If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell’s own words encapsulated the entire conservative mindset when he promised that “Obama won’t like it, but that will be done. I guarantee it.”
The Florida Primary is on Tuesday, and it’s expected that Charlie Crist will be up against Tea Party Republican Slick Rick in November. Floridians, be sure to vote!
What is curious, is that Republicans are campaigning against President Obama who is not running for any political office, but since they cannot run on their records in Congress, they are using conditions in Iraq to frighten Americans into supporting the GOP.
The judge, Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood, identified the Republican legislation, “Opportunity Scholarship Program,” as a scam to “siphon money from the public schools in favor of private schools and allows funding of non-public schools that discriminate on account of religion.”
The Black Mass vs the Eucharist. In the end, Satanists want to piss on Jesus’ body and Catholics want to eat it
According to the President’s proposal, religious organizations and corporations will get a special accommodation to opt out of covering birth control for their employees by notifying the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of their religious objections. Then, both the HHS and Department of Labor will arrange for a third-party insurer to pay for and administer coverage for religious employees so women still receive the full range of contraception coverage guaranteed in the Affordable Care Act.
The entire nation is showing solidarity with Ferguson and remembering Mike Brown.
According to a shocking study released by the relief charity Feeding America, the number of Americans struggling to feed their families is the same as during the height of the Great Recession.
A great many conservatives have expressed their hatred of democracy by threatening a civil war, government overthrow, and armed rebellion against the federal government because they cannot comport the democratic process that elected an African American man as President.
In the business of writing sometimes controversial and even not so controversial commentaries, it’s very commonplace for the authors to use nom de plumes, or, to be less elitist, pen names.
But fear not, it is not because of your country of origin, or because you contribute to the economy and the nation’s defense, but because your skin is brown and it is the only reason the racists in the Republican Party want you extricated from their white America.
What we are seeing on our television screens and reading everywhere is not just about Michael Brown or Ferguson, MO. It is about America. Last week alone, four unarmed black men were killed by police. From 2006-2012, white police officers killed a black person at least twice a week.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” -Desmond Tutu
Even if the militant police assault on peaceful protestors, working journalists, and peaceful family neighborhoods was an isolated incident, it would still be driven by racism when compared to the way law enforcement officials treat white Americans as patriots exercising their constitutional rights.
For the second time in two weeks, a religious organization has taken action and spoken out against religious right extremists, prominent political figures, and well-known “religious leaders” for manipulating Christianity “in the name of god” to advance political and personal agendas of hate.
Looks like our old friend blood oil is calling us back to Iraq.
“They are the ones trying to tell us why,” he said, pointing the finger at everyone but the one person who flapped his lips.
Republicans care as little about the environment as they do the American people who are suffering the ill-effects of polluted water, air, and climate change, and it is true they are as obsessed with demonizing climate science and environmentalism as Joe McCarthy pursued the “communist threat to America.”
An imperfect and deeply troubled man died Monday. He hanged himself around noon without leaving the clue of a note unless one is later found. Behavioral deficits aside, at his core, Williams was a caring, dedicated individual.
These make-believe warriors have the express consent and blessing of Texas Republicans who love the idea of armed vigilantes. The seriousness of the issue is the make-believe army men are not children, they are heavily armed, and not only do they want to shoot child refugees, they want to wage war against the government.
He did so many great plays and movies I couldn’t pick a single character. Good Will Hunting was maybe my favorite, but his comedy is how he will be remembered. Goodbye, Robin. Glad to have known you. -Bill Day
Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell told George W. Bush that if he breaks Iraq with a pre-emptive invasion, he would have to fix and pay for it. That was about eleven years ago and although Bush is long gone, and American combat forces are out of Iraq, President Obama is left to fix and pay for the Bush neo-cons actions that broke Iraq.
The Bush Administration took a hammer to Iraq and Obama got stuck repairing the damage.
House Republicans have particularly targeted poor white people in Southern red states with Draconian budget cuts to social programs including food stamps, housing assistance, and healthcare.
Former vice president and convicted war criminal Dick Cheney’s daughter does not think torture is a violation of international law, and is furious at President Obama for announcing what the all the world,
Sen. Mitch McConnell admitted that if he loses his reelection campaign, Republicans have zero chance of taking back the Senate.
Americans have to face the fact that Republican hatred for President Obama has finally reached a level that has them specifically targeting children as surrogates for the African American in the White House.
Republicans have willfully blocked filling vacancies to myriad posts in government out of sheer malevolence toward the President, including diplomatic posts and ambassadors in countries where America needs a representative to deal with international crises affecting national security.
Israel is using the midterm elections for Republican support, and Democratic silence, in its war against Palestinian civilians sequestered in a fenced and mined “reservation” in Gaza. Since America has not condemned, openly, the Israeli invasion and killing of innocent Palestinian civilians, Muslims throughout the Middle East are rightly outraged and their fury is aimed at America.
The barbarians in the GOP base will welcome their heroes home when they start their unearned 5-week hiatus after the House passed “immigration” legislation that really reveals the depth of Republican depravity towards children of Hispanic descent.
Call it “Judaization,” or “internal colonization” but they are both happy terms for what was, in essence, a holy war, or to use a modern term, ethnic cleansing
Florida Governor Rick Scott took an all expenses paid hunting trip to King Ranch in Texas that is owned by U.S. Sugar, where he killed a deer on well-stocked land.
Republicans have made a mockery of governance for well-over five years, and it is all due to their racial animus toward Barack Obama they disguise with words like tyrant, executive overreach, dictator, and imperial president.
Sanctions are cutting off the expansionist arms of Russia’s Putin
The IRS agreed to start doing its due diligence and enforcing the law against mainly Christian evangelical churches that “have been blatantly and deliberately flaunting electioneering restrictions” with impunity because they believe they are above, and immune from, the nation’s laws; because they are evangelical Christians.
A Satanic Temple based in New York is demanding a religious exemption based on the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling that allowed artificial legal instruments (corporations) to eliminate contraceptives from employee’s prescription plans because they contravene the corporation’s deeply-held religious beliefs.
John Boehner could fall asleep for twenty years and he’d wake up saying the same thing.
There is a tendency among Republicans to support foreign nations and leaders over the interests of this nation that clearly shows their patriotism is reserved for any nation other than America.
The U.S. sugar industry owns King Ranch in Texas where they fly the political GOP elite, all expenses paid, to a hunting vacation. There, the pretend big game safari boys like Rick Scott can hunt on a well stocked ranch for their ‘trophies’.
Florida Governor Rick Scott is ‘no scientist’ but he thinks acid fracking and drilling for natural gas near the environmentally fragile Everglades is a good thing.
This week evangelical anti-choice activists congregated in New Orleans to protest a woman’s right to choose, and took their religious tyranny into the sanctuary of a church, interrupted a service, and loudly informed congregants they do not worship according to the “true faith” and warned them to repent.
So it was this week when Republicans accused President Obama of political dissonance by failing to show Americans he was in charge of the downed Malaysian passenger jet tragedy or influx of child refugees because he did not cancel his scheduled events, it was certain Republican presidents did exactly the same thing.
Vladimir Putin’s culpability in the MH17 disaster is clear.
One would rather be a pariah than sit idly by while Israel wages war against innocent Palestinian civilians who were herded onto a Native American-like reservation under threat of annihilation, or tricked into going there with a false promise of being granted a homeland.
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.
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.
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.
To fully appreciate this cartoon, you should view Anderson Cooper’s take on this. It is a stitch.
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.
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.
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…”
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.”
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.
A federal judge rules that the Florida GOP cheated in redistricting. Imagine that.
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.
John Boehner is A Boy Named Sue.
Kansas is going broke and predicted to be bankrupt within two years, job creation is lagging the entire nation, and it is all down to giving tax cuts to the rich at the expense of the state’s economic life and the people the Republicans were elected to serve.
One would think most Americans support the 14th Amendment’s prohibition of unequal treatment under the law unflinchingly. Unfortunately, the religious right is intent on abolishing the concept of equality and rejects the idea that no American, or government entity,
It’s not only the weapons that are scary.
Boehner’s reason for suing the President is another example of Republicans projecting their gross malfeasance on the African American in the White House; the only man in Washington working to grow the economy and create jobs for the American people.
At least, and it is better late than never, the sheriff is willing to assist federal officials conducting an active investigation to hold the seditionists involved in the Bundy standoff accountable.
The idea that progressives need to break up with the Democratic Party, that it’s “Time to get out of this abusive relationship” is based on a false premise
The right-wing does NOT have a monopoly on patriotism. Happy 4th of July, America!
We are under siege this July Fourth. We can only resist with our love of liberty, for it is liberty that is the beating heart of liberalism
In fact, there is a desire among many extreme conservatives to hold a new Constitutional Convention to craft a new document that adheres strictly to their vision of a nation the Founding Fathers never intended.
The Trojan Horse in the Hobby Lobby ruling is a term, closely held corporation, that created an opening for nearly all businesses to use the new corporate religious freedom exemption with impunity.
After the Hobby Lobby decision, we can expect to see more corporations find ways to get cases in front of the Supreme Court claiming ‘religious freedom.’
Whether most Americans realize it or not, they have been spectators, victims, and often combatants in a sectarian religious war that one side appealed to, and won, the support of a religious male cabal with the ultimate weapon of mass destruction; the U.S. Constitution.
Male conservative members of the media, as well as Republican men in office, decided to act like a bunch of adolescent jerks after SCOTUS made the announcement and released the decision.
The only thing more idiotic than ascribing personhood to a legal instrument is asserting it prays, worships, and warrants religious freedom protections; particularly when the corporation (legal instrument) will exercise its religious freedom to impose religion on its employees and abridge their 1st and 14th Amendment constitutional rights.
It might be a good idea to give Ann Coulter a muzzle.
Freedom of speech goes both ways and it is high time to give back to religious extremists what they dole out against women with impunity; and Supreme Court approval.
Have you ever been curious about the inner workings of a polling place? That’s where you go to vote for local state and national candidates, ballot issues and advisory questions.
One would be hard-pressed to find any difference whatsoever between Republicans and their teabagger cohort except their willingness to openly state their goals.
Refusing to discuss their suddenly-found, alleged concern for democracy, Republicans instead claim that President Obama taking executive action makes him a hypocrite for condemning Bush for his use of signing statements.
It is a travesty, and a mystery, why any American would vote for Republicans who not only do nothing for the American people, but spend the majority of their waking hours wasting taxpayer time and money investigating alleged White House scandals that, more often than not, are of their own making.
How would people from other racial or ethnic groups feel if sports teams decided to mock them with their logos?
Republicans are ultimately responsible for the attack on the Benghazi outpost for several reasons they will never admit, but that does not absolve them for their very substantial role in the diplomats’ deaths or eliminate the need for a special prosecutor to hold them accountable for inciting Islamist militants to attack Americans.
For the sake of oil and money, neo-conservatives seem willing to have Americans shed more blood in Iraq.
America’s mainstream media is as apt to repeat failures as conservatives likely due to the symbiotic relationship between corporate media and the conservative movement.
Republicans are convinced that tea partiers are enraged that establishment Republicans did not oppose President Obama over the past five years and that now they demand, and Republicans will deliver, unflinching opposition to the President.
What any of the Republicans blaming Obama for pulling American troops out of Iraq in 2011 should remember, is that in October 2008 George W. Bush was president when the Status of Forces Agreement was drafted and ratified by Iraqi lawmakers a month later in November 2008.
How would the neocons respond if President Obama told them they were solely in charge of coming up with solutions to the problems in Iraq? Could they even handle it? Or are they more interested in complaining from the peanut gallery?
It used to be that all Americans, regardless of political ideology, wanted our prisoners of war to be brought back home. Due to Obama Derangement Syndrome, that is no longer the case.
A Survey USA poll released on June 10th has Jeff Merkley leading 50-32 over Republican Monica Wehby in the Oregon Senate race.
The Tea Party chewed up and spit out Eric Cantor.
The NRA has blood on its hands as America deals with yet another school shooting.
George Will attacks college campuses for rape prevention efforts, mocking them as political correctness gone too far.
Florida Governor Rick ‘I’m not a scientist’ Scott’s solution to dealing with the effects of climate change is quite interesting.
The giveaway that all the animus toward Sergeant Bergdahl is based in conservative racism usually reserved for people of color, particular the person of color in the Oval Office, is the Republican hypocrisy they have demonstrated over the past five years holding President Obama to a different set of standards than his white Republican predecessors.
Republicans refuse to let Barack Obama have any political victories. However, by attacking a United States soldier Republicans have signed their own death warrant.
Republicans in Congress will go out of their way to make the NRA and the extreme fringe of gunowners happy.
My story is about the giant life and death rip-off that is the retail costs of cancer medications. The nitty gritty of cancer meds is that when you’re dealing with dying, desperate people, you can hose them out of every last penny they’re worth.
For years now, we’ve watched the Republican Party degrade from a once viable conservative response to liberal philosophy, into an apocalyptic crazy town where thinking and humanity go to die.
Bill Day illustrates the Republicans’ hypocrisy loaded flip-flop on freeing Sgt. Bergdahl.
