Flood Gates Open As Another GOP Congressman Comes Out For Gay Marriage
Pennsylvania House Republican Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania publicly voiced his support for marriage equality today.
Pennsylvania House Republican Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania publicly voiced his support for marriage equality today.
Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX), 91, was seeking his 18th term in office this year. It appears that the oldest member of Congress will be forced to retire in January as Hall was defeated on Tuesday in a Republican primary runoff election.
Thanks to U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Leitman John Conyers, the second longest serving member of the House of Representatives, is back on the ballot for his Michigan seat.
The House Republicans released a proposed agriculture and food safety budget on Monday. The budget offers less in food program funding than President Obama requested, which comes as no surprise. However, one specific provision in the House proposal should raise eyebrows.
Arizona GOP candidate Gary Kiehne proclaims that Democrats are responsible for nearly all the mass shootings in the United States.
James Kimber spoke with a voter in his district over the weekend and discovered that soldiers stationed in Bahrain will no longer receive Imminent Danger Pay starting June 1st. He feels this is extremely wrong.
Nearly 90 percent of the House Republican caucus members want a spot on the House Benghazi select committee.
A disgusted and fed up Sandy Levin called Republicans out for turning the House into a circus as they tried to pass a resolution calling for a Special Counsel to investigate the IRS.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC has said that he won’t try to use Benghazi as a fundraising issue. However, the NRCC and other Republicans aren’t following that advice.
On a day where the unemployment rate fell to pre-financial crisis levels, and a month after private insurance enrollments through the ACA exceeded all expectations, Republicans decided to focus on the only thing they now think they can hammer President Obama on — Benghazi.
This past week, President Obama designated his 10th national monument for preservation. Unsurprisingly, House Republicans had an issue with this.
If Democrats wish to neutralize the Tea Party’s ability to harm the country, they cannot afford to wait until 2016 to mobilize.
Few states are as friendly to Tea Party candidates as Texas, but the Tea Party may very well come up short on Tuesday in the Republican primaries.
Broun asks a question based on a false premise: “does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is founded upon?”
OK Senate candidate Jim Bridenstine (R) responded to a woman who advocated executing the President by pouring gasoline on her paranoid rage.
Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Doc Hastings (R-WA) are spearheading an effort in the US House to try to weaken the Endangered Species Act.
What Farah demands from Obama is that the president set aside the United States Constitution and embrace an imaginary Bible in its place
Sandy Levin scathingly destroyed Eric Cantor’s silly claim that Obamacare was on “borrowed time” in his opening remarks during a House hearing.
Leave it to House Republicans to find a way to both enrage their base and alienate an entire voting bloc all in a single afternoon.
School lunches were confiscated from dozens of grade school children at Uintah Elementary School this week.
Congressman Randy Weber (R-TX) disrespectfully tweeted from the House floor that Obama was a Socialist Dictator shortly before the President’s State of the Union Address.
Since when was it ever the intention of the U.S. Constitution that one branch should be able to not balance another, but to nullify it?
I wrote just the other day that Americans should not expect any major progress on immigration reform in 2014. In that post, I pointed to William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), who is on record for warning that if the Tea Party can’t stop immigrant “invasion” there will be violent revolution….
North Carolina Republican Renee Ellmers’ district has been redrawn as heavily Republican, but she may be facing a challenge from a big name.
Wealthy donors have pooled together a million dollars to form a super-PAC to oust Florida GOP Congressman Trey Radel.
Ask yourselves this: in what way will allowing more “icky brown people” into the country going to improve election prospects for Republican candidates who preach an America for white Evangelical males?
The Republican remedy for losing seems to be to refuse to accept defeat. Can’t win an election? Revolt! Arrest the winner!
The Republicans insist that because pretty much any Islamic terrorist you care to name is al Qaeda that al Qaeda was behind the Benghazi attack
Minimum wage workers in over a dozen US states have something to celebrate as they ring in the new year — a pay raise.
A Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey shows voters in competitive House districts overwhelmingly support extending unemployment benefits.
Justin Amash whined that Congress must “step up and take charge and point out when the President is going beyond his constitutional powers.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is calling for a high level security briefing on the operations of Darrell Issa (R-CA).
On Wednesday morning, I was able to speak with Tim Sheridan. Sheridan is a Democratic candidate for Congress who is looking to take out Rep. Ken Calvert in California’s 42nd District.
A senior Republican leadership aide called Ryan “the Jesus of our conference” because of the budget deal announced Tuesday by Ryan and Senator Patty Murray (R-WA)
Virginia Republican House Representative Randy Forbes is trying to pressure the NRCC not to fund gay Republican congressional candidates.
“You’re not a king, you’re not a dictator, you can’t do whatever you want. Our Constitution limits the president’s power, even though President Obama doesn’t act that way.”
Second Amendment absolutists might be disappointed today upon discovering that the Republican controlled US House approved an extension of a gun ban.
Mr. Kimber wanted to discuss with me why I might be wrong about thinking that it there was a ‘very low’ chance for the district to turn Blue.
Vallely and Jones want to violate the Constitution so they can call for adherence to the Constitution with strict congressional oversight of all executive actions
Will Senator Elizabeth Warren’s political economic populist movement change US economics and politics now and in the future?
This is the twenty-third edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the twenty-second edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the twenty-first edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the twentieth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
Only Anglo-Saxons are real Americans but then only if they are carrying around a Semitic book with a later Greek revision added to it?
Barton is not a scientist. He is not a historian. He pretends to be a constitutional scholar but has no law degree. So why is Ted Cruz listening to him?
This is the nineteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House.The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the eighteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
John Boehner’s reaction in not wanting to hold a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act legislation is still wrong.
This is the seventeenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the sixteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the fifteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the fourteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the thirteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
There were many winners and losers (and one who won and lost) in last night’s elections, but the biggest winner was liberalism.
This is the twelfth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the eleventh edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the tenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
Congressman Mike Michaud (D-ME) put rumors about his sexual orientation to rest today in an op-ed piece for the Bangor Daily News.
This is the eighth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the sixth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the fifth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. You can check out the previous edition here. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’ To do this, I…
This is the fourth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. You can check out the previous edition here. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’ To do this, I…
This is the third edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. You can check out the previous edition here. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’ To do this, I…
This is the second edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. You can check out the previous edition here. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’ To do this, I…
This is the first edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’ To do this, I will take a look at the overall demographics…
If the tea party is a niche market – a market focused on hate-fueled anarchy – what does that make Ted Cruz? A niche within a niche.
You heard it right. John McCain, responding to an attack by Louie Gohmert (R-TX), said Gohmert is not what you call an intelligent man. This is not news to liberals but McCain himself is known, from time to time, to be a little slow on the uptake. I wrote the other day about the brewing…
Democrat Amar Kaleka, cites failed GOP leadership and a need for stricter gun laws, in his bid to unseat Paul Ryan.
Republican strategist Alex Castellanos took to a CNN op-ed to accuse the Democrats of extremism, asking “Are Democrats more extreme than the GOP?” The answer seems obvious. No. But Castellanos seems to think refusing to bow to the demands of extortionists and economic terrorists makes you an extremist. That’s funny, because when the U.S. stands…
The Tea Party and the Republicans could have led a much-needed national debate about the role and size of the federal government during this shutdown, but they haven’t.
Orson Scott Card wrote his 1985 novel about the dangers of manipulating children. He could have easily been writing about the Tea Party.
Republicans have not offered one single thing that Democrats have on their agenda. Republicans offer to end their sequestration, their hostage taking of the government and their debt ceiling ransom.
Tony Perkins said, ‘I think they are acting heroic, I think they are heroes. They are along the lines of the patriots who founded this nation’
The latest PPP poll on Congressional races reveals that the Republican Party has fallen into serious disfavor in the state of Michigan.
The shutdown Republicans initiated claiming Obamacare is costing Americans too much money, costs more money than Obamacare.
“We are locked in an epic battle,” the speaker told his rank and file, those who attended the meeting said, urging them to “hang tough.”
With no end goal in mind, the Tea Party blindly led Republicans over a political cliff that will ultimately undermine a key Republican stance.
“We’re taking our toys – and yours – and going home!” Tea party Republicans have opted out of the United States. They have ceased to participate in our democracy. Where political power is supposed to derive from the people, the tea party derives its power from corporations. It speaks for corporations, it acts for corporations….
People for the American Way wants to know why “House Republicans are taking their marching orders from a Texas Senator.”
Nearly half of Republican voters think that Obama is a dictator scheming to serve as president for a third term and over half think he has a secret plan to confiscate the guns of all Americans.
West Yellowstone, Montana and Cody, Wyoming when your communities suffer the economic consequences brought about by a government shutdown, just remember you voted for this.
Michele Bachmann took time off from election fraud efforts to have an Obamacare hissy-fit for the ages
Who, precisely, we must ask ourselves, are Cruz and Paul and others fighting for if it is not the American people?
Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have lost control of the Republican Party and handed its future to hardcore ideologues like Texas Senator Ted Cruz..
Fischer said, “Now, our Elijah today, confronting the prophets of Baal, is Ted Cruz and last night was his ‘show down’ on Mt. Carmel.”
Ted Cruz, not content to show America he does not understand Dr. Seuss, showed us he understands neither facts nor history
Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Council (FRC) says there is “nothing more Christian” than cutting food stamps
Steve King’s vicious racism and xenophobia is a far greater threat to our nation’s safety and security than are the immigrants he is so fond of attacking.
The Democratic Party stood firm in defense of America’s families, with every single voting member of the Democratic caucus coming down in opposition to brutal SNAP food assistance cuts.
The House’s SNAP vote was cold, callous, and calculated by a Republican Party that hopes to ruin Barack Obama’s presidency by any means necessary.
The Republican Party’s hell-bent obsession with shutting down the government will not end well for them if they succeed.
Republicans using the cover of the crisis to plot against Obama and the country itself, whine “no fair!” when Obama takes notice
Louie Gohmert wants the Obama administration to come clean about non-existent scandals or face being defunded
The Republican Party House leadership has completely squandered their control over the GOP caucus, and rendered themselves politically irrelevant..
As candidates evaluate the merits of authorizing force in Syria they must also consider the potential political consequences at home.
The government is better equipped than private industry for large scale cooperative projects that serve the public interest such as suppressing major wildfires.
Republicans have not proposed a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and won’t, because Obamacare has turned the GOP base against insurance itself.
Since only a communist would oppose rampant crony capitalism and its corporatist/theocratic ideals, Democrats must be commies
Anti-food stamp Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) collected 370,000 dollars in federal stimulus money for his Oklahoma plumbing company.