President Obama stood up today and took responsibility for the mistakes that have been made in the ACA, but he took on Republicans by vowing to fight for he healthcare law and the uninsured.
The media is quick to look for anything negative about Obamacare, but they protect the real culprit: insurance company behavior
Conservative Christian business owners are appealing to other conservative Christians on the Supreme Court to grant them religious immunity from adhering to a federal law.
The current Republican government shutdown is what teabaggers came to Washington to do; “break the government of the United States.”
Pastor Terry Jones again tried to incite violence on September 11th. His vile actions deserve to land him in a maximum security facility.
The President told the audience that the Republican plans to shut down the government unless the Affordable Care Act is defunded is not an economic plan.
President Obama broke out the whooping stick today, and ripped Republicans for their intentional campaign to mislead people about Obamcare.
This week, the President led an important conference with new initiatives on mental health, but it was overlooked in favor of other news.
After the Jodi Arias verdict, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) wrote one of the most tasteless tweets that you will ever read. Stockman compared President Obama to Jodi Arias.
The list of charges conservatives have leveled at the President that they claim are irrefutable impeachable offenses that demonstrate their complaints are a cover for racism and anger over losing.
Today was a shameful day for America because 8% of the population, Ted Nugent and Wayne La Pierre, ALEC, and gun-crazed Republicans thumbed their noses at the great majority of Americans.
What President Obama didn’t say in his statement about the Boston Marathon bombing is just as important as what he said.
Republicans who are now worried sick about America’s children’s future, have already taken care to assure future generations will stay mired in poverty and ignorance.
the NRA, Republicans, and so-called patriots are driving gun fanatics and racists into frenzy by asserting President Obama is on a mission to confiscate guns, and invalidate the 2nd Amendment.
Cheney claims the President’s national security team choices put the nation at risk because they do not support Bush-Cheney policies that did increase the risks to America; his logic defies reason.
As the nation remembers Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of an America where all men are created equal, it is evident that King’s dream is unattainable so long as Republicans promote inequality.
Fossil fuel barons need to join the efforts to stem climate change, but their religious beliefs may be an unrecognized barrier to progress.
Telling the truth about Republicans will garner outrage and after the President’s statements, Republicans were furious.
Harsh attacks by liberals on liberals who disagreed with the President’s Social Security proposal seem aimed at stifling democratic dissent
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.
The GOP bears most of the blame for the economic woes over the past 12 years whether it was unfunded tax cuts, two wars, blocking job creation, credit downgrade, sequestration, and the fiscal cliff.
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.
The secessionists whose real reason for wanting to leave America has nothing to do with the Founders, the Constitution, or the economy and everything to do Barack Obama’s skin color.
President Obama used his press conference in order to set a trap for House Republicans that will leave them in a lose/lose situation on the Bush tax cuts.
In rejecting the Draconian agenda Romney and Ryan proposed, the majority of Americans expressed the compassion President Obama demonstrates in working for all Americans.
In a poll of countries around the world, President Obama is preferred to Romney in 20 of the 21 countries polled. The Romney holdout? Pakistan.
President Obama spoke today in Hilliard, Ohio about workers who were scared by Mitt Romney’s lies about Jeep moving their jobs to China.
Team Obama is calling Romney’s bluff, saying ‘Voters who haven’t heard from the Romney campaign in two years will see this desperation for what it is.’
While speaking at George Mason University today President Obama coined the term Romnesia to describe Mitt Romney’s shifts, flip-flops, and lies.
Obama exposed Romney as a fraud because when his lies were stripped away, and the bully was smacked down, what was left was a sniveling little brat who has never been challenged or corrected.
After examining volumes of criticism and interpretation of the first presidential debate, it is obvious that the critics misread President Obama and that they fail to understand debate strategy.
Post debate discussion focused on Romney’s energy and ability to take down Jim Lehrer. One problem: he isn’t running against Jim Lehrer
The President and Mitt Romney were fighting about their tax plans when MittFit number one erupted.
According to a new Zogby Poll the wheels are close to coming off the Romney campaign. President Obama leads Mitt Romney among NASCAR fans, 48%-41%.
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 ignoring his own history of outsourcing of jobs to China while blaming President Obama for allowing the Chinese to take away American jobs.
If you thought the empty chair ranting was the jump the shark moment of the RNC, you need to expand the area wherein you keep track of Republican stupidity.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is praising President Obama’s support for his constitutional amendment and movement to overturn Citizens United.
President Obama made some big news today by announcing that he supports a constitutional amendment like the one proposed by Bernie Sanders to overturn Citizens United.
When red states ran by Republican governors cut social programs, California’s Gov. Jerry Brown is doing just the opposite…much to the chagrin of the state’s Republicans.
Jon Stewart slayed Mitt Romney’s you didn’t build that attack on Obama, exposing Romney for hanging his whole campaign on an out of context grammatical misstep.
Romney’s business record is rife with government subsidies and grants that enabled him to reap the huge profits that he hides in offshore accounts.
President Obama is putting more pressure on Mitt Romney as he demanding that the Republican nominee answer questions about Bain and take responsibility for his company.
This is the fight we’ve been waiting for. This is a step in a government for the people – polices that are for the people, not just for the 2%.
It is a sad commentary that a man of President Obama’s stature, intelligence, and even-keeled resolve has been the subject of such rancid racism in a country like the United States.
If Willard Romney controls the world’s most powerful military will repeat the Iraq and Afghanistan disasters because he is, after all, just George W. Bush with magic underwear.
The Obama administration is one hundred percent behind our troops in deeds, compassion, and policy that match their words..
President Obama responded to the wild lies of the Republican Party, “They run up these wild debts, and then when we take over, we’ve got to clean it up!”
The right wing rumor that Barack and Michelle Obama almost got a divorce goes beyond irrational hatred of this president and ties into a specific Republican objective for 2012.
All women have to do to emphatically support Obama in 2012 is compare his policies to the Romney and the Republicans, but here are 7 reason why the president is the obvious choice.
There are several reasons Romney lies about his role in saving Detroit, and they demonstrate the man’s low moral character, but it is more due to Obama’s success in turning around the economy.
President Obama launched his 2012 reelection campaign in Ohio, not only fired up with a positive vision for the future, but also firing away on Mitt Romney and the Republican Party.
Mitt Romney ran virtually unopposed in Pennsylvania, and saw President Obama’s lead grow to eight points. Demonstrating again that the more voters see of Romney, the less they like him.
President Obama’s campaign hits back hard at a Koch funded attack ad chock full of pants on fire lies aimed at his green energy push.
The Obama campaign’s new video tells the story of how Obama has been fighting for us, moving the country forward, while Republicans sat on their bums and whined, “No!”
President Obama’s latest ad touts the truth about his national security record and Mitt Romney’s Bush policy of ignoring bin Laden. This is the one thing Republicans really don’t want to talk about.
The American dream was being born poor, studying, and working hard to find success is something Romney can’t understand, while Obama lived through it and earned the nation’s highest office.
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.
In an interview with Telemundo, President Obama dropped the hammer and served notice to Mitt Romney that his lies will not go unchallenged.
Republicans are so busy throwing tantrums that they fail to recognize that President Obama is denouncing their unfair assaults on the poor and middle class.
George Bush is back to remind everyone that he “dramatically raised the deficitâ€. Lawrence O’Donnell observed that Bush’s appearance is a huge gift to the President and his Buffett Rule.
Gawker has a Fox mole. The big surprise in this pre-interview tape with Sean Hannity isn’t that Mittens’ wife has Austrian dressage horses, but that Mittens has an “easy to ride” Missouri Foxtrotter.
It is women who will save America from Republican fascism because they have, with minorities, taken the brunt of Republican attacks on equal rights.
Sensing that the Republicans are on the run, President Obama mounted a counterattack against the war on women by explaining why this war isn’t just a women’s issue.
Americans have two distinct records to compare and contrast, and Mitt Romney is lying about both his own and President Obama’s.
When the people understand that 99% of them are slated for evolutionary economic extinction at the hands of Republicans, they will compete for resources at the ballot box and stop the GOP.
Romney may fool Americans with his alleged foreign policy acumen and fantasies of cowboy diplomacy, but Russian President Dmitry Medvedev clearly understands Romney is out-of-touch with reality.
There was dual story revealed in the latest CNN poll. As the economy gets better, President Obama’s approval ratings go up. The more Mitt Romney campaigns, the less America likes him.
Fox News has decided that President Obama is responsible for the controversy surrounding the shooting of Trayvon Martin, not George Zimmerman.
The right is attempting to have it both ways on gas prices. They are protecting Big Oil’s profits, while blaming President Obama for the high price of gas.
In Republican politics, the concept of reporting the truth is non-existent and contrary to their natural inclination to lie for the sake of political expediency.
The President made his first comments on the tragic Trayvon Martin case, calling for soul searching over the shooting and noting that if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon. It’s time for America to wake up.
It is no coincidence that the Republicans pushing for war with Iran are also the same folks who do the bidding of the oil industry in Congress.
A new Pew Research Center survey of registered voters found that 59% think President Obama will defeat Mitt Romney, and 68% believe he would beat Rick Santorum.
Today during their live press conference, UK Prime Minister Cameron praised President Obama on his Iran strategy, saying Obama’s “tough, reasonable approach has united the world” behind the sanctions. It’s Cameron Day at the White House, as President Obama welcomes British Prime Minister David Cameron for a day of meetings about Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and…
Mitt Romney’s son Matt, a former birther, reforms his message in Hawaii when asked if President Obama is a Christian. Personally, I find reform of this sort charming and a sign of hope much missing from the Republican Party, but this sort of thing is just not said amongst those on the “right’, especially that…
There is a subculture of hate that is growing in response to an African American in the White House and the GOP presidential hopefuls are inflaming it with coded references to taking America back.
As their dreams of defeating President Obama evaporate by the day, Fox News is claiming media conspiracy and using Palin to ease viewers into their collective psychotic break.
Recent polls show Obama’s popularity on the rise, even among Independents and Republicans, while enthusiasm among the GOP base is falling.
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.
A comparison of recent polls in Ohio, Michigan, and Virginia with 2008 polling shows that voters who supported President Obama last time are starting to come back home to him in 2012.
On his Fox News program, Bill O’Reilly claimed that President Obama had nothing to do with saving the auto industry and he needs to be much more humble about success.
After a bruising three years, and an achingly slow vindication of policy, President Obama’s reelection team needs to display some real swagger.
President Obama used his Super Bowl interview to call on taxes to be raised on the wealthy, and more regulations on Wall Street.
Republicans are projecting their anxiety over the 2012 election by equating President Obama to the Italian Captain who abandoned his ship.
The conventional wisdom is a Romney nomination would give President Obama a run, while a Gingrich candidacy would ensure an Obama victory, but I’m not sold on that. Here’s why.
As their treatment of Jan Brewer’s disrespect of President Obama shows, the mainstream media is keeping the GOP’s dirty little racist secret under wraps.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer explained that she shook her finger in President Barack Obama’s face on the airport tarmac because she “felt threatened” by the POTUS. Â The entire incident happened yesterday when the Governor hand delivered a letter to the President when he touched down in Phoenix. The pair had a bit of a…
Rachel Maddow completely dismantled the Republican claims that President Obama has grown the size of government since taking office.
With Americans getting so much protection from a couple of Obama recess appointments, it is no wonder Republicans are livid.
Obama isn’t perfect, but he protected Americans from all walks of life from Republicans who mounted an all-out economic assault against them.
comments to Philadelphia Eagle’s owner Jeff Lurie regarding the team giving Michael Vick a second chance after he completed his federal prison sentence for running a dog fighting ring. to Philadelphia Eagle’s owner Jeff Lurie regarding the team giving Michael Vick a second chance after he completed his federal prison sentence for running a dog fighting ring, but many Americans do not think it is appropriate that Michael Vick was given a second chance and it reflects a long-standing belief that convicted felons are not worthy of the same rights as all Americans. A valid question is; would Vick have been given a second chance if he wasn’t a star athlete? The answer is most certainly no based on hiring practices across the country, and it is especially true now that employers can easily make background checks on applicants in a matter of minutes.
Senior White House adviser Valarie Jarrett was on NBC’s Meet The Press today where she offered up an interesting New Year’s resolution for President Obama and the White House. Jarrett said they are going to get the president out more to listen and engage with the American people, “It’s really what gives him his energy and his strength, and so we’re determined in the new year to make sure that his schedule reflects that priority.”
Senator Sanders stood up for Americans against Republicans, and true to form, only two Democrats stood with him. If Democrats were truly outraged with the tax cut deal, they would have been in attendance and at least given Bernie toilet breaks. But being the frightened, fractured group they are, Democrats ran from the fight. Now we can just wait for them to turn on Senator Sanders for not filibustering long and hard enough. It is what frightened cowards do.
President Obama was on NPR’s Morning Edition Friday discussing the compromise on the Bush tax cuts when in response to a listener’s question about how keeping the tax cut for the rich will create jobs Obama said, “It doesn’t, which is why I was opposed to it — and I’m still opposed to it.” Obama admitted that he had to compromise because if he didn’t he felt that the economic recovery would be endangered.”
After President Obama’s press conference announcing a deal with Republicans on tax cuts, the left exploded with such ferocity and divisiveness that it’s no wonder conservatives always win. While the left demonizes Obama as a sellout for making the best out of losing situation for the majority of Americans, and you can be certain that conservatives are licking their chops watching the left cannibalize President Obama for governing from the center; it is short-sighted and arrogant to believe otherwise.
President Obama held a press conference to defend the compromise that he reached with the Republicans on a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts in exchange for a long term extension of unemployment benefits. In response to critics of the deal, the President dared Republicans to test his willingness to fight, “I will be happy to see the Republicans test whether or not I’m itching for a fight on a whole range of issues. I suspect they will find I am.”
As the furor and outrage boils over TSA security measures, it is interesting how the left and the right are in agreement over perceived intrusion and invasion of privacy. It doesn’t matter that the controversy is a conservative fabrication, it just matters that there is a reason to rail on the Obama Administration.
David Axelrod said in an interview that the Obama Administration is considering keeping the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans. The question Americans deserve an honest answer to is; what is the benefit to 98% of Americans, or the economy?
According to a new Gallup poll released today, President Obama has been helped by the midterm election that his party suffered. Obama has actually seen his approval rating rise by 4 points to 47%. Both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton saw their approval ratings fall after their parties lost control of Congress. Obama could…
