Democrats Lead In 2 Of 3 Southern Governor’s Races At Stake in 2015
Three Southern U.S. states have Governors races in 2015, and Democrats are poised to win two of them.
Three Southern U.S. states have Governors races in 2015, and Democrats are poised to win two of them.
“We are wiping the slate clean,” we are told by Paul Ryan, which means the same “screw America” agenda advanced by a new face
Billionaire Paul Singer is trying to buy influence, and in Rubio, he has found the perfect puppet to promote his agenda for the 1 percent.
The only difference between the extremists and Ryan is how soon, and for how long, they are able to shut down the government.
At an event in Concord, NH today, local and statewide labor leaders endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.
President Obama is traveling the country to change our society and promote opportunity by breaking the pipeline that leads poor young people from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails.
Chris Christie, who has repeatedly told others its none of their business what he believes, demands to know what Obama believes
Fox News propagandizes the GOP Debate and police brutality, and lets an all-male panel judge whether women should be able to wear leggings
Right-wing talk radio show host Mark Levin is calling for Republican National Committee Chair (RNC) Reince Priebus’ ouster.
Donald Trump has gotten a great deal of mainstream media attention for the number of donations to his campaign, but Bernie Sanders announced that he has surpassed 750,000 donors, which means that he is at minimum more than ten times bigger than Trump.
Bobby Jindal has suffered another defeat as a federal judge has ordered him to restore all funding to his state’s Planned Parenthood.
Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to NBC cancelling the RNC’s partnership with NBC for a scheduled February debate in Houston Texas.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told viewers of the CNBC Republican debate to watch him filibuster and fight the budget deal on the Senate floor, but his filibuster consisted of an eighteen and a half minute speech that was really only 15 minutes long.
The crux of the case against the Kochs, Bush, and Scott is that they conspired to build what appears to be “an illegally-approved pipeline”
Drowning in evidence, Cruz denies there is evidence, and then claims if we say he “denies” it we’re proving climate change is a religion
At the GOP debate, Rubio argued that the policy that brought his parents here should be changed to meet the realities of the 21st century.
Political blogger and prognosticator Nate Silver declared Thursday morning that Jeb Bush is “probably toast”.
A leading faith-based group is calling out Paul Ryan for warping the teachings of the Catholic Church to justify his economic agenda that benefits the rich and promotes income inequality.
Vice President Biden may not be a candidate, but he held a one on one meeting with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to discuss getting the Koch billionaire dollars out of our politics.
The Koch brothers have no right to complain about the tone of Republican politics because it is exactly what they paid for and wanted
Sanders wants to overhaul federal marijuana policy and open the door for states to legalize marijuana without federal interference.
Republican debate viewership has dropped by 10 million people since the first GOP presidential debate, and more Americans watched the Democratic debate on CNN than watched the Republican debate on CNBC.
“92 percent of the jobs lost during Barack Obama’s first term belonged to women,” Carly Fiorina charged last night during the third Republican presidential debate. The fact-checkers at PolitiFact gave this stale, already debunked charge a big old fat “False” today.
His victory speech after becoming Speaker demonstrated that Paul Ryan has no idea what he is getting into, and he is being set up to fail, because no one person can fix what is broken inside the Republican Party.
There is plenty of blame to go around. No small share of it attaches itself to Boehner, who let the crazies take over the House on his watch
Liberty Institute says if Coach Joe Kennedy isn’t allowed to continue praying – against Jesus’ wishes – they will sue the school district.
There were a few winners, but mostly losers at the CNBC Republican Presidential Debate.
Republicans were asked hard questions and they whined about media bias, plus five reasons to be glad that you didn’t watch the CNBC Republican Debate.
There is a troubling pattern emerging at the CNBC debate. When any Republican candidate is asked a serious question that they can’t answer, they scream media bias and crumble into a puddle of tears.
Join PoliticusUSA’s Sarah Jones as she live blogs the crazy that is the CNBC Republican presidential debate.
Four Republican candidates who are polling next to nothing got together for a debate that demonstrated that the biggest loser was the American people who will pay the price with their healthcare and jobs if any of these Republicans win the White House.
Paul Ryan, who is likely to become the next House Speaker, announced his support for a two-year debt and budget deal on Wednesday.
The budget agreement that is a big win for President Obama and congressional Democrats got a thumbs up for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) who has announced that he will be voting for the deal.
2016 Republican candidate Ben Carson, who political journalists keep telling you is so brilliant, he doesn’t know what the debt ceiling is or how it works. Thus it was pretty easy for him to vow never to raise it.
Donald Trump can’t stop whining. Trump has hit a low by complaining that the CNBC Republican presidential debate that hasn’t happened yet is unfair.
In a blistering editorial, The Sun Sentinel blasted Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for ripping off the taxpayers by taking his salary and not showing up for work and told Rubio that if he hates being a Senator, he needs to resign from office.
The GOP is jumping on the Dark Age bandwagon to stop scientists from finding cures to myriad infirmities and debilitating and deadly diseases
Fox News is in cahoots with Republican candidates Jeb Bush and Donald Trump, inventing inflated numbers of Syrian refugees to scare the base
On Sunday, New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte (R) announced that she will support the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.
President Obama pulled no punches when he called out Fox News and other conservative media outlets for spreading the lie that he is out to take away guns.
President Obama has a message for Republicans in Congress. The President warned the GOP not to play ideological games with the budget deal.
Rachel Maddow and MSNBC are experiencing double-digit ratings growth with younger viewers while Fox News has seen their viewership decline by 11% with persons age 25-54.
Trey Gowdy’s committee has given Clinton’s campaign a great deal of momentum, and it is showing up in the polling coming out of Iowa.
An indicator of the size of the Democratic victory on the budget deal is the speed with which liberal members of Congress are coming out in support of the deal.
William M. Daly mistakenly claims the GOP’s “insanity” began when Senator John McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate in 2008
The Green Family, owners of Hobby Lobby, if guilty, would seem to have one set of morals for others, and none for themselves
Senate and House Republicans are throwing a fit and claiming that Speaker of the House John Boehner gave President Obama everything he wanted in the new two-year budget deal.
Bush’s family gathering is a last ditch effort to save Jeb’s under-performing campaign, but the optics couldn’t be worse.
Only 18 percent of Kansans are satisfied with Governor Sam Brownback, despite electing him twice to be their governor.
President Obama and Congressional Democrats are close to a big win as progress is being made on a two-year budget deal that would raise the debt limit and force a major cave from Congressional Republicans.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) shook up network morning television by exposing the truth about the Republican Party on The View.
Poor Donald Trump has been fighting “no” his whole life, with only a “small” million dollar loan from his daddy, he told voters Monday during a New Hampshire town hall hosted.
Jack Lew, Secretary of the Treasury, penned an editorial in USA Today this morning, urging Congress to do its job as the Treasury runs out of borrowing authority on November 3, in just 8 days.
Support for the tea party has hit a record low, as the American people are finished with the extremist right wing movement.
A new study finds that expectant mothers living in active fracking areas are 40 percent more likely to give birth prematurely
Donald Trump is popular, he calls himself a Tea Partier, but the Tea Party is less popular today than ever before. What gives?
I can’t imagine a greater U.S. legislative embarrassment to show the world.
Armed with “suspicious subpoena power,” the House Science Committee is using its authority to conduct a witch hunt against NOAA scientists for doing the job they are paid to do; study the oceans and atmosphere and publish the results.
Sen. Bernie Sanders rejected the media’s claims that he is shifting his presidential campaign into a new attack phase against Hillary Clinton on CNN’s State Of The Union.
Hillary Clinton was authentic, confident, funny, and found her own style of cool – at times dropping into a conversational tone that rings true. These moments really resonated.
Chris Christie had just finished an interview on CBS’ Face The Nation where he called President Obama lawless, when he was kicked out of the quiet car on an Amtrak train for breaking the rules.
Ben Carson went on Meet The Press and assured voters that his days of trying to stab people are in the past.
When pressed during a CNN interview about why he thinks federal workers should be fired for not doing their jobs while he has missed the most votes in the Senate, Sen. Marco Rubio put his foot in his mouth and said that voting in the Senate is not important for a Senator.
Bill O’Reilly thinks he knows how to question Hillary Clinton, as though he is any better with facts than the Benghazi Committee
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders sent shockwaves through the billionaire class and corporate interests by vowing never to retreat in his campaign against them.
U.S. GOP Rep Marsha Blackburn (TN-7) will head a select investigative panel on “big abortion providers”.
Carson said “it’s not appropriate for public funding to be used to indoctrinate students in one direction” but it apparently is in the other
President Obama’s former Senior Advisor in the White House David Plouffe has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, and it’s not a begrudging endorsement. It’s a full-on embrace, “She doesn’t quit… She’s the right person to protect President Obama’s legacy”.
New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran (R) resigned early Friday morning, and she pleaded guilty to 6 of the 65 charges she faced.
Bush tells America if they want to elect Trump, go right ahead. Jeb Bush has better things to do than sit around and be demonized.
According to pediatricians, doctors should start screening their child patients for hunger, and the lesser-known problem of food insecurity
The Republicans on the House Benghazi Select Committee are quietly moving away from investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails after a hearing that was widely viewed as a win for Clinton and the Democrats.
President Obama connected the dots and exposed how the dysfunctional Republican agenda is literally destroying the beautiful country that we live in.
Rios, a consummate apologist and liar for Fox and the American Family Association, accuses Clinton of being a consummate apologist and liar
The comment Friday Fox Follies most often gets is how I can watch so much Fox “News” Channel and not have gone off on a wild killing spree. I’ll let you in on my secret: I watch Fox “News” as if it’s a Drawing Room Comedy. There are people always rushing in and out to say absurd things.
Despite their efforts to bring down Hillary Clinton, House Republicans are instead paving her path to the White House.
First the Benghazi scandal bit the dust after Hillary Clinton testified, and then the Department of Justice released their report that found no targeting of conservatives and no criminal wrongdoing at the IRS.
President Obama compared Republicans to Grumpy Cat and shocked them out of their Twilight Zone of denial by dropping an economic fact bomb on the GOP.
The Bush campaign is letting some workers go, and implementing drastic pay cuts for many of the workers who will stay.
President Obama is gearing up for a huge showdown with Congressional Republicans promising to veto any bill that raises the debt limit, but contains spending cuts.
Three years after he ran for president by promising to repeal Obamacare, Republican Mitt Romney finally admitted that his Massachusetts healthcare plan is just like ObamaCare.
Unable to deal with Hillary Clinton’s masterful Benghazi Committee hearing dominance, Matt Drudge charged that Clinton was on drugs due to a health issue, possibly anti-anxiety medication.
Hillary Clinton isn’t done taking on Republican investigations. Less than a day after crushing the House Republican Select Committee On Benghazi, Clinton went after other Republican witch-hunt investigations during her speech to the DNC Women’s Leadership Forum.
And then there were three. Lincoln Chafee abruptly ended his campaign for the Democratic nomination while addressing the DNC’s Women’s Leadership Forum today.
Judge Charles R. Breyer said that the DEA’s interpretation of the bipartisan medical marijuana bill “defied logic and language”
Erick Erickson took to his blog to complain that it “was all a political spectacle” and “carnival road show of back bench congresscritters”
Trump wants to close mosques in order to fight the Islamic State, despite the First Amendment’s guarantee of the free exercise of religion
Carson wants to punish liberal colleges for teaching things he doesn’t approve of – “extreme political bias” – otherwise known as facts.
House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) lost his temper during Thursday’s hearings, during an exchange with California Democrat Adam Schiff. When Schiff noted that the investigation was being conducted as a prosecution of then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Gowdy got defensive and lost his cool.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is “eager” to be Speaker of the House, according to an email he wrote to colleagues.
Republicans in Congress didn’t believe that he would really do it, but President Obama has vetoed the NDAA.
The Republican men on the Benghazi Select Committee are being turned into whining boys who are falling apart as they are trying to go face to face with Hillary Clinton.
Benghazi Committee Member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) used his time to level Republicans with some facts about their Benghazi investigation.
72 percent of Americans believe the House Select Committee on Benghazi is mostly using the Benghazi investigation to achieve political gain.
Hillary Clinton has been unflappable in dominating House Republicans during the early stages of her testimony in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is demanding family leave for himself every single weekend, but he has refused to support virtually every bill that would give American workers a few days of family leave.
Tomorrow, House Republicans are slated to pass “filibuster-proof” legislation founded on religion to defund Planned Parenthood and Obamacare