Rig the Vote: Republicans Push for Soviet Style Elections Where the Loser Wins
Republicans are spreading their gerrymandering to the presidency by dreaming up a scheme for Soviet style elections where the loser wins.
Republicans are spreading their gerrymandering to the presidency by dreaming up a scheme for Soviet style elections where the loser wins.
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.
There’s good news for liberty on this 40th anniversary of Roe V Wade. For the first time ever, a majority of Americans support a woman as having the right to make her own medical decisions.
Beyonce Sings the National Anthem at the 2013 Inauguration of Barack Obama.
Colin Powell brought reality down on the Republican Party in an appearance on ABC News by saying, ’26 percent favorability rating for the party right now. It ought to be telling them something.’
The Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, North Carolina has been closed after an accidental gun shooting in the Jim Graham Building injured two people.
If you believe easily debunked hysteria offered up by right wing cons and grifters, you are a victim of your own failure to think and hence should not be allowed to own a dangerous weapon.
The same people who love Sarah Palin call Obama a dictator. But in 2008, then Gov. Palin stripped the militia of their guns and many powers.
The Republican Party is once again plotting a come back. And once again, they’re not addressing the flaws in their policy, but rather the message used to convey the policy to the public.
Who better to give the Republican Party advice about how to beat Obama in the upcoming debt ceiling and budgetary fight than the guy whose ticket just lost to Obama.
Need a laugh? Watch Fox ‘News’ hosts laugh at their own Obama conspiracy lead and ask, ‘Who wrote that?’
The GOP is holding their meeting on minorities in a room named after a slave owner’s plantation, on a resort celebrating its history as a plantation.
GOP campaign officials have soothing words for Republicans. Don’t worry, they say. The American public will forget a debate that took place two years before the midterms.
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.
Read the President’s Plan to protect our children and our communities by reducing gun violence and the list of executive actions signed today.
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi is calling for an unconstitutional remedy for what he sees as Obama’s unconstitutional use of executive orders regarding gun safety.
‘What’s wrong with these people, Mika? What’s wrong with these people?’ Joe asks Mika on MSNBC’s Morning Joe after showing the NRA’s new ad aimed at Obama’s kids.
In a new White House petition, the people demand, ‘Mandate the AG to seek sanctions, costs, and attorneys’ fees to recover taxpayer funds used to defend birther lawsuits.’
Fitch ratings poked a huge hole in Republican talking points by warning that using the debt ceiling as a mechanism for fiscal discipline is ineffective and potentially dangerous.
Soledad O’Brien challenged Rep Mulvaney (R-SC) by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position, since no one demanded that the costs be offset for disaster relief for his state.
Republicans are threatening to impeach Obama over executive action on gun control, but many presidents have issued executive orders on gun control, including George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Buried deep in Ryan’s latest Fetus Rights Bill is a section that will allow a rapist to sue his victim in order to stop her from getting an abortion.
Governor Walker is very serious about cracking down on protests. For example, three Capitol Police issued a citation to a 69-year-old retired woman for participating in a sing-a-long at the Capitol.
Republican spin master Frank Luntz thinks the Republican Party can fix its public image by using better language to connect with the public.
On ABC’s This Week, Senator Bob Corker, (R-TN), concern trolled about the ‘temperament’ of Republican former Senator Chuck Hagel, whom Obama has nominated as Secretary of Defense.
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.
The White House has responded, as they do to all petitions that get over 25,000 signatures, to the call for the U.S. to build a Death Star.
Picking Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary was a way for Obama to arm himself against the upcoming battles with Republicans over budgetary issues.
A pro-fetus House Republican from Georgia is defending legitimate rape Todd Akin of Missouri and the gift of rape Richard Mourdock of Indiana.
President Obama keeps besting Republicans, but they still believe they have the upper hand, even as they play right into his hands.
Democratic Governor Jerry Brown fixed California’s deficit via Prop 30, also known as raising taxes. California no longer has a deficit.
Two victims were shot today at Taft High School in Taft, Calfiornia – a school that has ‘a uniform deputy sheriff monitoring campus before, during and after school.’
Republicans will do anything to block Chuck Hagel’s appointment as Defense Secretary, including praising Obama’s sanctions against Iran.
AIG was considering suing the government over the 2008 bailout that saved them from their bad decisions, but apparently they’ve had a rethink.
More than 100 Michigan workers welcomed back their lawmakers to the Capitol with shouts of ‘Shame!’, after they voted to force workers to work for less.
ForAmerica.is targeting Mitch McConnell because in saving America from going off of the fiscal cliff, he abandoned “conservative” principles.
Rape apologists, the rape crew, lawyers for the rape crew and morons (excuse the redundancy) are very upset about their character being impugned.
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) may be in over his head. Boehner bemoaned his job while claiming that Republicans are going to win the sequester deal.
Steubenville Police said it was too late to test Jane Doe to see if she had been roofied. However, there are tests that work up to a month later.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) destroyed Republican talking points regarding the debt ceiling on Face the Nation, and then upped the ante for more revenue.
Because of the attention the Steubenville case has gotten, San Luis Obispo has launched a campaign to encourage the reporting of rape.
President Obama used his weekly address to explain the stakes in the upcoming debt ceiling showdown.
Federal law requires Congress to authorize the government to borrow any money that is needed to pay for the programs that Congress has passed.
John Boehner thinks Republicans can win the debt ceiling showdown, and he’s got a poll to prove it.
It’s not just the Sandy bill. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and John Boehner (R-OH) also killed legislation that would help protect 30 million American women’s lives.
Paul Ryan (R-WI) explains his yes vote on the fiscal cliff deal, praising the House for ‘providing certainty’ by making lower taxes permanent.
The fiscal cliff vote was full of peril for Republicans. Conservatives are calling for Boehner to be fired and the’re blaming Obama for the House GOP failure.
Senate Democrats are done playing Republican House games. They won’t be making changes to the agreement. ‘We’re done,’ an aide said.
In spite of the Republican love for bumper sticker slogans, a spending agreement was in the debt ceiling deal. It is called the Budget Control Act.
Sarah Jones live tweeting the Senate fiscal cliff ‘debate’; aka, the GOP clown car heading straight for cliff of talking point re taxing the rich.
Rand Paul (R-KY) brought the shrillness to new heights today on the Senate floor, likening taxing rich people to ‘drowning’ them.
Speaker Boehner made little sense Sunday as did a run around reality after Obama held him responsible for the fiscal cliff negotiation failures.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is going to send his armed posse of volunteers to stalk Maricopa County schools for “protection.”
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.
A 23-year-old female who was brutally gang-raped in India died today as a result of her injuries. Her attack has inspired protests throughout India.
This is a sad, seedy, predictable story about small town protectionism, only in this story, rape protectionism meets Internet warriors for justice. Silencing victims? Not so fast, little town.
West Wing Week brings you some highlights from the President’s year as well as the usual recap of the last week.
Van Hollen schooled a Fox News anchor today, saying, ‘Why is that? Do you know the answer to why that is? ” He followed this up with facts.
The AP is assisting Republicans with their desperate meme that Democrats are to blame for the failure to avert the Fiscal Cliff.
Here’s George Bailey’s famous speech from It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) in which he admonishes the greedy Mr. Potter.
Here’s a time lapse of Pastry Chef Bill Yosses and his talented team over the months they spent planning, baking, building, and decorating the gingerbread White House.
Idaho Sen. Michael Crapo is a strict social and fiscal conservative who doesn’t drink. Or so he says. He was arrested Sunday morning for a DUI in Virginia and is out on bail.
The new meme to come out of the Romney family is that Mitt never wanted to be President anyway, so fug you America!
More tragic news. In Tennessee, a toddler shot and killed himself accidentally with his grandfather’s gun.
Apparently Dana was unaware that working for a crazy conservative media outlet would naturally involve ‘indentured servitude in limbo.’
Conservatives are super confused again. This time they are claiming that the NRA’s plan to arm schools is just like Clinton’s COPS program, but it isn’t.
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s presser today sounded more like a marketing strategy for the manufacturers on the board of the NRA than a sane policy position.
One of the world’s largest hospitality companies is Wyndham Hotels. When you stay at one of their hotels, you’re funding the NRA.
Our first responders are first on the scene, and subject to horrors the average person can’t imagine. They often suffer from PTSD.
Senator Boxer spoke on the floor on the need to end gun violence and better protect our children following the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
You may have read Liza Long’s ‘I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother’ and the subsequent criticism by writer Sarah Kendzior, which was labeled a ‘mommy war’.
Dick’s Sporting Goods is suspending the sale of certain semi-automatic rifles from all of its stores nationwide.
In a report on child welfare from 2008, we learn that in 2005, 69 preschoolers were killed by firearms compared to 53 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
After getting no response from the Romney campaign, some of the press corp alerted American Express that they are contesting the charges.
There was a lawn dart game called Jarts that got banned after killing two children, but every year, nearly 1,500 children die from guns and many more are seriously injured.
Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said the ban was nothing but a cosmetic law.
We must, as a nation, decide that this is our moment. All of our pent up emotion must be tapped, not only for rage about gun laws, but to create a long-term paradigm shift.
Meet the Press reached out to all 31 pro-gun rights Senators to appear on the show to discuss their views. There were no takers.
In spite of Governor Walker’s ‘open for business’ slogan, Wisconsin is bad for business, according to Forbes magazine, with job growth projected to be second worst in the country.
Connecticut’s Chief Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver released a list of the victims, as well as their cause of death. ‘I’ve been at this over a third of a century… This probably is the worst that I have seen…’
Obama reiterated his message that we have to put politics aside to prevent more tragedies like the Connecticut massacre, laying the groundwork for a future policy shift.
The United Way of Western Connecticut, working in partnership with Newton Savings Bank, has created a Sandy Hook School Support fund that will provide support services to the families and community.
Today, Huckabee took to Fox News to express his opinion that the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting happened because we took God out of schools.
The media is exploiting the children from the Newtown, CT school shooting for ratings. This failure of conscience is part of the larger problem.
Amid a flurry of lame duck ALEC based legislation they passed, Michigan Republicans also passed legislation aimed at creating a safety net for their theft of democracy.
Coping with the unthinkable; at least 26 people, including 18 children, were killed today when a gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school.
Did Michigan Republicans even read the ALEC-Koch Right-to-Work legislation they just passed? It doesn’t appear likely. Why? Because the law may not be able to be implemented as intended.
Republicans and the media are still pretending that Obama has put forth no budget cuts, yet he has a very detailed plan available on the Internet.
Lots of people think Obama hasn’t changed anything on the drug war, but it turns out that PolitiFact is giving Obama a ‘promise kept’ on this one.
Nancy Pelosi has had enough Republican smirks for the day. She took to the House floor to tell Pete Sessions (R-TX) off.
The Romney lie that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China is the super special something that finally got over 47% of the vote for Romney.
The right to protest is one of our most basic rights as Americans., but former U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer was one of many citizens pepper-sprayed by police Tuesday in Michigan.
Fox News and right wing media are claiming that the Americans for Prosperity tent was attacked at the Michigan Right to Work protest, when in reality the people inside the tent staged the ‘attack.’
Unions are a part of capitalism; they are one of the self-regulating forces that can serve to keep ‘too-big-to-fail’ at bay. They are a check on absolute power.
While paying millions to its executives, Hostess took the money that was supposed to go into employees’ pensions and used it for other things.
That low rumble you’re hearing about a challenge to Speaker Boehner from conservatives now has a name attached to it — RepublicanTom Price.
Rep. Gov. Rick Snyder is pushing ‘right to work’ legislation through the lameduck session in order to defund the Democratic Party.
It seems that Mitt Romney is having a really difficult time dealing with his election defeat. Things have gotten so bad that he has taken to introducing himself as the guy who lost the election.
Republicans have managed to give the public Republican rule via the filibuster, even though the public elected Democratic rule.
President Obama said he would sign the UN Disability Treaty but the Republicans blocked it, so it’s a broken Obama promise according to PolitFact.