Rachel Maddow Calls Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, ‘A Troll’
On The Daily Show, Rachel Maddow had a classic line when she labeled Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, “a troll.”
On The Daily Show, Rachel Maddow had a classic line when she labeled Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, “a troll.”
Eric Cantor has confirmed that he and Paul Ryan talked John Boehner out of accepting a “Grand Bargain” with Obama in 2011. It was this rejection that led to the sequester.
Never one to let facts or reality get in the way, Rush Limbaugh is claiming that Obama is going to kill Bob Woodward with a death panel.
The Republican majority in the House is split. This was revealed today in a painfully obvious way when moderate Republicans joined the Democratic minority to pass the Violence Against Women Act.
Rep. Paul Ryan went on CNBC today, looked straight into the camera, and completely lied about the sequester to the American people.
One never imagined Scalia would openly declare his racism and disdain for the most basic of rights in an open and free democracy, but then again it is Antonin Scalia.
In reality the future of the Voting Rights Act depends on whether Justice Kennedy places a higher priority on states’ rights, or the rights of millions of Americans to vote.
On March 1st a decision will be made that could impact millions for at least 9 years. Jobs will be lost and people will go hungry, but not the rich.
More than 80 Republicans have signed a brief which will be submitted to the Supreme Court in support of Marriage Equality
Younger television viewers continue to abandon Fox News in droves. In February, Fox is down another 29% with viewers age 25-54 in primetime.
Rep. Keith Ellison completely turned the tables on Sean Hannity. Instead of letting Hannity talk through and roll over him, Ellison destroyed Hannity with his own tactics.
Contrary to what Republicans are saying now, the sequester is a largely Republican idea. In fact, Jack Kingston (R-GA) proposed sequestration in December of 2010.
House tea partiers are preparing to celebrate the damage to the people and economy that the sequestration cuts will cause when they begin in two days.
On the same day that John Boehner told the Senate to get off its ass, he refused to allow the House to vote on a sequester replacement bill.
Former Romney top strategist, Stuart Stevens has joined a growing chorus of GOP leaders who seem to be waking up the simple unpopularity of the party platform.
Harry Reid fired back at John Boehner’s attempt to blame the Senate for the sequester by saying, “The speaker’s doing nothing to try to pass anything.”
President Obama told House Republicans that they need to compromise, and he will not be cleaning up their sequester mess for them.
The SCOTUS will hear arguments Shelby County Alabama v. Holder on Wednesday. The facts of 2012 alone should make this an easy ruling in favor of upholding the VRA including Article 5.
It is time for Democrats to call out the absurd canard that taking money out of the economy helps the economy grow. There is a time to address debt, but it is not during an economic downturn.
The Senate Republican Minority Whip, who accused Obama of threatening national security by nominating Chuck Hagel, claimed that sequester cuts to defense won’t jeopardize national security.
Speaker Boehner claimed today that President Obama is using the troops as props, but his House passed sequester would leave thousands of veterans homeless.
There was a little glimmer of light in the Southern skies last week. It wasn’t exactly a light bulb flashing on over Wal-Mart corporate, but it did look as though someone was fumbling with the switch.
It seems Gov. Rick Snyder is having a bit of difficulty finding anyone who wants the job of becoming the emergency manager for Detroit.
The ever clueless Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia thinks the sequester is necessary to “get this economy rolling again.”
Republican staffers are complaining about GOP leadership, while leadership is complaining that without being able to pay their staff a decent wage, they can’t attract the best workers.
While speaking to the nation’s governors today, President Obama took aim at John Boehner for his hypocrisy on his own tax plan, and the lie that Obama won’t work with him on spending cuts.
Today the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal claiming that the ban of direct contributions violates corporations’ free-speech rights.
After suffering their obstruction in the 111th and 112th Congress, one would think Reid would get a clue, and a spine, and do his job as Majority Leader and end Republican abuse of the filibuster.
These House Republicans are the real reason Speaker John Boehner is not proposing a sequester solution. He doesn’t have the votes.
Texas Republican Representative, Louie Gohmert is convinced Sharia law is trying to take over the U.S. legal system. So, he’s packing.
No matter how much they try to blame sequestration on Obama and the Democrats, Republicans set it up, and the victims will be the poor.
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
Gov Jindal (R-LA) accused Obama of using scare tactics while in real life, Jindal is gutting his state in order to run for President in 2016.
House Republicans are so desperate to avoid being held accountable for their sequester that they are asking President Obama to save them.
Ted Cruz’s spokesperson thinks it’s ‘curious’ that the New Yorker would cover a speech he gave two years ago when he McCarthyed his way into the arms of the Koch brothers.
the NRA, Republicans, and so-called patriots are driving gun fanatics and racists into frenzy by asserting President Obama is on a mission to confiscate guns, and invalidate the 2nd Amendment.
Paul Ryan has been pushing for sequestration since 2004. He bragged about getting it in 2011. Now that it’s here, Ryan thinks it’s not good government.
The House GOP’s watered down version of the VAWA is more about preserving their bigotry than anything about protecting women from violence.
In the fantasy world of Republicans President Obama is corrupt, but the story of the three Republican Orie sisters reminds of us which party has the corruption problem.
Olympic star Oscar Pistorius’s shooting of his girlfriend, whether it was an accidental infliction of a mortal wound or premeditated murder, explodes gun nut myths.
Rather than voting up or down on the Senate’s Violence Against Women Act, House Republicans counter offered a watered down version, which can be read here. The House version, predictably, excludes Native women and members of the LGBT Community. Yes, this is a sort of dejavu moment. The last time Republicans also objected to protecting…
In Victoria Secret model Cameron Russell’s TedX talk, she discussed winning the ‘genetic lottery’ and the privileges afforded to her purely because of her looks, including white privilege.
It seems everyone is calling Republican Senator Ted Cruz the new McCarthy. But there’s not one “new McCarthy” in the GOP, but rather a party of new McCarthys.
Glenn Beck was one of the tea party’s biggest defenders, but he turned down an opportunity to defend the group on WWE’s Monday Night Raw by claiming that he has better things to do.
Lost in the maze of blame Obama for the sequester Republican talking points is the fact that the White House has had a sequester replacement proposal on the table since December 2012.
Republicans and their punditry have finally gone so far off the rails to avoid any responsibility for the sequester that they are blatantly lying and revising the historical record of the past four years.
A Richmond Police Officer was fired for telling the media about an alleged plot to kill the President by fellow law enforcement officers.
Reality-challenged Joseph Farah of World Net Daily feels that inconvenient and uncongenial facts about ancient Israel are anti-Semitic.
Rush Limbaugh said that he is still embarrassed and ashamed of America, but Rush can’t be nearly as ashamed of America as we are of him.
Glenn Beck may be this close to finally fulfilling his sideshow clown destiny as he has been offered a chance to appear on World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night to defend the Tea Party.
It turns out there is a segment of the population who have lost their freedom due to tyranny, but it originates with Republicans at the behest of Catholic and evangelical personhood advocates.
Steve Doocy desperately tried to get reporter/author Charlie LeDuff to blame Democrats for Detroit’s problems only to watch LeDuff list the corrupt Republicans in the city’s history.
A long-time and oft-repeated Republican criticism of Democrats is the tendency to regulation. But, so do Republicans, especially for friends.
North Carolina’s Governor, Pat McCrory is a classic example of why when Republicans govern, government is the problem.
If any facet of the GOP’s war on America has grown to lunatic proportions, it is gun control. The more people die from gun violence, the more the GOP sinks into denial.
Rush Limbaugh went way, way, way off the deep end today by claiming that Sarah Palin wasn’t ever wrong about anything.
CPAC claims they snubbed Chris Christie this year, while the rest of the clowns are piling into the shrinking GOP tent.
On Al Sharpton’s radio show President Obama said that protecting the wealthy from higher taxes is, “The thing that binds their party together at this point.”
Asked if he regretted calling a constituent a “jerk” during a Tuesday town hall, Senator McCain (R-AZ) scoffed, “Of course not. I call people jerks all the time, and they call me jerks.”
The DCCC is launching online ads to hold 27 Tea Party House Republicans accountable for the thousands of layoffs and other costs to the middle class in the upcoming sequester.
Republicans have lost the sequester battle so comprehensively that according to the new USA Today/Pew Research poll, 56% of Republicans support Obama’s balanced approach to reducing the deficit.
John Boehner is trying to lie his way out of trouble after being caught red-handed on the sequester, and if the subject were not so serious, one might pity his peculiar attempt at logic
Missouri Democrats responded to a Republican proposal to make gun control a felony with their own bill that would make proposing limits to collective bargaining a felony.
The GOP has made it their goal to inflict harm on the least fortunate among us under cover of being fiscally responsible, but their fiscal concerns are a canard to cover their inhumanity.
A group of Republican state representatives in Georgia want to ask Congress to begin the process of repealing the 17th Amendment, which provides for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
Conservatives have convinced themselves that though Obama SHOULD be in jail even as president, he would certainly BE in jail if he were not.
Despite the fact that a PowerPoint presentation from 2011 surfaced today with his name on it, John Boehner continues to blame Obama for the sequester.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) faced the consequences of his party’s targeting of undocumented workers in Arizona as he held a town hall to discuss immigration reform yesterday.
The real reason why Republicans hate Chuck Hagel is that he was one of the few elected officials on either side of the aisle who had the courage and conviction to speak his mind on the Iraq invasion.
It’s clear that there will be no effective gun legislation passed as long as the House remains in Republican hands, but fashion has the answer.
John Boehner won’t tell you this, but the “common sense cuts” he referred to that would avoid the sequester, will eliminate food for 1.7 million Americans.
Joseph Farah is putting up 10 Commandment billboards in “Sin City” – Las Vegas – and he wants your dollars to do it
A Republican candidate of any color may still have to adopt the 2012 losing strategy in Mitt Romney.
Republicans have revealed that the harm their sequester cuts were intended to cause is part of their plan that defines them as criminals, enemies of the state and the American people.
House Republicans should be getting worried about 2014. Despite being the minority party, House Democrats had their best fundraising month ever in January.
Sanford (R-SC) offered nothing but prayers when his desperate constituents begged him for help, and now he is begging them for a job and thinks he deserves a second chance.
Rachel Maddow’s latest documentary Hubris provides a shocking reminder of the consequences of misused presidential power, and the deceptions that led America into war.
Rush Limbaugh smeared President Obama today by suggesting that the president was cheating on his wife while playing golf with Tiger Woods.
Could the answer to the ongoing economic woes of the country be a forgiveness of household debt? At least one economist thinks so.
On President’s Day, I thought we should pit Reagan against Obama and ask whose presidency was better for corporate profits?
While trying to blame Obama for the sequester, Paul Ryan referenced the smart cuts that the House has passed. Those ‘smarter cuts’ would take away food and healthcare for 600,000 kids.
Barack Obama, may go down as the only president in the nation’s history who excelled in spite of hostility borne of racism, and an opposition party intent on sabotaging his presidency.
Barack Obama discussed drones during a Google Chat. Can anyone imagine a Republican President reaching out to people on social media, let alone discuss policy?
Buster Wilson lets go of his meat long enough to claim Obama thinks he’s crazy and wants to lock him up.
The mainstream finally stepped up today,and on separate Sunday shows, challenged the lies and talking points of Republicans Paul Ryan and John McCain.
John McCain peddled his Benghazi cover up conspiracy theory on Meet The Press, but cracked up when old friend David Gregory no longer stood confidently on the rickety timber of his bitterness.
Sen. Lindsey Graham spoke for many of his Republican colleagues today when he proposed avoiding the military cuts in the sequester by taking healthcare away from 30 million Americans.
Being called extreme by Wall Street is Elizabeth Warren’s badge of honor. It means she’s effective and they know it.
Well over 50% of the population in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Oklahoma consider themselves to be very religious, and they are very depressed.
Marco Rubio is clearly picking up the mantle of the “NEW” Republican’t Party by putting a new, watery-smooth face on their same dehydrated ideas.
Republicans are sticking to their obstructionist ways over Israel, and Americans have come to learn that Republicans hate this country nearly as much as they hate the President.
CPAC invited Wayne La Pierre this year and last year, they had white supremacist John Derbyshire, but GOProud is banned.
Rachel Maddow completely annihilated the paranoid delusions of Rand Paul and highlighted the dangerous fact that he gets a say on major policy issues.
The rebranding isn’t going so well for the GOP. The conspiracy theorist behind the right wing Hagel smears will be speaking at the California Republican Party convention.
Bill Maher made a point that also applies to the Catholic church and the Republican Party, “Show me any culture that is hostile to women, and I will show you a culture that’s screwed up.”
Right wing “patriots” are constantly complaining of losing their freedoms and liberty. I would ask what these freedoms and liberties are.
There’s one thing that scared Republicans more than the President’s SOTU remarks on the economy – his comments on voting rights.
As conservatives prepare to make their argument against the Voting Rights Act to the Supreme Court, Virginia GOP passed a new voter ID law that disenfranchises minority voters.
Rush Limbaugh took his insanity to a new level today by claiming that environmentalists are out to take away the freedom to use electricity because they oppose the generation of electric power.
If Republicans are as petty as McCain said they are, then that would mean that the Republican Party put their grudges about Bush ahead of national security.