Ralph Nader is railing against the “imperial presidency” but has nothing to say about our runaway, do-nothing Congress. It makes no sense to rail against the one while ignoring the other.
Thursday marks the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, not to mention a think tank. What a waste of money.
Republicans want bombing suspect treated as enemy combatant but it’s liberals who want increased government control?
The Republican Party’s soul searching has come to this: They’ve decided to model the party on the success of Republican governors like Jindal and Brownback, as well as former President George W Bush.
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Sarah Palin seem to have captured the spirit of the current crop of Republicans; still extreme and still anti-Obama.
An increasing number of states have passed a bill whose main component is increasing reading skills. It’s really another privatizing effort
More than 80 Republicans have signed a brief which will be submitted to the Supreme Court in support of Marriage Equality
The American government persists in shutting out communist Cuba while welcoming communist Vietnam and China. It’s time to bring Cuba aboard.
Get ready to say bye to the Postal Service as we know it and hello to near-monopoly private providers who will charge high prices, pay low wages, hire a majority of their workers on a part-time basis.
As long as they’ve got decent insurance, a few bucks in the till, political contributions to the right people and a Supreme Court majority, corporations will always receive preferential treatment.
As our nation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr, conservatives choose NOT to remember him, but to misremember him as a conservative
The President’s 23 Executive Orders on gun control are now public. The Republicans are pushing back implying some may be unconstitutional
Should we worry about Obama’s white male cabinet appointments? How about we wait and see what his cabinet looks like before we complain
The GOP finds itself in trouble as Obama’s popularity soars and their own plummets, and Obama’s second term only promises more of the same
There is no conceivable outcome in which GOP opposition to Chuck Hagel ends happily for Republicans
Unlike most of the words that come out of Republicans like John Bolton’s mouths, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was telling the truth about her concussion and now blood clot.
The Syrian civil war drags on. Russia is sending ships and marines to Syria and both the U.S. and Russia are pressuring Assad to negotiate.
Hilary Clinton, felled by a concussion, is under attack by Republicans for depriving them of an opportunity to subject her to the Inquisition
Bryan Fischer introduces Barack the Destroyer, the man who wants to destroy America and make Americans suffer because of their racism
Facts crash into belief where Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system is concerned. How could Obama have paid for it when he hates Israel?
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
Reality is the ultimate enemy of Republican ideology, so Tom Tancredo picks up his vorpal blade and shows himself asylum-ready
Mitt Romney’s 5 point plan to create jobs was John McCain’s 5 point plan in 2008, and George W. Bush’s 2004. In reality, voters are voting for Bush’s economic ideas, not Romney’s.
Ask yourself why the laws of mathematics work differently for Mitt Romney than for the rest of the universe before casting your vote in 2012
Joe Biden debates Paul Ryan in the only Vice Presidential nominee debate. Biden is expert in Foreign Affairs and very learned domestically.
The GOP has surrendered its platform to the most extremist elements within the Religious Right and offers a candidate who has done the same
The Inspector General of the Justice Department has issued a 471-page report on Fast & Furious. AG, Eric Holder, was telling the truth.
In a breathtaking revision of history, we are being told that President Bush gave the Middle East ten years of peace
The Republicans are trying to manipulate tragic events in the Middle East to the benefit of foreign-policy challenged, Mitt Romney.
Republicans delayed their convention a day, taking no chances with Isaac. There will be no political chances taken with the base either.
Americans are all about community in so many different ways, so why when it comes to healthcare is everyone supposed to tough it out alone?
Yesterday was a bad day for the GOP but we should remember they’ve had many bad days recently and that its fun to watch their heads explode
Republicans Allen West and Grover Norquist have proved an old truth of totalitarianism, that dickishness is next to thuggishness
When bad news piles on bad news, how does a person carry on, and how far can positive thinking carry you in the face of insurmountable odds?
Brian Fischer complains liberals cannot reason or employ logic though his real problem is we won’t simply take his word for it and believe
The number of Americans who blame Bush for the economy is growing. In the past year, the number of Americans blaming George W. Bush for the recession has increased by seven points to 68%.
Though Bush et al have escaped justice, we have prosecuted Americans who torture in the past and continue to do so – at least when the perpetrators are local officials.
Obama has a religion problem. His answer to that problem is a Faith Vote Director. He has already shown that the Bible is not the exclusive property of the GOP
Have you ever wondered why most polls reflect a decidedly liberal issue tilt and yet state and national elections fill seats with Republicans, and rather radical ones at that?
The future looks bleak for John Edwards. It all started going downhill when he started an adulterous affair with a little known filmmaker, Rielle Hunter. He is now standing trial on federal charges.
George Bush is back to remind everyone that he “dramatically raised the deficitâ€. Lawrence O’Donnell observed that Bush’s appearance is a huge gift to the President and his Buffett Rule.
George W. Bush announced today, “I don’t miss the presidency.” He seems as confused as he was when he was in office, as he worried that repealing the Bush tax cuts for the rich would take money out of the pockets of “consumers”.
Bottom line is when comparing jobs numbers in the first terms President Obama beats President Bush by approximately 700,000 jobs.
Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, sent a very strong message of accountability not only to players, but to coaches and management on Wednesday, proving that nobody is bigger than the NFL
For the past year we have seen an unremitting campaign by the corporate masters of the right wing to try to con the American people into privatizing the U.S. Postal Service.
The three Republican presidential candidates of note (sorry, Mr. Paul) are destined to continue the policies of economic destruction.ro
The more Rick Santorum pushes for an American theocracy the more the Christian Right accuses liberals of plotting an atheist dictatorship
Inside Job tracks, step by step the foolish and selfish lending, housing & monetary decisions of the Bush administration and watching it will make you never vote Republican again.
The Republican presidential hopefuls have established cults of personality in line with Max Weber’s model of charismatic leadership
While so many Republicans rush toward self-martyrdom, one, Ralph Reed, is headed in the other direction – toward resurrection in 2012
If super rich millionaire Mitt Romney is taxed at 15%, Newt Gingrich’s child janitors may pay as much in total taxes as the the rich.
Before the 2006 midterms, the Religious Right controlled Congress, the White House and four out of nine seats on the U.S. Supreme Court
President George W. Bush, toward the end of his first term and into his second, continued to push a theocratic agenda for America
Ralph Reed, who was so instrumental in the Religious Right’s takeover of the GOP, now wants you to believe that the Evangelical vote is a myth
America and its president face many challenges in 2012 because of an obstructionist Republican House, but Obama has constitutional remedies
The Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program makes an unconstitutional requirement of spiritual fitness for American soldiers as well as physical fitness.
When a New Jersey veteran committed suicide after serving in Iraq, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) tried to do something about it, only to see his bill killed by John McCain.
President Obama’s tax compromise passed Thursday with a 277 to 14 (139 Democrats and 138 Republicans voting aye). The Senate passed the legislation Wednesday.
“Don’t bet against America. Don’t bet against the American auto industry!†Not something Republicans want to hear. They have been betting against both.
American defense spending in 2007 alone amounted to just over half of what was spent in the entire world. In 2008 it was close to 70%. It hasn’t declined appreciably since. I will ask again: Who is going to attack the United States?
For Bush, war became THE political instrument. No longer does war pick up where politics leave off; war becomes a substitution for politics.
If a government has no right right, and moreover, no obligation to protect the people on whose behalf it was established in the first place, then what rights and obligations do governments have?
Words and actions have consequences, sometimes to the person who speaks, sometimes to the people spoken of. In an environment of hate and xenophobia, the consequences can be deadly and widespread.
The Republicans talk a lot about prayer, a natural off-shoot of their tendency to talk about God. If there was any lingering doubt about the Grand Old Party having become God’s Own Party, the 2008 elections should have dispelled it, and the lead-up to the 2010 midterms have only cemented the new Republican focus. Sharron…
“A spigot of defense spending opened up after 9/11, yet for years, there has been dismal oversight of contractors handling hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts for weapons and other goods and services.”
Despite the headline, the poll results paint a far less rosy picture for Republicans than for Democrats as the results show Obama defeating every possible Republican candidate.
Liberty stands for human rights and freedoms. It was appreciation of America’s embrace of liberty that brought Lady Liberty to these shores. If we won’t defend her now, we might as well send her back, because we will have proven ourselves unworthy of her.
Republicans are all jacked up on their latest fear crack over reports from Woodward’s new book on Obama, wherein he reveals that the President said essentially the same thing George W Bush said: America can absorb another attack, we are strong.
More and more, Republicans insist on creating a fantasy world that has nothing in common with the reality in which we all operate. They invent something, and then invent “facts†to support the fantasy tale. It’s all as true as a prince rescuing the princess in her tower from a dragon.
Republican rhetoric has become so outrageous they have lost the ability to tell fact from fantasy. Clueless, they nod sagely while the rest of the world laughs.
Mobs are forming in America. It takes courage to do the right thing when it’s the unpopular thing to do. A coward finds it easy to go along with the mob and it is the exceptional man who, like President Obama, will say, “Now, hold on just a minute…”
Convinced that only conservatives have a right to rule, and that they are not a defeated political party but the victims of an unlawful usurpation, a government in exile, the Republicans have declared war on America and will go to any lengths to return to power.
The conservative demand for heroes is more intense than ever. There can never be enough dead heroes, Reagan, McCarthy and others, and living heroes seem even more in demand to judge by the quality of those being put forward, like Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin, and by his own reckoning, Glenn Beck.
Well, let me fill you in, lest you be caught unawares at the water cooler by a colleague who begins to spew Fox Talking Points. The RNC had a blog post about President Obama taking “another†vacation. Another brilliantly relevant and accurate political criticism of the President naturally ensued. Glaring as it was in hypocrisy, Republicans took a shine to it. They figure between the racial division they’re drumming up on one hand, this little nod to the lazy Black man on the other will really finish Obama off and get them the House back this fall!
Now that the last US combat brigade has driven into Kuwait, it is an appropriate time to look back at the Iraq War and to reflect on how it matters a great deal who we elect as our leaders. There are lessons to be learned, and we owe it to future generations to heed them.
Turning Karl Marx upside down, Republicans argue that when the money is taken from the poor and Middle Class it is not class warfare. Rather, it is the natural order of things. The money goes where it is supposed to go according to trickle-down economics – into the pockets of the wealthy. Gone unsaid by the Republicans, these tax cuts increased the federal deficit.
As the fall election nears, the buzz is that if the economy doesn’t recover, the Democrats will take a hard hit. Apparently the American people are too ignorant and lazy to remember exactly how we got into this mess in the first place, and will cast their reactionary votes of anger this fall against the “party in power†as if that makes any sense at all; thereby reelecting the clowns who not only are voting no on their own ideas in order to keep this economy a mess and help themselves politically, but also the very clowns who put their clown shoes on the gas pedal of recklessness that got us here.
Ironically, in 2006, all of the players you now see polarized had agreed to an immigration reform bill co-sponsored by Democrat Ted Kennedy and Republican John McCain. Said bill is now way too sane for McCain to put his name to, as he is busy selling his soul to the radical right and taking his friend Lindsey Graham down with him. Anything to keep his seat. Country First. Yada yada.
When she’s not inciting violence, GOP 2012 front-runner Sarah Palin is selling a manifestly incorrect distortion of the constitution, which she invariably gets mixed up with both The Pledge of Allegiance and the song, “America the Beautiful”. Her goal is to create a Christian Nation, where the bible has dominion over the law.
Throughout my life I’ve never hated someone’s message so much that I wanted to shut him or her down by force. My liberal parents taught me that those folks had a right to freedom of speech. Freedom of speech. This is our right as American citizens. Part of my job as a citizen is to tolerate ideas with which I do not agree, so long as they do not infringe on the rights and safety of others. This is a concept that Republicans no longer understand.
