There’s is a pretty good reason why Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are famous. The Washington Post duo were responsible for exposing Richard Nixon’s Watergate scheme and bringing down a presidency. For some reason, though, the Trump campaign thought it was a good idea for the President to speak with Woodward on 18 different occasions….
The 61 House Democrats led by Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairs Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva are demanding a new funding mechanism for the cost of TAA for displaced workers; but they did not call for a corporate tax hike to cover the cost. Why? Because this is America and corporations get a free ride which is precisely why Washington politicians let corporations write the trade agreement in secret.
No more playing war on citizens with federally funded military-style equipment for local police. So says President Obama. Police need to have a “guardian”, not a warrior, mind-set about their communities.
On Thursday, Bush finally relented and joined others in the GOP field in admitting that the Iraq War was a mistake.
The tragic accident was, by all accounts, entirely due to perpetually inadequate funding for the nation’s transportation infrastructure; just one of the hallmarks of Republican governance when they control the nation’s purse-strings and yet another devious means to privatizing all aspects of government for the Koch brothers.
President Barack Obama plans to visit the Florida Everglades on Wednesday to highlight the urgency of tackling climate change.
What the evangelical right never, never ever, talks about is the persecution, barbarism, and hatred targeting Christians at the hands of Israeli Jews in the Holy Land and it leads one to wonder if America’s neo-Christians are using President Obama as a surrogate for the Israelis targeting Christians for persecution.
Hillary Clinton hopes the Supreme Court will come down on the side of same-sex couples being guaranteed the constitutional right to marry.
The Republican presidential contenders offer no alternative policy for dealing with Iran other than saber-rattling rhetoric.
Well, this is awkward for Republicans. The Obama economy has set yet another job growth record in the private sector.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers solicited Obamacare “horror stories” on Facebook, but instead got bombarded with positive ACA testimonials.
Even if they put Jeb Bush at the top of the ticket, Republicans are in obvious danger of losing Florida once again.
Republicans have actively worked for the collapse of the political system (government) entirely. Now, the machinations of the Republicans have been exposed on the global stage and finally a foreign leader said what the world and an increasing number of Americans already know.
The Iranian may know the Constitution and international law better than the treasonous 47, but it seems he does not understand that in America, Republicans are not bound to any law; domestic or international.
In a Friday morning interview, President Obama made it clear that Ferguson, Missouri’s racist police practices are not unique.
Seems like every time you turn around these days there’s another crazy Republican uncle doing and saying the kind of things crazy Republican uncles do.
Friday morning, at CPAC, Senator Rubio told an audience that he had learned that his previous support for immigration reform was a mistake.
Warren is not running. It is not going to happen, and I think it’s time to accept that fact.
A Rutgers University-Eagleton Poll shows New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie sinking to new depths of unpopularity
During Thursday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough whined about the Authorization for the Use of Military Force that President Obama put forth on Wednesday in regards to the ongoing situation with ISIL in the Middle East.
In a speech where President Obama condemned ISIS as a “death cult”, Congressman Fleming interprets Obama’s words to be supportive of ISIS.
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released January’s jobs report and, as has been the case for some time now, the news was good. The economy added 257,000 jobs during the month.
Republicans hope to create a social security crisis, but President Obama has declared that he has no desire to indulge them in that fantasy.
Every one of the Koch Republicans, and their oily Democratic cohorts, who voted to approve a State Department construction permit for TransCanada to build the KeystoneXL pipeline across America’s international border with Canada are guilty of violating the Constitution’s long-standing Separation of Powers.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker impressed the crowds at the Iowa Freedom Summit. Democrats cannot afford to underestimate him.
For the past seven years President Barack Obama has delivered prescient State of the Union speeches that should appeal to the majority of Americans regardless of their party affiliation except for one small detail; he represents the federal government.
The details of President Barack Obama’s proposal to make community college free for the first two years for anyone who is willing to work hard are included in this fact sheet from the White House.
“False”. This is the harsh ruling PolitiFact had for Mitch McConnell’s claim that the economy improved because the GOP won. Further, “The data we found suggest McConnell is engaging in some wishful thinking.”
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani used the terrorist attack on a French newspaper to insist that the United States needs to have a police presence inside all Muslim places of worship.
Republicans are beginning the 114th Congress with the mindset that “nothing is going to get in the way of our team’s focus on the Koch brothers’ priorities” in quickly passing two bills the Koch brothers demand be acted on.
During Monday night’s broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly interviewed former KKK leader David Duke regarding the recent controversy surrounding House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaking at a white supremacist conference in 2002.
If the President simply adjusted the salary threshold for inflation since it was last raised in 1975, it would be a more significant income increase for over 10 million low and low middle-class American workers that raising the hourly wage to $15 per hour for the rest of the poverty-wage workforce.
Now that Republicans control both houses of Congress, Americans should brace themselves for a serious Koch-style assault on revenue and government agencies. Last year, Mitch McConnell told Kansas Governor Sam Brownback that Republicans were panting to enact a Koch-Kansas economic assault on America that Brownback imposed by giving the rich monumental tax breaks at…
While guest hosting Fox News’ Hannity Monday night, Katie Pavlich said during a panel discussion that President Obama “has a track record of being anti-police” without providing any concrete proof of that being the case.
The recent appropriations bill known as the CRomnibus could have been a lot worse for women’s reproductive rights and it is very fortunate for women that Democrats and President Obama succeeded in getting it passed.
After President Obama announced a new policy shift with Cuba Wednesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) led the predictable Republican outrage. Specifically, Rubio called Obama a weak negotiator and said Congress will not lift the embargo.
As one would expect from criminals, many Republicans, George W. Bush, and former Bush administration officials in charge of the torture program condemned the Senate’s report as a biased attempt to rewrite history.
In Limbaugh’s mind. Obama, Holder and all the other race hustlers feel that they didn’t “get a win” with the Michael Brown case and now want to frame and railroad another cop over a race-based death.
“Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country have highlighted the importance of strong, collaborative relationships between local police and the communities they protect.”
Saying it was Secretary Chuck Hagel’s decision to step down as Secretary of Defense, President Obama praised the Republican as an “exemplary defense secretary.”
Live video of President Obama’s immigration address to the nation.
One election where a Democratic seat was flipped red was Montana’s District 32 State House race. The Republican, Gilbert Bruce Meyers, was convicted of assault on a minor and sentenced to four years in prison.
Since Republicans have relentlessly obstructed jobs programs for America’s Veterans, the President took it upon himself to enact the program at American military bases and provide job training for at least 50,000 veterans.
Christie may not have the anti-voter credentials of some of his Republican brethren, but he does not support the right to vote for all Americans.
President Obama, who honored Bradlee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013, issued a statement in memory of the legendary journalist.
The man who shut down the government in an effort to stop funding to Obamacare/access to affordable healthcare is now confounded that government wasn’t entirely ready for action on Ebola.
The Treasury Department announced that the 2014 deficit as a percentage of GDP has reached its smallest point since 2007, which also happens to be below the average deficit of the last 40 years.
Republicans are itching to bring in ground troops against ISIS. The reason stems from an incessant desire to prove American superiority through military means.
During a segment on Fox News’ Outnumbered Thursday, the network’s favorite little racist troll, Andrea Tantaros, claimed Africans traveling to the United States who may possibly be infected with the Ebola virus won’t go to hospitals, but instead seek out witch doctors for treatment.
Republicans are big on dog whistle politics, particularly going into a midterm election where they have no apparent agenda to run on, and as is usually the case with Republicans, they are appealing to a dependable voting bloc that are rabid over socially conservative (read religious) issues.
Midterms tend to be viewed, both individually and in the eyes of media pundits, as a referendum on the sitting President. But other writers and thinkers offer a deeper psychological assessment of these elections
Former Speaker of the House and current conservative pundit Newt Gingrich took to Twitter Tuesday morning to whine about President Obama’s statement about the airstrikes against ISIS that took place in Syria Monday night and early Tuesday.
After showing Scarborough ranting about Mrs. Clinton’s book tour and making appearances in early primary states while not announcing her intentions to run, Stewart gloriously took down Scarborough and highlighted his complete and total hypocrisy.
In an ‘exclusive’ article for Breitbart.com, the former half-term Governor of Alaska wrote that the President needs to be removed from office due to the crisis at the border involving tens of thousands of refugees, most of them children, who are trying to escape violent conditions in Central America.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released June’s jobs report on Thursday. The report was released a day earlier than normal due to Friday being a national holiday. The BLS showed that the economy added 288,000 jobs in the month of June.
During Thursday’s airing of Fox News’ Outnumbered, the network’s resident psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Ablow, amazingly claimed that President Obama is using the World Cup as a distraction.
One would be hard-pressed to find any difference whatsoever between Republicans and their teabagger cohort except their willingness to openly state their goals.
President Obama fired up the crowd today at the Working Families Summit in DC to advocate support and flexibility for working families. You know, real family values.
During his remarks at the White House Summit on Working Families, President Obama joked that women are more likely to vote for Democrats because they are smarter than men.
Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s Morning Joe was able to score an interview with President Obama that aired on Monday morning. Obviously, the interview centered around the situation in Iraq and the growing sectarian violence, led by extremist group ISIS, that has rocked that country.
President Obama talked about real family values in his weekly address, saying, “For Michelle & our girls, I try every day to be the husband & father my family didn’t have when I was young.”
How would the neocons respond if President Obama told them they were solely in charge of coming up with solutions to the problems in Iraq? Could they even handle it? Or are they more interested in complaining from the peanut gallery?
During an interview with Megyn Kelly of The Kelly File Wednesday night, Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-CA) managed a nice little two-fer while discussing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — he flip-flopped from his previous opinion of the soldier and he ‘swift boated’ him.
Late Friday morning, President Obama announced that he’d accepted the resignation of retired four-star general and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki.
Well, I think we all knew this was coming, in one degree or another. Former half-term Governor of Alaska and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin decided to weigh in on the recent brouhaha surrounding Karl Rove’s comments on Hillary Clinton’s health.
CNN is reporting that Robert Copeland, a police commissioner in New Hampshire who unapologetically used a racial slur when referring to the President, has decided to resign from office.
On Thursday evening, the town of Wolfeboro, NH held a town meeting to discuss the words and actions of its 82 year-old police commissioner, Robert Copeland. Back in March, Mr. Copeland was at the bar of a local restaurant and complained loudly about President Obama, using a racial slur.
Somehow President Obama managed to say this without twitching, “It is a no brainier for Congress to do what it is supposed to do.”
During a discussion of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Monday morning, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough defended Rubio’s position on climate change while also claiming that Democrats are like “televangelists” when it comes to the science behind climate change.
Monday marked the fifth anniversary of President Obama’s stimulus package that helped pull the nation out of the worst recession seen since the Great Depression.
Instead of waxing philosophically on the achievements of past presidents, it is worthwhile to take stock of the current President and recognize the monumental hurdles he cleared while battling Republicans who made destroying his presidency and the nation’s economy their sole reason for serving in Congress.
CNN.com posted a story in their political section on Monday detailing a story that ran on a very conservative website on Sunday evening.
It is getting absurd to have Republicans serving in Congress when they have no intention of doing the work the people sent them to Washington to do.
President Barack Obama explained why and what he is doing with his executive pen to help foster an environment of opportunity, and vowed to keep doing it.
Signaling that they think Kentucky is winnable, Democrats are making President Bill Clinton’s first 2014 stop to campaign for Alison Lundergan Grimes.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released January’s jobs numbers and there was good, mediocre and bad news all mixed in to the report.
On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office released a report discussing the economy and budget. The report showed that the deficit continues to shrink.
On Wednesday, President Obama sent out a memorandum directing the Treasury Department to develop a new retirement savings security for working Americans.
Just ahead of his State of the Union address where he will push for Congress to raise the minimum wage for all American workers, President Obama took action and issued an executive order to raise the minimum wage for all federal contractors to $10.10 an hour.
Fox announced on Thursday that Fox News talk-show host Bill O’Reilly will interview President Barack Obama before the Super Bowl on February 2nd.
When discussing President Obama’s NSA speech held earlier in the day. Limbaugh commented on the size of the American flags set behind the President. Rush then said that the flags are getting bigger with every speech, and that is a sure sign of a dictatorship.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released their fundraising numbers in November and they were nothing short of sensational. For the month, the DSCC raised a total of $5.1 million.
A new poll released on Friday by USA Today and Pew Research shows that voters prefer Democrats to Republicans in a generic Congressional vote.
Former South African President and anti-apartheid hero Neslon Mandela passed away on Thursday at the age of 95.
At his press conference on Monday afternoon, White House Press Secretary confirmed that over 375,000 people visited the federal health care exchange between midnight and noon ET.
It appears they have pushed the President too far and punished the people too severely, because he is finally speaking honestly against the Republican caused damage to America.
It is noteworthy that regardless the cries of tyranny, conservative and libertarian devotees never cite one example that could be misconstrued as President Obama as a tyrant based in reality.
The House used the sequester crisis to slip the Monstanto Protection Act into a short term spending measure. Activists are calling on Obama to issue an executive order labeling our food.
Paul Ryan is lying to justify inflicting more pain on the American people for the sheer joy of giving the richest 1% nearly 15% in tax cuts.
After John McCain called GOP Rep Amash a ‘wacko bird’, Amash accused McCain of coming up with that while having dinner with the President, as if having doing his job was a bad thing.
President Obama said today while signing the Violence Against Women Act, “I promise you this – not just as your President, but as a son, as a husband, as a father – I’m going to keep at it.”
The President is right to tell Americans the devastating truth; Republicans are deliberately punishing people and reversing economic recovery.
Conservatives freak out over the President’s skeet shooting photo, falling right into the President’s trap. Again.
President Obama urged a balanced approach to the upcoming budget talks, but warned that Congress (read: Republicans) needs to start putting the country ahead of politics.
The President punched the NRA in their lobbyist mouth by releasing a photo of Obama skeet shooting.
President Obama and First Lady Michell Obama shared a sweet and loving slow dance to Jennifer Hudson’s version of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” at last night’s inaugural ball.
If one analyzes the President’s speech carefully, every aspect he touched on was contrary to conservative ideology, and none more than we the people, together, will face the challenges ahead.
Today, the Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco, read his poem ‘One Today’ at the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
This spring, Afghan forces will take the lead for security across the entire country. By next year, our war with Afghanistan will finally be over.
‘This agreement will also grow the economy and shrink our deficits in a balanced way – by investing in our middle class, and by asking the wealthy to pay a little more.’