President Biden's plan to save Medicare raises taxes on the wealthy and eliminates a loophole that allows the rich to…
The House Republican budget plan would throw millions of Americans off Social Security while also slashing funding for food for…
When one starts to put two and two together, it starts to sound like this kind of “anti-socialist” ideology is…
Within minutes of Kevin McCarthy being elected Speaker of the House, President Biden made it clear that cutting Social Security…
President Biden said that Democrats are the real party of fiscal responsibility while Republicans want blow up the deficit with…
Democrats have delivered as for the first time in history Social Security checks will increase and Medicare premiums will decrease.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) tried to claim that Democrats are cutting with their reconciliation bill but was called out on…
On June 7, the F.D.A approved the use of the controversial Alzheimer’s treatment Aduhelm. This led to a backlash from…
Medicare for all. That very phrase has the potential to produce several very palpable responses. Republicans are, naturally, opposed to…
One of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' signature issues when running for president in 2016 and 2020 was single-payer healthcare; i.e.…
Over the course of 2020, the federal government spent a massive amount trying to deal with the economic fallout of…
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden unveiled plans to lower the Medicare eligibility age to 60 and wipe out student loan…
Trump's budget tries to pay for his tax cut for wealthy and corporations by slashing funding to Medicare, Medicaid, and…
Trump was asked at Davos if cutting entitlements will ever be on his plate, and he said they will be…
The best chance of shifting America’s popular mind might be to focus on these campaign promises, keeping the conversation on…
During this election cycle political commentators have spent much time analyzing different voting groups. Will young voters and minorities turn…
Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tried to use the failed Republican tax cuts for the rich to guilt…
The Washington Post’s fact-check team reported Wednesday that almost every sentence in Trump’s opinion article for USA Today contains a…
While the American people are rightly outraged by the Trump administration's abuse of migrant children, House Republicans proposed a budget…
One way to measure the immense failure of the tenure of Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House is how…
If this is such a fine piece of legislation, why didn't congressional Republicans rush it to the White House today…
Not only would taxes go up on millions of senior citizens, but the same report also noted that they could…
Democratic Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) have introduced legislation that would allow people age 55-64…
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on ABC's This Week that after the insurance markets are stabilized, Democrats…
For their next act of malevolence after voting to take away health care from 24 million people, House Republicans are…
"There are ways that we can not only allow the president to keep his promise, but to help him keep…
Price as head of HHS will make the GOP attempt to take health insurance from millions of Americans much easier.
The new Republican rule implicitly instructs the CBO not to say how much it will cost taxpayers to repeal Obamacare,…
It would be a mistake to talk about Medicare specifics now. It’s an important issue, but we can’t do everything…
Lewandowski repeated a Trump campaign lie and said: “Donald Trump won the election campaign by the largest majority since Ronald…
Trump promised his base he wouldn’t even think about or entertain any proposal to touch Medicare; now he vows "modernization"…
AARP should be more sensitive to its retired members who are vulnerable to ALEC-supported legislative efforts to eliminate Social Security.
It is possible Paul Ryan is not an avid nativist, but he is a Republican and the fact that he…
"Doctors get paid more if they prescribe really expensive drugs because they get paid a percentage of the cost of…
Krugman points out that with GOP control the House, it may take many years before Republicans agree to provide more…
The reality is that when Democrats did have majorities in both houses of Congress they were barely able to pass…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is demanding Social Security and Medicare cuts in exchange for his vote to raise the…
Kasich dismissed criticism of his attitude as "silly" and said "difficult" changes are necessary in order to stabilize Social Security
President Obama is pushing back against the Republican lies about Medicare while celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid.
It would be difficult for even Fox News to argue against the idea that Republicans only campaign, and act, according…
Jeb Bush told an audience at a Koch brothers' sponsored Americans for Prosperity event in New Hampshire, that we need…
The 61 House Democrats led by Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairs Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva are demanding a new funding…
It is glaringly obvious that for regardless the reason Senator Sanders self-labels himself as a "democratic socialist," or whatever negative…
Republicans in the Senate have discovered yet another means of cutting Medicare to add insult to injury from the already…
What is missing from the long list of Koch demands to abolish virtually the entire government is exactly how it…
The same people that apparently hate the libertarian Koch brothers are looking on Rand Paul as a decent human being;…
In a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation, the US House overwhelmingly passed a Medicare payment overhaul bill on Thursday.
Since 2009 it has been painfully obvious that Republicans or their supporters do not want Americans to have access to…
House Republicans have once again shown that they have little regard for the average American family or the typical American…
The big plan the new Koch Senate is due to propose this week is cutting food stamps substantially and giving…
On Friday, Robert Costa at The Washington Post reported that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie disclosed his 2016 platform to…
During the Tuesday broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough claimed "climate alarmists" are denying science by opposing the extension…
According to one angry racist Republican, the start of ethnic cleansing is when an African American President takes executive action…
In fact, there is very little that Ted Cruz even likes about this country, including the United States Constitution, that…
It is difficult to believe that any American might think, even for a nano-second, that Republicans serve anyone other than…
Democrats have a living, breathing example of privatizing Medicare, and frankly everything in the Path to Prosperity budget, that has…
McConnell asserted that belief in, and support for, the government is "an act of true radicalism," something that makes the…
If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell's own…
After your next checkup, if you know your doc pretty well, take a little time and ask him/her how the…
In Republican parlance, when they say "what the people want," they mean their wealthy benefactors the Koch brothers, ALEC, and…
Will Senator Elizabeth Warren's political economic populist movement change US economics and politics now and in the future?
Today, we take a close look at the Senate Finance Committee and their relentless and unfair attempts to discredit the…
As devastating as the food stamp cuts that took effect may be, they are just a preview of increased hunger…
The healthcare.gov website has been online for 2 weeks. It works, but must be improved. There has been an overload…
If you were to believe the headlines, it would appear that Blue Cross and their ilk are terrified of ACA.…
The fiscal scolds at Fix The Debt are again demanding 'reforms' to Social Security and Medicare. Their entire argument is…
The right-wing uses the people's fear of new technology to try to stop "Obamacare". Many experts said that Y2K would…
It can hardly be disputed that throughout Barack Obama's tenure as President, Republicans have not made one concession or presented…
Republicans exposed themselves as the traitors they are because about 70% of the 86,000 civilians employed at 16 U.S. intelligence…
The GOP's debt ceiling demands are a composite Ryan budget, Koch policy meeting demands,"and ALEC social policy reform package all…
One might be inclined to believe politicians would be repulsed that the richest nation in the history of the world…
Charles Koch has joined Republicans pushing to eliminate the nation's minimum wage. He implied that getting rid of minimum wage…
For some reason, only Republicans remember that it was the poor, public sector workers, and retirees who created the country's…
While conservatives whine about White House tours cancer patients will die because of their sequester cuts.
The Chained-CPI amounts to punishing seniors for living longer.
As Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget advances toward the finishing line in the Republican-led House, a new Rasmussen poll shows Ryan…
Paul Ryan is lying to justify inflicting more pain on the American people for the sheer joy of giving the…
Americans are being held responsible for Republicans' debt for two unnecessary wars, costly prescription plan, tax cuts for the rich,…
A Republican by any rebranding is still pushing education cuts, Medicare privatization, cuts to Medicaid, safety net cuts, and the…
Paul Ryan justified his no vote for Sandy victims claiming that maintaining the existing flood insurance relief program was irresponsible.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) destroyed Republican talking points regarding the debt ceiling on Face the Nation, and then upped the ante…
As a hateful attempt to cut the nation's deficit, and avoid the dreaded fiscal cliff, the GOP is going all…
The tragedy is that Republicans are more than willing to see America suffer a deep recession than they are to…
The GOP bears most of the blame for the economic woes over the past 12 years whether it was unfunded…
Conservatives should be thankful the rest of the population elected a President not inclined to deliberately cause suffering for 98%…
Some liberals have the mind-boggling view there is no difference between Romney & Obama, and are even planning not to…
There is no demographic that supports Romney that is not inexorably linked to their own destruction and unfortunately, to their…
The government Romney and Republicans propose is not business friendly, it is business-owned and operated, and the people are expendable…
Now that the deadline has passed for Todd Akin to drop out of the race Sen. Claire McCaskill is hitting…
It turns out that when Mitt Romney attacked 150 million Americans for being dependent on government, he was really targeting…
Nancy Pelosi did everything but send Mitt Romney a thank you card and a fruit basket, while discussing how the…
Mitt Romney celebrated the college football season with lies about the economy and job creation and Obama told Ohioans to…
Missouri Republican Todd Akin says that women who are legitimately raped don't get pregnant and that abortion punishes the child,…
President Obama responded to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's rash of Medicare lies by setting record straight on what a…
Just like Sarah Palin's bridge to nowhere, Paul Ryan is a secret pork lover who blames President Obama for his…
The GOP's so called policy wonk spread lies about Medicare to America's seniors that were taken from Koch Brothers funded…
The inconsistencies between Paul Ryan's life and his ideals about self-reliance are impossible to overlook.
Now that Willard Romney chose Paul Ryan as his running mate, the GOP are misleading voters with a term that…
Rachel Maddow shows us what a monumental mistake the Romney Campaign made in selecting the Kill Medicare Guy as his…
This ticket will absolutely depend on low-information voters enamored with right wing media. In point of fact, the vast majority…
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