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Senate Election Night Chaos Could Trigger A Republican Government Shutdown

Senate Election Night Chaos Could Trigger A Republican Government Shutdown

Insiders are warning that if neither party wins control of the Senate on election night, Republican driven chaos and gridlock…

9 years ago

Ted Cruz Says A Functioning Senate Subverts the Will of The People

In fact, there is very little that Ted Cruz even likes about this country, including the United States Constitution, that…

9 years ago

The Calm Before The Storm: Republicans Set Up A New Government Shutdown Battle With Obama

The House passed a CR 319-108 today, but the vote was calm before the storm as Republicans are setting up…

10 years ago

Republicans Are Fixated On Using Extortion To Rule America

The truth is that since teabaggers became de facto leaders of the Republican Party, they have contemplated various schemes to…

10 years ago

House Republicans STILL Have No Strategy To Avoid a Government Shutdown

John Boehner continues to say that House Republicans will pass a CR that avoids a government shutdown, but behind close…

10 years ago

House Republicans Meltdown and Cancel Vote To Fund The Government As Shutdown Looms

House Republicans have canceled a vote on stopgap bill to fund the government and have called an emergence meeting tomorrow…

10 years ago

Instead of Doing His Job John Boehner Plans To Spend September Shaming Democrats

Instead of doing his job, Speaker of the House John Boehner is planning on using the month of September shame…

10 years ago

Just Like Last Year John Boehner Promises That There Won’t Be a Government Shutdown

John Boehner is back to making promises he can't keep by doing the same thing that he did last year.…

10 years ago

Mitch McConnell Tries To Undo Everything Obama Has Done With Government Shutdown Threat

If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell's own…

10 years ago

Paul Ryan Goes Full Koch Head With His Cowardly Support of Government Shutdowns

Paul Ryan had the nerve to say that he didn't speak out against the government shutdown because it was more…

10 years ago

House Republicans Self-Destruct and Set The Stage For Another Government Shutdown

Another government shutdown is brewing as House Republicans are ready to go back on a previous agreement to fund the…

10 years ago

Mitch McConnell Promises a Massive Government Shutdown If Republicans Win The Senate

Mitch McConnell is already making plans for after Republicans take over the Senate, and his top priority is to get…

10 years ago

House Republicans Could Doom The GOP To 2014 Defeat As Fears Of a Government Shutdown Swirl

After last week's border vote debacle, anxiety is growing among some Republicans that the House will doom the GOP's 2014…

10 years ago

Heartless Mitch McConnell Calls The Government Shutdown a Two Week Paid Vacation

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) how little he cares about regular people by calling the government shutdown that harmed millions of…

10 years ago

An Insane Ted Cruz Claims He Had Nothing to Do With the Government Shutdown That He Caused

Seeing disaster and falling poll numbers, Sen. Ted Cruz is changing is story and claiming that he had nothing to…

10 years ago

Ted Cruz Is Just the Figurehead of The Koch/DeMint Destroy Government Conspiracy

Ted Cruz is little more than a figurehead of a much larger conspiracy whose real leaders are teabaggers Charles and…

10 years ago

Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 19th, 2013

Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can "illustrate" the seriousness of…

10 years ago

Republicans Have Resumed Their Koch Funded Seditious Conspiracy To Destroy Government

The seditious conspiracy in the war for America is still ongoing and the next major assault is already in the…

10 years ago

Sarah Palin Says Obama Caused the Government Shutdown By Not Bombing Syria

Sarah Palin is trying to dodge all responsibility for nearly destroying the economy by claiming that President Obama caused the…

10 years ago

Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 18th, 2013

Click on image to enlarge Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor…

10 years ago

Democrats Have a Chance To Win The House as Shutdown Has Put 12 More GOP Seats In Play

The Cook Political Report has moved 12 more Republican held seats into toss up category, which makes 18 Republican seats…

10 years ago

Republicans Have Put America in Distress Because They Refuse to Do Their Jobs

Every one of America's fiscal crises over the past three-and-a-half years is because Republicans refuse to do their jobs of…

10 years ago

Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 16th, 2013

Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can "illustrate" the seriousness of…

10 years ago

During the Obama Presidency Republicans Have Not Made a Single Concession to Help People

It can hardly be disputed that throughout Barack Obama's tenure as President, Republicans have not made one concession or presented…

10 years ago

Rand Paul Makes A Fool Of Himself Trying to Blame Obama For the Government Shutdown

On CNN State of the Union, Sen. Rand Paul made a fool of himself by repeating the same blame Obama…

10 years ago

The Koch Brothers Seditious Shutdown Conspiracy Should Get Them 20 Years in Prison

The DOJ will have an easy time prosecuting and convicting the Kochs because there are money trails leading directly to…

10 years ago

Obama Gives Republicans Nothing By Rejecting Boehner’s 6 Week Debt Ceiling Offer

Obama is giving Republicans nothing. The president has rejected John Boehner's offer to keep his hostages by raising the debt…

10 years ago

Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 12th, 2013

Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can "illustrate" the seriousness of…

10 years ago

House Republican Tells Furloughed Federal Workers To Take Out Loans to Pay Their Bills

House Republican Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) told federal workers who have been furloughed by the government shutdown that they should…

10 years ago

Government Shutdown Backfires on Republicans and Makes Obamacare More Popular

The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reveals that the government shutdown has backfired on the Republicans. The government shutdown…

10 years ago

Eric Cantor Has Rigged The Rules of the House So That The Government Stays Shut Down

Majority Leader Eric Cantor changed House procedural rules to guarantee Republicans could keep the government closed even if a bipartisan…

10 years ago

Cartoons of the Day – Oct. 11th, 2013

Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can "illustrate" the seriousness of…

10 years ago

Bernie Sanders Blasts Boehner, ‘He Is Trying to Hoodwink The American People.’

Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted John Boehner's debt ceiling proposal, and warned that, 'He is trying to hoodwink the American people.'

10 years ago

Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 10th, 2013

Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can "illustrate" the seriousness of…

10 years ago

The Unusual Suspect: The Surprising Koch Fueled Return of Edwin Meese

Why was Edwin Meese hired by the Koch Brothers to be a Tea Party strategist?

10 years ago

Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 9th, 2013

Click image to enlarge Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can…

10 years ago

It Takes Just 10 Sentences For Obama to Obliterate Republicans on the Debt Ceiling

The Republican argument for not raising the debt ceiling is so weak that President Obama destroyed it in 10 sentences…

10 years ago

A Terrified John Boehner Warns House Republicans, ‘Democrats Want to Annihilate Us’

In a private meeting with House Republicans a terrified Speaker John Boehner warned his House Republicans that the Democrats, 'want…

10 years ago

Tell the Justice Department to Investigate the Koch Brothers’ Seditious Govt Shutdown Plot

It's time for the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the conservative plot to harm the US government…

10 years ago

Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 8th, 2013

Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can "illustrate" the seriousness of…

10 years ago

Bernie Sanders Terrifies the Koch Brothers By Outting Their Role In the Government Shutdown

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is standing up the Koch brothers attempted takeover of the United States government by outing the…

10 years ago

Obama Dares Boehner to Prove That He Doesn’t Have The Votes to Open the Government

President Obama is calling John Boehner's bluff and daring him to prove that he doesn't have the votes to reopen…

10 years ago

Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 7th, 2013

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10 years ago

Republicans Have Made America Into a Global Laughingstock With Their Government Shutdown

It is a sad commentary indeed that a group of anti-government terrorists have, in two years brought shame on a…

10 years ago

Poll Finds That Republicans Are In Danger of Losing The House Over Government Shutdown

A new PPP poll looked at 24 House districts held by Republicans, and since the government shutdown 21 of them…

10 years ago

Cartoon of the day – Oct. 6th, 2013

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10 years ago

House Republicans Are Deciding Whether They Should Totally Cave to Obama Now or Later

A senior House Republican has let it leak that Republicans are so desperate to get out of the government shutdown/debt…

10 years ago

John Boehner Urges Congress to Unite to Open Government and Destroy the ACA

Having learned nothing during the ongoing government shutdown, Speaker of the House John Boehner urged Congress to come together to…

10 years ago

Republican Terrorists Have Exposed Themselves as The Traitors They Are

Republicans exposed themselves as the traitors they are because about 70% of the 86,000 civilians employed at 16 U.S. intelligence…

10 years ago

The White House Obliterates John Boehner’s Fake Government Shutdown Outrage

John Boehner's latest attempt to muster public outrage at Obama over the government shutdown was destroyed by the White House…

10 years ago

Republican Traitors Draped in Tea Keep Their Promise to Break the Government

The current Republican government shutdown is what teabaggers came to Washington to do; "break the government of the United States."

10 years ago

Harry Reid on Obama at Shutdown Meeting, ‘The POTUS was very very strong, strong, strong.’

Harry Reid came out of tonight's meeting at the White House on the government shutdown saying that, 'The President of…

10 years ago

John Boehner is Using Veterans As Human Shields in Government Shutdown Fight

With every strategy that he is trying failing, Speaker John Boehner is trying to deflect blame for the government shutdown…

10 years ago

Republicans in Disarray as Democrats Move to Take Away All GOP Leverage on Debt Ceiling

Senate Democrats believe that they can use their leverage in the government shutdown to force House Republicans to solve the…

10 years ago

Rafael, the Wacko Birds and Their Celebrated Shutdown

Rafael and the wacko birds celebrated the government shutdown as if they actually accomplished something.

10 years ago

Democrats Step Aside and Watch House Republican Drown In Their Own Government Shutdown

Democrats quickly shot down the latest Republican attempt to weasel out of their government shutdown by stopping the bills that…

10 years ago

As Obamacare Sign Up Begins Tea Partiers Are Fighting A Battle They’ve Already Lost

Americans can begin signing up to buy affordable healthcare insurance, and it is unlikely that reality will sink in to…

10 years ago

President Obama Refuses to Give Republicans a Lifeline

President Obama called the government shutdown an ideological crusade and told Republicans that they, 'don't get to hold the economy…

10 years ago

John Boehner Warns Republicans Government Shutdown Could Cost Them The House in 2014

John Boehner is privately warning House Republicans that the government shutdown could cost them control of the House in 2014.

10 years ago

Harry Reid Calls House GOP Insane While Senate Dems Kill Their 3rd Attack on the ACA

Within minutes of the House's passage of their third attempt to kill the ACA, Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats…

10 years ago

Obamacare Deranged House Republicans Pass CR that Kills the ACA for a 3rd Time

House Republicans continue to learn nothing as they have passed virtually the same CR that delays the ACA, which the…

10 years ago

Obama, ‘One party doesn’t get to shut the government down to refight the results of an election.’

President Obama slammed Republicans for shutting down the government because they lost the 2012 election. He also told Republicans, 'You…

11 years ago

Boehner Refuses To Allow Vote on Popular Democratic Bill That Would Avoid Government Shutdown

House Republicans are admitting that the clean Continuing Resolution that passed the Senate would pass the House, but Speaker John…

11 years ago

Senate Democrats Kill House Republicans’ 2nd Pointless Attempt to Delay the ACA, 54-46

The Senate has hung tough and voted to kill the House second attempt to pass a CR that delays Obamacare…

11 years ago

Idiots Rule as House Republicans Vote to Shut Down the Government Over Obamacare

Like thieves in the night, House Republicans took a giant step towards shutting down the government by voting to put…

11 years ago

Delusional House Republicans Laugh at Obama’s Promise to Veto Government Funding Bill

Watch delusional House Republicans literally laugh at President Obama's promise to veto their 44th attempt to get rid of the…

11 years ago

Harry Reid Warns Boehner Get Some Courage because, ‘We’re not going to be extorted.’

Sen. Harry Reid slammed John Boehner and warned him that the Senate is going to be extorted. He told Boehner…

11 years ago

Republican Traitors Call for a Government Shutdown Even If Obamacare Isn’t Defunded

Over half of Republican voters and Koch-patriots are clamoring for a government shutdown if Republicans fail to kill the ACA.

11 years ago

Rabid Dog Ted Cruz Urges The GOP to Defund the Military in Order to Stop Obamacare

The depth of Republican madness was revealed when Sen. Ted Cruz suggested shutting down the military if President Obama and…

11 years ago

Osama Bin Boehner and the Republican Party Are The Real Terror Threat To America

It is safe to say most Americans expect Islamic extremists to launch terror attacks against innocent American citizens, but it…

11 years ago

Wall Street Journal Warns GOP That Government Shutdown Could Give Democrats The House

In a editorial that reeks of panic and desperation, the Wall Street Journal is warning House Republicans that a government…

11 years ago

Obamacare Lies Dealt a Death Blow By Study that Finds Full Time Job Growth Expected

Instead of killing jobs, employers expect to increase the number of full-time employees by nearly 2% over the next year…

11 years ago

House Republican Demands The Government Be Shut Down Unless Obamacare Is Defunded

The effort to force a government shutdown unless the ACA is defunded gained another supporter as Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA)…

11 years ago

The Republican Plan To Shutdown the Government To Defund Obamacare is Already Backfiring

The big Republican plan to shutdown the government unless Obamacare is defunded is already backfiring and setting up the GOP…

11 years ago

Obama Challenges Republicans To a Good Old Fashioned Budget Street Fight

This week's group of speeches along with his willingness to shutdown the government show that Obama is challenging Republicans to…

11 years ago

The Criminal Mindset Behind the Republican Threats to Shutdown Government

The concept of shutting down the government unless Republicans control the direction and vision of the nation is nothing less…

11 years ago

Like All Abusers Republicans Blame Their Victims

Republicans promise to shut down the government whether Obama follows their orders or not because they want to limit him…

13 years ago