Tea Party DOA: Only Dozens Attended Washington DC Tax Day Protests
Freedom Works touted that 1,000s were expected to their ‘New Fair Deal’ tax day protest, but in reality only dozens showed up.
Freedom Works touted that 1,000s were expected to their ‘New Fair Deal’ tax day protest, but in reality only dozens showed up.
Tea Party Republican Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said that there should be no path to citizenship, while trying to exploit the bombings in Boston to kill immigration reform.
The right is freaking out and claiming that President Obama is going to blame the tea party for the Boston bombings because David Axelrod pointed out that yesterday was tax day.
It is not too early to note the significance of the date and location that make speculating the bombings were a domestic terror attack as reasonable assumption as not.
Speaker of the House John Boehner showed who he really sympathizes with by calling for more ‘tax fairness’ for millionaires to the tune of a $200,000 tax cut.
At 2:50 PM Eastern Time, late finishers of the Boston Marathon heard 2 bomb explosions near the finish line. Over 100 injured, 3 killed
The fact that this act represents the worst in humanity is outshined by the people who went into the smoke to help the injured showed us that the best in us still prevails.
What President Obama didn’t say in his statement about the Boston Marathon bombing is just as important as what he said.
The Boston Marathon is referring to the two explosions that occurred near the finish line as “bombs,” which would suggest that the city of Boston has suffered a terrorist attack.
Live stream of the situation post-explosion at the Boston Marathon finish line.
The House managed to pass a Senate passed bill in 30 seconds. The bill kills parts of the STOCK Act, which addressed shady stock trades based on insider information.
Not only does nearly 25% of every American’s tax dollars go to the military, 10.26% of the money that we all pay in taxes goes to directly fund war.
By all accounts, Sen. Mitch McConnell has violated Senate ethics standards and committed at least one federal crime; possibly two.
By any measure, America is in decline. The fault lies almost completely with male Republicans. Democratic women must usurp the power.
On ABC’s This Week, Sen. Jeff Sessions tried to blatantly lie to the American people by claiming that increase in legal immigration is bad for jobs and the economy.
You may have missed it, but over the weekend congressional Republicans admitted that they are terrified that any cuts to Social Security will be part of an Obama trap that will destroy them.
On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Marco Rubio denounced the Senate’s gun control bill while admitting that he hasn’t actually read it all.
Republican attacks on women are purely ideological because despite women as an electoral force, the GOP made it clear that their assaults will be unrelenting.
Roger Gorley and Allen Mansell’s story shows that being in a socially recognized committed relationship extends way beyond the equivalent of a corporate merger.
In all likelihood the 2014 South Carolina Governor’s race is going to be a replay of the 2010 race, not good news for incumbent Nikki Haley
Another keeper for the ‘I am not a racist’ defense: Georgia’s Republican Governor Nathan Deal on ‘ghetto grandmothers’, Obama’s missing birth certificate, and the trouble finding qualified black candidates.
Sen. Marco Rubio’s approval rating is six points lower with Hispanics than George W. Bush’s, so the Republican Party thinks it is a great idea to put him on all 5 Sunday shows.
An uninformed and misguided Bill Maher has decided to blame liberals instead of the NRA and red state Democrats for the lack of stronger legislation to deal with gun violence.
House Republicans have taken another step to relieve President Obama of his constitutional responsibility to approve a permit authorizing construction of Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline.
Republicans continue to obsess with women’s reproductive health, with 694 proposed laws in the first three months of 2013.
After referring to the parents of Newtown’s 20 murdered children as human shields, it’s time for Rush Limbaugh to go.
Gov. Nathan Deal (R-GA) refused to comment as students fight to end an unacceptable tradition of ‘separate-but-equal’ high school proms.
President Obama’s is using his own tax return to demonstrate what is wrong with the system. The president is also calling for taxes to be raised on the wealthy.
Tea Party Republicans like Rep. Tim Huelskamp are spewing more hate and intolerance by decrying Republican outreach to “so-called” Hispanic voters.
After Speaker John Boehner suggested that he may allow the House to vote on gun and immigration reform bills, the right has dissolved into complete hysteria.
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), who compared immigrants to animals, believes that background checks will lead to a Rwanda-esque genocide.
Forty-seven percent of Americans now disagree with the Republican Party’s approach to cultural and social issues, while just 22% agree, according to a new poll.
Republicans are actively pursuing policies that target and punish the poor, or purposely keep them downtrodden as a punitive measure for being poor, and it characterizes the GOP across the nation.
Under the watchful eye of Koch brother friend, Art Pope, North Carolina’s Governor, Pat McCrory, is turning NC into a Tea Party Utopia.
After the brutal slayings of 20 precious Sandy Hook children, the son of Pastor Rick Warren shoots himself with an unregistered gun purchased on the Internet, and still the NRA doesn’t care.
Days after Ted Nugent threatened violence and launched a racist attack against the president, CNN rewarded him with an interview to discuss gun policy.
Social conservatives warned RNC Chair Reince Priebus this week via a letter that he better stop trying to bring the GOP into the 2000s, especially on the issues of gay marriage and abortion.
The right is already trying to spin reports that Progress Kentucky is behind the leaked Mitch McConnell tape as vindication, but this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Scarborough called Republican criticism of Obama’s budget offer ‘shameless’, ‘shameful’, and ‘outrageous’, going so far as to say that if the President walks from these talks, no one can blame him.
Rand Paul’s promised filibuster of expanded background checks flopped today, as Harry Reid’s bill sailed through the cloture vote 68-31.
Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage is accused of pressuring employees at the Dept. of Labor to decide unemployment-benefit cases in favor of business owners over workers.
For once, conservatives were not being paranoid. It turns out that 18% of television viewers aged 13-64 say that TV in general has changed their opinion of same-sex marriage in a positive way.
The President’s budget proposals contain a great deal of Democrats’ long-cherished wishes and few are paying any attention.
Sending Rand Paul to speak at Howard University was a disaster waiting to happen. First Paul tried (again) to deny that he ever opposed the Civil Rights Act.
Ted Nugent’s opposition is not necessarily about guns, the Second Amendment, or government oppression, but about an African American sitting in the Oval Office.
After wanting it more than anything else, Paul Ryan (R-WI) dismissed the President’s offer of chained CPI today, saying it isn’t entitlement reform – it’s just “clarifying a statistic.”
A 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons hung herself in her family’s bathroom last week after pictures of her allegedly being gang raped were distributed online by her classmates.
The fact that polls show the vast majority of Americans want stronger gun laws means absolutely nothing to Republicans, because citizens don’t affect their cash reserves.
Jonas Goldberg claimed ObamaCare is the policy equivalent of the Iraq war, but worse because the Iraq war didn’t affect our lives directly.
15 states with Republican governors are refusing to expand Medicaid even though the first 3 years are free and never more than 10% in state costs.
House Republicans are trying to divide and conquer the left by adopting the progressive attacks against President Obama’s budget as their own talking points.
The announcement by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) that the Senate has reached a bipartisan agreement on background checks is a major victory for Obama in his push for gun reform.
The House Democrats plan is founded on creating jobs and a thriving middle class that will never see the light of day because creating anything positive is anathema to destructive Republicans.
Wikileaks dumped a cable from Iraq to the UN Security Council, warning of fabricated evidence in a Colin Powell speech, during which he would claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Wearing a cowboy hat, your former Vice President Dick Cheney warned Republicans that we are in deep ‘doo-doo’ on North Korea.
There are those who say the mood of the nation toward gays and women’s rights are changing for the better, yet the far right is forging ahead to restrict their rights.
Hours after urging the FBI to investigate what he called a Watergate style Democratic bugging, Mitch McConnell’s blame the Democrats for the secret audio tape strategy is falling apart.
Santorum predicts the collapse of the GOP if it does repent of its recent moves toward the social center, most notably on gay marriage. No one cares.
A secret audio tape leak, and now a new PPP poll has added to Mitch McConnell’s woes by revealing that he is the most unpopular senator in the entire country.
RNC Chair Reince Priebus bashed the President for wasting money by having dinner with Republican Senators, and offered to buy them pizza in light of the sequester.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill that would break up the big banks/ financial institutions that crashed the economy. The end of too big to fail could open the door to criminal prosecutions.
‘How should we honour her? Let’s privatise her funeral,’ Loach said. ‘Put it out to competitive tender and accept the cheapest bid. It’s what she would have wanted.’
The professional left is really not different than the right in that they forget their past missteps and repeat them despite evidence they are on a path to hand Republicans precisely what they want.
We need to tie wages to productivity again, the way it was before the conservatives started taking control of the economy in the late 1970s.
While Republicans dismiss the President’s decision to voluntarily give back 5% of his pay, Americans would like Congress to follow suit.
Sarah Palin thinks that Melissa Harris-Perry’s ad calling for an investment in public education is evidence that MSNBC thinks your children don’t belong to you.
Congress won’t follow President Obama’s lead by giving back 5% of their salary because it’s tough to manage a two-city life on $174,000. Nevermind that they are in the top 5%.
With ALEC supplying Republicans Koch legislation to end renewable energy standards, Americans will lose jobs, clean air, inexpensive electricity, and increased business investments.
POTUS Obama has revived a plan that will cost those who can least afford it, money. Elderly seniors could lose up to $1,000 monthly by 85.
The rich are granted immunity from prosecution for robbing billions of dollars from millions of Americans and the poor are thrown in prison for missing a payment.
The clock is ticking, and Detroit’s new Emergency Manager is listening. June 23 is the 50th anniversary of the date when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his first ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in Detroit.
Most of the perpetrators of recent mass shootings were already identified as being mentally disturbed. None legally purchased their guns.
President Obama’s senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer was on ABC’s ‘This Week’ Sunday, taking aim at the Republicans’ attempt to force their rejected budget onto the people.
In December of 2012, Speaker John Boehner said he had to have chained CPI. Mitch McConnell used chained CPI as the reason why the GOP wouldn’t budge. Now that they have it, it’s not enough.
Republicans are enthusiastic about sequester cuts until it affects their wealthy constituents. Then, they throw temper tantrums.
Republicans will have plenty to celebrate as more Americans lose their jobs, people drop out of the workforce thanks to their sequester.
There are many ways in which Roger Ebert’s philosophies serve as a blueprint for course correction that the hopelessly adrift GOP so badly requires.
Fans lined up to see the former Secretary of State, who called women’s rights ‘the unfinished business of the 21st century.’
While conservatives whine about White House tours cancer patients will die because of their sequester cuts.
The theme of Liz Cheney’s fantasy screed was that Republicans had to start fighting back against President Obama or else freedom will be a distant memory.
Bill O’Reilly is ‘furious’ that people are ‘lying’ about him saying that opponents of gay marriage haven’t ‘been able to do anything but thump the Bible.’
Bill Maher called out Paul Ryan and Rand Paul along with other Libertarians for being selfish pricks who are intellectually stuck in their teenage years.
Speaker John Boehner admitted that rejected Obama’s budget proposals immediately, and revealed that he did not have time to read them in their entirety.
The best thing about the March jobs numbers is they prove that President Obama was right when he said the sequester would stunt job growth.
Gubernatorial candidate and Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli wants to criminalize sexual relations he objects to, including consensual oral sex.
The Chained-CPI amounts to punishing seniors for living longer.
The Ready for Hillary SuperPAC has more twitter followers than Karl Rove’s Crossroads PAC and more Facebook fans than Mitt Romney’s Super PAC had on election day.
Toys R Us are headed for bankruptcy and dissolution that will earn Bain Capital Partners outrageous profits as they harvest another company under their supervision.
By tying his Social Security cuts to tax increases, the president has offered Republicans the same deal that he has been proposing for years. It is also a deal that will Republicans will never accept.
Under the pretense of defending diversity, Bush torture policy guru John Yoo came out in favor of a diversity of war criminals.
For the first time in four decades, since they started polling on legalizing marijuana, the majority favor legalization and Democrats and Republicans agree on not enforcing the laws in states where it’s legal.
Former Congressman and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is about as immoral and unethical as they get, but God is reviving his career.
Republicans in the state’s legislature are proposing an official state religion by exempting North Carolina from following the Constitution’s separation of church and state.
Upon hearing that Louisiana lost track of $700 million dollars of federal money, the first thing a Republican Senator does is call for is more oversight.
This is not a joke. Glenn Beck’s The Blaze is being awarded the Charles Darwin Prize by the Tribeca Film Festival for being one of the most disruptive innovations.
Rutgers University basketball coach Mike Rice was fired after video surfaced of him bullying and physically abusing players. Fox News responded by calling Rice’s firing a symptom of cultural free fall.
Republican leaders have gone silent after the White House announced that President Obama will be returning 5% of his salary as show of unity with sequester impacted workers
American taxpayers are getting their wish to have birthers forced to pay for their frivolous delusions. In Brooklyn, Judge Arthur Schack condemned birther Christopher Earl Strunk to pay $177,000.
The NRCC is accusing Democrats of voting to keep devastating Medicare cuts in place while at the same time accusing them of not voting for Paul Ryan’s budget. You know, the one that turns Medicare into a voucher system.
A new Morning Joe/Marist poll shows that Americans agree with the Democrats on the issues of gun safety legislation and jobs. But you wouldn’t know either by how the media reports on both issues.