Speaker of the House John Boehner’s decision to sue President Obama is raising an epic amount of grassroots dollars for Democrats. In June, House Democrats out-raised House Republicans $4.5 million to $883,000 in grassroots donations.
On Monday, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) criticized Texas Governor Rick Perry’s announcement that he will send 1,000 National Guard troops to Texas’ border with Mexico.
A local Republican Party leader in Kentucky has resigned her position in act of protest against Sen. Mitch McConnell.
In a statement Monday morning at the White House, President Obama had some harsh and direct words for Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the recent missile strike of a Malaysian airliner and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The President has spent an inordinate amount of time cleaning up Bush-Republican messes whether it was a devastating economic recession, two wars of aggression against Muslims, or most recently the immigration “crisis” involving child refugees from Central America.
During Monday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough had to be corrected by co-host Mika Brzezinski after Scarborough claimed former President Ronald Reagan immediately canceled a vacation and flew back to Washington after a Korean airliner was shot down by the Soviet Union in 1983
A new Politico Poll has some bad news for Republicans bashing President Obama on the Ukraine/Russia crisis. Voters in 2014 battleground states agree with the president by a nearly 2 to 1 margin.
If the overall attitude toward atheists is a cool 41, atheists can’t complain much because their attitude toward Muslims is only 44, just north of the overall rating of Muslims at 40
Since John Boehner doesn’t want to impeach Obama, Sarah Palin is appealing to a higher power by claiming that God wants President Obama to be impeached.
The American people must make the connection that every despicable act by Republicans over the past five years was driven by vengeance to punish the people for electing a Democrat as President; not, as President Obama says, out of their ideological form of patriotism or love for America.
On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made the wild accusation that President Obama is holding the children who illegally come to the country over the Southern border for ransom.
On Sunday, during an interview with Candy Crowley on CNN’s State of the Union, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) tore apart Sen. John McCain’s idea that the United States needs to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons
Fox News tried to use open mic comments they recorded this morning while Sec. of State John Kerry was speaking to an aide of camera, and promptly fell flat on their face.
On Meet The Press today, warmonger and Iraq war liar Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called Obama Sec. of State John Kerry’s foreign policy outlook delusional.
In a poll by Landmark Communications released Sunday, Democrat Michelle Nunn has a commanding lead against both of her potential challengers in Georgia’s US Senate race
While the RNC trolls Hillary Clinton with a squirrel, claiming there is ‘Hillary fatigue!’, reality bites them in the poll once again.
Though you’d never guess by listening to its representatives speak, it was a terrible week for modern Republican ideology.
This will be my last report from the fascinating progressive recharge called Netroots. It has been a memorable journey especially in light of the fact it was hosted by Detroit, rebounding slowly from its economic Tsunami.
Despite a tumultuous week of international incidents, President Barack Obama has shown he will continue to fight for American equality at home.
An inevitability of war is those responsible for starting it will go to extremes to absolve themselves of responsibility for the war’s consequences.
Vice President Joe Biden is turning on the charm and doing everything possible to explain to the left why 2014 must not be a repeat of 2010.
Democrat Rep. John Yarmuth (KY) let the cat of the bag. Hillary Clinton will be going to Kentucky to campaign with Alison Lundergan Grimes in her bid to defeat Mitch McConnell.
Good news from Senior White House Officials — there has been sufficient progress in negations with Iran to move forward with the next several months of negotiation.So far, the sanctions are working.
The American middle class is getting ‘forked’ by Republicans in Congress.
It was announced that President Obama is not intimidated by Hobby Lobby, or powerful Catholic and evangelical religious leaders, and will sign an executive order on Monday barring discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender employees doing federal government work.
Putin says “The government over whose territory it occurred is responsible for this terrible tragedy.” But the plane was shot down over an area controlled by Russian separatists supplied by Putin’s government.
Several Republican Senate candidates across the country have joined Akin in support of zygote personhood the Supreme Court gave legitimacy in Hobby Lobby and the crusade to criminalize contraception and abortion begins in earnest.
You get your exercise when you attend a Warren speech. Up and down. Up and down. Yelling at the top of your lungs and applauding wildly. The audience left wanting more. Much more!
Ryan Shucard, the press secretary for Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA), was arrested Friday morning by Capitol Police for carrying an unlicensed firearm.
Rep. Darrell Issa is getting desperate. Today, he sent a letter to the White House offering to give administration adviser David Simas a second chance to testify after the Obama administration told the California Republican that Simas has executive branch immunity.
To fully appreciate this cartoon, you should view Anderson Cooper’s take on this. It is a stitch.
The idea that Mitt Romney may run for president again in 2016 is getting closer to becoming a reality as a Vox Populi Poll found that 70% of Republican primary voters are open to voting again for Romney.
On Friday, during an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Samantha Power, the US Ambassador to the UN, did not mince words about the likely cause of the Malaysian airliner crash in Ukraine Thursday.
In deplorable moment, on a wretched network, Sen. John McCain called President Obama and his administration cowardly on Fox News.
At Netroots Nation, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) had a simple message for Republicans and their corporate backers that Democrats and the left will fight and they will win.
The White House said the United States is shocked by the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17
and urged the involvement of the UN in the investigation.
O’Reilly wants the Berlin Wall, but people went over that wall by zip line, tightrope and hot air balloons just for a start.
When Netroots finally got down to the business of pumping up progressive causes, there was no shortage of expert advice to give the crowd the impetus to take their new knowledge back home and start applying it.
Take one Greg Abbott add some Koch money and you get policies that put Koch profit over the safety of people in Texas.
Democrats on the House Rules Committee sent a letter today demanding that Republicans tell taxpayers how much of their money John Boehner is going to spend on suing President Obama.
Well, that sure didn’t take long. On Thursday, conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh tossed around an insane conspiracy theory regarding the Malaysian jet airliner that crashed in Ukraine.
Vice President Biden rocked Netroots Nation on Thursday by enumerating progressive values in order to show the activists why their country needs them.
MSNBC got pranked by someone claiming to be from the US military in Ukraine during their live coverage of the downing of the Malaysian jet.
The steady and methodical approach of the Obama doctrine was on display this morning in a phone call between President Obama and President Putin of Russia Thursday.
On Thursday, shortly after news broke that a Malaysian airliner had crashed in Ukraine, apparently after being shot down by a missile, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made sure to get himself in front of a television camera.
During a hearing of the Rules Committee on whether to sue President Obama over the Affordable Care Act, Charles Tiefer of the University of Baltimore Law School called the Speaker’s suit an “embarrassing loser”.
Speaker of the House John Boehner tried to distance himself from his unpopular lawsuit against President Obama by blaming Democrats for his decision to sue the president.
A poll released by NBC/Marist on Wednesday suggests that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s hopes for a 2016 White House run may be nothing more than a pipe dream at this point.
There is an inconvenient truth Americans are going to have to come to grips with even though it is painful; no amount of signatures on a petition equals one vote at the ballot box, one vote in either house of Congress, or will overturn a Supreme Court decision.
The American Family Association’s Sandy Rios says refugee children carry diseases and she be treated like lepers (never mind that we don’t even treat lepers like lepers anymore)
According to the former CEO and now Chairman of the largest food product manufacturer in the world, Nestle, corporations own every drop of water on the planet, and because he believes water is not a basic human right; if human beings get thirsty, they have to pay or die.
While Republican controlled states continue to do all within their power to make voting more difficult for people more likely to vote Democrat, GOP contenders still need substantial support from women.
The reaction to the Senate Republicans’ move to block a bill that would have reversed the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision demonstrates why the GOP is doomed.
Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown gave an interview to Boston Herald Radio where he forgot that he was running for Senate in New Hampshire, not Massachusetts.
On Tuesday morning, Republican Congressional candidate Adam Kwasman attended a protest against housing migrant children from Central America in Oracle, AZ. He thought a bus full of YMCA campers had migrant children on it.
Republicans have handed Senate Democrats a very powerful Get Out the Vote tool. Democrats drafted a bill to protect women from corporations like Hobby Lobby interfering in their medical and health needs. President Obama has just indicated that his administration supports this bill.
House Republicans are trying to court shop for a sympathetic judge to hear their lawsuit, but they aren’t trying to win. Speaker Boehner’s goal is to make the lawsuit last until November.
During Wednesday’s episode of Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor Nicolle Wallace tried to make the case that the scandal surrounding the bridge lane closures on the George Washington Bridge last year will not hurt New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s chances for a White House bid in 2016.
What Gretchen is saying is that, someday, you won’t be able to drive around and look at all the happy white people with their glowing plastic baby Jesuses
Sen Bernie Sanders exposed a dirty little secret that the Kochs and other conservative billionaires don’t want you to know. The Republican attacks on the IRS are part of a deliberate strategy to help the Kochs buy our democracy.
The White House is fighting back against Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) abuse of his subpoena power by refusing to send an administration adviser to testify at his hearing that is designed to drum up another Obama scandal. Issa has been claiming for days that the White House is misusing taxpayer funds for partisan political purposes….
Tegucigalpa, Honduras- “A girl (11 years-old) resisted being robbed of $5. She was clubbed over the head and dragged off by two men who cut a hole in her throat, stuffed her panties in it, and left her body in a ravine…”
Open Carry Texas, a gun rights advocacy group, announced that they have scheduled their march through the Fifth Ward in Houston. The march will feature open-carry enthusiasts marching through the streets carrying long assault rifles.
John Boehner’s lawsuit against the president is seriously wounding Republicans. The DCCC announced that they had outraised Republicans in June, $25.3 million to $10.9 million.
Attorney General Eric Holder was a featured speaker at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act. During his speech at the event, held Tuesday at Howard University, Holder spoke at length about the causes and effects of racism.
Mitch McConnell’s worst nightmares are coming true as Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes announced today that her campaign led the nation in fundraising with over $4 million donated in the second quarter of 2014.
On Tuesday, during a segment on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, the network’s strategic analyst Ralph Peters heavily criticized President Obama for his handling of the release of former POW Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
President Obama has had enough of Republican obstruction. He had a simple message for Congress during a speech in Virginia, “Just do something.”
The new amendment prohibits both the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Army Corps of Engineers from acknowledging or spending even one penny “to design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change.”
In a pair of NBC/Marist polls released Tuesday, Democrats are ahead in the Senate races in Michigan and Colorado. Both Democratic candidates hold leads beyond the polls’ margins of error, providing a welcome bit of good news to Democrats ahead of the midterm elections in November.
David Barton, who has been doing his own level best for years to destroy America, renews an old refrain when he said on TBN’s “Praise The Lord” last week that God is going to get the US for not supporting Israel. Watch courtesy of Right Wing Watch (if his shirt bothers you, just close your…
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has announced that the Senate will hold a vote this week on a bill that would reverse the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unloaded on Speaker of the House John Boehner on the Senate floor. Reid called Boehner’s lawsuit against President Obama a joke, a sham, and something that Judge Judy would throw out in half a second.
Fired up Democrats are demanding that Speaker Boehner be transparent about the taxpayer funds he intends to use on his political stunt of a lawsuit.
Things got so bad for MSNBC’s conservative-leaning shows Morning Joe, and The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd that they lost with younger viewers to The Weather Channel last month.
On Sunday, former Republican Congressman Todd Akin wrote an op-ed for the far-right conspiracy website WorldNetDaily. The column was in response to an article about him and his upcoming book, ‘Firing Back,’ that appeared in Politico last week
Republicans love to accuse President Obama of creating a ‘part-time America’, but in fact ‘since 2010, full-time jobs are up 7.6 million, and part-time jobs have declined by more than 900,000.’
It is true the Founders gave preferential treatment to white male landowners, but the Ninth Amendment provided a means for future lawmakers to give equal footing to the entire population. Where the Founders did not give preferential treatment or privileges was for religious adherents, and they included the Establishment Clause to ensure that future generations would never face the threat of religious imposition due to preferential treatment from the government
On Monday’s episode of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough criticized Attorney General Eric Holder over Holder’s statements that race is a component that is driving some of the opposition to President Obama in Washington.
A new PPP poll confirms that the race for governor in Ohio is a dead heat. Republican Gov. John Kasich leads Democrat Ed FitzGerald by a single point 45%-44%.
During an interview on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) lit into Republicans regarding their words and actions surrounding the crisis at the border involving migrant children from Central America.
The Republican Party is crumbling as the crisis unfolds on the border. Fox News Sunday hosted Rick Perry today and promptly tore the Texas governor apart.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee admitted today that Republicans have no grounds for articles of impeachment against President Obama.
On ABC’s This Week, Attorney General Eric Holder dealt with Sarah Palin’s calls for Obama impeachment by using two sentences to call her a bad VP candidate, and even worse judge of who should be impeached.
On Saturday, Kathy Perkins, the founder of a gun rights advocacy group known as Moms With Guns Demand Action, posted a photo on her Facebook page with a caption that read, “Where is an assassin when you need one?”
Although mainstream Republicans and extremist conservative groups are driving the bogus political theories and conspiracy-mongering, it is the media that gives them a forum to incite Americans prone to hatred against the government with an African American man as President.
One could reasonably expect a self-identified Christian to identify with the words of Jesus of Nazareth, since, after all, their religion is based on Jesus’ life and teachings.
Satellite TV provider DISH Network urged Federal Communications Commission officials this week to reject the proposed merger of Comcast with Time Warner Cable.
A federal judge rules that the Florida GOP cheated in redistricting. Imagine that.
Lacking a strong leader to rally behind in 2016, desperate, fragmented Republicans turn to tried-and-failed 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney
The ratings for Meet The Press continue to crumble as the American people continue to show no interest in the pro-Republican Sunday morning show format.
In an op-ed published by The Washington Post Friday evening, Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry ripped Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) over his isolationist ideology and blamed President Obama for the increased violence in the Middle East.
The Republican Party is hitting a whole new level of crazy as Sarah Palin called Obama a teenager, and repeatedly accused the president of being high and using drugs.
President Obama used his weekly address to unload on John Boehner’s partisan lawsuit by calling it, “a political stunt that’s going to waste months of America’s time. And by the way, they’re going to pay for it using your hard-earned tax dollars.”
Since the justices on the Supreme Court are above the law, and ethics requirements every other judge in the nation are held to, it is not surprising the conservatives on the Court lied and immediately violated their own ruling.
Louie Gohmert has an almost impossible task in trying to not come across as a fool, and no surprise he failed miserably this past week in D.C.
Republicans thought they could successfully finagle the state’s congressional districts in 2012. On Thursday, a federal judge proved them wrong.
Rep. Darrell Issa has managed sabotage his new allegation that the administration is using taxpayer dollars for political purposes by admitting in 2011 that a similar investigation was nothing but political theater.
Sexism is over and American students need to get over themselves! Or, Mitch McConnell caught on tape.
