It is an incredibly sad commentary on American politics to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Republican Party’s view of the population they were elected to serve is one of contempt.
Cowardly House Republicans will shove America off the fiscal cliff because they are afraid of voting for tax increase on the wealthy.
Sarah Jones live tweeting the Senate fiscal cliff ‘debate’; aka, the GOP clown car heading straight for cliff of talking point re taxing the rich.
We had some rough times in 2012 but there are things to like about the year just past. Here are a few of them.
President Obama said today even if a fiscal cliff deal is agreed to, the rich and the Republicans are not off the hook. He will ask them to pay even more in any future deficit deal.
Rand Paul (R-KY) brought the shrillness to new heights today on the Senate floor, likening taxing rich people to ‘drowning’ them.
Unlike most of the words that come out of Republicans like John Bolton’s mouths, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was telling the truth about her concussion and now blood clot.
Harsh attacks by liberals on liberals who disagreed with the President’s Social Security proposal seem aimed at stifling democratic dissent
Speaker Boehner made little sense Sunday as did a run around reality after Obama held him responsible for the fiscal cliff negotiation failures.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is going to send his armed posse of volunteers to stalk Maricopa County schools for “protection.”
Republicans are on pace, and appear pleased, to hold the distinction as the most unproductive Congress since the 1940s, and it looks as if that was their intention all along.
Sen. Graham insisted that we must raise the age for Social Security in order to deal with the debt, but Social Security has nothing to do with the debt.
President Obama called out the called out the the Republicans as deficit reduction frauds, and turned the fiscal cliff into permanent political damage for the right on Meet The Press.
If the Republicans fell all over themselves in 2012 to sound stupid, the Democrats were happy to help them along, as this list demonstrates
A 23-year-old female who was brutally gang-raped in India died today as a result of her injuries. Her attack has inspired protests throughout India.
Bernie Sanders went on MSNBC today and slammed John Boehner for not being able to control his caucus of right wing House extremists who are pushing America off the fiscal cliff.
This is a sad, seedy, predictable story about small town protectionism, only in this story, rape protectionism meets Internet warriors for justice. Silencing victims? Not so fast, little town.
One of the hallmarks of so-called hard-right ‘patriots’ is their immutable adherence to the Constitution and all of its tenets, and yet they reserve the most important right, that of free speech, for themselves.
It was not easy to pare down to ten a list from literally hundreds of dumb Republican quote candidates, but out of patriotism and love of country I have decided to take on the challenge.
West Wing Week brings you some highlights from the President’s year as well as the usual recap of the last week.
The Syrian civil war drags on. Russia is sending ships and marines to Syria and both the U.S. and Russia are pressuring Assad to negotiate.
President Obama has learned that dealing with Republicans is an exercise in futility regardless the issues facing the nation.
Van Hollen schooled a Fox News anchor today, saying, ‘Why is that? Do you know the answer to why that is? ” He followed this up with facts.
The bad news keeps piling up for congressional Republicans. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has found that more Americans blame the GOP for unemployment than blame President Obama.
The AP is assisting Republicans with their desperate meme that Democrats are to blame for the failure to avert the Fiscal Cliff.
In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a ‘hard’ left, something beyond either progressivism or liberalism
After they failed in 2012, Republicans turn their attention towards destroying the middle class in 2013.
Even though the GOP is crashing and burning on the fiscal cliff, Republican senators like Chuck Grassley believe they have leverage over Obama.
Piers Morgan, already being attacked for his stance on guns, has truly thrown caution to the wind by proclaiming that the Bible is flawed and must be amended.
Sen. Mitch McConnell has returned from Christmas, and is threatening to kill unemployment insurance for 2 million Americans unless he gets spending cuts.
There has been no huge increase in spending under President Obama, and yet Republicans claim he has been on a spending binge that is the sole cause of the nation’s economic woes.
Why do Republicans hate socialism in the U.S. but support socialistic programs in other countries?
Now we have this universal outpouring of grief and revulsion and we also have a problem. The known facts about the event and the killer himself could mitigate against meaningful changes.
While the population still grieves over the loss of young lives at Sandy Hook, the NRA and Congress dig in to prevent meaningful curbs on guns.
It is simplistic to think Republicans are misguided and misinformed about the damage their policies will cause. As ideological saboteurs, they know what will result if their policies are enacted.
Tea Partiers indulge in wild fantasies of sending President Obama to prison since they haven’t managed to impeach him for Benghazi
Here’s George Bailey’s famous speech from It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) in which he admonishes the greedy Mr. Potter.
However, as important as the message, ‘peace on Earth, goodwill toward men’ is to Christ’s life and teachings, it is lost on a large segment of American Christians.
Here’s a time lapse of Pastry Chef Bill Yosses and his talented team over the months they spent planning, baking, building, and decorating the gingerbread White House.
The idea that an armed good guy can stop a bad guy is not borne out by reality. Law enforcement officers go through extensive firearm training, and yet they do not always stop bad guys with guns.
South Carolina Governor, Nikki Haley has made history in appointing a black Republican, but was the move historical or hysterical?
Idaho Sen. Michael Crapo is a strict social and fiscal conservative who doesn’t drink. Or so he says. He was arrested Sunday morning for a DUI in Virginia and is out on bail.
An obscure investment player of many years experience has emerged to buy the NYSE. He’s a big derivatives guy with powerful insider contacts
Conservative Christians despise atheism as being a subjective form of morality, ignoring the history of their own subjective belief system
The new meme to come out of the Romney family is that Mitt never wanted to be President anyway, so fug you America!
The NRA unveiled their sleazy PR strategy of using school shooting death to stop any potential gun control legislation this morning on both ABC and CNN.
More reporting confirms that Obama’s hard stance on the fiscal cliff is a reality. He is looking to drive his election victory home by only giving Republicans what they’ve earned on the fiscal cliff.
Will Republicans use the redistricting advantages they achieved after their 2010 sweep to change the way electoral votes are apportioned?
President Obama’s negotiating stance is a lot firmer than many have given him credit for. Obama has been negotiating from total strength. At one point telling Boehner, ‘You get nothing.’
There has been no dearth of outrage from EmoProgs who are furious with the president for his third fiscal cliff proposal, and their anger is based on ignorance of the negotiation and governing process
The endless chorus from the Religious Right that all that plagues our society is the result of divine wrath has grown tiresome…and then some.
More tragic news. In Tennessee, a toddler shot and killed himself accidentally with his grandfather’s gun.
Apparently Dana was unaware that working for a crazy conservative media outlet would naturally involve ‘indentured servitude in limbo.’
Conservatives are super confused again. This time they are claiming that the NRA’s plan to arm schools is just like Clinton’s COPS program, but it isn’t.
The NRA held a press event today. Wayne LaPierre presided. He suggested police in all schools. He mentioned no new gun laws to be passed
This Christmas is shaping up like every other year’s end since President Obama has been in office, with Republicans holding the economy hostage over the level of damage they can inflict.
After House Republicans imploded over their own Plan B, President Obama took away much of his previous proposal by calling for Republicans to get their act together and cut taxes on the 98% right now.
To tell the truth, I am a little afraid – not that the world will end, but that life goes on and I have relatively little control over whatever the future might hold for me and my family.
The defeat of his Plan B has left John Boehner so broken, demoralized, and defeated that in response to a media question he could only sort of quote Kid Rock.
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s presser today sounded more like a marketing strategy for the manufacturers on the board of the NRA than a sane policy position.
What happened to belief? Aren’t fundamentalists who try to prove the resurrection as bad as the atheists they decry for demanding that proof?
By sabotaging their own vote on Plan B, House Republicans blew up John Boehner’s attempt to provide them political cover and made certain they will be blamed for the fiscal cliff
One of the world’s largest hospitality companies is Wyndham Hotels. When you stay at one of their hotels, you’re funding the NRA.
House Republicans keep warning the country about the fiscal cliff, but they refuse to stay and work through Christmas to avoid it.
Earlier tonight, Eric Cantor called starving millions of Americans instead of cutting defense spending common sense.
Politicians (a few at least) are making loud gun control noises. They do that every time there’s another mass murder. Nothing ever happens.
House Republicans passed John Boehner’s DOA Plan B 215-209-1, but what is important is how Republicans tried to fool America into cutting taxes for millionaires by throwing 300,000 kids off food stamps.
Just as we can’t pretend violence away, we also can’t pretend mental illness away. We need a frank discussion about our broken mental health system.
President Obama’s celeb D-List stalker, Sarah Palin appeared on Fox News and gave a performance that was so weird it made Victoria Jackson and Ted Nugent look like a sanity convention.
At this point, there is reason to hope for action on gun violence in response to the tragic shooting in Sandy Hook in which 20 children died.
There has been a lot of talk about another special election in Massachusetts where Scott Brown may make a come back. I think Obama could snuff that out in by extending an olive branch to Scott Brown.
David Barton says the Founding Fathers would want us armed with the same weapons available to the government – because the Bible says so
Republicans are ending President Obama’s first term the way they started, with the same set of tired proposals, the same motivation to punish the American people, and the same hatred of this president
Six schools have been saved for science in New Orleans, where humans will never walk with dinosaurs and Noah’s flood did not create the Grand Canyon
Our first responders are first on the scene, and subject to horrors the average person can’t imagine. They often suffer from PTSD.
Somebody better keep John Boehner away from the eggnog, as the House Speaker desperately tried to blame the president by telling him to get serious about the fiscal cliff.
I’ve covered our military training on some pretty hefty weapons that I could barely hold up to my shoulder, which has only solidified my beliefs about gun control.
President Obama set the stage for an epic gun policy battle with Republicans by demanding recommendations by January from his gun violence task force.
Despite misguided appeals for more weapons and more god, the nation is ill-prepared to address the real problem; more guns.
Hilary Clinton, felled by a concussion, is under attack by Republicans for depriving them of an opportunity to subject her to the Inquisition
Senator Boxer spoke on the floor on the need to end gun violence and better protect our children following the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
Republicans are using Michigan as a grand experiment to see if they can get away with setting fire to democracy in plain sight. They want to see if revenge bears fruit in winter.
The American people have signaled repeatedly that they expect their representatives to compromise to solve the nation’s problems. Obama has fulfilled his part of the deal, but Republicans remain MIA
You may have read Liza Long’s ‘I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother’ and the subsequent criticism by writer Sarah Kendzior, which was labeled a ‘mommy war’.
It seems as if the deficit is being used as a bargaining ploy by the Republicans. This ploy is being used against a president who is being distracted by the growing crisis of mass public executions.
The people of Michigan are letting Gov. Rick Snyder know that they don’t approve of him, or his right to work law. According to PPP, Snyder’s disapproval rating has shot up to 56%.
President Obama is insisting that benefits for disabled people and veterans not be cut, while House Republicans are coming out against a fiscal cliff deal.
Dick’s Sporting Goods is suspending the sale of certain semi-automatic rifles from all of its stores nationwide.
James Dobson says America has turned its back on God and Sandy Hook is God’s response: the murder of our children in retaliation.
In a report on child welfare from 2008, we learn that in 2005, 69 preschoolers were killed by firearms compared to 53 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
After getting no response from the Romney campaign, some of the press corp alerted American Express that they are contesting the charges.
In the wake of the massacre of 20 children and 6 adults in Connecticut last Friday, the people most responsible for the firearms that contributed to the tragedy have shown nothing but cowardice.
By elevating Tim Scott with an appointment to the Senate, the Republican Party continues to overlook it’s bigger problem: namely the party’s policies.
According to a leaked internal memo, McDonalds is urging its franchisees to stay open on Christmas Day without paying employees overtime.
There was a lawn dart game called Jarts that got banned after killing two children, but every year, nearly 1,500 children die from guns and many more are seriously injured.
Democratic Senator Mark Warner has an A rating from the NRA, but that isn’t stopping him from calling for rational gun control laws.
Eric Cantor has gotten his orders from Koch/ALEC headquarters, and there is no mistaking their intent; continue to make life hell for the President and Democratic House members.
Fundies are determined to scare you into allowing school sponsored prayer back into our public schools: God will kill your kids if you don’t
Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said the ban was nothing but a cosmetic law.
At the memorial service for the victims of the Newtown shooting, President Obama said the nation is not doing enough to end the violence and we must change.
