Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) stumbled his way through ridiculous Republican talking points today after being confronted by a reporter for refusing to do his job. He made no sense as he leap-frogged from nonsensical Republican talking point to another, pitifully trying to make a case that doesn’t hold up under even the most gentle of scrutiny, much like a kid claiming the dog ate their homework.
The Democratic Policy and Communications Center rounded up editorials from around the country that all tell Republicans to stop obstructing. Their message: “American People to GOP: Do Your Job”.
Senator Chuck Grassley was considered untouchable just weeks ago. He’s been a Senator since 1981. But then as Senate Judiciary Committee chair, Grassley started floating a ridiculous excuse for refusing to do his job, claiming that we should wait until the next election before giving a hearing for a Supreme Court nominee.
Two different reports say Republicans have decided for sure not to hold confirmation hearings on an Obama nominee for the Supreme Court.
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€
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.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren shamed Republicans on the Senate floor for perpetuating the already problematic rigged legal system that protects corporate lawbreakers and the rich, bringing to light two Republican proposals that protect corporate lawbreakers and make it harder to investigate and prosecute bank fraud.
Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office sent out a memo detailing Democratic wins in the Omnibus and in the Senate, Al Franken (D-MN) praised the bipartisan agreement for extend several renewable energy incentives and making working family tax credits permanent.
Senator Feinstein is leading an effort to bar gun sales to people on the Terrorist Watchlist, but the NRA is fighting her efforts.
Marco Rubio skipped a classified security briefing on Wednesday, to attend a 1,000 dollar a ticket fundraiser in Newport Beach, California.
Republicans ran on repealing ObamaCare but it turns out that didn’t really mean repealing ObamaCare. Not all of it. Not the parts that would get really noticed in an election year.
Bernie Sanders and Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley cast the 3 no votes.
Mitch McConnell set a very unambitious calendar for 2016, including a nearly two-month August recess.
On Sunday, New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte (R) announced that she will support the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is demanding Social Security and Medicare cuts in exchange for his vote to raise the debt ceiling.
Taken in a broader context, the practice of using credit histories as a factor in hiring further rigs the system against people at the bottom.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) spent years filibustering Democrats when he was in the minority, but as Majority Leader, McConnell is begging Democrats not to filibuster the Iran deal resolution of disapproval.
Now that Lindsey Graham’s angry white guys have fallen in line behind Donald Trump, Graham turns to sour grapes and calls them the dark side
WSJ economists are fearful that Republicans will repeat their past “serious damage to the economy by harming consumer confidence”
Only 32% of Americans have a favorable impression of the Republican Party, while after 6 months of raving lunacy, 60% have an unfavorable view
Now, whether we attack or not, Republican politicians want to vote down a negotiated agreement and keep repressive sanctions in place that have negatively impacted the population to a tremendous degree. Why not go Hiroshima and Nagasaki on them? Estimates from Atomic Archive.com put the combined death tolls at about 105,000 dead and 94,000 wounded adding up to nearly 200,000 casualties.
A Kelli Ward victory over McCain would increase the odds for Democrat Rep. Kirkpatrick to win the general election and become US Senator.
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. The GOP want to shred the Constitution to revert to legal white supremacy
In Wisconsin, the situation has gotten so bad for the Republicans that they actually consider being down by 8 points “good news.”
Schumer (D-Israel), announced he was joining forces with war monger Graham (R-Israel) to thwart the UN’s P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran
Most Americans are unaware, tragically, that America is dangerously close to becoming a fully-fledged plutocracy run by the Koch brothers
The mainstream media is finally reporting that the Koch’s legislative arm ALEC is moving into the open to prevent action on climate change
The GOP is opposed to providing for the general welfare of anyone but corporations, the filthy rich, and especially the extremely religious
A day after a major GOP fundraiser urged Mark Kirk to quit, a new poll suggested that Kirk should take his advice.
Everything bad about America that the rest of the world sees increasing, and Americans feel, is purely Republican and it is truly pathetic
The GOP leadership decided not to vote on a Senate transportation bill that would have funded highway construction for the next six years.
The GOP’s inability to get along with one another has ensured that for now, Planned Parenthood, will continue to receive federal funds.
Ironically, Ted Cruz appears to be running for president as an opponent of GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
A 2013 Gallup Poll of 65 countries that considered the U.S. the greatest threat to world peace. Elect Jeb Bush and that number will double.
As long as the Kochs own Congress, Republicans will propose robbing the elderly to pay for projects that benefit the rich and corporations
A local newspaper lashed out at Kirk’s extreme rhetoric on the Iran deal, calling him the love child of Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz.
Six U.S. Senators introduced a bill that would make it easier for legal marijuana businesses to use banks for their transactions.
For the record, then-Senator Hillary Clinton, like many Democrats, voted against the PLCAA which protects gun and ammo sellers from liability
Americans should take time today to reflect on just how far the nation has drifted from the Founders’ “we the people” sentiment.
Senator McCain defended his support for the TPP, by arguing that cheap goods are more important than protecting American workers.
Senate Republicans are having a hard time agreeing on what to do if the Supreme Court guts Obamacare in the upcoming King v. Burwell ruling.
Republicans, and their wealthy owners in the oil, coal, and chemical industry, particularly do not believe that any American warrants clean, non-toxic drinking water, and on Thursday Republicans in the Senate took an important step to make sure at least a third of the American population will lose access to what decent human beings believe is one of the most basic human rights; clean water.
The state’s that would be most affected by ending Obamacare subsidies, also states the GOP needs to win, to keep control of the Senate.
Just over six months after winning back the Senate, Mitch McConnell’s GOP majority is proving to be more dysfunctional than ever.
A Trade Promotion Authority bill passed the U.S. Senate 62-37 Friday night, with 48 Republicans and 14 Democrats voting for the measure.
If Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy were alive at this moment, I’m convinced, at 83, he would still be in the Senate. He’d be just as passionate, committed, intelligently informed and supportive of the issues and legislation that really mattered.
Democratic Senators sent a letter to the Rules Committee requesting that contractors who do business with the Senate pay a living wage.
Boehner’s reaction to Senate dysfunction is to claim a change of leadership in the Senate has given us a Senate that is actually working.
The U.S. government should only award federal contracts to companies that pay American workers a living wage.
Now that the Republican scam to include anti-abortion language in the Human Trafficking bill has failed, Mitch McConnell also lost his official excuse for pushing Loretta Lynch’s confirmation to the back of the Senate’s bus.
The same people that apparently hate the libertarian Koch brothers are looking on Rand Paul as a decent human being; a monumental error one expects moronic Republicans to make, but not anyone on the left.
Senator Tom Cotton argues that discrimination against gays in the US shouldn’t be a priority, since we aren’t hanging them like Iran does.
Before a packed room in a Manhattan Barnes & Noble bookstore, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) refused to back off her criticism of Wall Street, after some of the big banks hinted that they could withhold campaign funds from Senate Democrats.
Illinois Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth plans to announce on Monday, that she will be running against Republican Senator Mark Kirk in 2016.
While Senator Cruz’s fiery talk may have won over hardcore conservatives, he just struck a match to his 2016 presidential aspirations.
Major Gen. Paul D. Eaton stopped short of calling Cotton and 46 Republicans traitors. As a career military man Eaton used the appropriate label for Cotton’s lack of ethics and knowledge of his place as a congressional representative.
On Friday morning, Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson backpedaled a little on his support for signing the Iran letter.
The latest outrage, the open letter signed by 47 Republican senators, is the greatest sign to date that the spoiled little children are throwing a fit and are furious they are not allowed to be president and control foreign policy.
Polls in the U.S. and Israel show Netanyahu’s popularity has declined after his speech addressing the U.S. Congress.
The truth, and true purpose of the letter, has really never been in question; specifically because the filthy little neo-con who originated it has broadcast the purpose for the world to hear for months.
Inviting hate group leader Tony Perkins to speak about religious freedom is just more evidence of the GOP’s farcical approach to governance
Several prominent GOP presidential hopefuls rushed to support the ill-considered Republican Senate letter, addressed to Iran’s leaders.
The Iranian may know the Constitution and international law better than the treasonous 47, but it seems he does not understand that in America, Republicans are not bound to any law; domestic or international.
47 GOP Senators signed a letter to Iran, warning them that Republicans were prepared to undermine any nuclear agreement reached with the US.
On Monday, Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski announced that she planned to retire rather than seek re-election in 2016.
Preventing measles in America doesn’t require more troops on the border, it requires putting more vaccination needles in our children.
When anti-regulatory politicians like Thom Tillis (R-NC) abandon common sense in favor of dogmatic ideology, it endangers public health.
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday, committee chairman Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) flipped out on anti-war protesters from Code Pink and referred to them as “low-life scum.”
A pair of Tea Party Congressmen are reportedly drawing up plans to challenge Arizona Senator John McCain in the 2016 GOP Senate primary.
One of the last things Dianne Feinstein did as Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee was to release a redacted 660 page executive summary of the Committee’s 6,000 page report on the CIA’s involvement in the Bush era torture program.
GOP Senators killed amendments requiring Keystone oil be kept in the U.S., and mandating that the pipeline be built with U.S. steel.
President Obama’s proposal to give middle class and working class Americans a tax break has the GOP on the defensive.
Gavin Newsom has decided not to run for Senate in 2016 making attorney general Kamala Harris the presumptive front-runner if she runs.
There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous to other human beings and should be prevented at all costs, and yet wishes they could do the same thing. Last year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, like all Republicans, witnessed the complete economic devastation…
Republicans are beginning the 114th Congress with the mindset that “nothing is going to get in the way of our team’s focus on the Koch brothers’ priorities” in quickly passing two bills the Koch brothers demand be acted on.
The first African American to be elected by popular vote to serve in the U.S. Senate has passed away at the age of 95. Edward Brooke (R-MA) was the first black Senator to win an election after the 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913, allowing for the direct election of U.S. Senators. His victory came over…
Similar to overpaid NFL “star” Jay Cutler’s reign of terror as the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears, the best thing we can say about the 113th session of Congress is that it’s over.
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary reveals that the CIA torture program was both brutal and ineffective.
On Tuesday, after Senate Democrats released a detailed report showing the CIA’s use of torture was both ineffective and far more expansive than previously acknowledged, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released a statement where he said that the release of the report was “politically motivated.”
Most of what passes for newspapers these days are embarrassingly partisan rags and feature, above all else, totally irresponsible right-wing opinion detritus hardly worth a second glance. U.S. dailies are little more than Republican propaganda sheets.
Be assured of one thing. There will be a Keystone XL pipeline in your future; your very near future. The Republicans want it. The blue dogs want it. The State Department has blessed most of it.
Like a snake in a woodpile, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) lies dangerously in wait to be fast-tracked to International Big Boy land where giant foreign and domestic money interests will control every aspect of U.S. trade dealings with the 11 other member countries of TPP.
On Thursday, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) will take over as Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, replacing Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO).
Republicans blame Obama for not putting policies into effect that either (A) belonged in a fun house or (B) that the House wouldn’t pass, all while cloaked in the garb of wanting the best for their constituents.
Following Obamacare’s bumpy rollout, the GOP expected to campaign on a platform of repeal, repeal, repeal. However, as Americans have come to embrace much of the Affordable Care Act in substance, if not yet in name, campaigning on all out repeal has lost its luster.
On Friday, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) held a news conference where he called on his colleagues to restore the gutted portions of the Voting Rights Act.
On Wednesday afternoon, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was his normal warmongering self as he grilled Secretary of State John Kerry over the Obama Administration’s strategy to deal with ISIS.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is warning the American people that country is facing a pivotal moment in history tomorrow as the Senate will vote on an amendment to repeal Citizens United.
These people run the GOP, and they have not a frigging clue what they are talking about. They don’t seem to know anything about government or reality.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reached 1,000,000 Facebook fans today, and she celebrated by pointing out that this is good news because of the issues she supports.
The Arkansas Senate seat is in play as Republican Tom Cotton is a rigid gaffe machine who projects elitism if not arrogance, like a mini-Mitt.
Throughout efforts by the Senate Intelligence committee to investigate the Bush Administration’s war crimes, the committee faced one obstacle after another.
Senate Republicans blocked a bill today that would potentially bring millions of jobs back to the United States by refusing to end tax breaks for companies who outsource jobs.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has delivered for our veterans. Sen. (I-VT) will be unveiling compromise legislation with House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller that will fund and reform the VA.
On Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on CNN’s State of the Union to discuss President Obama’s foreign policy decisions when it comes to Russia, Israel and the Middle East.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sexism is over and American students need to get over themselves! Or, Mitch McConnell caught on tape.
