Ronald Reagan’s Message for the GOP, ‘Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.’
What do Republicans not get about this? Reagan very simply explained the lack of relationship between Social Security and the deficit way back in 1984.
What do Republicans not get about this? Reagan very simply explained the lack of relationship between Social Security and the deficit way back in 1984.
Fox News is at it again. When they aren’t blaming women for being abused, Fox is now claiming that women are destroying marriage because they aren’t feminine enough.
Senate history may have been made today when GOP Sen Mitch McConnell attempted to filibuster his own bill on the debt ceiling. Reid called him out, ‘I guess we have a filibuster of his own bill.’
American voters approve of President Barack Obama’s job performance by 53-40 percent, his best approval rating in three years.
Starbucks, which offers healthcare benefits to its eligible part time employees, is expanding with 1500 more cafes in America in the middle of ObamaCare.
Sen. Boxer (D-CA) introduced a bill called the LINE Act, which is election reform legislation to address national standards for waiting times at the polls.
The #FireBoehner hashtag really took off last night on Twitter. No, it wasn’t evil liberals, it was the conservatives at American Majority Action (AMA) who started it.
After the Okla. State Supreme Court ruled anti-abortionist laws were unconstitutional, conservatives attempted to justify it as a regulation.
Republicans say the Florida law that cut early voting was an intentional tactic to hand Florida to the GOP by inhibiting Democratic turnout.
In a newly released study, the CDC found that 2009 had the ‘largest single year decrease’ in abortions for the entire period from 2000 to 2009.
Walmart is trying to minimize the strikes and claiming they have had the best Black Friday ‘ever’. That may be true, but they are missing the point.
Thanksgiving brought us John McCain’s Old Man in the Tree and a leaning into Ann, uncombed Mitt in the sterile white kitchen.
All four have all been targeted by Republicans with non-stop false allegations and yet the media continues to assist in the character assassination.
President Obama used his weekly address to remind us that Thanksgiving is a time to put aside our differences after a hard fought campaign.
The Black Friday Walmart strike is ostensibly the largest organized action against the world’s biggest retail store. There’s a lot at stake.
Governor Scott Walker has been implicated as not only knowing about but participating in illegal campaigning activity on the taxpayer dime.
A Romney campaign adviser was on Morning Joe lamenting how Republicans were saying Romney was like Reagan but now they won’t stop trashing him.
Rather than necessarily being pathological, political conservatism is promoted when people rely on low-effort thinking.
With pomp and circumstance gone, sans security details and motorcades, Mitt Romney actually spoke to a member of the human race, and has even been seen associating with the 47%.
The guy who withheld information from both Powell and Condi Rice is now the front man for the attacks on the Obama administration over Benghazi.
Rachel Maddow sees Republicans as allowing McCain to be their voice for foreign policy. This is a problem since he is often wrong on the subject.
Republicans like Newt Gingrich and the gang of repentant Romney apologizers do not see any light except that they can no longer afford to be seen as defending the rich and hating everyone else.
Rupert Murdoch’s tweets about the ‘Jewish owned press’ explain a lot.
From lies and calling for a Watergate-esque investigation to ‘We’re not trying to quote ‘take on anyone,” McCain is backpedaling.
The President pointedly laid out only two scenarios: Taxes go up for everyone or Congress lets the Bush tax cuts for the 2% expire.
Harry Reid delivered a brutal smackdown to John McCain and the Republicans regarding their blatant, dangerous politicization of the attacks in Benghazi
After General Petraeus very slowly explained to confused, befuddled Republicans what everyone in the world already knew, they saw the light.
Belcher started an Alabama secession petition over his anger at federal regulations he thinks shut down his topless car wash.
Benghazi gate is not going as Republicans planned, and in fact, the failure to gain traction on their narrative is further compelling Republicans to hysterics.
A House Foreign Affairs hearing went wild today, resulting in Rep. Gary Ackerman calling the GOP out on their hypocrisy and cutting funding to the embassy security.
Mitt Romney is now claiming that Bill Clinton told him that he might have won, were it not for Hurricane Sandy.
John McCain missed a classified briefing on Benghazi because he was giving TV interviews about his alleged questions about Benghazi.
Hypocrisy alert: John McCain supported Condoleeza Rice who misled the public on WMD, causing thousands to die, but now attacks Susan Rice.
In a conference call today, Romney said Obama won because he gave ‘gifts’ to African Americans, Hispanics, young people and women.
McCain told CBS News that he would block Ambassador Rice’s confirmation, saying she’s ‘not very bright’ and ‘not qualified.’
The Morning Joe panel, from S.E. Cupp to David Gregory,l admitted that Obama has a mandate to let the Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthiest Americans.
Republicans should review the Grand Bargain they turned their noses up at in the summer of 2011, because chances are, they’re not going to get it again.
Elizabeth Warren may get to sit on the powerful Senate Banking Committee. That is, if the powers waging a quiet war against her don’t get their way.
President Obama made a surprise visit to the campaign office in Chicago yesterday, thanking his supporters for all of their work, saying this victory is yours.
The Republican Party is like a dry drunk, yet only two days sober, who is not in any kind of recovery program. They are just looking for a new way to escape reality.
In a conference call today, Team Obama deflated the Republican talking point that they can fix their demographic problem by running a Latino.
Justice was decisive as she struck down the three GOP ‘stooges’ in Arkansas, best known for hating immigrants, loving slavery and advocating the death penalty for rebellious children.
Facing intensified scrutiny over the awkward position he’s placed his country in, Netanyahu rushed congratulations to the President last night.
Celebrate President Obama’s reelection and other Democratic victories with a special live call in victory party tonight at 7:30 ET.
Calling out Republicans for wasting six weeks on contracpetion and filibustering at will, Reid said he is going to reform the filibuster rules.
Obama swept the country in a decisive defeat of Romney with so far 303 electoral votes to 206, and possibly more. It’s called a mandate.
In case you missed it or just want to relive the moment, here is President Obama’s late night victory speech.
The Republican rape triplets running for the senate took a big hit last night. The War on Women was a bad move for Republicans.
Before we say goodbye to Mitt, here are Romney’s 11 goofiest gaffes and most disturbing comments. Now you can laugh.
Feeling a little nervous about the election? Before the polls close, call in and talk to Jason Easley and Sarah Jones at 5:30 ET.
In a press conference today, Christie accused the ‘know-nothing’ Romney staffers of just trying to issue some payback for Christie praising the president.
Ralph Giles, the VP of Product Design for Chrysler, who last week took down Trump, is at it again. This time he’s announcing that Chrysler is giving the day off to its employees so they can vote.
It was an emotional night in Des Moines, Iowa as the President gave his last speech at a campaign rally for himself, ever.
At a grassroots rally in Columbus, Ohio, the President said, ‘Changing the facts when they’re inconvenient to your campaign – that’s definitely not change.’
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.
The Republican Party has become a sad caricature of itself, and Mitt Romney is the perfect albeit unintentional parody of that caricature.
In Florida, in 2008 8.4 million people voted; in 2010 only 5.3 million did. Margin of victory for Rick Scott? 1.2%.
The Obama campaign estimates that the President spoke to 23,000 supporters in Hollywood, Florida today about the change we’ve already accomplished and what we still need to do.
Today, a relentless assault on Romney’s auto lies dominated on the Sunday shows, from Fox News to David Gregory.
On ‘Meet the Press’ this morning, Senior Advisor David Plouffe pointed out that Mitt Romney would be a rubberstamp for the Tea Party if elected.
Romney surrogates are busy blaming Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie, which is really the perfect way for them to flame out.
A registered Republican was arrested by the FBI for trying to vote twice in Henderson, Nevada. It turns out, voter fraud is not easy to get away with, and it’s also a felony.
Obama released a new video, ‘The Final Push: It’s On Us,’ capturing the enthusiasm and spirit on the campaign trail. It’s time to finish what we started in 2008.
Two suspicious packages caused authorities to shut down an early voting location in Winter Park, Florida for several hours today.
As the President praised leaders from different parties working together, the Romney camp is threatening Chris Christie for working with Obama.
In the state of Washington, where they vote entirely by mai, the SOS put a warning on their home page about Republicans trying to collect ballots.
Obama told supporters that change is when everyone has a fair shot, ‘Making stuff again. Selling it all around the world. Products stamped with three proud words: Made in America.’
The Obama camp’s terrifying new video shows the news on the 100th day of a Romney presidency. Yikes. Elections do have consequences.
President Obama spoke today in Hilliard, Ohio about workers who were scared by Mitt Romney’s lies about Jeep moving their jobs to China.
As we head into the last few moments of the 2012 election, Mitt Romney has not answered a question from the media in 22 days.
Obama laid out his case to voters in Las Vegas, Nevada this afternoon, saying they middle class deserves a champion who will stand up and fight for them.
Sarah Jones explains why she voted for President Obama’s second term with more entusiasm than in 2008.
Days before the election, the business community is abandoning Republican ‘businessman’ Mitt Romney in order to endorse the Democratic incumbent President Obama.
A new poll shows that independents and swing state voters are aware of the war on women, crossing over liberal/conservative lines. So much for the GOP’s talking points.
Obama for America has released new television ad ‘Cynical’ to capture the remarkable desperation behind Romney’s current strategy.
Caught on tape: A GOP candidate doesn’t agree with abortion in cases of rape because incest is rare and crime has consequences.
As we mourn for those whose lives were lost in Sandy and those who lost their homes and businesses, we can take heart that there are elected officials working together for Americans.
Today on Bloomberg News, Al Hunt called Mitt Romney’s GM and Chrysler lies desperate and dishonest. The word fraudulent was also used.
In the Republican county of Mercer Ohio, wearing a T-Shirt supporting gay rights to your public high school can get you detention.
The American people, Vice President Biden said, want a President they can trust, and they know Romney doesn’t pass that test.
Want a photo-op with Mitt Romney just after Sandy hits New Jersey? Just grab a campaign pre-purchased jar of WalMart peanut butter and hand it to him at his ‘Relief Rally’ .
Mitt Romney has been smearing people his entire campaign, but when he took down GM and Chrysler, the press woke up with a vengeance.
Mitt Romney is out with a new radio ad that takes his previous Jeep lies to a whole new level, saying Obama is sending jobs to China but Romney will stand up for jobs here, not in China.
The CEO of Chrysler took to newspapers to correct Romney on his Jeep lie in no uncertain terms, even though he risks alienating the frothing Republican base.
As Sandy hits, we realize the importance of our first responders. Mitt Romney has a long, sordid history of fighting firefighters.
Asked if Romney was lying about Jeep moving production to China, Blackburn said, ‘Oh, well, I don’t know. I haven’t talked with the campaign staff about that.’
Today, the real blow for Romney comes from Massachusetts, where he was Governor. The Boston Globe has endorsed President Obama.
Romney jumped the lie shark with his new ad. The press is not impressed and they are calling Romney out on it. Here’s a roundup of reaction.
As Sandy bears down, we flash back to when Mitt Romney called disaster relief ‘immoral’ and wanted to privatize it because it added to the debt.
Newt Gingrich was on ABC this morning telling women to ‘get over it’; it being their outrage over Mourdock’s comments about pregnancy from rape being a gift from God.
Obama takes questions in situations where ‘anything can happen,’ but Romney is avoiding Nickelodeon, MTV, Rock Center, Letterman, O’Reilly, and more.
Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Congressman Tim Ryan appeared on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to address Romney’s ies about Jeep moving to China.
Bill Maher warned, ‘If the Mittmobile does roll into Washington it will be towing behind it the whole anti-intellectual anti-science freak show.’
Biden took Romney to task today for his lack of gumption, failing to condemn Mourdock’s comments that pregnancy after rape is ‘something that God intended.’
Mitt Romney stumbled his way through a stump speech attack on Obama that included no economic news, no specifics, but tons of negativity.
The GOP is being overtaken by the crazy exes, bitter and bursting with desire for revenge against a world that threatens to take away their control and power.
On MSNBC, a Nevada political reporter said that Obama and Democrats are ‘absolutely crushing’ Mitt Romney and GOP in early voting in the state.
Mitt Romney played the Grim Reaper of jobs when he told Ohioans a complete falsehood about Chrysler moving Jeep to China and taking Americans job with them.
Jon Stewart summed up the GOP’s positions on rape, abortion, and conception, ‘If a woman wants to have a baby via IVF she can not. Rape? she has to.’
Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz called Romney out on his silence and said that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Richard Mourdock and Todd Akin are ‘two sets of twins’.