GOP Descends Into Madness As Ted Cruz Vaults Into Top Tier Of 2016 GOP Candidates
A PPP poll shows Ted Cruz pulling into contention with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
A PPP poll shows Ted Cruz pulling into contention with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Republicans claim businesses love and demand the conservative economic agenda, but according to states like California and Minnesota that is a blatant lie.
It turns abouta whole slew of Republicans looking at the White House in 2016 has used private emails for government business
A PPP poll, released on the eve of CPAC, shows Hillary Clinton leading the entire GOP field by margins of 7 to 10 percentage points.
Christie’s office has repeatedly denied that they improperly intervened to quash indictments in a Hunterdon County corruption investigation, but new documents that will be filed in court tell a different story.
A new Rutgers-Eagleton poll demonstrated both the strength of Hillary Clinton and demise of Chris Christie as Clinton leads Christie by 23 points in his home state of New Jersey.
A Rutgers University-Eagleton Poll shows New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie sinking to new depths of unpopularity
Presidential hopefuls Chris Christie, Rand Paul, Ben Carson, and Hillary Clinton have taken sides on the debate over requiring vaccinations
Hillary Clinton has large leads over the field of GOP contenders in three key swing states.
Since most Americans are not like the Kochs, Republicans came up with a devious plot to garner support for taking things like good wages, employment benefits, sick leave, overtime pay, and pensions from those that have them.
The GOP has concocted a religion that has nothing to do with Jesus and everything to do with what you do with your reproductive organs
During an impromptu news conference in England Monday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie told reporters that parents in America should have a choice when it comes to providing their children with vaccinations for certain diseases.
It is time that the left started taking this election seriously, along with Romney and Jeb Bush and the rest, even those we view as stupid, misogynist, and out of touch wing nuts
The GOP is poised for an epic clash of plutocrats that is likely to split establishment donors and benefit the Tea Party
Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) has reacted to Mitt Romney weighing a third run for the White House by completely imploding and attacking the media.
Republicans ran on, and won big with, their claim that the GOP is “the party of solutions” founded on conservative pro-growth economic policies, deregulation, and tax cuts for the rich they claimed were more successful than anything “hapless” Democrats or Obama could ever hope to achieve. This is despite the President’s nearly five-year job growth record, world-leading GDP growth, and increased revenue paying down the nation’s debt at a record pace.
Although New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is tired of hearing about increasing the minimum wage, it is worth noting that this January 1, nine states, including New Jersey, will see their minimum wages rise because of indexed increases.
Pope Francis plans to issue an edict on climate change in 2015.
Rick Perry is putting together a 2016 run that is certain to fail as spectacularly as his ill-fated 2012 run
Not a lot of voters will fit in that tiny little GOP tent set up deep in the heart of Dixie, surrounded by Confederate flags and guarded by white supremacist militias
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie got into a confrontation with a former Asbury Park City Councilman who was part of a group of protesters demanding Christie “finish the job” when it comes to rebuilding the Jersey Shore in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
While out on the road campaigning Tuesday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Dismissed reporters’ questions about a potential lawsuit regarding Christie’s order to forcibly quarantine a nurse who had recently returned from West Africa.
After Jon Stewart skewered him on The Daily Show Monday night, Chris Christie proclaimed to Matt Lauer on Tuesday morning that he knows more about how to handle Ebola than the CDC.
On Monday, a day after he told Fox News he had “no second thoughts” about his decision to forcibly quarantine a nurse who had just returned from West Africa, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reversed course and announced that he was allowing Kaci Hickox to return to her home in Maine.
Unless you are a rich and a member of the GOP, Republicans don’t want you to vote.
Chris Christie refused to let Fox News save him from himself as he doubled down on his misinformed opinion that the country doesn’t need a debate about the minimum wage.
Gov. Scott Walker is reeling in Wisconsin. Will Tea Party extremism trump Clinton and Obama support for Mary Burke?
Christie may not have the anti-voter credentials of some of his Republican brethren, but he does not support the right to vote for all Americans.
Led by Fox News (again), the mainstream media’s reaction to Obama’s admission of American intel failures has become the latest Benghazi hoax
Crucial to their success is Republicans’ heavy dependence on one of the Koch brothers’ legislative arms, the American Legislative Exchange Council, to create template legislation for Republicans to block access to voting in what can only be termed as a direct assault on America’s rapidly waning democracy.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie likes to pretend that he’s a moderate, bipartisan straight-talker, but when it comes down to it, he’s a just as beholden to the Tea Party/Koch Brother agenda as any Republican.
Over the past six years, at least, there has been a steady assault on democracy from state level Republicans with valuable assistance from ALEC that led one to wonder whether the Koch brothers had directed the Republican legislative arm (ALEC) to disavow and destroy American democracy one state at a time.
The pattern is unmistakable; Republicans are ill-prepared to manage finances or an economy whether it is at the state or federal level and the reason is always the same; they oppose any measure to bring in any sources of revenue.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was absolutely outraged that a bipartisan election commission in Illinois simplified the voting process that he claimed is “shocking,” and a “major obstacle for the GOP’s gubernatorial candidates.”
Chris Christie is no stranger to questionable ethics and corruption, and although helping financial institutions profit to the tune of nearly a billion dollars to “manage” state pension funds may not be illegal, it is an atrocity New Jersey residents should be up in arms over; particularly because that is about how much Christie cut from New Jersey’s education fund.
As Charlie Brown despairs from time to time, “Good Grief” or if times get truly stressful, “OH, Good Grief.” From the perspective of the upcoming presidential race, this will be neither of those times. That doesn’t mean there won’t be ear-bending yammering from the right.
This week in Washington, DC, the Freedom and Faith Coalition is holding their Road to Majority conference. Basically, this is a chance for conservative Christians to get together and discuss policy ideas as well as electoral strategy for 2014.
A bad day for Republicans just got worse. First, prosecutors in Wisconsin accused Republican Governor Scott Walker of running a criminal scheme while in New Jersey federal prosecutors are closing in on Republican Governor Chris Christie.
A new poll released Thursday by Suffolk University and the Boston Herald shows that Republican Scott Brown trails Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) by 10 points in his bid to defeat the incumbent.
Acting as though he would know right from wrong, Christie said America is “the strongest moral power for what is good and what is right in the world.”
As Chris Christie delusionally continues to believe that he can be president, his former campaign manager says that he personally told him about the GWB lane closures the day before they happened.
In a relatively new form of Republican fascism and regulatory overreach, Republican states have told consumers what they can and cannot purchase, and enacted regulations forbidding one company from conducting business in their states.
The same law firm that cleared Gov. Chris Christie of any wrongdoing in Bridgegate also donated $10,000 to the Christie headed Republican Governors Association this year, while donating nothing to Democrats.
According to the latest Monmouth University Poll, Chris Christie’s approval rating has hit a new low, and some on the right are blaming Rachel Maddow for his decline.
Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie held his first town hall meeting with the state’s citizens since the whole Bridgegate scandal broke open. Christie also pre-screened the audience so that no questions about Bridgegate were asked.
Quinnipiac University released a new poll on Thursday showing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds double-digit leads on nearly every potential GOP candidate.
On Fox News Sunday, Karl Rove claimed Chris Christie’s scandals are a good thing that represent what the American people want in a president.
“You want income equality? That’s mediocrity.” That’s Chris Christie being pragmatic
A poll released by McClatchy-Marist on Wednesday shows that former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over pretty much every GOP candidate for the 2016 Presidential election.
Both MSNBC hosts were openly upset and shocked about new revelations in the Christie investigation. After reading the headline of a story in The Star-Ledger detailing that Christie never actually read the email that was sent out to his supporters discrediting David Wildstein, Brzezinski and Scarborough just completely lost all composure.
In its Sunday edition, the New Jersey Star-Ledger published an op-ed declaring that the paper is sorry for endorsing Chris Christie for New Jersey Governor in 2013.
There is a concerted effort to raid public sector employee pensions to give corporations and the wealthy tax breaks that was the purview of Republicans but is gaining support among some state-level Democrats.
Compulsive liar Mitt Romney was on CNN today standing up for Chris Christie and telling the world that just like Jeep was moving to China, Christie is telling the truth.
A new CNN/ORC poll finds Chris Christie slipping further into the never going to be president netherworld, as Hillary Clinton has opened up a 16 point lead on the New Jersey governor.
This Sunday on Face The Nation, host Major Garrett had on both former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Democratic New Jersey Assemblyman John Wisniewski, who is heading up the investigation into New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s involvement in Bridgegate.
The house of cards is crashing down around Chris Christie, and taking the Republicans best hope for 2016 with them, as David Wildstein is spilling the beans and admitting the governor knew about Bridgegate.
A new NBC/Marist poll shows that Chris Christie’s net favorability ratings have dropped 23 percentage points since October 2013
Things are getting worse for Chris Christie by the day, as the mayor of Elizabeth, NJ has come forward to accuse the governor of closing down the state’s 4th largest DMV as an act of political revenge.
Chris Christie and his Lt. Governor are now the subjects of a federal investigation as the FBI is looking whether or not Christie’s Lt Governor and key aides threatened to only release the funds upon the Mayor’s approval of a development project for a Christie donor.
On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s Crossfire, former Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, called for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to resign as head of the Republican Governors Association.
On Tuesday, Chris Christie will be inaugurated for his second term as New Jersey Governor. Of course, the past few weeks have been a political disaster for Christie, as it seems he is bouncing from one controversy or scandal to another.
On Monday, Pew Research released its latest poll and it is only going from bad to worse for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Now, a majority of Americans think he is lying about his involvement in Bridgegate.
In a poll released by Public Policy Polling on Thursday, New Hampshire voters favored Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the Presidential election in 2016.
CNN reported on Thursday evening that after Chris Christie was elected to his first term as Governor of New Jersey, he gave the Port Authority a directive to place his ‘good friend’ David Wildstein into an executive position.
Just last month, before the entire Bridgegate scandal unraveled, Christie trailed Hillary Clinton by only three points, 48-45. In this latest poll, Clinton has widened the gap to thirteen points, 50-37.
In a poll by Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press that was released on Monday, New Jersey Governor saw his approval and favorability ratings in take a nosedive in the wake of Bridgegate and other political scandals.
The real issue is not just whether Christie had a hand in closing lanes on the GWB, but his character, or lack thereof, that drives his sense of entitlement, bullying, and willingness to use any means to impose his will.
At issue is a Grand Canyon State law, passed in 2012, that prohibits most abortions, except in medical emergencies, after 20 weeks. This past May, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, located in San Francisco, deemed the law unconstitutional.
Things just keeping getting worse and worse for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating Christie’s use of Sandy relief funds to see if there was any improper use of Sand relief funds.
The man leading the Bridgegate investigation, John Wisniewski said on Face The Nation that Gov. Chris Christie could be impeached if he knew about the closures of the George Washington Bridge.
Chris Christie is in such big trouble that the only thing Republicans like RNC Chair Reince Priebus can do is compare Christie to Benghazi to try and save him.
The latest theory surrounding BridgeGate involves Chris Christie’s ongoing battle over state Supreme Court judges as the motivation behind the unlawful lane closures.
Here is why Obama is a real leader. When the ACA website didn’t work Obama apologized and said I will fix it. When Chris Christie was confronted with Bridgegate he claimed it wasn’t his fault.
As one would suspect, Rush Limbaugh totally lost his sh*t Thursday regarding the Chris Christie bridge scandal. For the most part, Limbaugh spent the entire show discussing the scandal.
Gov. Chris Christie had planned a photo op in Fort Lee today as part of make Bridgegate go away day, but Fort Lee’s mayor has told Christie not to visit. Christie is going to show up anyway.
Instead of coming clean with all the information related to Bridgegate, Gov. Chris Christie used the press conference to self destruct by throwing the staff under the bus. Christie made sure that this story will not be going away.
Stewart decided to go into detail about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s growing scandal over the politically motivated traffic jam caused by his aides due to Fort Lee’s mayor not endorsing him in last year’s election.
Documents released today implicate some of Chris Christie’s top aides in the lane closures that created a traffic nightmare last September.
Friday the 13th was a very unlucky day for Chris Christie. So unlucky, in fact, that it might cost him a chance at the presidency.
Within a few years, there could be one million gang members in the U.S. Gangs are a refuge for children of poverty. No Teapublicans care.
Chris Christie ducked and dodged questions as the idea that he will be the 2016 Republican savior fell apart on Fox News Sunday.
The party that has offered us every kook who walks in off the street would really like to wish away New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The party that gave us Sharron “Rape Lemonade” Angle and Christine “I might be a Witch but I Don’t Know where my Vagina is” O’Donnell, and Sarah “I can see…
There were many winners and losers (and one who won and lost) in last night’s elections, but the biggest winner was liberalism.
Tuesday’s election results included two big-city mayors and a Democrat displacing a wacky Republican in the Virginia governor’s office.
Days before his reelection Chris Christie blew the lid off of his moderate Republican facade by blowing up at a public school teacher, and showing the rage filled bully that he can’t hide.
Former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura is back in the headlines. He plans to run for President in 2016, if Howard Stern would be his running mate.
The rest of us are looking to Virginia and New Jersey voters to send Republicans the message the rest of us cannot.
Chris Christie has positioned himself outside of support from the Republican base, but also from liberals
What this lawsuit amounts to is that Liberty Counsel wants an exemption to the scientific underpinnings of our shared reality.
By signing ban on gay conversion therapy for minors, Governor Chris Christie moves further from the lunatic Republican base
On behalf of those who are trampling their rights, Palin convinces people that somebody else is is responsible. She pronounces evil with a smile
Though we’re three-years-plus out from Election Day 2016, the Iowa clown car is fast filling up with those jockeying to be in position
Chris Christie went after Paul’s libertarianism while defending Obama, igniting a war between the two sides of the Republican Party.
What King is looking for in a 2016 Republican is a Muslim-hating hawk who can get behind some truly Bushian and ruinous, economy-destroying defense spending
While forgetting all about Hurricane Sandy, Gov. Chris Christie tried to rehab his image for 2016 by criticizing President Obama’s ability to lead.
Republicans are livid at Gov. Chris Christie for holding a special election instead of appointing a Republican to fill Lautenberg’s Senate seat. GOPers say Christie’s 2016 chances are dead.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and presidential hopeful has been casting himself as a jolly moderate. I invite you to check the record.
Soledad O’Brien challenged Rep Mulvaney (R-SC) by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position, since no one demanded that the costs be offset for disaster relief for his state.
Sandy victims got a preview of the you’re on your own mindset Republicans have advocated for the past four years, and it portends a drift toward a nation defined by selfish greed.
John Boehner, back to the wall, has come out swinging a middle finger, offering an F-bomb to Harry Reid and to the victims of Hurricane Sandy