Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is back with more hypocrisy. As she stands at the center of at least two federal criminal investigations, Bachmann is claiming that President Obama is a lawless president.
NH State Representative Kyle Tasker (R) posted an offensive image on Facebook making light of violence against women.
Rush Limbaugh admitted today that he thought the paralysis in our government will get better even if Hillary Clinton is elected in 2016. This remark was an admission of the real reason why Republicans refuse to work with the country’s first African-American president.
In what is a major victory for the president, House Republicans will vote on three bills next week that correct small issues and unintended consequences in the ACA.
On Tuesday, a new episode of ‘Between Two Ferns’ premiered on the Funny or Die website with Galifianakis interviewing the President.
The religious right has rejected the Constitution and Supreme Court rulings for decades with veritable impunity and have no intention of stopping.
Jesus condemned the rich but Michele Bachmann worships at their altar, while Kevin Swanson says Satan bought Disney in 1984 to turn it into a big gay-making machine
George Zimmerman is still trying and failing to cash in on shooting Trayvon Martin. His latest attempt was an autograph session at a Florida gun show that less than 20 people attended.
Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) has been in the crosshairs of the Koch brothers and their SuperPAC, Americans for Prosperity, for the past few months. He’s now fighting back.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) obliterated the Koch plot to buy your government through unlimited campaign contributions on MSNBC today.
If there’s something that’s not in the national interest, it is this bizarre Putin hero-worship on the part of much of the Republican establishment.
Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and the talking heads over at FOX News may think the president is weak, but the American people disagree.
Rupert Murdoch tried to get President Obama to fear monger the Chinese President in order to reignite the War on Terror. Instead, Obama and President Xi Jinping talked about identifying a peaceful resolution.
On Monday, Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough had Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on as a guest. Cotton is running for the US Senate against Democratic incumbent Mark Pryor.
There is some division among Republicans who cannot quite decide if they want to fight Vladimir Putin or fornicate with the Russian, but one thing is clear; conservatives think he is a “real leader” and lust for a Republican president like Putin.
According to Gallup, the number of uninsured Americans continues to drop. Republicans deepest fears have come true. With the exception of seniors, the ACA is causing the number of uninsured to drop across all ages.
SB 401 is “AN ACT concerning crimes and punishment; relating to promotion to minors of material harmful to minors” and it is aimed at teachers
In the political version of open mike night at the Laugh Factory, the Republicans; I’m sorry, the homophobic, extremist, radical, bigoted bible-thumping corporate and Tea Party-controlled right-wingers, wrapped up their three-day orgy of Obama-rage and Hillary-hate at the 50th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Rupert Murdoch led the charge before the facts were in, blaming terrorism for the missing flight and urging Obama to join with China against Russia.
While interviewing Charlie Crist on CNN’s State Of The Union host Candy Crowley repeated numerous lies about Obamacare that came directly from Fox News and the Republican Party.
On CNN’s State of the Union, Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist told his fellow Democrats that President Obama knows what he is doing, and that they should not be afraid to support him
Siding with Putin over Obama, conservatives justify holding their big, allegedly “pro-life” summit in Moscow even after the Ukraine crisis.
On ABC’s This Week, Sen. Ted Cruz told a lie that was so dense only a Republican could believe it. Cruz claimed that Republicans can repeal Obamacare while Obama is president.
Sam Brownback is one of many, many Republican governors cutting education spending to fund tax cuts for the rich and corporations.
CPAC was a triumph of “red state principles,” which are a combination of unbridled arrogance, limitless stupidity, and irrational hatred of humankind, with a whole lotta dishonesty mixed in
The wheels are falling off of Mitch McConnell’s Senate reelection campaign faster than you can say, not from my cold dead hands. It turns out that McConnell looked so uncomfortable waving that musket around at CPAC because he doesn’t even own a gun.
Palin still tripped over reality when she was instructing President Obama on foreign policy, “Mr. President,” she spat, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.” America is relieved that Sarah Palin came nowhere near the White House in 2008.
Weeks after camera assistant Sarah Jones’ death on the set of the Gregg Allman biopic, “Midnight Rider”, many in charge have resorted to silence, the services of a PR firm, and lawyering up.
Louisiana Republicans’ attempting to abridge 8 million MoveOn members’ freedom of speech is typical of fascists, Nazis, and tyrannical dictators who use lie-filled propaganda to incite opposition to their enemies and silence dissenting voices telling the truth.
It wasn’t a great week for Mitch McConnell, as evidenced by this collection of headlines. It didn’t help that he capped it off by waving a rifle around at CPAC.
As she is facing numerous federal investigations that could land her in prison, Rep. Michele Bachmann is claiming that President Obama is a threat to America’s survival.
Conservatives feel most comfortable around those with similar views. However, the ideas embodied at CPAC ostracize the GOP from mainstream America.
Republicans claim Putin is a thug for threatening to intervene in a sovereign nation’s internal affairs, and yet they condemned President Obama for not taking military action to intervene in Syria and Libya’s internal affairs.
This is what they think America wants, and this is what they are going to give America. Really, I’d rather by a broken ant farm full of fire ants.
Free speech in Bobby (well, it’s actually Piyush, but Jindal is ashamed of his roots) Jindal’s Louisiana? Surely you jest.
President Obama delivered some straight talk to high school students today about the do nothing Congress that is letting them down.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wasn’t content to label Bill Clinton a sexual predator. Paul has extended his definition of a sexual predator to all Democrats, because they defended President Clinton in the 1990s.
On Thursday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) made a speech where he referenced a poor young boy who preferred having his lunch made for him rather than getting a free lunch at school since it showed that somebody cared for him at home. It was a lie.
Tuesday night, Jon Stewart at The Daily Show highlighted a simmering resentment conservatives at FOX News have over how people use SNAP benefits, aka food stamps.
It is glaringly obvious that Ryan’s profound antipathy and blatant contempt for poor Americans is only matched by his lack of any idea, bold or otherwise, Republicans have not proffered and enacted over the past thirty years.
For Bush’s entire 8 years, job growth was just 1.1 million. Yet under Obama, the private sector has had 48 straight months of job growth, with businesses adding 8.7 million jobs.
During the first segment of The Daily Show on Thursday night, Jon Stewart took Republicans and conservatives to school by highlighting their apparent crush on Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
After top House Democrats submitted a formal resolution calling for a vote of condemnation against Rep. Darrell Issa for cutting off Rep. Elijah Cummings; mic during a hearing, Issa quickly backtracked and personally apologized for his actions.
Because there is no actual footage of Christians being persecuted in this country – you know, because no Christians are actually BEING persecuted in this country – a group of Ohio ministers had to stage some arrests, employing actual cops to help them. Hint: Groups that actually get arrested don’t have to stage arrests –…
In a poll of New Hampshire voters conducted by the Boston Herald and released on Thursday, former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) trails Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) by 13 points in the state’s current Senate race.
In a bout of honesty, Chris Christie spoke the truth about what the Republican Party stands for at CPAC. They stand for the Koch brothers.
The Alison Lundergan Grimes campaign hit Mitch McConnell for name dropping the middle class at CPAC, especially since he votes no on raising the minimum wage while his estimated worth increased 786% between 2004-2010.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced today that if there is no voice for the left in the presidential field, he is prepared to run for president in 2016
A new PPP poll has found that Sen. John McCain has passed Mitch McConnell to be become America’s least popular U.S. senator.
As Paul Ryan tried to sell ending free school lunches, he also expressed the fear that Republicans are the villains in the Democrats’ morality play.
Besides repeating the same-old/same-old from his well-used playbook, Cruz decided to jump on board with the rest of the Republican Party and parrot the talking point of the moment.
Desperate to turn on the rabid Republican base, Republican Mitch McConnell (R-KY) entered the stage holding a rifle over his head to cheers.
In a segment that should be required viewing for every American who cares about the truth, Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow ripped Republicans who were wrong on Iraq for promoting war with Russia.
When Wendy Davis was asked in an interview if she would shy away from photographs with the President, she said firmly, “No, I’m definitely not going to do that.”
Something is wrong with this country that American citizens have become so timid that they sit idly by while Republicans assist the oil industry to have its way with Americans’ air, water, and health.
The next time Republicans and their surrogates at Fox news talk about their love for the constitution, and especially when they claim to care about civil rights, remember Wednesday, March 5 2014.
“Mythopedia was created to serve as a resource tool to catalog and debunk the most common myths and lies of the conservative media.”
Republicans want war with Russia and call the President weak for not rushing, at the same time as they vote against veteran benefits.
Eleven of roughly two dozen protesters were arrested by Columbia, South Carolina during a protest against the state’s rejection of the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid.
While attacking President Obama for wearing a bike helmet, Sean Hannity explained a lot by admitting that he flew over the handlebars on his bike, and that his “friends” pushed him into cars.
Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder pushed for funding to reduce the backlog of untested rape kits.
President Obama said, ‘The Senate’s failure to confirm Debo Adegbile to lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice is a travesty.’
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was on CNN’s New Day on Wednesday to discuss a number of topics, namely the situation with Russia and Ukraine, but also in regards to the President’s recent budget proposal.
Like a rat who could not wait to flee his own sinking ship, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) turned off the microphone of ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, and fled the room after Lois Lerner took the Fifth at Issa’s latest IRS witch hunt hearing.
Darrell Issa got the conservative juice flowing by promising that Lois Lerner would be testifying on Wednesday, when her attorney had already said she would not. Now Fox News is outraged.
Former Secretary of State, and presumptive 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton was at a fundraiser for the Long Beach Boys and Girls Club on Tuesday night.
2 million and counting. That’s the number of people who’ve been kicked off their unemployment benefits after Republicans deliberately let the program expire.
In their quest to stop President Obama from doing anything, House Republicans are trying to pass a new bill that would give them the authority to sue Obama for being president.
The Associated Press blundered by incorrectly declaring David Alameel the winner in the Democratic Senate primary.
Ice reflects the sun’s heat. No ice…well, of course, that means heat not reflected and more heat absorbed instead, quickening the pace of warming
While you would think that Sen. Graham would have learned from Monday’s remark and maybe tone it down in the future, he decided to double-down on Tuesday and continue to fire away from Crazytown.
House Republicans have launched their 51st attempt to kill the ACA, and President Obama has already promised that he will veto the legislation if it ever gets to his desk.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and much of the left, are praising President Obama’s budget today because he has dropped his proposal to cut Social Security via Chained CPI.
House Republicans, led by Paul Ryan, are preparing a budget that will turn Medicare into a voucher program and make cuts to Medicaid and Head Start.
Right-wing talk radio host and columnist Steve Deace wrote an article that appeared in the Washington Times’ op-ed section on Monday.
A new poll released by Roanoke College on Tuesday shows that the GOP is in serious trouble in their bid to take the White House in 2016.
Republicans have been proven completely wrong as the ACA helped both personal income and spending increase in January.
Sixty-eight percent of all polled and 69% of registered voters think the Republican Party is out of touch with the concerns of most people, according to a new poll.
Ryan is proposing sweeping reforms on welfare and complete overhauls of all social programs including Head Start, Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, housing assistance, and anything helping the poor; or as Ryan calls them the 47% he considers “takers” and “moochers.”
Stockman sort of got a small taste of the smear tactics he used, when his 1977 mug shot resurfaced. The Texas Tribune published it and his arrest record a month ago.
Does Steve King have the ability to choose to be attracted to sweat-sheened, sand-sprinkled muscular men’s thighs? We could ask, is he really gay, or is this just an example of self-professed behavior?
Few states are as friendly to Tea Party candidates as Texas, but the Tea Party may very well come up short on Tuesday in the Republican primaries.
Vladimir Putin has done the impossible. He has rallied Republicans to support Obama, as Majority Leader Eric Cantor has vowed to work with the president on sanctions against Russia.
The Associated Press reported on Monday that Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI), who is running for the US Senate, will start hitting his opponent, Republican Terri Lynn Land, on comments she made criticizing the 2008-09 bailout of the auto industry.
On MSNBC today, Rachel Maddow dropped a truth bomb on Republicans, and their media lackeys, who are saber rattling and calling for war with Russia.
Issa was still spreading the blatant lie that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to “stand down” and let the four diplomats fend for themselves instead of alerting the military to spin up assets to fight the Benghazi attackers.
John Boehner is demanding that President Obama stand up to “thug” Putin while the Speaker continues to be bullied by the tea party.
It is hard to believe today, but once upon a time the Republican Party was not a theological party, but a political party. Everything wasn’t about God.
at Apple’s shareholder meeting, a Washington D.C.-based conservative belief tank, The National Center for Public Policy Research, showed up at the meeting and demanded that the board not pursue any environmental initiatives they claimed hurt the company’s bottom line.
I wonder if there are some Republicans and conservative pundits out there today who are having some regrets regarding their hero-worshiping of Vladimir Putin.
The message big business is sending to Washington is that they like their income inequality, just the way it is. Thank you, very much.
On Sunday, Florida Prosecutor Angela Cory’s office announced it would seek a 60-year sentence against Marissa Alexander in her retrial for firing a warning shot.
The headline made up for the headshot of Tim Scott. The banner, boldface line screamed; “Poll: Scott wins favor of SC GOP.”
While ballots are secret during elections, the Lone Star state’s version of a primary requires voters to disclose their party preferences to the election clerk.
It turns out Rep. Darrell Issa lied to Fox News Sunday today, Lois Lerner won’t be testifying at his latest Obama witch hunt IRS hearing.
On Meet The Press David Gregory tried to sow some Democratic discord with the Republican talking point that Obama is a big spending liberal, but he was shot down by Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA).
The war hawks are out in full force. On CNN, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called President Obama weak and indecisive for not already having done something about Russia invading Ukraine.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) teamed up with Fox News Sunday today for an interview that was designed to make the case for impeaching President Obama over the debunked IRS scandal.
House Republicans are reneging and crying foul because the budget they passed did not take Americans’ Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, or food stamps away to partially fund tax cuts for the richest Americans.
Sarah Palin says “I told you so”: reveals she could see Putin’s invasion of Ukraine all the way from Alaska
