The best that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) could do after Biden met with President Xi of China was complain about President Biden’s tone and mood music.
The ongoing public negotiation among Manchin, Biden, and progressive Democrats has made clear that Manchin has been trafficking the same old stale misinformation fiscal conservatives have been peddling for ages.
Donald Trump attacked two conservative bastions over the weekend in an outburst that was likely caused by his consistently poor performance in national polls. The President took aim at Fox News – a reliably conservative network that he sometimes claims is insufficiently loyal – but he also attacked the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute….
Ronald Reagan notoriously once asked, “Where would this country be without this great land of ours?†As ridiculous as Reagan sounded asking that question, the question has taken on a renewed seriousness given Donald Trump’s assault on the American land itself and thus, by extension, we Americans who depend on a safe and well-managed environment…
The wealth taxes Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed continue to provoke the malice of Wall Street, corporate democrats, and now even other Democratic candidates running for president. As I have written in PoliticusUsa.com (here and here), the intensity of the energy devoted to this criticism, combined with the lack of…
Joe Scarborough, former Republican but still self-proclaimed conservative host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, has hoisted himself into media and political limelights of late with his popularizing of the moniker “Moscow Mitch†for senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, who has refused to bring to the senate floor for a vote a bill to fund measures to…
It is troubling that Republicans insist on projecting: making their problems a liberal or progressive problem. Like being blamed for Trump when it is beyond question that they built that without any help from us. All Donald Trump did was make even deplorable an already crude message. Yet Daniel Payne writes at National Review that…
According to Gallup, 57 percent of Americans believe the current president is doing a good job.
The Republican Party is so desperate to avoid the reality of Donald Trump that Gov. Mike Pence is comparing Trump to Ronald Reagan.
The GOP has given up on governing and instead dedicated itself to aggressively redistributing wealth to the top at the expense of the rest
Farah says Cruz is the ‘real deal,’ a new Reagan when all Democrats Sanders and Clinton offer us is the past – oh wait…Reagan is the past
Ted Cruz being persecuted for telling the truth like Jesus? The truth is, Rafael Cruz is the Father of Lies, because that’s all Ted does
Donald Trump is now evoking Ronald Reagan to explain the dramatic “evolution” of his political views from liberal to wacky conservative
Reagan ushered in the first step of fascism, economic stagnation, when his extremist trickle down economic theory was imposed on the nation
Conservative columnist George Will and Fox personality Bill O’Reilly engaged in a bickering match over O’Reilly’s book “Killing Reagan.”
Peter Wehner says the liberal claim that Republicans are the ones who have become more extreme over the years is a “self-flatting but false narrative.”
The problem with the Republicans’ argument and lies, and there are many, is that statistics continue to prove that conservative anti-government policies over the past thirty-five years have driven income inequality and degraded society and are every bit as responsible for the events in Baltimore as out-of-control police violence against African Americans.
2016 may be the Year the mainstream media is surprised to discover there are actual Christians out there – and they don’t vote Republican.
In a radio interview, former GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann asserted that President Obama’s policies will lead to World War III.
Well, this is awkward for Republicans. The Obama economy has set yet another job growth record in the private sector.
Democrats expected Walker to eliminate the state’s ‘prevailing wage’ law requiring workers on public projects to be paid the established going rate for their labor. Instead of eliminating prevailing wage laws, Koch-Republicans’ decided to eliminate weekends and impose a ‘voluntary’ 7-day work week.
On Thursday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed legislation legalizing discrimination based on the religious right’s “free exercise” of their bigoted beliefs that Republicans in Indiana contend are the law of the land.
Republicans were so certain that if they allowed the Koch brothers to buy them control of Congress, no matter how extreme their new allies were, they would show Americans what it means to govern Republican style. Thus far they have failed miserably due to ceding control of the party to Koch-funded extremists who are more than willing to endanger the homeland and the American people to prove they hate President Obama.
One can hardly feel empathy for the people living under Republican extremists because unlike people suffering under fanatics in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and ISIS-controlled Iraq; red state extremists are chosen by incredibly stupid Americans to govern.
U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer sentenced former Virginia First Lady, Maureen McDonnell, to just 12 months plus one day in prison.
Facing public pressure, Republican lawmaker Dan Fisher is rewriting a bill that would have cut off funding for AP U.S. History courses.
In comments made to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi State Representative Gene Alday said he opposed additional school funding because he feels blacks in the state already get too much help from the government and “they don’t work.”
Instead of celebrating B-movie actor Ronald Reagan’s birthday today, Americans should reflect, deeply regret, and grieve that they and their parents foolishly gave bad actor the power to set in motion America’s thirty-year march toward theocracy and corporate fascism. A march today’s conservative religion is closer to enacting than ever before.
Instead of changing course and helping the majority of the population, Republicans still propose heaping wealth on the rich and increasing taxes on the bottom 90% of the population to complete the utter destruction of middle income earners. According to yet another report they are succeeding beyond their wildest dreams.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker impressed the crowds at the Iowa Freedom Summit. Democrats cannot afford to underestimate him.
Hillary Clinton enjoys double digit leads over five prominent Republican contenders, according to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll.
President Obama’s proposal to give middle class and working class Americans a tax break has the GOP on the defensive.
A growing number of Americans call themselves liberals. Going forward, Democrats need to embrace liberal ideas.
When Indiana Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Pence went to Israel he met Benjamin Netanyahu but not Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
Some Republicans are beginning to express little hope that the President will go along with the scam and may eschew raising taxes on the poor, for now, and instead set their sights on slashing corporate taxes.
CNN is reporting that the GOP moves early to court conservative Christians. We are told that, “The first votes of the 2016 campaign won’t be cast for another year but there’s already a race well underway: The Christian primary.” Republicans are actively courting white evangelical and born again Christian voters, knowing they will be crucial…
Even when the right tries to explain racism, they end up being racist. They are all in agreement that there are black criminals and bad cops. Funny thing, a cop who commits a crime, is indicted, found guilty and is serving time, well, they are a bad apple.
Conservatives in the 21st Century, from Republicans to Koch-libertarians have embraced, perpetuated, and transformed Reagan’s extremist language into party policy to great success with their claims that America is destined for a “thousand years of darkness” unless conservatives destroy government tyranny.
It’s only taken 6 years of blindly throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks, but Fox “News” has finally invented Articles of Impeachment against President Obama — or, at the very least, figured out a way to throw the word around recklessly.
According to one angry racist Republican, the start of ethnic cleansing is when an African American President takes executive action on immigration enforcement to create a Socialism-loving brown population.
A Maryland school board removed all religious holidays from its calendar, angering Norris – would adding Muslim holidays have made him less angry?
De facto Speaker of the House and self-appointed incoming Senate Majority Leader Ted Cruz accused the President of being a monarch and has devised a plan to punish the President for doing what Republican presidents have done since 1952.
Coupled with inhumane austerity cuts, the GOP is getting precisely what they apparently live for; more despair and destitution among the poor, especially children.
In this season of discontent, we lost a legend in the crusade for sensible gun reform. James S. Brady, the former White House press secretary for Ronald Reagan, died earlier this month, more than 30 years after being wounded in an assassination attempt on the President in Washington D.C.
During Monday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough had to be corrected by co-host Mika Brzezinski after Scarborough claimed former President Ronald Reagan immediately canceled a vacation and flew back to Washington after a Korean airliner was shot down by the Soviet Union in 1983
The current Republican outrage over the President negotiating the release of an American soldier held as a prisoner of war by the Taliban is both rank hypocrisy and further proof conservatives hate the men and women serving in the military.
If Republicans keep this up, Democrats won’t have to work hard to elect Hillary Clinton in 2016.
In nearly every respect, President Obama is nothing like the tax-and-spend liberal Ronald Reagan was, and is not even close to the gun control crusader Reagan proved to be.
Leave it to House Republicans to find a way to both enrage their base and alienate an entire voting bloc all in a single afternoon.
Today it is President Obama fighting Republicans to give all Americans the opportunities Dr. King sought for people of color, and besides not acknowledging income inequality even exists, Republicans are redoubling their advocacy of Reagan policies.
An implicit goal of the War on Poverty was to make the US a true meritocracy, and in this sense, it missed its target.
The snide satisfaction conservatives gloat in their declaration that the War on Poverty failed is apropos given how they sabotaged it
Rubio, as an anti-poverty crusader, is nearly as hysterical as Reagan, and so was his contention that opposite sex marriage is the solution to poverty.
The Chamber of Commerce president gave his state of American business address that was replete with propaganda that the economy is failing because President Obama is not following Reagan’s trickle-down economics.
As the new year is getting underway, there is a renewed push to force prayer into South Carolina public schools.
As tragic as the number of Americans freezing to death is, it is the number of Americans who are homeless that should shame politicians, but Republicans are incapable of being shamed.
On Tuesday night, three Representatives announced that they would retire at the end of their terms and not seek reelection in 2014.
Nelson Mandela was everything that Ronald Reagan wasn’t. For Conservatives today, that simply means that Mandela was clearly in the wrong.
Ronald Reagan has been dead for over nine years and it is time to kill his absurd notion that cutting taxes on the rich and corporations produces a balanced budget, create jobs and economic growth.
What Republicans, and some Democrats, refuse to tell the American people is that cutting Social Security is stealing from the people, creates poverty for senior citizens, and is bad for the economy.
The current Republican government shutdown is what teabaggers came to Washington to do; “break the government of the United States.”
Remember when Mitt Romney said that Russia is “without question our number one geopolitical foe”? Thanks in part to Edward Snowden, Republicans love to think now that Romney might have been right.
Bill Maher, not only exposed the the legacy of Ronald Reagan for what it really is, he also slaughtered the Republican Party’s most sacred cow.
Conservatives are attempting to put provisos on the invitation to immigrants and some are making it clear that not all immigrants are welcomed in America.
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.
Republicans want bombing suspect treated as enemy combatant but it’s liberals who want increased government control?
15 states with Republican governors are refusing to expand Medicaid even though the first 3 years are free and never more than 10% in state costs.
The House Democrats plan is founded on creating jobs and a thriving middle class that will never see the light of day because creating anything positive is anathema to destructive Republicans.
No matter how much they try to blame sequestration on Obama and the Democrats, Republicans set it up, and the victims will be the poor.
Could the answer to the ongoing economic woes of the country be a forgiveness of household debt? At least one economist thinks so.
Republicans are intent on returning to policies that, thirty years later, finally bore fruit and nearly destroyed the nation’s economy.
President Reagan raised the debt ceiling the more times than any other President since 1960. He raised it 18 times. In contrast, President Obama has raised the debt ceiling just 6 times.
Republicans never place a high-priority on spending and the national debt until there is a Democrat in the White House that has been a regular occurrence dating back to the Reagan era.
The GOP finds itself in trouble as Obama’s popularity soars and their own plummets, and Obama’s second term only promises more of the same
Unlike most of the words that come out of Republicans like John Bolton’s mouths, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was telling the truth about her concussion and now blood clot.
Sen. Graham insisted that we must raise the age for Social Security in order to deal with the debt, but Social Security has nothing to do with the debt.
In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a ‘hard’ left, something beyond either progressivism or liberalism
Neo-con leaders are warning that Republicans have to pressure President Obama to return to George W. Bush’s cowboy diplomacy by imposing their will on sovereign nations.
The Republicans’ love affair with an anti-tax agenda goes back to before the Reagan era, and has persisted as the GOP embraced the lunacy of supply-side economics.
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.
The ongoing debate about the fiscal cliff continues as the U.S. approaches the current debt ceiling. Republicans are responsible for problem
Facts crash into belief where Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system is concerned. How could Obama have paid for it when he hates Israel?
George Will writes about an agency founded and briefly run by newly-elected Senator Elizabeth Warren. Will tells many half-truths and lies.
Ever since Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act and championed policies supporting minorities, whites have been defecting from the party.
There are 2 prominent women who could assume their party’s mantle as Presidential candidates in 2016. They are Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.
Bill Maher laid waste to the right for getting every prediction they made about Obama’s first term completely wrong.
Obama wasn’t on his game, as he looked down a lot and didn’t speak eloquently like he normally would. Romney seized the opportunity and won. So who is to blame? Jim Lehrer, the moderator.
Romney is a charlatan who is stuck reiterating Reagan and Bush lies and hoping that Americans will be tricked just one more time.
The usual BS’ers took to the podium on the last night of the GOP convention. An addled Clint Eastwood was the sad highlight of the night.
Ross Douthat removes the details from the picture so he can clarify it, getting rid of all those pesky, distracting facts
Rachel Maddow shows us what a monumental mistake the Romney Campaign made in selecting the Kill Medicare Guy as his running mate
When bad news piles on bad news, how does a person carry on, and how far can positive thinking carry you in the face of insurmountable odds?
Citizens may think the ultra right tea party has all the power in the U.S. In truth, they have almost none. A few people control America.
Jeb Bush has stated the obvious. Due to his record of raising taxes and bipartisanship, Ronald Reagan could never survive in the current Birchers on steroids Republican Party.
Chuck Norris takes to WND to display comedic talents in support of Scott Walker, and badly misrepresenting Ronald Reagan in the process
A turnover of as little as 5 or 6 house seats in California could mean that Democrats once again control the House of Representatives.
Before Barack Obama another president stood up on a June day in Atlanta, and supported the socialist Buffett Rule. That president was Ronald Reagan.
The conservative justices want to kill the ACA. If they do, it will mark the beginning of the end for anything meaningful to emerge as long as Republicans have a majority in any branch of government.
It’s easy to see why Robison likes the city on a hill imagery because the only freedom will be that of Talibangelicals like Robison to force the rest of us to toe the religious line.
