Unpopular McConnell Can’t Shake Grimes, Another Poll Brings Bad News for Mitch
A newly released PPP poll shows MItch McConnell clinging to a one point lead over his Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes.
A newly released PPP poll shows MItch McConnell clinging to a one point lead over his Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes.
Nationally, 47% of uninsured adults who fall into the “coverage gap” created by the Republicans refusing to expand Medicaid are white non-Hispanic.
On Monday night, Jon Stewart took apart the ridiculousness of Megyn Kelly’s explanation regarding her comments about Santa and Jesus being white.
The budget deal that was forged by Sen Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) looks to be one step closer to final passage as the Senate voted 67-33 Tuesday morning to end debate on the measure.
The protesters of the ALEC/GOP led cuts were arrested for blocking the loading dock (a federal misdemeanor) with their sit-in, and refusing to leave when asked to do so.
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll was released on Tuesday. Overall, the poll had good and bad news for the President.
Isaac Asimov wrote that, “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” The tea party is bending over backward to prove Asimov right.
As we barreled toward the New Year last week, it seemed that each morning brought with it some genuinely surprising political news.
Last week, federal Magistrate Judge Joi Elizabeth Peake scheduled a hearing for July 2014, to impose a temporary injunction on North Carolina’s “voter ID” law.
Democrats allowed Republicans to behave badly and Ryan just said they will behave very badly and hold the debt limit hostage until his Path to Prosperity ransom is paid.
Billionaire Donald Trump is apparently mulling a run for New York Governor against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
On Sunday, State Senator Bob Rucho, a Republican out of North Carolina, took to Twitter and decided to make a comparison that is just unbelievable in its idiocy and complete lack of historical awareness and understanding.
In 2012, nearly 80 million families saved $3.4 billion upfront on their premiums because of Sen. Franken’s rule, along with other ACA programs
The thinking among Republicans is that this President is forbidden from issuing executive orders and they have indicated that he is abusing the authority that every other president in the modern-era.
Here’s some more bad news for Republicans. Hillary Clinton and her supporters are getting their operation together to endorse and campaign for Democratic congressional candidates.
Democrats need a new attitude to go with that record November fundraising. They need to take a cue from Gov. Beshear, and aggressively defend a law that helps the majority of the people.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released their fundraising numbers in November and they were nothing short of sensational. For the month, the DSCC raised a total of $5.1 million.
“I’d put them all alive in the oven,” Okhlobystin told his fans. “It’s a living danger to my children.”
Paul Ryan showed his true colors today by threatening the economy, and confirming that Republicans will demanding ransom in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
A sub-culture that commands little attention in the U.S. is the deaf community. The signing controversy in South Africa changes all of that
The real tragedy of the Newtown massacre was that despite scores of legislators saying it was finally time to move to address mass gun violence, there has been absolutely nothing done.
The Texas gubernatorial race features very little science and more than a little bloodshed
I was told if I didn’t shut up, somebody would burn a cross in my yard. I was only nine, so such threats meant nothing to me.
In a private meeting John Boehner claimed that outside groups aren’t real conservatives, as he escalated his war on tea party groups that’s designed to save his job.
Friday the 13th was a very unlucky day for Chris Christie. So unlucky, in fact, that it might cost him a chance at the presidency.
Jacoby Kindred, a Minnesota pastor charged for the rape of two young girls, blamed the girls for his predicament, “These are not really kids.”
To put Ryan’s face on the new compassionate conservatism is an affront to any American familiar with his contempt for suffering Americans.
Megyn Kelly took a day off from her show “The Kelly File” to think about how she wanted to respond to the furor she had caused by saying Jesus and St. Nick were white guys. After some no doubt weighty reflection, she decided, and came back Friday not to apologize for being a not-very-bright racist…
A new poll released on Friday by USA Today and Pew Research shows that voters prefer Democrats to Republicans in a generic Congressional vote.
Rachel discussed an AP story that was published earlier in the day showing that the rate of participation in the online insurance marketplaces was much higher in Democratic leaning states.
MSNBC’s parent company, NBC-Universal has been engaging in a union busting campaign, so the workers asked the primetime hosts to meet with them. So far, only Hayes has sat down with the workers.
The “law and order” party isn’t sure if they will go forward with an inquiry into Trey Radel (R-FL) after he pled guilty to buying cocaine from an undercover officer.
Boehner’s phony indignation targeting conservative groups he bent over backwards serving over the past three years did not have an ounce of truth or credibility.
Lo and behold, in this least productive year ever in Congressional history, the House was able to get a two-year budget deal passed.
When conservatives say they want a “white” Christmas, they really mean they want a WHITE Christmas.
As a firearm owner, I have no issue with these rules, so long as I can legally purchase them.
it was fairly clear by the giddy-ass grin on Paul Ryan’s face that Senator Murray likely did all the compromising to agree that an austerity budget defying sane economic comprehension.
Time Magazine named the Pope their Person of the Year, with Ted Cruz as first runner up. Under their criteria the person of the year is “the person who most influenced the news, good or bad.” By this criteria, the Pontiff was the obvious choice.
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly pointed out that not only is Santa Claus white, but that Jesus was too. Apparently, she is unaware of where Jesus came from or what the Bible says.
Rep. Darrell Issa’s endless abuse of his investigative powers hit a new low today, as he threatened to charge HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius with a crime.
Bevin is using Twitter to put his foot down on McConnell, accusing him of being MIA since the Murray/Ryan budget was announced.
On Wednesday, the Michigan State Senate passed a bill that requires a woman to purchase separate health insurance prior to getting an abortion.
In his presser this morning, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) accused conservative groups of using their members and said they lost all credibility.
Colbert’s “12 Days of ObamaCare” includes classics like “ObamaCare is beginning to look a lot like socialism”, “Feliz Death Panel” and “a Healthcare manager ObamaCare made our Lord Jesus Cry”.
Republican Senators went through with their plan on Wednesday and held up business in the Senate by debating to delay the vote on one of President Obama’s judicial nominees.
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)
At the Virginia Republican retreat, party chairman Pat Mullins tried to incite an assassination attempt against the President of the United States.
Prosecutors have decided not to press charges against George Zimmerman, citing a lack of cooperation from his girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe.
166 House Democrats are pulling out all of the stops, including trying to keep the House in session through Christmas, as they battle the GOP’s cruel plan to harm 1.3 million unemployed Americans.
While estimates had already been released prior to today in regards to the number of enrollments through the health insurance marketplaces through November 30th, the Department of Health and Human Services released the official numbers on Wednesday.
A rare moment has occurred in which Speaker John Boehner found some courage in the land of OZ and he’s paying for it now.
While the media will focus on the President’s disapproval ratings showing as an all-time high in this poll (54%), the real story here is that, for the most part, this poll shows that the American people are still rejecting the Republican Party and its ideals.
Chuck Todd tried to justify comparisons of ObamaCare glitches to Katrina by saying that pundits are comparing political fallout, but that is inaccurate and wrong.
ALEC members were recently asked to sign a pledge to support democracy, and they refused. Not only did they refuse to sign the pledge, but the corporate media didn’t report on it.
If you want to know the reason for the season, you don’t have to look back to Christ but past him.
The 2016 presidential election only seems a long ways off. Hillary Clinton has positioned herself for a second run since the first run ended
Only one of the five Democratic candidates seems worthy of support from progressives, liberals and centrists interested in flipping the seat from red to blue. That candidate is El Paso attorney Maxey Scherr.
After Republicans like John McCain embarrassed themselves with outrage over the Castro handshake, the White House put out a statement that made them look like even bigger fools.
Late on Monday, just 15 minutes before the deadline to file, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) shocked the GOP establishment by placing his name on the ballot for March’s Republican primary and will face off with incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.
Remember Lululemon founder Chip Wilson telling us ladies that “some women’s bodies just don’t actually work” for his yoga pants, he had to step down as chairman today because you all wouldn’t shut up.
Representative Ted Yoho (R-FL) sent out an invitation through his Facebook page for a ‘Family Firearm Safety Event’ that will be held in Lake City, FL on December 14th.
According to a new Marist poll, Americans hate the job congressional Republicans are doing. Only 22% of voters approve of the job the Republicans are doing. Seventy-four percent disapprove.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has taken steps to reassert Netanyahu’s power over American Middle East policy to thwart the P5+1 agreement that halts Iran’s alleged nuclear weapon program.
The Republicans persist in talking to women with attitudes twenty centuries out of date, and that this presents no obstacle.
President Obama’s eulogy of Nelson Mandela was personal. moving, and provided a surprising look inside the president’s soul. It was a great speech.
This Congress is on pace to be the least productive in history. Let’s set this overpaid, under-performing inertia against the productivity levels of the typical American worker
Sen. Bernie Sanders went on MSNBC and destroyed every major Republican argument against raising the minimum wage, while calling the GOP’s position, ‘just factually wrong.’
Sen. Ted Cruz reaching out to Republican voters by starring in a coloring book that calls him a real life hero while combining lessons about the American political system with the Bible.
Here we go again. America’s favorite half-term governor and failed Vice-Presidential candidate has scored herself another documentary television series.
It seems that the National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru felt that it had been too long since a conservative had made the idiotic comparison between the Affordable Care Act and the Iraq War.
It was a certainty that Republicans would use the recent good news on the economy, both GDP growth and job numbers, as a reason to find new ways to thwart the recovering economy and kill more jobs.
PoliticusUSA recently sat down with a financial advisor who works with the ACA regularly to get the real story that the media isn’t reporting on the Affordable Care Act and the website.
“We control 30 governorships, we control 26 state houses and senates chambers. You know, we, in fact, know how to speak to women on their policy issues.”
Virginia Republican House Representative Randy Forbes is trying to pressure the NRCC not to fund gay Republican congressional candidates.
Sarah Palin’s contention that Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would join her in the war against the imagined war on Christmas is too much of an affront to American history.
David Gregory and NBC News didn’t even acknowledge the surge of Americans signing up for the ACA, while pushing the bogus Republican talking point that the ACA is broken.
Twisted House Republicans are proudly celebrating their obstruction of President Obama and bragging about how they have slowed the government down.
Sen Rand Paul said we shouldn’t extend unemployment benefits set to expire momentarily because it will lead to perpetual unemployment. In other words, Paul thinks he’s doing the unemployed a favor.
Bright says, “If the Tenth Amendment won’t protect the Second, we might have to use the Second to protect the Tenth.”
Here’s some more ACA good news. More people signed up for the ACA in two days this week than were able to sign up during the entire month of October.
The Westboro Baptist Church is trying to take their platform of hate and intolerance to a whole new level by planning to picket Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
In order to retain a really huge company within U.S. borders, states have to open up their vaults to the tun of billions in incentives
The Koch Brothers are are launching a nationwide campaign to eliminate public sector workers’ wages, pensions, sick pay, workers’ compensation.
Nelson Mandela was everything that Ronald Reagan wasn’t. For Conservatives today, that simply means that Mandela was clearly in the wrong.
In true Beckian style, he has invented a Glenn Beck who can be outraged and hurt by an intolerance on the left he has invented out of whole cloth
A Newsday columnist, Lane Filler, recently wrote some truly untrue things about our President and his health care plan. I emailed an answer
Yesterday’s California Field Poll is full of good news for Democratic Governor Jerry Brown. Republicans on the other hand, have little to celebrate, given that the poll shows the Republican gubernatorial field getting annihilated by Brown. Brown leads all three hypothetical Republican opponents combined by a 52-23 margin. While Brown tallies 52 percent support…
What MSNBC accomplished by not supporting Bashir’s 1st Amendment right was to muzzle and pre-censor the rest of the network’s on-air talent. They also positioned themselves as just another conservative media outlet.
Limbaugh uses the death of Nelson Mandela to attack civil rights leaders and African-Americans in this nation.
Rand Paul demonstrated the GOP’s idea of outreach in Detroit today by speaking to a nearly totally white audience about tax cuts.
Elizabeth Warren responded to claims she is harming Social Security with a classic quote, ‘I’m out there working for Jamie Dimon the same way Dick Cheney is out there trying to save the environment.’
Scott Brown wants to run for Senate in New Hampshire in 2014. It would help if he remembered the state’s name.
After the firing of Martin Bashir, it is important to remember that the foreign press has been saying for years what the American media won’t. Sarah Palin is a traitor.
Republicans have been hissing that ObamaCare is turning America into a “part time economy” for months now, but now reality is here and reality disagrees. Again.
If there was ever a man who had justifiable reason to hate, it was Nelson Mandela. He chose not to hate.
My little boy was born with a pre-existing condition, a rather severe one: a blood-storage disease called Type 3 Gaucher disease. In the words of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), his body does not produce the enzyme needed (beta-glucocerebrosidase) to “break down a fatty substance called glucocerebroside into a sugar (glucose) and a simpler…
President Obama laid it out plain and simple for the media tonight. Americans don’t trust their government, because the media thrives on only reporting the negative and the bad.
President Obama called Nelson Mandela, “A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice.”
Republicans simply never learn. They always view their problems as cosmetic rather than core.
Former South African President and anti-apartheid hero Neslon Mandela passed away on Thursday at the age of 95.