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Behind The Moderate Myth Paul Ryan Dreams Of Shutting Down Government Permanently

Behind The Moderate Myth Paul Ryan Dreams Of Shutting Down Government Permanently

The only difference between the extremists and Ryan is how soon, and for how long, they are able to shut…

9 years ago

Religious Leaders Slam Paul Ryan For Distorting Faith To Promote Income Inequality

A leading faith-based group is calling out Paul Ryan for warping the teachings of the Catholic Church to justify his…

9 years ago

A Farewell to Boehner

There is plenty of blame to go around. No small share of it attaches itself to Boehner, who let the…

9 years ago

Paul Ryan Spurns Conservatives On Budget Deal But They Still Agree To Make Him Speaker

Paul Ryan, who is likely to become the next House Speaker, announced his support for a two-year debt and budget…

9 years ago

Hypocrite Paul Ryan Demands Family Time, But Opposes Family Leave For American Workers

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is demanding family leave for himself every single weekend, but he has refused to support virtually…

9 years ago

Republicans Revolt As Paul Ryan Demands A Part Time Schedule If Elected Speaker

House Republicans are pushing back against Paul Ryan after the boy who would be speaker demanded that he only work…

9 years ago

Paul Ryan’s Ego On Overdrive As He Makes Demands Before He’ll Be The New GOP Messiah

With his ego running on overdrive, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) demanded that House Republicans unify behind him or else they…

9 years ago

Ted Cruz Turns On Paul Ryan As Republicans Rip Each Other Apart

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on the Republican tire fire today by refusing to say that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is…

9 years ago

Young Gun Shot Down As Conservatives Reject Paul Ryan For Speaker Of The House

Republicans have a real problem. They can't find anyone for the job of Speaker. The base hates anyone with any…

9 years ago

The Roof Falls In On Republicans As Conservatives May Sink Paul Ryan Next

House Republicans are frantically trying to convince Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to run for Speaker of the House, but there…

9 years ago

Paul Ryan Crushes GOP Hopes By Saying “No” To The Speaker Job That Nobody Wants

A spokesperson for Ryan reiterated that the Congressmen was still not interested in becoming the next Speaker of the House.

9 years ago

Republicans Self-Destruct: Paul Ryan Refuses To Run For Speaker As Boehner Forced To Stay

The story coming out of the House Republican caucus is only getting crazier. Rep. Paul Ryan is refusing to run…

9 years ago

Paul Ryan Falls Flat On His Face When Asked What Republicans Can Do To Stop Obamacare

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered a new moment of Republican failure when he was asked on CBS's Face The Nation…

9 years ago

Paul Ryan Gets Smacked Down While Grandstanding About Obamacare During House Hearing

Paul Ryan got stopped dead in his tracks by Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) while he was trying to grandstand and…

9 years ago

Koch-Republicans Remember Soldiers’ Sacrifice With A Veterans Healthcare Coupon Scam

The privatization scam amounts to a yearly-issued, and set amount, coupon to purchase healthcare services at a private hospital or…

9 years ago

Study: Thirty-five Years of Conservative Policies Contributed to Violence In Baltimore

The problem with the Republicans' argument and lies, and there are many, is that statistics continue to prove that conservative…

9 years ago

Paul Ryan Tries To Use Baltimore Riots As An Excuse To Take Food Away From Poor People

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is trying to use the Baltimore riots as an excuse to take away food and housing…

9 years ago

Rand Paul Is Trying To Fool The Left Into Thinking That He Is Their Friend

The same people that apparently hate the libertarian Koch brothers are looking on Rand Paul as a decent human being;…

9 years ago

GOP Sociopaths, Not God, Don’t Want Americans To Have Medical Care

Since 2009 it has been painfully obvious that Republicans or their supporters do not want Americans to have access to…

9 years ago

Real Economist Paul Krugman Calls Republican Budget A Trillion Dollar Con Job

Republicans only know one approach to economic policy; the abject failure and scam known as trickle down with a healthy…

9 years ago

House GOP Budget: More Money For War, Repeal Obamacare, Cut Food Stamps and Medicaid

House Republicans have once again shown that they have little regard for the average American family or the typical American…

9 years ago

Koch-Congress Preparing To Starve the Poor With Drastic Food Stamp Cuts

The big plan the new Koch Senate is due to propose this week is cutting food stamps substantially and giving…

9 years ago

Obama Recovery In Full Swing As Unemployment Fell In Every One Of The 50 States Last Year

Every U.S. state and the District of Columbia, saw their unemployment rate drop from 2013 to 2014.

9 years ago

Republicans’ Rule A Death Sentence For 9 Million Disabled Americans

Republicans have shifted their focus slightly away from just killing Americans' jobs to killing disabled Americans; nearly nine million disabled…

9 years ago

Paul Ryan Proposes Massive Tax Cut For the Rich That Adds $100 Billion To Deficit

In his first proposed tax reform legislation as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, deficit hawk Paul Ryan's…

9 years ago

GOP Trickle Down Has 70% of Americans Near Financial Calamity

Instead of changing course and helping the majority of the population, Republicans still propose heaping wealth on the rich and…

9 years ago

Chuck Todd Lets Paul Ryan Lie About President Obama’s Economic Record On Meet The Press

Chuck Todd allowed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to lie and distort the president's economic record without even the slightest push…

9 years ago

Anti-Tax Republican Governors Are Raising Taxes On The Poor and Middle Class

Even though most Republican governors are wary of going all-in on tax cuts for the rich and corporations like trickle-down…

9 years ago

The Lame Duck President’s Not So Lame State Of The Union Speech

I was privileged to watch a chamber full of sullen, petulant, mostly far-right and white, wealthy Koch puppets, largely sitting…

9 years ago

Obama’s Tax Plan Forces Republicans To Choose Main Street Or Wall Street

President Obama's proposal to give middle class and working class Americans a tax break has the GOP on the defensive.

9 years ago

Paul Ryan Responds To Obama Tax Cut With Lies And Calls For Tax Hikes On The Middle Class

Rep. Paul Ryan responded to President Obama's plan to cut taxes for the middle class by lying about the president's…

9 years ago

Democrats Found Their Identity Too Late To Help President Obama’s Agenda

If Democrats had proposed any of their current populist plans last year, Republicans would have went into the midterm elections…

9 years ago

Thieving Republicans Robbed Americans In Their First Week Controlling Congress

It is amazing that Republicans who could not pass any legislation last year, spent the first four days of the…

9 years ago

GOP’s First Step To Inflict Kansas Economic Woes On America

There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous…

9 years ago

The First Act Of The Koch Congress Is A Vicious Attack On Social Security

On the evening before officially taking control of Congress, Republicans launched a Koch-Wall Street attack on Social Security as a…

9 years ago

Bernie Sanders Blasts Paul Ryan and House Republicans For Trying To Cook The Books

Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted an idea from Paul Ryan and other House Republicans that would justify their tax cuts for…

9 years ago

GOP House Leader Was Honored Guest Speaker At White Supremacist Conference

This week it was revealed that the third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives is guilty of pandering to…

9 years ago

Pope Plans To Go All In On Addressing Climate Change

Pope Francis plans to issue an edict on climate change in 2015.

9 years ago

Bernie Sanders Pushes Back Hard Against The GOP Plan To Cut Social Security and Medicare

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is pushing back hard against a Paul Ryan inspired Republican idea to cut both Social Security…

9 years ago

Republican Rebranding Fails As Mitt Romney And Jeb Bush Lead GOP Field

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that Mitt Romney leads the pack of GOP hopefuls for 2016, with Jeb…

9 years ago

Rick Perry Quotes Jesus To Justify Income Inequality and Poverty

Perry's message is clear; there is no reason to address poverty, income inequality, or make any effort to help those…

9 years ago

Boehner And Republicans Plan To Reverse Growth Numbers and Kill Jobs

Now that Republicans will have control of both houses of Congress, they will start, immediately, passing legislation to revert back…

9 years ago

Paul Ryan Plans A CBO Rubber Stamp For Trickle Down Disaster

Paul Ryan is quietly working behind the scenes to make sure the next head of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO),…

9 years ago

Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan Are So Scared Of Jon Stewart That They Won’t Go On The Daily Show

In a new interview, Jon Stewart said that conservative movement heroes Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan have repeatedly refused to…

10 years ago

Election Day Reality: The Republicans Have Got Nothing, and They Know It

Not a lot of voters will fit in that tiny little GOP tent set up deep in the heart of…

10 years ago

With Clinton and Obama Inbound, Scott Walker is on the Ropes in Wisconsin

Gov. Scott Walker is reeling in Wisconsin. Will Tea Party extremism trump Clinton and Obama support for Mary Burke?

10 years ago

Scott Walker Joins the Republican Crusade Denigrating Americans’ Work Ethic

During a debate with his Democratic gubernatorial opponent last week, Koch loyalist Scott Walker took the time to insult Wisconsin…

10 years ago

The Congressional Budget Office Vs. Paul Ryan: Will the Nonpartisan Entity Stand Its Ground?

There are very few nonpartisan, unbiased institutions left to us. But we always have the Congressional Budget Office. Or do…

10 years ago

Kansas Is a Portent of Republican Medicare Privatization Disaster

Democrats have a living, breathing example of privatizing Medicare, and frankly everything in the Path to Prosperity budget, that has…

10 years ago

Sam Brownback Insults Kansas Voters By Treating Them Like They Are Gullible and Stupid

It is beyond dispute that Republicans take advantage of their supporters' stupidity, and Brownback must believe Kansas voters are the…

10 years ago

Lazy Republicans Need To Learn the Culture and Value of Work

It is unfair and hypocritical for a person who has a job but refuses work to attribute laziness to a…

10 years ago

Mitch McConnell Puts His Foot In His Mouth By Calling The Founding Fathers Radicals

McConnell asserted that belief in, and support for, the government is "an act of true radicalism," something that makes the…

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

David Gregory Wakes Up and Busts Paul Ryan On His Lies About The Poor

In a rare moment of lucidity, Meet The Press host David Gregory called out Rep. Paul Ryan's uncompassionate lies about…

10 years ago

Paul Ryan and House Republicans Hyperventilate Over Imaginary Lost IRS Emails

Republicans have been attacking the IRS Commissioner, accusing him of lying to the American people over lost Nicole Flax emails…

10 years ago

American Voters Need To Realize The Terrible Urgency Of 2014

Every time I hear a pundit or a pollster discuss the certainty that Republicans will hold the House or the…

10 years ago

Extremist On the Horizon: Dave Brat Fits In With Government Destroying House Republicans

Even though Brat appears to be an extremist outlier in the conservative movement, his outrage that Cantor voted to raise…

10 years ago

Liberal States Outperform Conservative Ones as Republicans Push More Trickle Down

It is beyond question that after over thirty years, the Republican "trickle down" economic experiment continues providing the same empirical…

10 years ago

Jeb Bush Tells Poor People To Stop Mooching and Get Married

Buried under his sweet talk about immigration reform and the importance of education, Jeb Bush revealed the same old trickle…

10 years ago

Bernie Sanders Speaks Truth They Don’t Want You To Hear: The GOP Is an Extremist Party

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is ripping the mask of the Republican Party, and speaking the truth. On MSNBC today, Sanders…

10 years ago

Hillary Clinton Way Ahead Of Every GOP Candidate In Battleground State Of Ohio

Quinnipiac University released a new poll on Thursday showing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds double-digit leads on…

10 years ago

Sarah Palin Gets Dose Of Reality As Hillary Clinton Leads By 27 Points In 2016 Matchup

A poll released by McClatchy-Marist on Wednesday shows that former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds a…

10 years ago

Work Ethic Challenged Republicans Now Claim the ACA Threatens America’s Work Ethic

Now that their Obamacare kills jobs lie was discredited by the CBO's report and again in testimony to Congress, Republicans…

10 years ago

Republicans Are Making Sure That An Immigration Bill Will Not Pass Until After 2014

Republicans want a permanent immigrant sub-class of mostly non-voters to do the laundry, mow the yard and have no say…

10 years ago

Paul Ryan Crumbles and Falls Apart When Asked About Impeaching President Obama

When George Stephanopoulos pressed Paul Ryan on impeaching President Obama, the Wisconsin Republican crumbled, fell apart, and admitted that he…

10 years ago

Paul Ryan Lays The Groundwork For Impeaching President Obama Over Executive Orders

During an interview on CNN, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) laid the groundwork for impeaching President Obama by claiming that the…

10 years ago

Cathy McMorris Rodgers Completely Bombs Delivering The GOP’s SOTU Response

Tuesday evening, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) was tabbed by the Republican Party to deliver their official response to President…

10 years ago

After Killing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs By Blocking UI Republicans To Go On Vacation

Republicans on pace to kill hundreds and hundreds-of-thousands of jobs, send millions of Americans and their children into poverty, and…

10 years ago

Republicans Devastate The Lives of 1.3 Million Americans as the Media Stays Silent

The media is not about to damage Republicans' electoral chances by telling Americans the real reason why they are in…

10 years ago

Republicans Go Mad As Pope Francis and President Obama Deliver The Same Economic Message

Republican evangelicals have gone mad with rage as Pope Francis and President Obama are delivering the same rejection of their…

10 years ago

When Boehner and Cantor Say What The American People Want They Mean ALEC and the Kochs

In Republican parlance, when they say "what the people want," they mean their wealthy benefactors the Koch brothers, ALEC, and…

10 years ago

Bill O’Reilly Asks Fox News Viewers to Pray for Every Wealthy Person In America

Bill O'Reilly has asked his viewers to pray for people he feels are in imminent danger; every affluent person in…

10 years ago

Paul Ryan Threatens To Blow Up The Economy Unless Obama Approves Keystone XL

Paul Ryan is threatening to crash the economy by not raising the debt limit, if President Obama doesn't approve the…

10 years ago

Economists Agree With Democrats: GOP Hurting the Economy by Promoting Income Inequality

A panel of economists has joined President Obama, and struggling Americans to assert categorically that income inequality is crushing the…

10 years ago

SHAME: Millions of Americans Are Going Hungry and Republicans Plan to Make Even Worse

While the wealthiest 1% of Americans' fortunes increase dramatically, millions of Americans are going hungry and Republicans plan to make…

10 years ago

Senate Dems Compelled to Embrace the Suck On Budget To Avoid Disaster

The budget deal that was forged by Sen Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) looks to be one…

10 years ago

A Lot of Politically Surprising Things Happened Last Week…But Has Anything Changed?

As we barreled toward the New Year last week, it seemed that each morning brought with it some genuinely surprising…

10 years ago

Democrats Gave Paul Ryan an Inch and Now He Is Trying to Take a Mile

Democrats allowed Republicans to behave badly and Ryan just said they will behave very badly and hold the debt limit…

10 years ago

Republicans Insult America by Making Paul Ryan the Face of Compassionate Conservatism

To put Ryan's face on the new compassionate conservatism is an affront to any American familiar with his contempt for…

10 years ago

It’s Obvious That Democrats Did All the Compromising on The Budget Agreement

it was fairly clear by the giddy-ass grin on Paul Ryan's face that Senator Murray likely did all the compromising…

10 years ago

McDonalds Tells Underpaid Starving Employees To Break Their Food Into Pieces

Because McDonalds' "sample budget" only left $27 a month for food, the company advised hungry employees to "break food into…

10 years ago

It’s Time to Kill the Absurd Notion That Cutting Taxes on the Rich Grows The Economy

Ronald Reagan has been dead for over nine years and it is time to kill his absurd notion that cutting…

10 years ago

What the Media Won’t Tell You: Millions are Hurting as Red States Reject Medicaid Expansion

A number of right-wing states are leaving needy citizens without Medicaid coverage because their legislatures are rejecting expansion.

10 years ago

Natural Born Job Killers: Republicans Are Set to Kill 1 Million More Jobs in 2014

Republicans will be killing 1 million more jobs in 2014, and a new report found that their austerity madness is…

10 years ago

Paul Ryan’s Ayn Rand Fantasy Is to Double Food Stamp Cuts and Starve Millions

As devastating as the food stamp cuts that took effect may be, they are just a preview of increased hunger…

10 years ago

The Republican War on the ACA Is An Attack On Women

The ongoing war against the ACA by Republican messiah Ted Cruz is an attack on women that he enlisted ALEC's…

11 years ago

Republicans Go On a Scorched Earth Crusade In Case They Lose In 2014

Republicans realize that their recent shutdown laid waste to their brand and are intent on a scorched Earth crusade in…

11 years ago

Republicans Celebrate as 49 Million Americans Will Soon Have Less Food to Eat

This coming Friday Republicans will experience exhilarating satisfaction because millions of low-income seniors, working families, children, veterans, and disabled Americans…

11 years ago

Fiscal Scolds Demand ‘Reforms’ to Social Security and Medicare Based on a Myth

The fiscal scolds at Fix The Debt are again demanding 'reforms' to Social Security and Medicare. Their entire argument is…

11 years ago

The Tea Party Adds the GOP to its List of Enemies to be Destroyed

The Heritage Foundation's Tim Chapman says, "We have an opportunity to take over the party and it will be in…

11 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…

11 years ago

Castro Wannabe Ted Cruz Wins Valueless Voters Straw Poll

Ted Cruz was the winner of the yearly "theogasm," being nominated the man best equipped to destroy America's experiment in…

11 years ago

Bernie Sanders Has a Message for Paul Ryan, ‘You lost.’

On Ed Schultz's radio show, Sen. Bernie Sanders responded to Paul Ryan's Wall Street Journal editorial with a simple message,…

11 years ago

President Obama Went Where The Media Won’t By Calling Out the GOP Threat to America

President Obama did what the mainstream media has failed to do throughout the government funding crisis and said, "They've shut…

11 years ago

Before He Was Against It, Paul Ryan Agreed with Obama on Syria

Paul Ryan said on October 11, 2012, 'We agree with the same red line, actually, they (Obama/Biden) do on chemical…

11 years ago

Millionaires Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan Plan To Cut Off Food for 4 Million Americans

In September a bill pushed by Reps.Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor will if passed cut off food assistance to 2-4…

11 years ago

Paul Ryan Tells Poor People to Blame Obama For Their Poverty

Rep. Paul Ryan claimed that Obama's policies are the reason why people in poverty are poor. Ryan tried to convince…

11 years ago

The GOP’s Peter King Leads the 2016 Charge as He Trashes His Fellow Republicans

What King is looking for in a 2016 Republican is a Muslim-hating hawk who can get behind some truly Bushian…

11 years ago

Stupid Linings Playbook: Boehner & Ryan Cook Up A Plan That Hands Dems the 2014 Election

John Boehner and Paul Ryan have cooked up a debt ceiling plan that is so unpopular that it hands the…

11 years ago