Republicans Willing to Take Food From 45 Million People Over Planned Parenthood
All we have to do so 45 million low income Americans can eat, is be willing to deprive millions of poor women of reproductive healthcare
All we have to do so 45 million low income Americans can eat, is be willing to deprive millions of poor women of reproductive healthcare
Senate Democrats powered by the liberal caucus blocked a Republican bill that would have funded the government but defunded Planned Parenthood.
President Obama has preemptively struck at the Republican bill to defund Planned Parenthood, by promising to veto the bill if it passes the Senate.
“The right-wing Marxists have teamed up with Pelosi. They’re the ones who always team up with Pelosi. They are the Pelosi Republicans.”
Trump’s entire campaign has been entirely like, and just as fake as, the WWE and it is why he is leading in the polls.
The GOP is unhappy the Pope is adhering to Jesus’ teachings – not those of Ayn Rand, Charles and David Koch, and every teabagger in America
Clinton called out the Republican “race to the bottom,” their hateful rhetoric and lies used as an excuse to shut down the government
While the Republican presidential candidates were grandstanding on Planned Parenthood, President Obama hit Republicans with reality when he issued a veto threat that promised to reject the GOP attempts to defund the organization.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke for America when he gave up on the CNN Republican debate and pronounced the entire event, “sad.”
The Republicans’ witness list was “a veritable who’s who” of evangelical anti-women’s choice experts – but no medical experts
Under Republican control, Congress has not laid any taxes to provide for anything, much less for the general welfare of the people,
While announcing his support for the Iran nuclear agreement, Sen. Sanders (I-VT) called out the Republicans who wrong about Iraq and now oppose the Iran deal.
A new House report busted Congressional Republicans for conspiring with the Center for Medical Progress and others on a coordinated campaign to discredit Planned Parenthood and undermine a woman’s right to safe and legal healthcare.
Twenty-eight Republican men are threatening to shut down the government unless women are denied critical health care services through the defunding of Planned Parenthood.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took aim at Republicans for destroying economic opportunity for workers by undermining the basic American bargain that hard work is rewarded with success.
Arson was ruled the cause of a fire that burned a Planned Parenthood health center early Friday morning in Pullman, Washington.
President Obama is blowing his Republicans critics away by setting the fastest job growth pace since Bill Clinton was president in 2000.
Two authors who hate women, one of whom has said he wants her to die, are hardly people you’d trust to point fingers at Hillary Clinton
A government shutdown may work well for Republicans going into a general election – two years ago their 16-day shutdown paid huge dividends
The Pope, once again, has moved in the opposite direction of the Republican mainstream, declaring that, as part of the Church’s jubilee year of mercy (8 December to 20 November 2016), women who have had abortions should be granted forgiveness.
The reason Republicans are attacking Clinton over non-issues is that they are terrified that she is neither intimidated by nor afraid of them
Hillary Clinton has triggered a full-scale Republican meltdown by telling the truth when she compared Republican policies towards women to terrorist groups.
Thinking like a terrorist, Cruz wants pastors to help him radicalize their congregations to join his war on women with a pre-prepared sermon
We have been hearing for a long time that the Religious Right is dead; demographics or not, I’ll believe it when I see it lying in the road
Secretary Clinton laid it on the line today at a rally in Ohio when she likened Republican’s policies on women to those of terrorists’ treatment of women.
Sen. Boxer made the case that candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders agree on the issues and there is no animosity there, in contrast to the Republican primary.
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
The vile remarks Trump made about Mexican immigrants during his campaign kickoff speech were staples of GOP candidates going back to 2010
Conservative bigots love the idea of shredding the Constitution’s 13th and 14th Amendments in place of actual immigration reform
Clinton points out that all 2016 Republican contenders are the same, and they do have their misogyny in common, and wear it on their sleeves
On Meet The Press, Donald Trump suggested that the Republican Party is full of deviants as he refused to apologize to Megyn Kelly.
President Obama took aim at Republican efforts to suppress the vote by calling their laws that make it more difficult to cast a ballot a disgrace.
The Republicans are circling the wagons to get rid of Trump and they scored bonus points for putting on a very public show of caring about misogyny. Unfortunately, they only care about misogyny when it’s aimed at a Republican woman by a man they want to get rid of, which is to say they don’t care at all,
The two-hour debate did yield the critical issues that Republicans are going to slam the electorate with for the next 15 plus months. Leading the parade; all things Muslim. Iran and the nuclear agreement, ISIS and the right-wing blood lust to send our young people anywhere in the Middle East to be killed and maimed. Look into the eyes of some of the candidates and it’s frightening.
Conservatives are innately stupid and frightened, so Republicans know their absurd and mendacious statements will resonate with their base
Trump told Megyn Kelly, “I’ve been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me.”
This is what the new MSNBC looks like in action. Joe Scarborough was allowed to use deceptively edited videos to attack Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a segment on Morning Joe.
By a mostly party-line vote, Senate Democrats powered by the liberal caucus rose up and blocked a Republican bill to defund Planned Parenthood.
The GOP is opposed to providing for the general welfare of anyone but corporations, the filthy rich, and especially the extremely religious
Just days after Trump’s lawyer said “you cannot rape your spouse”, a new poll shows that Trump does not appeal to women voters.
Republican policies and practices towards wild beasts are not unlike their barbarism and cruelty targeting women, people of color, and others
The ruling and the assertion that a religious fanatic is treated the same as a secular person will not sit well with theocrats.
John Kerry dismissed Senator Bob Corker’s fantasies about a world where Iran’s nuclear knowledge can be made to magically disappear.
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So what evangelical Republicans in Congress came up with this week is a “novel” piece of federal legislation that mirrors the rash of religious Republican state schemes to legalize discrimination against the LGBT community.
Evangelical Republicans hate America with religious passion because the Founding Fathers did not create a Christian theocracy
The media proclaimed “lame duck” president has roared back again, as President Obama signed an executive order this morning order that put the Labor Department into action to extend overtime pay and raise wages for 5 million workers.
In fact, the State Department could easily have substituted the name Republican Party for Islamic Republic of Iran, condemned the same practices, and no conscious American or citizen of any other foreign nation would have batted an eye or disagreed with the assertions in the report; America’s human rights violations as of late are well known around the world.
That idea of compassion, or humanity for other human beings has become anathema to Republicans and conservatives over the past six years
Nearly a week after a true and loyal Confederate racist brutally murdered nine innocent African Americans worshipping in a building they assumed was a safe sanctuary from Confederates, and after several days of negative publicity and pressure, both Governor Haley and Senator Graham suddenly think that maybe a symbol of treason and racism is not playing well with decent Americans.
There is no other reason for Republicans to try defunding Title X than denying family planning services and contraception from women.
Conservatives wasted no time trying to dismiss racism as a factor in the shooting instead calling it an attack on Christianity.
The GOP is nothing more than a modern, reactionary cult designed to give religious justification for willful ignorance,bigotry, and bad behavior
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) confronted the Republican attempts to use a 43-year-old essay against him and destroyed their attempts to bring him down on Meet The Press.
The reason Republicans have a problem is because they won’t denounce the Duggar family’s cover up of Josh Duggar’s sexual assaults. Former Governor Mike Huckabee has gone full-on defense of the child sexual predator and his family while other Republicans who used the Duggar family as right-wing Christian cred in photo-ops are now silent.
Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her campaign store on Tuesday, where you can purchase things like the American-made and union printed $30 “Everyday Pantsuit Tee”.
The privatization scam amounts to a yearly-issued, and set amount, coupon to purchase healthcare services at a private hospital or doctor’s office, or use as a discount card to purchase a private insurance policy.
It is curious that so many Americans were surprised over the revelations that a religious conservative idol is guilty of molesting his sisters, or that Republicans embraced the FRC’s icon they must have at least suspected was a fraud. In fact, the close relationship between Republicans, the FRC, and Josh Duggar was a match made in heaven.
It was prescient, then, that when President Obama addressed graduates of the Coast Guard Academy and told them that “denying it (climate change), or refusing to deal with it endangers our national security. Anything less is negligence. It is a dereliction of duty and it undermines the readiness of our forces,” he was describing and referring to Republicans.
Too much can be made of the plethora of Republican candidates for 2016 – after all, they are all virtually clones of one another
Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) have been forced to admit on the Sunday shows that the Obama approved raid on ISIS in Syria has been successful.
Recently, although Republicans love the Vatican’s support for opposition to equal rights for women and the LGBT community, there has been growing enmity over the Pope’s opposition to income inequality and anthropogenic climate change. The Pope finally went too far this past week when he failed to comply with Israel’s agenda that Palestine will never be a sovereign state.
The U.S. House voted to block a measure permitting considering letting immigrants who arrived here illegally to serve in the military.
The Republican series on how to incentivize rape while claiming they don’t have a war on women continues. The House of Representatives has voted 242-184 to pass a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Compare this list of Roman edicts of toleration to a current Republican list – oh wait, there isn’t one
Kansas’ religious Republicans are so intent on proving they will go to any length to protect a fetus that they passed legislation for the National Right To Life movement outlawing a medical procedure to ban abortions at 14 weeks after fertilization.
The upcoming SCOTUS marriage equality ruling is just another opportunity for Republicans to challenge the constitutionality of the Consitution
Republicans have great faith that the American public can’t tell the difference between a candidate who grew up middle class but stands for policies that will hurt the middle class and a candidate who has a lot of money but a platform that helps the working and middle classes. Republicans put a lot of store in “story” or rhetoric, over policy. They have to, because they can’t afford to discuss their policies openly.
Republicans claim their abominable legislation overturning a Washington D.C. anti-discrimination statute that prohibited religious employers from punishing women who use birth control, family planning services, or abortion services was to protect employers’ religious liberty according to the Hobby Lobby ruling. However, they revealed the legislation is about using religious tyranny to control women.
This time around, the subject is once again abortion and instead of New York, Missouri Satanists are assisting a woman seeking a religious exemption from Missouri’s religious 72-hour abortion waiting period because the Christian law violates the Satanist’s “deeply held beliefs about bodily autonomy;” something Christian fanatics cannot comprehend or countenance for any woman.
Bill Maher schooled Republicans on their foreign policy failures while delivering a lesson on President Obama’s successes.
Hillary Clinton has a real conundrum on her hands. It’s her walking-on-eggs observation about the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership vote. The vote will be in tandem with another controversial trade deal with the European Union, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
In his weekly Wednesday general audience, Pope Francis came out publicly in favor of equal pay for women.
Once again Republicans show they haven’t read their Bibles – or their Constitution – before they start legislating Jesus into law
Hillary Clinton praised U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren as a progressive champion who never hesitates to hold powerful people’s feet to the fire, including “presidential aspirants.”
Republican strategist Ana Navarro blasted Hillary Clinton for supposedly playing up her female candidacy.
The hapless GOP needs somebody of Hillary’s stature for 2016, but all they have is a cast of nobodies with no ideas
Senator Rand Paul’s problems with women aren’t imaginary and contrary to the conservative narrative after his disastrous announcement rollout, these problems with women were not manufactured by the Democratic Party.
The crux of South Carolina’s argument in support of discriminating against gays is that if it constitutionally permissible to discriminate against women, then it is perfectly legal to discriminate against gays.
Pew Research dug deep into the long term trends on party affiliation and found that more demographic groups lean Democratic than Republican, and more Americans lean towards supporting Democrats.
Jesus valued women and saw the need for money. Republicans value money and see little need for women beyond the need for sex
One day people will wake up and wonder why they can no longer get the pill in their state, let alone an abortion. They can thank a Republican for the RFRA.
President Obama exposed the Republican agenda by calling out the morally repugnant GOP budget plan to give 4,000 of the wealthiest Americans a $4 million tax cut while passing the bill on to every other citizen.
When Pink Floyd sang that “we don’t need no education,” I don’t think church ministries are what they had in mind.
Republicans have good reason to be nervous, because right now, Hillary Clinton is crushing every one of them in the polls.
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.
There is a misconception among ignorant Americans that this nation was founded on the tenets of the bible and is therefore a Christian nation
Nothing compares to Republicans when they wander into that deep mystery of women’s reproductive health, especially if it means understanding a woman’s anatomy and how it functions.
A YouGov poll on President Obama’s patriotism accidentally revealed how deeply Republicans hate President Obama and remain angry at the country that elected him twice.
Healthcare has a lot in common with the environment, with Republicans, who know nothing about either, eager to pass legislation regarding both
One of the biggest nightmare scenarios for Republicans is coming to life as Sen. Elizabeth Warren is signaling a team up with President Obama on some new consumer protection rules.
One can hardly feel empathy for the people living under Republican extremists because unlike people suffering under fanatics in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and ISIS-controlled Iraq; red state extremists are chosen by incredibly stupid Americans to govern.
We’ve been victims of holy war for decades. This just turns attention from our own women, children and poor to Muslim women, children and poor
During an interview with MSNBC’s Irin Carmon, aired on The Rachel Maddow Show, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discussed Roe v. Wade and why she believes it will be upheld and the state of race relations.
State Senator Thomas D. “Tom” Corbin is one of South Carolina’s political “Walking Dead.” While dining with colleague Lexington Senator Katrina Shealy, he referred to women as “A lesser cut of meat than men.”
How do we handle all the love that Republicans show women?
During Thursday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough whined about the Authorization for the Use of Military Force that President Obama put forth on Wednesday in regards to the ongoing situation with ISIL in the Middle East.