slaves were immigrant, only packed like sardines and chained in the cargo holds. Next, he’ll tell us this was ‘economy class’

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Opinion: Sikh Man Shot by Masked White Man Told To “Go Back To Your Country”

“There is a kind of hysteria spreading that is not good. Such hatred is not good for people. Something has changed in the United States.”

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Trump Plagiarizes From Exxon Press Release To Claim Credit For 2013 Jobs Investment

Donald Trump killed two birds with one stone on Monday, simultaneously taking credit for jobs he had no role in creating and plagiarizing from an Exxon Mobil press release.

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Senate Committee To Waste Taxpayer Money Investigating Trump’s Insane Wiretapping Claim

The U.S. government is now at the mercy of an unstable president’s baseless and paranoid conspiracy theories.

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Don’t Be Fooled: GOP Obamacare Replacement Has Even Bigger Fines For Being Uninsured

Republicans claim to be doing away with the individual mandate. But their newly released plan would slap uninsured Americans with even bigger penalties.

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Republicans Unveil Obamacare Replacement That Screws Millions Of Poor People Out Of Health Care

House Republicans have posted a draft of their new Obamacare replacement bill, and the legislation if it became law would take health care away from millions of poor Americans.

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A Republican Congressman Lies To Protect Trump And Gets By Destroyed By NBC’s Katy Tur

House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) made the false claim that news organizations said that there were ties between Trump and the KGB. NBC’s Katy Tur pushed Stewart, but he would not give examples to back up his claims.

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Republicans Are Hiding Their Plan To Take Away Healthcare From 10-20 Million Workers

The Republican Obama replacement plan doesn’t just repeal Obamacare and gut Medicaid. The plan would also cause 10-20 million US workers to lose their health insurance from their employers.

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Donald Trump Already Knows The Answer to What He is Demanding Congress Investigate

“You don’t need to ask a separate branch of government, the Congress, to go find out what the executive branch obviously knows.”

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Trump Goes Quiet As Demands Grow For Investigation Into WH Interference With Russia Probes

Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer called for an immediate investigation into political interference with ongoing investigations into Trump Russia connections and Russian interference in the U.S. election.

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Cowardly Trump Hides From The Press And Questions After Signing His New Muslim Ban

President Trump is hiding from the press and questions from the American people after claiming that Obama wiretapped him, and signing a new version of his Muslim ban.

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Anne Frank Center Blasts Trump’s New Muslim Ban As Racist And Unconstitutional

After President Trump had signed the new version of his Muslim ban, the Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center described Trump’s ban as racist and unconstitutional.

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Kellyanne Conway Falls Flat On Her Face As White House Questions Her Lie On Trump Secret Intel

Less than two hours after Kellyanne Conway made the statement that Trump had secret intelligence evidence that Obama wiretapped him, it was reported that the White House is also leaving open the possibility that what Trump said wasn’t true.

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Late Night King David Letterman Calls Donald Trump a ‘Stupid Son of a B*tch’

“He’s ignorant in a way that’s insulting to the office, insulting to America, insulting to human rights, insulting to civil rights, insulting to John Lewis.”

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Trump’s Distractions from ‘Serious News’ of Russia Ties Not Working on Democrats

“It’s just an attempt to distract from…what should be an independent…investigation of what’s going on with the Russians and the Trump administration”

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Trump Expects to be Defended on Sunday Shows No Matter How Crazy He Sounds

We have an “erratic, vindictive, volatile, obsessive, a chronic liar” whose “presidency has veered onto a road with no centerlines or guardrails”

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Opinion: Kansas’ Brownback Slammed by Supreme Court a Third Time For Underfunding Schools

It seems completely illogical that the state can argue that a reduction in education funding was necessitated by the downturn in the economy and the state’s diminishing resources and at the same time cut taxes further.

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The Republican Party Must Find Its Moral Center Or Face Its Demise

The Party of Abraham Lincoln is no more and the Trump Russia scandal may not only destroy Donald Trump’s presidency but the entire party.

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Editorial Cartoon: Trumpie Bird

Get everyone talking about ‘wiretapping’ and NOT about the Trump/Putin election hacking.

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James Comey Calls Trump Wiretap Claims False As White House FBI Firewall Is Collapsing

FBI Director James Comey asked the Justice Department to publicly reject President Trump’s claims that Obama wiretapped him. When the Justice Department did nothing, Comey’s statement that the President’s allegation is false ended up in the press.

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A Fed Up Jake Tapper Goes Off On Trump For Accusations That Are Untethered To Reality

When asked to back up Trump’s wild claims by CNN’s Jake Tapper, the Trump White House confirmed that Trump got his ideas not from actual sources in the government, but from conspiracy and alternative fact specialists Breitbart and Levin.

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Rachel Maddow Makes History By Finishing In The Top 10 Most Viewed Shows On All TV

Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show is growing so much so fast that she is drawing more viewers than broadcast television networks. Maddow recently finished in top ten among all networks and programs in her time slot.

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Tom Cotton and Fox News Accidentally Screw Trump By Confirming Russia Transcripts Exist

Things went wrong for Trump when Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was asked about the existence of transcripts confirming the Trump campaign’s communications with Russia. Instead of answering that there are no transcripts, Cotton refused to discuss them.

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GOP Strategist Drops Some Reality: If Obama Wanted to Get Trump, He’d Have Leaked His Tax Returns

After Trump accused President Obama, without evidence, of personally abusing his power to spy on Trump, Republican strategist Rick Wilson pointed out just how stupid that accusation really is.

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Rats Try To Save The Sinking Ship As GOP Intel Chair Says He’ll Investigate Trump Wiretap Claim

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) Chair of the House Intelligence Committee has announced that he will investigate President Trump’s claim that former President Obama wiretapped him.

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Al Franken Bursts Into Laughter Over Trump’s Crazy Wiretapping Accusations

“The President of the United States did not tap Donald Trump’s phone. I mean, that’s just ridiculous,” Senator Al Franken said, after bursting out in spontaneous laughter at President Trump’s ridiculous accusation against former President Barack Obama.

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House Intel Democrat Calls Trump’s Bluff And Demands To See Evidence Obama Wiretapped Him

A member of the House Intelligence Committee is calling the Trump administration’s bluff on their claim that Obama wiretapped them by demanding to see Trump’s evidence.

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Clapper Destroys Trump’s Wild Accusations Saying There Was No Such Wiretap Activity

Former President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on Meet the Press, “there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, president-elect, candidate or campaign.”

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A Nervous Trump Requests An Investigation Into Fictional Abuse of Power by Pres Obama

The White House press secretary sent a statement minutes ago to PoliticusUSA that President Trump is requesting that Congress look into President Obama while they are investigating Russia’s interference in the U.S. election and the Trump campaign’s constant contact with Russia.

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