This week, political news site Politico released a poll showing that Democrats are at a seven-point disadvantage against Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. The poll is supposed to reflect voter sentiments in the most competitive House and Senate races this year.
Republicans have nearly brought the ability to govern to a grinding halt that they wear as a badge of honor as if the American people enjoy paying Republicans’ bloated salaries for rendering Congress’ ability to function useless.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) announced on Wednesday that they raised $6.6 million in the month of January.
Besides wasting taxpayer time, money, and violating the First Amendment’s prohibition that Congress shall “make no law respecting the establishment of religion,” Ted Cruz’s bill is an extreme case of conservative hypocrisy.
On Tuesday night’s episode of CNN’s Crossfire, Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) stated that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is wrong in threatening to filibuster the clean debt ceiling bill that passed in the House on Tuesday.
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.
PPP released a poll on Wednesday that shows Democrat Michelle Nunn ahead of all four GOP candidates in Georgia’s open Senate race. Republican Saxby Chambliss is retiring at the end of his term.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made an appearance on Fox News Sunday this Sunday. McConnell basically stated that the Republicans will once again try to use the debt limit as a hostage to get what they want.
President Obama has sought a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear threat, and yesterday, diplomacy won a small victory as Iran kept up their part of the historic agreement and began scaling back their nuclear facilities.
Republicans on pace to kill hundreds and hundreds-of-thousands of jobs, send millions of Americans and their children into poverty, and lay waste to the economy; then they are going on vacation.
The campaign for Alison Lundergan Grimes released a statement slamming Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his stance on the extension of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed.
On Wednesday afternoon, both Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) backtracked and said that they would only vote for passing the extension if Democrats would agree to offset the new spending with cuts elsewhere.
I’ve probably submitted 320 articles or so to this august, informative and objective progressive website. That’s no big whoop since Jason and Sarah seem to write that many in a week. Nonetheless, I feel like at least a 2nd cousin in the PoliticusUSA family. As such, I’m going to pipe up and share some…
Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) confirmed to his fellow Senate Republicans that there will be a handful of GOP Senators that will stick around and make sure that debate continues for each and every nominee.
The hope from Republicans was that Reid would just table some of the nominees and hold off until January after the Christmas break. That isn’t happening.
On Wednesday afternoon, Republican State Sen. Mark Obenshain conceded to Democratic Mark Herring as the recount vote for Virginia’s Attorney General was coming to an end.
To put Ryan’s face on the new compassionate conservatism is an affront to any American familiar with his contempt for suffering Americans.
Lo and behold, in this least productive year ever in Congressional history, the House was able to get a two-year budget deal passed.
The 2016 presidential election only seems a long ways off. Hillary Clinton has positioned herself for a second run since the first run ended
Late on Monday, just 15 minutes before the deadline to file, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) shocked the GOP establishment by placing his name on the ballot for March’s Republican primary and will face off with incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.
This Congress is on pace to be the least productive in history. Let’s set this overpaid, under-performing inertia against the productivity levels of the typical American worker
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) was confronted by reporters on Tuesday and asked his thoughts about this being the ‘do nothing’ Congress.
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.
The House farm bill tilts toward corporate farm favoritism while decimating the food stamp budget. The Democratic bill tries to save SNAP.
After allowing Republican dictators-by-committee to hold sway over a crucial portion of government for nearly five years, Majority Leader Harry Reid did what he should have done three years ago.
Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-GA), who is running for Senate to replace the retiring Saxby Chambliss, is going to have to do some mass hiring today.
Since 2009, Republicans have broken their oath of office repeatedly by deliberately undermining the government’s ability to function and creating as much economic damage by killing Americans’ jobs.
The Senate theoretically has the Constitutonal power to expel Ted Cruz by a two-thirds vote immediately and with no recourse.
It can hardly be disputed that throughout Barack Obama’s tenure as President, Republicans have not made one concession or presented one piece of legislation to benefit the people.
President Obama did what the mainstream media has failed to do throughout the government funding crisis and said, “They’ve shut down the government over an ideological crusade.”
The depth of Republican madness was revealed when Sen. Ted Cruz suggested shutting down the military if President Obama and Democrats fail to acquiesce and kill the ACA.
Instead of killing jobs, employers expect to increase the number of full-time employees by nearly 2% over the next year as key parts of the ACA go into effect.
Conservatives still oppose First Lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity program, because freedom. But when it comes to progressive legislation, the right-wing get very weight conscious.
Bachmann says, ‘We will not successfully pass the torch of liberty if we have perpetual amnesty. It won’t happen.’
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.
Senate Democrats are bullish on background check legislation, they only need 3 more Republicans. There are 4 Republicans being targeted to flip their vote.
Ralph Nader is railing against the “imperial presidency” but has nothing to say about our runaway, do-nothing Congress. It makes no sense to rail against the one while ignoring the other.
If you buy a gun, opponents of background checks say it’s an invasion of privacy. Speaking in the Gallery of the Senate is another matter.
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.
Ted Nugent’s opposition is not necessarily about guns, the Second Amendment, or government oppression, but about an African American sitting in the Oval Office.
What is curious is the support many on the left have given Rand Paul despite his well-known, and well-publicized, stance on issues that are repulsive to progressives and even right-leaning centrists.
After suffering their obstruction in the 111th and 112th Congress, one would think Reid would get a clue, and a spine, and do his job as Majority Leader and end Republican abuse of the filibuster.
Republicans seem intent on jumping the shark. This time they are staking a lot of political capital on a battle to disable the CFPB and its director Richard Cordray.
There is a contingent of gun fanatics driven by racial prejudice and gun lobby fear mongering who desperately long to initiate a revolutionary war over attempts to stop the senseless gun violence.
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.
If Senator Reid needs more input on filibuster reform, let’s make our voices heard right now.
John Boehner, back to the wall, has come out swinging a middle finger, offering an F-bomb to Harry Reid and to the victims of Hurricane Sandy
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.
Rand Paul (R-KY) brought the shrillness to new heights today on the Senate floor, likening taxing rich people to ‘drowning’ them.
The AP is assisting Republicans with their desperate meme that Democrats are to blame for the failure to avert the Fiscal Cliff.
Republicans have managed to give the public Republican rule via the filibuster, even though the public elected Democratic rule.
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.
The money men were beginning to realize the wisdom of the old saw about throwing good money after bad and many pundits were speculating that the debate was Romney’s last gasp.
Obama is pulling a Clinton (Explainer in Chief ) before the debates, explaining to the people what Romney’s business record really involved.
As 2012 falls apart, Republicans are starting to turn on each other. Wisconsin Senate candidate Tommy Thompson is blaming Mitt Romney for his nine point deficit to Tammy Baldwin.
There was a time when union members voted in their own economic self-interest. Unfortunately, this seems to be changing in Massachusetts where Scott Brown leads Elizabeth Warren with union members.
A new WMUR poll of Massachusetts finds Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren holding a narrow lead over Republican Senator Scott Brown, 46%-43%. The WMUR poll shows the race between Warren and Brown to be as close as close can be. Not only is Warren’s three point lead within the poll’s margin of error, but both candidates…
Repealing DADT is a civil rights issue and nothing more. It is not about imposing social change on the country and is not an attack on any religion or the family. The senators and opponents of repealing DADT are attacking the civil rights of every American, and are attempting to impose their bible-based radical agenda on all Americans. Now that the Congress has repealed DADT, maybe they can repeal religion that imposes bigotry on America.
American government has lost its designation as a representative democracy, and is turning into a racket where one man, or one party, dictates its will on the entire government, and apparently no-one is willing to stop the demise of democratic rule. There is much talk about compromise and bipartisanship from the Democrats, and the White House, but in the 21st Century American democracy, it is a fallacy and a joke.
It’s not often we get to see a real fiscal conservative in action in the current Republican Party. The rarest of rare breeds, they were run out or co-opted into Bushpublicans who now masquerade as Teapublicans, which is an industry, not a political party. But here we have one in George Voinovich. Look now while you can, because George is retiring.
