A bipartisan group of Senators decided that the oil industry should makes decisions reserved for the Executive Branch and they introduced a bill giving Congress supremacy over the President.
Between Ryan’s budget and the CPAC lineup, it should be painfully apparent that the new extremist Republicans will not rest until poverty is rampant, children starve, and seniors perish.
Senate Republicans plan to withhold funding to keep the government running as hostage for a ransom of defunding the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
The media has ignored the FEC complaint filed against a Boehner super PAC for taking $2.5 million in illegal donations, but they are trumpeting the baseless claim that Obama is selling access.
In an interview with CNBC, Speaker of the House Boehner said that President Obama is sick for making post-sequester life hard for Republicans.
The increased oil production is not all good news for Americans though, because the glut of oil is keeping gas prices curiously high.
An FEC complaint was filed today against the John Boehner connected super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund for taking $2.5 million in illegal campaign contributions.
On Meet the Press today, Speaker Boehner said, ‘I don’t know whether it’s going to hurt the econonmy or not. I don’t think anyone quite understands how the sequester is really going to work.’
The President is right to tell Americans the devastating truth; Republicans are deliberately punishing people and reversing economic recovery.
The President called the naughty Republican children to the big house today for a final attempt at reason on the sequester, probably to no avail.
The Republican majority in the House is split. This was revealed today in a painfully obvious way when moderate Republicans joined the Democratic minority to pass the Violence Against Women Act.
On March 1st a decision will be made that could impact millions for at least 9 years. Jobs will be lost and people will go hungry, but not the rich.
Contrary to what Republicans are saying now, the sequester is a largely Republican idea. In fact, Jack Kingston (R-GA) proposed sequestration in December of 2010.
House tea partiers are preparing to celebrate the damage to the people and economy that the sequestration cuts will cause when they begin in two days.
Harry Reid fired back at John Boehner’s attempt to blame the Senate for the sequester by saying, “The speaker’s doing nothing to try to pass anything.”
Speaker Boehner claimed today that President Obama is using the troops as props, but his House passed sequester would leave thousands of veterans homeless.
Republicans and their punditry have finally gone so far off the rails to avoid any responsibility for the sequester that they are blatantly lying and revising the historical record of the past four years.
John Boehner is trying to lie his way out of trouble after being caught red-handed on the sequester, and if the subject were not so serious, one might pity his peculiar attempt at logic
John Boehner won’t tell you this, but the “common sense cuts” he referred to that would avoid the sequester, will eliminate food for 1.7 million Americans.
Speaker Boehner is so nervous about the upcoming sequester that he tried once again to blame the President for the sequester, accusing Obama of lacking guts and courage.
Speaker John Boehner is pushing the hashtag “#obamaquester” in hopes of forcing the President to carry the weight of the Republicans’ failure.
After all of the time, money and energy Republicans put into attacking Hillary Clinton over Benghazi, it turns out America loves her best.
When the enemy is in the halls of Congress, and is openly calling for economic destruction to avoid revenue, it is safe to say Republicans have declared open war on America and its people.
In a statement today, Speaker Boehner issued more tough talk about about no new tax hikes as a part of a deal to avoid the sequester cuts. The problem is that Boehner doesn’t really have a choice.
John Boehner leads one half of the most unproductive Congress in history; yet, today he told President Obama to do his job.
Although the right wing bible crowd is solidly behind any politician promising to impose the bible’s sanctions on women and gays, the rest of America is moving forward and supporting Obama’s agenda.
After the president mentioned climate change in his inaugural address, 44 Republicans and 9 Democrats responded by sending a letter to Obama demanding immediate approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
According to most scholars of fascism, it historically attacked parliamentary liberalism, and attracted support primarily from the far right/ extreme right. In America fascism is the Republican Party.
Speaker Boehner is tired of giving his funders pep talks, and he blames Obama. He says Obama wants to ‘annihilate’ the Republican Party, ‘shove us into the dustbin of history.’
John Boehner has revealed his strategy for winning the next round of fiscal negotiations, and it involves liberals caving and forcing Obama into a bad deal on spending cuts.
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) may be in over his head. Boehner bemoaned his job while claiming that Republicans are going to win the sequester deal.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) destroyed Republican talking points regarding the debt ceiling on Face the Nation, and then upped the ante for more revenue.
The actions of Congress during the last couple of weeks make it abundantly clear that our political system is broken. Here are 8 changes worth fighting for.
John Boehner thinks Republicans can win the debt ceiling showdown, and he’s got a poll to prove it.
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
A number of conservatives are so outraged with John Boehner over the fiscal cliff deal are seriously pushing to fire the Speaker and replace him with Sarah Palin.
It’s not just the Sandy bill. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and John Boehner (R-OH) also killed legislation that would help protect 30 million American women’s lives.
Senate Democrats are done playing Republican House games. They won’t be making changes to the agreement. ‘We’re done,’ an aide said.
Republicans have quit on America. They’re putting forth no effort, and most importantly at all, they haven’t even bothered to show up for the past two years.
It is an incredibly sad commentary on American politics to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Republican Party’s view of the population they were elected to serve is one of contempt.
Speaker Boehner made little sense Sunday as did a run around reality after Obama held him responsible for the fiscal cliff negotiation failures.
Republicans are on pace, and appear pleased, to hold the distinction as the most unproductive Congress since the 1940s, and it looks as if that was their intention all along.
If the Republicans fell all over themselves in 2012 to sound stupid, the Democrats were happy to help them along, as this list demonstrates
Bernie Sanders went on MSNBC today and slammed John Boehner for not being able to control his caucus of right wing House extremists who are pushing America off the fiscal cliff.
President Obama has learned that dealing with Republicans is an exercise in futility regardless the issues facing the nation.
It is simplistic to think Republicans are misguided and misinformed about the damage their policies will cause. As ideological saboteurs, they know what will result if their policies are enacted.
This Christmas is shaping up like every other year’s end since President Obama has been in office, with Republicans holding the economy hostage over the level of damage they can inflict.
Somebody better keep John Boehner away from the eggnog, as the House Speaker desperately tried to blame the president by telling him to get serious about the fiscal cliff.
President Obama is insisting that benefits for disabled people and veterans not be cut, while House Republicans are coming out against a fiscal cliff deal.
John Boehner gave a press conference that was so full of crap that even the ever clueless CNN was forced to fact check and call out his latest fiscal cliff BS.
John Boehner took to the House floor to pressure President Obama, but instead he only made things worse for the Republican Party.
Republicans are megalomaniacs who will continue punishing the people for re-electing President Obama to raise taxes on the wealthy by holding the economy hostage to enact austerity.
Bryan Fischer introduces Barack the Destroyer, the man who wants to destroy America and make Americans suffer because of their racism
The American people are demand that the wealthy lose their lower tax rates. Instead of accepting this reality, Republicans are going off the rails and heading toward irrelevance.
The #FireBoehner hashtag really took off last night on Twitter. No, it wasn’t evil liberals, it was the conservatives at American Majority Action (AMA) who started it.
At the National Press Club today, Sen. Bernie Sanders tore into John Boehner and his fellow House Republicans for suggested cutting disabled veterans’ benefits in order to reduce the deficit.
Republicans remain under the illusion that if they just use the right combination of words for a proposal that has been rejected repeatedly, somehow we’ll fall for it.
Grover Norquist made a fool out himself by demanding a return to the Reagan era tax rates, which were higher than taxes are under President Obama.
On Fox News Sunday, John Boehner said it doesn’t matter where new revenue comes from, but he ruled out raising taxing on the rich, which leaves the poor and middle class to foot the bill.
The GOP’s insane obsession with obstructing the President is a danger to economic recovery and 98% of the population.
The ongoing debate about the fiscal cliff continues as the U.S. approaches the current debt ceiling. Republicans are responsible for problem
The President and Democrats could protect the environment and Americans’ health if they informed the people that Canadian tar sand is not coming to America, but through it to China.
The sad fact is regardless the GOP’s words that they heeded the voters’ message, they are plotting the same course with the same players the voters rejected two weeks ago.
While meeting in front of the press to discuss the fiscal cliff Speaker John Boeher looked like he hated the world, but he lit up when President Obama mentioned his upcoming birthday.
There are different types of denial, and after President Obama won re-election last week, Republicans expressed minimization and simple denial over raising taxes on the rich.
Arrogant leaders in the House and Senate have issued statements that gave the appearance Republicans had won the election handily and put them in control of the government.
America won four more years for President Obama, but did we issue a mandate for change or for the status quo?
Republicans have acquiesced to a foreign corporation’s demand they be given the authority to raise gas prices, endanger the water supply, and impede farmers right to produce crops to feed the nation.
There has been no small amount of outrage Romney’s portrayal of 47% of Americans as parasites, but Republicans in Congress have avoided criticism for their despicable treatment of all Americans.
Republicans in Congress have barely accomplished anything except blocking economic recovery and attacking women’s rights, and now they are taking two months off while taxpayers are still paying them.
Mitt Romney is not a leader, even conservatives have called his foreign policy positions ridiculous and accused him of merely mimicking others’.
A new poll suggests that tea party darling Michele Bachmann is in serious danger of losing her House seat to Democrat Jim Graves.
Ann Romney targeted women voters with a speech that was a mix of pure corn syrup, and blatant lies.
There may be a Revolution within the RNC. The RNC is violating Robert’s Rules of Order and is being broadcasted on the Interweb.
Michele Bachmann’s anti-Muslim witch-hunt has backfired, drawing condemnation from fellow Republicans and mockery from the Muslim Brotherhood
The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act has already expired and with just weeks left to go before Congress goes home, may not be passed thanks to House Republicans.
House Speaker John Boehner praised Aurora, Colorado’s first responders today, but what he didn’t mention is House Republicans have slashed funding for emergency responders.
When House Speaker John Boehner was pressed for specifics about his ACA replacement, he treated America and CBS’s Norah O’Donnell to a patented John Boehner tantrum.
The quintessential tenet of the corporate right is, if it’s not maximum profit, it’s not worth it. Improving the country and creating jobs aren’t ‘worth it’ to the GOP.
Is the big tent about to get even smaller? Log Cabin Republicans were left in shock by Obama’s support for same sex marriage and some of them may bolt from the Republican Party.
Women are not sitting idly by hoping the Republican assault will subside, and the GOP is going to pay in the general election.
The reality that voters won’t fall for the Republican lies again after a year-and-a-half of legislative obstruction, repeal frenzy, and the war on women can’t be surprising to John Boehner.
House Speaker John Boehner spins his tired old talking points, a more than metaphorical raspberry to any real discussion of either problems or possible solutions
It’s truly sad when the individuals who creates the laws that regulate greenhouse gas emissions understands nothing about carbon dioxide.
Republicans have been hiding a dirty little secret. The Keystone XL pipeline will actually raise gas prices for the American people.
Boehner and his Republican cohorts are fools for attacking the President instead of celebrating the compromise that helps 160-million working Americans.
President Obama’s statement today that he wants more than just a ten month payroll tax cut extension shows that he now owns Boehner and the House Republicans.
The oil industry has paid 44 Senate Republicans $22.3 million in campaign contributions and they expect them to deliver on Keystone XL.
The pressure may be getting to John Boehner, as the Speaker made a subtle change to his story today that served as an admission that Keystone XL won’t create 100,000 jobs.
As the SEC considers an investigation,a national petition is calling on John Boehner to resign or face expulsion from Congress for ethics violations.
John Boehner made a fool of himself today by criticizing President Obama’s 2012 State Of The Union Address while the White House is still working on it.
John Boehner’s invested in Canada’s tar sand oil companies and then lied about the number of jobs the Keystone pipeline would create in what could be a criminal case of conflict of interest.
We all seem to make New Year’s resolutions, so here are a few recommended resolutions for our Republican friends.
On Sunday’s 60 Minutes program, Americans got a glimpse of incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner, and it was not a pretty sight. The Ohio Republican broke down in a fit of blubbering, snot-nosed weep fest. It was disingenuous at best, for behind Boehner’s tears is a right wing agenda to give to the rich at the expense of women, children, and the middle class.
“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.
I’m sure you’ve heard all about how incoming House Republican majority are going to end earmarks and reform DC, even as they staff up using K streeters and lobbyists. But to really shake things up, they’re going to get rid of the Office of Congressional Ethics. Nothing says reform like getting rid of oversight all together.
Sure, 113 GOP women challenged incumbents compared to 80 Democrats but the Democrats had a 46 percent success rate compared to only 28 for the Republicans. And Democrat women still far outnumber Republican women in Congress.
In the wake of the 2010 midterm elections it is important to know who John Boehner is and what it will mean to have him as Speaker of the House. Obviously,there are some concerns with Boehner’s very old-fashioned, shall we say…conservative…positions. One might say ULTRA conservative.
On his MSNBC program Countdown, Keith Olbermann was recapping some of the stranger moments from last night’s victory and concession speeches when he discussed John Boehner’s leaving his man pants at home and crying at the drop of a hat, “This was set against the context of a republican campaign filled with demands from conservatives about manliness and manning up. Ladies and gentlemen, the new weeper of the house.”
