Cruz Robocall Tells South Carolina Voters Confederate Flag is ‘Our Flag’
The call complains that “Trump talks about our flag like it’s a social disease.†Defending the right to own other people IS a social disease
The call complains that “Trump talks about our flag like it’s a social disease.†Defending the right to own other people IS a social disease
According to a new Poll: Fox News Most Trusted Source for ‘News or Commentary’, a finding that makes intelligent people shake their heads. Yet, the same poll has Donald Trump leading all other GOP contenders, which speaks to the innate stupidity of those polled. However, according to the cheeky reportage at AdWeek: ‘Undecided’ Toppled as…
Republicans are giving Democrats plenty of ammunition in an election year with which to hit vulnerable Republican Senators.
Rauner is falling in with the strategy we have seen from Sam Brownback in Kansas, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, and Rick Snyder in Michigan
The Nevada Democratic Party is promising that they will prosecute any Republican who engages in voter fraud by participating in both the Democratic and Republican caucuses.
The party that screams about voter fraud while getting busted for voter fraud is at it again. This time, it’s a plot to hurt Hillary Clinton with an organized effort to rig the Democratic caucus.
A new poll from the Robert Morris Polling Institute found that Pope Francis has 84.7% favorability rating with Donald Trump supporters. In other words, by attacking the Pope, Trump may be alienating people who would vote for him.
A survey of Democratic insiders revealed that they expect the result in Nevada to be close, but that Hillary Clinton will emerge with a narrow victory on Saturday.
A new poll of Colorado shows that Hillary Clinton’s lead has evaporated as Bernie Sanders has taken a 48%-43% lead ahead of the state’s March 1 caucuses.
The Pope has inserted his holy self into American politics by questioning Trump’s Christian bona fides
For Cruz and his supporters, repression of “the other” is “foundational” behavior – and this is appallingly un-American
Marco Rubio failed to show up tonight for his Conservative Review Convention speech in South Carolina, canceling just five minutes before he was supposed to take the stage at 8 PM and now he’s being mercilessly mocked.
During the MSNBC Democratic town hall from Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton gave a performance that illustrated all the reasons why Republicans are afraid to face her in the fall.
During the MSNBC Democratic town hall, the appeal of Bernie Sanders was on full display. As Sanders answered questions from voters, it became clear that he is the candidate who is out of build a new American dream.
Even with a leading question, a new Fox News poll shows what Republicans are up against as 62% say the President and Senate should take action to fill vacancy now, while just 34% say wait. Independents broke along similar lines 61% to 35%.
Donald Trump is being condemned by religious organizations for his ugly attack on Pope Francis.
Hours before the Democratic candidates are set to take the stage for a town hall; a new Fox News poll shows Bernie Sanders leading Hillary Clinton 47%-44%.
A thin-skinned and grammatically confused Trump fired back at the Pope after the Pope questioned Trump’s Christianity. The Republican presidential front-runner’s reply assaulted the Pope for daring to question his Christianity, saying no leader should have the right to question another man’s faith.
Hillary Clinton has picked up 87 more superdelegates this week to 11 for Bernie Sanders. The new wave endorsements have powered Clinton to a 481-55 delegate lead according to the AP.
The crafty strategists in the Republican Party have got this whole deny Obama his nominee thing figured out. See, if they do their jobs and give the Obama nominee a hearing per their Constitutional duty, well that could go badly for them because you all might like the Obama nominee, so forget the Constitution.
MSNBC gave Donald Trump a campaign commercial that was disguised as a town hall, and the critics noticed Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s fawning treatment of Trump.
Democratic presidential candidate leads in every potential matchup with Republicans in the new Quinnipiac University poll.
Senate Democrats want to know now Sanders is going to pay for “his free higher education and health care proposals”
Bundy faces decades in prison and a $3 million forfeiture, failing not only in his bid to steal public lands but possibly losing his own
Tonight during the CNN Town Hall, the Democrats tweeted, “Hey Ted Cruz, here’s RONALD REAGAN supporting Supreme Court nominations during a president’s last year.”
As soon as Ted Cruz took the stage at the CNN town hall, things got ugly. The Republican presidential candidate completely trashed Donald Trump for threatening to sue him.
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FLA) repeated the fundamentally misleading Republican talking point that there is an 80 year tradition not to appoint in the last year of a presidency.
Marco Rubio is ducking and dodging questions while sticking to his talking points during a woeful performance at the CNN Republican town hall.
Forget the slaughter… think of all the jobs to make them.
Mitch McConnell once wrote that the President is elected by the people to “carry out a program and altering the ideological directions of the court would seem to be a perfectly legitimate part of a presidential platform.â€
As Democrats march towards victory in November, Republicans hit a new low after Ted Cruz exploded during a press conference today and dared Donald Trump to sue him.
One of the nation’s top presidential historians says that there is no historical precendent that Republicans can use to obstruct President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court.
A second poll of Nevada Democrats reveals that Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are locked in a virtual tie with only a few days until the state’s caucus.
Democrats old and new must come to grips with reality immediately or get ready for a Republican president and Koch supermajority Congress
Women stood up for their rights in the Roman forum 2000 years ago, and women today are forced to do the same or consent to male control
The problem has nothing to do with Washington, D.C. “choking off†infrastructure spending. The problems lay in Snyder’s tax cuts
President Obama ripped Donald Trump to shreds during a press conference in California, where he made it clear that he views Trump as an unqualified reality television host who will eventually be rejected by the voters.
It takes true talent to further damage the Bush brand, but Jeb has done it here. After a good debate, he just couldn’t help himself in the jostling for love from the rabid base.
Donald Trump has hit a new low by jumping on board the conspiracy theory that President Obama had Antonin Scalia murdered.
While citing no facts or precedent, Speaker Of The House Paul Ryan lied while calling on Republicans to block President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
If you’re a South Carolina racist or believe in a form of ethnic cleansing by internment camp or want to ban gay people from the country, odds are good that you are supporting Donald Trump. That is to say, Trump’s support in South Carolina is comprised of a “base of voters among whom religious and racial intolerance pervades.â€
A vote to block the Obama administration’s ambitious climate regulation was one of Antonin Scalia’s last acts as a Supreme Court justice. His sudden death may have opened a new path to the rule’s survival.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) reminded Republicans in a scathing Op-Ed, the American people “don’t have the luxury of telling their bosses that they don’t want to do their jobs because they would rather ‘delay, delay, delay.’â€
Nothing less than the foundation of this country’s system of checks and balances is at risk if Republicans proceed with their threats to obstruct President Obama from doing his Constitutional duty to replace Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court, Harry Reid warned.
Kasich subscribes to the Republican delusion that the road to peace depends upon forcing extremist Christianity down Muslim throats
One of these clowns wants to pick the next Supreme Court Justice…
Republican campaign craziness reaches new lows as their race to the top office becomes a scream-filled race to the bottom of the sewer
Order in the court, order in the court…
A Trump spokesperson, allegedly a person good enough at public relations to be paid to be a spokesperson, accused Jeb Bush of allowing 9/11 hijackers to train in Florida under his watch.
A few Trump supporters made the mistake of trying to heckle Bill Clinton at a campaign stop in Florida. The hecklers got an earful of how much their billionaire hero loves the Clintons courtesy of the former president.
Antonin Scalia is dead and Republicans have responded by completely tearing their party apart.
A single vote has yet to be cast in Nevada and South Carolina, but thanks to superdelegates, Hillary Clinton is already leading Bernie Sanders in both states.
The White House is keeping up the pressure on Republicans by telling reporters that President Obama won’t use a recess appointment to appoint a new Supreme Court justice this week.
Over the past seven years, Republicans have done everything to not only obstruct the President, but to erase everything he has accomplished
Jeb Bush looks to his brother to be a lightning rod, turning any Trump attack into a backlash of negativity against the virtual reality star
Michigan authorities blocked county health officials from investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that may have been linked to the water crisis in the impoverished city of Flint, a county health supervisor told CNN on Saturday.
After first suggesting Sanders was not active in the civil rights movement, Lewis said he had not meant to suggest he was not active
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders slammed Republicans for their absurd denial of President Obama’s basic constitutional right to replace the deceased Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court.
Here is an easy-to-read chart that even a ten year old can comprehend, which shows that the Senate has managed to confirm a presidential nominee for the Supreme Court in a mere 19 days, so it’s hard to understand why Republicans feel they can’t possibly get this done in the next 342 days.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ripped the hypocrisy behind Ted Cruz’s promise to filibuster any Obama Supreme Court nominee during an interview on ABC’s This Week.
Hillary Clinton reminded Republicans that President Obama is president until January 20, 2017 and they have a responsibility to vote to confirm Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Scalia.
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) would not take the idea of President Obama using a recess appointment to fill the late Justice Scalia’s seat off the table during an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union.
Senator Warren said in a statement, “Senator McConnell is right that the American people should have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice. In fact, they did – when President Obama won the 2012 election by five million votes.”
It took only moments for Justice Scalia’s death to trigger the worst of conservative thinking on Twitter and Breitbart and elsewhere
Here are the winners and losers from the CBS Republican debate in South Carolina.
Donald Trump was booed at the CBS Republican debate for stating that George W. Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq, and that he is responsible for 9/11.
Just hours after Republicans decided that they wanted to deny Obama the power of the presidency — even suggesting that he should not nominate someone, President Obama announced that he would nominate a replacement for Justice Scalia.
Hillary Clinton warns Republicans not to dodge confirming President Obama’s replacement for Justice Scalia, “The Senate has a constitutional responsibility here that it cannot abdicate for partisan political reasons.”
If Republicans want to obstruct an Obama nominee and make the Scalia replacement an election issue, they will potentially be inviting a wave of Obama voters to turn out in massive numbers.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, fired back against the already entrenched Republican obstruction to a President Obama nominee, saying SCOTUS is too important to leave understaffed.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made it clear Republicans would obstruct an Obama nominee and using his death to drive home the stakes of the 2016 election.
The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has turned the 2016 election on its head.
They’re falling over themselves with dire predictions, like Tony Perkins’ “I’m afraid we may not have another election for our republic.”
As the Democratic race moves to states with large minority populations, both candidates openly courted black and Hispanic votes during a debate that was far more restrained and cordial than last week’s contentious debate in New Hampshire.
Although the main seditious instigators are safely behind bars, the federal government needs to exercise its authority and impose some justice on Republicans who incited the sedition from the start.
Despite the protests of many medical organizations, Republicans ignore the health cost to Americans in favor of corporate profits
IRONY ALERT: The Trump that Fox “News” built is bursting the insular bubble that Fox “News” took the last 20 years to build.
Rubio’s opposition to the First Amendment found a sympathetic ear, asking “How can we use the constitution to cut down our religion?â€
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder will testify on the Flint drinking water crisis at a House of Representatives oversight panel next month, aides for the committee said on Friday.
To the delight of Democrats, Donald Trump is threatening to sue Ted Cruz in order to prove that Sen. Cruz is not eligible to run for president.
African Americans support former Secretary of State Clinton by more than a 3-to-1 margin nationwide, but among young blacks 18 to 29 years old, that margin shrinks to 46 percent for Clinton versus 33 percent for Sanders, according to recent Reuters/Ipsos polling.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump said he would order the CIA to return to waterboarding and “worse”, but a top CIA lawyer said officials would rather resign than go back to enhanced interrogation techniques.
Ted Cruz is reviled that Republicans would rather confirm Obama nominees than do anything to help him win the nomination.
A new poll revealed that Bernie Sanders has erased Hillary Clinton’s double-digit lead and the race in Nevada is tied at 45%-45%.
Ohio’s John Kasich and Sam Brownback of Kansas are just the latest Republicans to use abortion to distract their residents from bad policies
Michael Savage says the Sanders revolution will claim the lives of rich white people and the middle class by mobs of “you know who”
Sanders says he and Clinton are friends, and Republican hypocrites taking a beating are among the five reasons to be glad that you watched the PBS NewsHour Democratic debate.
Here are the winners and losers from the PBS NewsHour Democratic debate.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are humiliating the Republican primary circus by putting on a civil debate that is detailed, focused, on issues, and devoid of the ugliness that is dominating the Republican primary.
So far right it will go off the page.
Over 140,000 supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders have signed a petition demanding that Democratic superdelegates honor the popular vote.
Hillary Clinton isn’t messing around when it comes to taking on Republican efforts to harm African Americans.
While endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, civil rights legend, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) said that he didn’t know and never met Bernie Sanders during the civil rights movement.
Making a claim that sadly seems plausible on the surface, an Iranian official accused Republicans of asking Tehran to delay the recent prisoner exchange until after the presidential election.
The fossil fuel industry said no more regulations and the conservative justices obediently complied
Cruz claimed Christians are nonjudgmental but warned that only her version of right and wrong matter, and there are consequences for making the wrong choice
In an apparent effort to reveal exactly what he means by “Make America Great Again”, Donald Trump celebrated his New Hampshire win by retweeting a white supremacist.
While addressing the Illinois General Assembly, President Obama did what the billionaires and special interests fear most. He took the Citizens United fight to the states.
President Obama’s Department of Justice has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Ferguson, Missouri alleging that law enforcement conduct violated the First, Fourth and 14th Amendments of the Constitution and federal civil rights laws.