Democracy On Life Support: How Citizens United Won Florida For Mitt Romney
Thanks to Citizens United, Mitt Romney was able to buy a victory in Florida, instead of winning it.
Thanks to Citizens United, Mitt Romney was able to buy a victory in Florida, instead of winning it.
When the Obama bashing starts, the onus is on you to question the agenda of the person with the mike or access to a computer.
Rush Limbaugh will not stand for Juan Williams writing that the Republican Party candidates are using racial code words like “food stamp president†and “entitlement society.†He put Juan in his place by reminding Juan that he would not have a job were it not for the white conservative at Fox News who gave him…
The historic significance of Occupy Wall Street jumps into living history not only because of its timely anti-corporate message but also in many ways because of a simple democratic dare inherent in its operation. Ironically, what really makes the meaning of this simple dare resonate is the way law enforcement, the representatives of “the state, 
In a shot across the bow of the Republicans’ attempt to deem President Obama ineffective, US industrial companies have increased confidence in the US economy.
Grover Norquist’s power over Republicans has gone to his head and his delusions of grandeur will be his undoing; voters will deal the fatal blow.
Rachel Maddow pointed out that Florida Republicans are about to vote for Mitt Romney who is still making off of laying off people in the state.
Wow. Just when you think you’ve seen it all. A Republican strategist is claiming it’s hypocritical of Rick Santorum to not quit the race after he went home to be with his sick daughter. I guess I don’t understand Republicans at all. While the modern day Republican Party exemplifies hypocrisy on a daily basis, Rick…
The police had promised an eviction of the Occupy DC protesters, but in a surprising turn, they opted for leaving without evicting anyone.
You thought Sarah Palin was a non-entity, didn’t ya’? Guess again, liberal elite suckers! Yes, but this time she’s working’ for you.
This feature assesses the ethics of the two Florida primary frontrunners, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. Both leave much to be desired.
The right’s Saul Alinsky phobia comes from a belief that only certain kinds of Americans should have power, and the rest should be passive recipients of whatever the powerful inflict upon them.
Republicans are projecting their anxiety over the 2012 election by equating President Obama to the Italian Captain who abandoned his ship.
The conventional wisdom is a Romney nomination would give President Obama a run, while a Gingrich candidacy would ensure an Obama victory, but I’m not sold on that. Here’s why.
Americans will never get a better look at the depth of depravity Republicans sink to for the oil industry than the actions of Boehner and Daniels on Keystone XL.
With no signs of abating. Republican legislatures are if anything more eager than ever to press their rights-killing agenda for America and Americans
The bible is rife with death and destruction for the non-believer and that is the impetus for the religious right’s assault on women, gays, Democrats, Liberals, and peace-loving Americans.
When I see and hear Rick Santorum on the campaign trail, I can’t get past his rampant homophobia. I try. I try to hear the rest of his mostly nonsensical (as in makes no sense) right-wing political rhetoric, especially since I used to interview the guy when I was a talk show host years ago…
The pressure may be getting to John Boehner, as the Speaker made a subtle change to his story today that served as an admission that Keystone XL won’t create 100,000 jobs.
Republicans and Fox News call Obama the food stamp president, but the truth is that red states lead the nation in food stamp participation.
Chris Christie has shown himself to be a proponent of the popular tyranny the Founding Fathers feared and wrote the Constitution to address
Bill Maher debunks many of the false claims made about Obama, and smashes the paranoid delusions about a fictional president the right has created.
If Mitt Romney is ever going to convince Republicans to vote for him, he must embrace his inner Gingrich and be as hypocritical as possible.
While we cannot excuse deplorable behavior, we ought not to delude ourselves that the urinating Marines are unusual. Rather, it is symptomatic.
As the SEC considers an investigation,a national petition is calling on John Boehner to resign or face expulsion from Congress for ethics violations.
A Wisconsin high school student condemned gay adoption in his school paper, reminding the students that God wants gay people to be killed
Mitt Romney is in jeopardy of losing to President Obama in the very state he was born in. A new EPIC-MRA poll finds that Obama leads Romney 48%-40% in Michigan.
Proponents of SOPA, PIPA and their treaty version, ACTA can deny that these bills call for internet censorship, but a lie by any other name remains a lie.
On MSNBC, it took Elizabeth Warren less than a half a minute to define and destroy Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney.
As their treatment of Jan Brewer’s disrespect of President Obama shows, the mainstream media is keeping the GOP’s dirty little racist secret under wraps.
Newt claims that marriage equality represents perfectly natural pagan behaviors and are somehow a fundamental violation of our civilization
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer explained that she shook her finger in President Barack Obama’s face on the airport tarmac because she “felt threatened” by the POTUS. Â The entire incident happened yesterday when the Governor hand delivered a letter to the President when he touched down in Phoenix. The pair had a bit of a…
The battle between Newt and Mitt was fierce in tonight’s Jacksonville, Florida CNN Republican debate. But Mitt Romney came off as weak and wins the clown of the night.
Mitt Romney lies about being in his own campaign ad, and four other reasons to be glad you didn’t watch the CNN Florida Republican Debate.
A new study has found that the lower a person’s level of intelligence the more likely they are to be drawn to conservatism and prejudice.
In what may be the most absurd attack on a sitting president ever, Fox News criticized President Barack Obama for flying on Air Force One.
House Republicans are trying to place a provision in the payroll tax cut extension that would cut benefits for millions, including unemployed Republicans.
In 1956 the GOP ran a campaign based on extending Social Security, unemployment benefits, increasing the minimum wage. What the happened to the Republican Party?
Republicans can’t against Obama’s achievements or plans, they have been reduced to complaining that their efforts to obstruct have failed.
The Apocalypse of John is a polemic directed at Rome, not an open ended threat against the human race. After 2000 years it can be ignored
On MSNBC tonight, Alan Grayson took apart Newt Gingrich and called out his racist presidential campaign.
A hearing today in South Carolina proved that the Fox touted dead zombie rush for the polls in South Carolina is nothing but a myth!
Fox News countered President Obama’s call for the rich to pay their fair share with a demand that taxes be raised on the poor.
Bernie Sanders gave President Obama good marks for his State Of The Union address, but he also warned about coded language in the speech that hinted at cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
By pushing a pipeline that only benefits the Canadian companies that he invested in, John Boehner’s behavior is unethical and grounds for expulsion from the House.
The Religious Elite like the Wealth Elite wants us to subordinate our interests to their own. We can Occupy the Bible or let it destroy us
President Obama used his State Of The Union address tonight to literally shatter everything the 2012 Republican Party claims to stand for.
Now that Romney unveiled he pays less of a percentage in taxes than you tip the waitress at the local diner, conservatives are now changing their tune regarding capital gains and corporate taxes.
While Mitt Romney touts his business experience, he can’t match President Obama’s experience of running the most powerful nation on Earth.
Newt Gingrich is taking McCain’s approach in an effort to set himself apart from the “establishment”, laughably calling himself an outsider
Mitt Romney has gone from frontrunner to punchline as some in the Florida debate audience laughed when he suggested that illegal immigrants should deport themselves.
Mitt Romney claims his great contribution to conservatism is raising a family, and 4 other reasons to be glad you didn’t watch the NBC Republican debate.
Newt Gingrich’s surge in Florida just might bring about uncontainable exposure of the real values of the Republican Party.
While talking about Rand Paul, Rush Limbaugh claimed that the TSA would be justified in detaining Ron Paul because he sounds like an Islamic terrorist.
One thing to keep an eye out for during tonight’s GOP debate in Tampa is the story of how Mitt Romney made $242 million for Bain by killing jobs in Florida.
Newt Gingrich knows there is an abundance of mean-spirited, racist, religious right voters searching for a mean candidate to call their own.
The Republican presidential hopefuls have established cults of personality in line with Max Weber’s model of charismatic leadership
He’s a former governor and U. S. Congressman, and—unlike his competitors for the Republican Presidential nomination—an eminently sensible man. Chances are good you may never have heard of him, and even better that you had no idea he is running for President, but populist firebrand Buddy Roemer soldiers on undaunted.
Nothing about Guantanamo Bay is consistent with “protecting who we are.” Ever since GITMO, torture and rendition became accepted policies, and our civil rights have been under constant attack.
The mainstream doesn’t want to talk about it, but Stephen Colbert got more support in South Carolina than former GOP frontrunners Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann combined.
John Boehner made a fool of himself today by criticizing President Obama’s 2012 State Of The Union Address while the White House is still working on it.
John Boehner’s invested in Canada’s tar sand oil companies and then lied about the number of jobs the Keystone pipeline would create in what could be a criminal case of conflict of interest.
In the South and Midwest of our country, an evil struggling against female freedom is winning ground. In Mississippi, a woman is charged with murder for giving birth to a still born. In Alabama, a mother of three awaits a ten year sentence for a Cesarean that resulted in the death of her baby. In…
Gingrich sent a message to the Romney election machine in South Carolina last night, taking in 40 percent of the vote to Romney’s 27 percent
In a masterful take down, Sen. Bernie Sanders took apart the 2012 GOP presidential field and called them the fringe of American society.
Thank you, South Carolina Republicans. You’ve not only made Newt Gingrich viable, but you’ve also given Democrats the opportunity to strike back against the politics of racial hate.
Things are getting so bad for Mitt Romney that, Stephen Colbert outdrew him ten fold when they both held rallies in South Carolina.
The dirty little secret behind the GOP debate crowds is that these audiences are hand chosen by the handlers of these “shows” who manipulate and orchestrate the events in every possible way.
Barack Obama’s successes have left Republicans little option but to attack him for being an African American.
Chuck Norris has pledged his World of Warcraft abilities to the cause of Newt Gingrich – who needs them – the two can talk fantasy all day
We have all heard the lie, that President Obama is the worst domestic energy President ever. Unfortunately, the facts have a progressive biased and run counter to the Republican claims.
A group of 45 Catholic leaders have called on GOP presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich to stop perpetuating racial stereotypes on the campaign trail.
By denying the Keystone XL pipeline permit, President Obama may have prevented a repeat of the BP oil disaster that would have decimated America’s Heartland.
Rather than addressing the question Gingrich used the classic conservative tactic of attacking the media, which reveals a lot about the GOP’s family values.
After Senate support for PIPA evaporated, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally got the message and postponed a scheduled January 24 vote on the bill.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Stephen Colbert lampooned Newt Gingrich’s temper tantrum at the Republican debate over a question about open marriage.
The GOP doesn’t want to study history but to construct a theological narrative that re-purposes history to be more useful to present needs
Mitt Romney admits he won’t release his tax returns until after he is the nominee, and 4 more reasons to be glad you missed the CNN South Carolina Republican debate.
After the Internet blackout, congressional support for PIPA has collapsed leading both Democratic and Republican Senate negotiators to predict that PIPA will be defeated.
Mitt Romney is the poster boy of all that’s wrong with the current tax system and indeed, all that Occupy Wall Street is protesting.
I’m guessing there are far more people on food stamps, and at risk of going on food stamps, than there are rich Republicans. There are almost certainly more unemployed folks than there are wealthy Republicans, and there are more unemployed folks collecting unemployment than there are wealthy Republicans. Matter of fact, I suspect there are…
There is a sickness inherent in many Republican supporters that makes them hate the poor and extending their contempt to poor children is a natural progression.
While so many Republicans rush toward self-martyrdom, one, Ralph Reed, is headed in the other direction – toward resurrection in 2012
If Mitt Romney’s only qualification is as a job creator, then he is clearly a failure and not qualified to be president.
Today, PoliticusUSA is blacking out our header, sidebars, and some reader comments in a show of support for the SOPA Internet blackout.
Sen. Bernie Sanders vowed today that he will fight to uphold President Obama’s to deny the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Two Republican co-sponsors of PIPA have dropped their support, but here are five Democrats who must be targeted if the protests are to be successful.
As Mitt Romney’s fortunes slide, a new PPP poll found that Stephen Colbert posed a bigger 2012 threat to Obama than the GOP frontrunner.
If super rich millionaire Mitt Romney is taxed at 15%, Newt Gingrich’s child janitors may pay as much in total taxes as the the rich.
In the latest gaffe by a GOP presidential hopeful, Rick Perry singled out America’s ally Turkey, claiming it is led by Islamic terrorists
The organizers of the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker have submitted almost as many petition signatures for recall as Walker received in the 2010 election.
One doesn’t need to have a law degree to understand that if you like internet access in China, you’ll just love SOPA and PIPA.
Republicans have proffered the notion that American workers, the poor, and retired people are robbing wealth from the 1% that Republicans refer to as the “job creators.”
Republicans in embracing 1950s-style paranoia makes Islam the new Communism and accuses it of everything the GOP is itself guilty of
Not only did the South Carolina Republican debate audience cheer child labor, they were orgasmic over the idea of using child labor to destroy unions.
The South Carolina debate audience cheered child labor, and four other reasons to be glad you didn’t watch the Fox News Republican Debate.