Majority Leader Eric Cantor changed House procedural rules to guarantee Republicans could keep the government closed even if a bipartisan majority found a way to re-open it.
Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing us to see how stupid some politically driven motives really are.
After years of conservatives demonizing liberalism and progressivism, atheists, Muslims, environmentalists, Pagans, moderate Christians, and, especially, members of the LGBT community, the Family Research Council is acting like they don’t understand why people are so angry. Senior Vice President Rob Schwarzwalder seems to be asking, “Why so angry, bro?” when he writes: So, the Left…
Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted John Boehner’s debt ceiling proposal, and warned that, ‘He is trying to hoodwink the American people.’
As Republicans look for new ways to cave and call it winning, Rasmussen has President Obama’s approval rating on the rise at levels not seen since last spring.
Jay Carney repeated the White House’s position today that the president will only sign clean bills. Carney said, We will not pay ransom to the tea party Republicans to allow Congress to do its job’
In 2011, Mitch McConnell laid out the GOP debt ceiling strategy, “What we did learn is this: It’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming.”
President Obama refused the House Republicans a way out of their manufactured economic crisis. The White House responded to Boehner’s faux debt ceiling offer with a quick no. The White House quickly put out a statement stopping Speaker Boehner’s latest attempt to weasel out of the crisis that he created by offering a short term…
The arguments of the Republican default truthers fly in the face of rational thought and economic experts who are predicting that a default will have detrimental effects on world financial systems.
Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing us to see how stupid some politically driven motives really are.
The year 2004 saw Republican sex, crotch grabbing, finger-giving and f-you’s and Ditka missing his big chance to change history
A group of vigilante truck drivers will set upon Washington to demonstrate that when it comes to Constitutional ignorance, they have few peers outside the Republican Party.
Ted Cruz is unskewing polls for his fellow Republicans, claiming that the shutdown bolstered their position.
During a conference call with a tea party group, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Under Federal Investigation) claimed that Republicans shut down the government to stop Obama’s thug dicatorship.
The GOP shutdown of government is closing rape centers around the country, and preventing rapes from being investigated. Meanwhile, Obama made history by appointing the first female to head the fed.
Why was Edwin Meese hired by the Koch Brothers to be a Tea Party strategist?
Obama invited 232 House Republicans to the White House to talk, but only 18 will show up. This is Speaker Boehner’s idea of “Let’s talk”.
On Ed Schultz’s radio show, Sen. Bernie Sanders responded to Paul Ryan’s Wall Street Journal editorial with a simple message, ‘Ryan lost by 5 million votes’ in 2012.
We’re united! Eighty-nine percent of voters don’t think Congress should be paid during the GOP shutdown.
The government shutdown has caused Independents to flee the Republican Party. According to PPP, Independents have swung towards Democrats who now lead Republicans, 42%-33%.
The first case the Supreme Court heard this term brought what’s left of campaign finance laws back for scrutiny by the same court that gave us corporations have civil rights and money is speech in Citizens United. Citizens United, the Sequel, is brought to you by Sean McCutcheon, a businessman and Republican activist from Alabama. …
Click image to enlarge Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing us…
The SCOTUS has a docket full of additional cases taking direct hits at established constitutional rights and social policy.
Tony Perkins said, ‘I think they are acting heroic, I think they are heroes. They are along the lines of the patriots who founded this nation’
From October 11-13, a convoy of roughly 3,000 protesting truckers plan to blame Obama for issues that are purely the fault of Republicans.
The Republican argument for not raising the debt ceiling is so weak that President Obama destroyed it in 10 sentences during his press conference today.
For every safe and cozy gerrymandered Representative, there is a swing state House member that has to worry about his or her position in 2014.
At a rally outside the Supreme Court, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took on the Koch brothers and said, “Freedom of speech, in my view, does not mean the freedom to buy the United States government.”
During his press conference today, President Obama took aim at Citizens United and the Koch brothers for causing many of the problems in Washington, and skewing American politics.
Obama compared not raising the debt ceiling to not paying our mortgages, noting that the bank doesn’t just stop charging us if we don’t pay our mortgage.
President Obama makes a statement and takes questions from reporters live at 2:00 PM Eastern.
In a private meeting with House Republicans a terrified Speaker John Boehner warned his House Republicans that the Democrats, ‘want to annihilate us.’
In an embarrassingly pathetic argument, Republicans are claiming that President Obama is just like the tea party terrorists because he voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2006. They are wrong.
It’s time for the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the conservative plot to harm the US government and its financial solvency and they must start with the Koch brothers.
Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing us to see how stupid some politically driven motives really are.
Michele Bachmann, digging deep, claims Obama is supporting Al Qaeda, proving that we are in the End Times
Ted Cruz’s Fox News interview with Megyn Kelly was an epic disaster. Cruz tried to blame President Obama for the government shutdown, but he couldn’t even get that right.
The latest PPP poll on Congressional races reveals that the Republican Party has fallen into serious disfavor in the state of Michigan.
House Speaker John Boehner made it very clear that there will be no vote on raising the debt ceiling without another attack on Obamacare.
Even a short term debt ceiling agreement is up in the air now. Not the actual debt ceiling limit, but a short term agreement. We can’t even do that now.
The Republican plan to blame Obama for the government shutdown is completely backfiring as the new ABC/Washington Poll poll shows disapproval of the GOP’s shutdown tactics has surged to 70%.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is standing up the Koch brothers attempted takeover of the United States government by outing the conservative billionaires’ role in causing the government shutdown.
President Obama is calling John Boehner’s bluff and daring him to prove that he doesn’t have the votes to reopen the government through a House vote on a clean CR.
There are now at least 22 Republicans who support a clean CR, but Speaker John Boehner keeps refused to put it up for a vote, claiming he doesn’t have the votes. Maybe he can’t add.
Click image to enlarge Image from trbimg.com
Republicans don’t want you to know this, but that there are ways to provide ordinary citizens with healthcare and prosper while doing it.
The mistakes legislators make tend to fall in one direction, giving U.S. politics a rightward tilt compared to what most voters say they want
The United States Postal Service is sending out all sorts of mixed signals; getting rid of employees while asking for applications. Puzzling!
It is a sad commentary indeed that a group of anti-government terrorists have, in two years brought shame on a global leader like America because they cannot accept the results of an election.
Despite the fact that polls show disapproval of the Republican Party might lose the House, Ted Cruz went on CNN to claim that GOP is really winning the government shutdown.
When caught several lies about the government shutdown and debt ceiling on ABC’s This Week, John Boehner lost it and had himself a little angry meltdown.
A new PPP poll looked at 24 House districts held by Republicans, and since the government shutdown 21 of them now have generic Democratic candidates leading.
On ABC’s This Week, Speaker of the House John Boehner issued threatened President Obama and the country with default on debts if his demands aren’t met.
Click image to enlarge Image from: Tumblr
The shutdown Republicans initiated claiming Obamacare is costing Americans too much money, costs more money than Obamacare.
A senior House Republican has let it leak that Republicans are so desperate to get out of the government shutdown/debt ceiling standoff that they are debating whether to cave to Obama now or later.
Al Franken read a poignant plea from the wife of a disabled veteran, ‘We would rather do without, than have you give in to delaying the Affordable Care Act. Please stand strong.’
Having learned nothing during the ongoing government shutdown, Speaker of the House John Boehner urged Congress to come together to open the government and destroy the ACA.
Dennis Ross, a Republican representative from Florida, admits that the shutdown is all about Republican pride, “I think now it’s a lot about pride.”
On Real Time with Bill Maher, Rep. Grayson laid into the Republican Party and described them as ‘corporate shills, religious fanatics, and freedom fiends.’
The Republican Party is suffering from a break with reality. Ted Yoho (R-FL) swears, ‘I’m not going to raise the debt ceiling.’
People are clearly beyond fed up with the Tea Party “stalkers”. Is the country done being driven by these egomaniacal knuckle draggers yet?
Republicans exposed themselves as the traitors they are because about 70% of the 86,000 civilians employed at 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have been furloughed.
“We are locked in an epic battle,” the speaker told his rank and file, those who attended the meeting said, urging them to “hang tough.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) explained on The Ed Show how the Koch brothers are using threats and their money to keep the government shut down.
The hostage taking continues! Speaker John Boehner and the Republicans aren’t going to raise the debt ceiling without getting “concessions”.
In another sham vote that was designed to do nothing more than win the PR war, House Republicans voted to restore funding to the already funded WIC program, 244-164.
Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) supports the government shutdown, but claims that she needs her paycheck. This is why she won’t give up her pay unless the shutdown is still going on after November 1.
Democrats may have found a possible way out of the Tea Party shutdown, and it involves using one of the GOP’s own bill to force a vote.
John Boehner’s latest attempt to muster public outrage at Obama over the government shutdown was destroyed by the White House with a single tweet.
Speaker John Boehner is being slammed in an upcoming ad for throwing a temper tantrum that caused a shutdown of the federal government.
Even Virginia Gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, who wants to ban oral sex, is distancing himself from D.C. Republicans over their shutdown.
With no end goal in mind, the Tea Party blindly led Republicans over a political cliff that will ultimately undermine a key Republican stance.
“We’re taking our toys – and yours – and going home!” Tea party Republicans have opted out of the United States. They have ceased to participate in our democracy. Where political power is supposed to derive from the people, the tea party derives its power from corporations. It speaks for corporations, it acts for corporations….
Bad News is everywhere for the Republican Party. Even the Fox News poll has found disapproval of the Republican Party jumping to 59% in their latest poll.
The current Republican government shutdown is what teabaggers came to Washington to do; “break the government of the United States.”
This is a good tip for how to behave when you are so much more important than the police. Bonus if you do it after one of their own was injured and had to be airlifted to an area hospital, and many of them aren’t even being paid for their work because your party defunded…
The Capitol Police aren’t being paid, but they put their lives on the lines as shots were fired on Capitol Hill today.
Eric Cantor seems to believe that if Republicans keep hanging tight with their winning position of destroying the economy, the President will cave.
As the Treasury warns of ‘economic catastrophe worse than 2008 if Congress allows default’, Paul Ryan is leading House Republicans into holding the debt ceiling hostage.
An open mic and camera caught Rand Paul discussing shutdown strategy with Mitch McConnell. Paul admitted that Republicans don’t want to be there, and their only hope is to look reasonable.
President Obama ripped House Republicans for claiming that they are being disrespected in the government shutdown. Obama said, ‘If you’re being disrespected it’s because of that attitude you got.’
Republicans have to lose this one, and badly, or what type of government paradigm are we bequeathing to our youngest?
People for the American Way wants to know why “House Republicans are taking their marching orders from a Texas Senator.”
Nearly half of Republican voters think that Obama is a dictator scheming to serve as president for a third term and over half think he has a secret plan to confiscate the guns of all Americans.
Harry Reid came out of tonight’s meeting at the White House on the government shutdown saying that, ‘The President of the United States was very, very strong, strong, strong.’
Unlike some in Congress who claim they won’t be taking their salary during the government shutdown, Senator Al Franken (D-MN) specified the charity to which his salary will be sent.
President Obama went on CNBC today, and cleverly worked to ramp up the pressure on Speaker Boehner and the tea party by turning Wall Street against the party that they fund.
President Obama did what the mainstream media has failed to do throughout the government funding crisis and said, “They’ve shut down the government over an ideological crusade.”
With every strategy that he is trying failing, Speaker John Boehner is trying to deflect blame for the government shutdown by using America’s veterans as political human shields.
Republicans said ObamaCare fell flat because there were ‘glitches’ in the rollout, but they’re ignoring the rush on the exchanges.
The fact that there are people who still believe in death panels is pathetic enough, but now they think there will be forced home visits.
Senate Democrats believe that they can use their leverage in the government shutdown to force House Republicans to solve the shutdown and the debt ceiling together.
Rick Joyner of MorningStar Ministries said Monday that our “republic can’t last much longer” and that only a military takeover can save us
Rafael and the wacko birds celebrated the government shutdown as if they actually accomplished something.
Democrats quickly shot down the latest Republican attempt to weasel out of their government shutdown by stopping the bills that would have partially funded veterans, national parks, and DC.
Americans can begin signing up to buy affordable healthcare insurance, and it is unlikely that reality will sink in to Republicans in Congress that the next phase of the ACA is underway.
Estimates for the current shutdown vary from $40 to $80 million a day. It’s time for Democrats to consider rejecting a short term CR, and instead insist on a real budget from Republicans.
West Yellowstone, Montana and Cody, Wyoming when your communities suffer the economic consequences brought about by a government shutdown, just remember you voted for this.
President Obama called the government shutdown an ideological crusade and told Republicans that they, ‘don’t get to hold the economy hostage over ideological demands.’
