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Obama Sets A Trap For Boehner and McConnell By Threatening To Veto Defense Spending

Obama Sets A Trap For Boehner and McConnell By Threatening To Veto Defense Spending

President Obama is setting a trap for John Boehner and Mitch McConnell by threatening to veto defense spending for the…

9 years ago

Obama Drops A Veto Bomb On GOP By Threatening To Veto Every Bill That Uses Sequester Cuts

The White House made it clear that President Obama wants the sequester cuts gone by threatening to veto every appropriations…

9 years ago

Republicans Prove They Can’t Govern As Military Funding Bill Collapses Into Chaos

The ghosts of chaos past are haunting the House as Republicans are desperately trying to navigate around their own sequestration…

9 years ago

The Toxic Chickens Have Come Home To Roost As Republican Sequester Is A Total Disaster

The Republican Holy Grail of sequestration, the idea they were so proud of that they bragged about it and begged…

9 years ago

Republicans Will Kill 240,000 Jobs In 2014 By Not Extending Unemployment Benefits

Republicans will have killed an additional 240,000 jobs in 2014 according to The Council of Economic Advisers who estimated that…

10 years ago

John Boehner’s Outburst at Conservative Groups Was Completely Phony

Boehner's phony indignation targeting conservative groups he bent over backwards serving over the past three years did not have an…

10 years ago

It’s Obvious That Democrats Did All the Compromising on The Budget Agreement

it was fairly clear by the giddy-ass grin on Paul Ryan's face that Senator Murray likely did all the compromising…

10 years ago

Americans Are About to Discover That the GOP Not the ACA is Hazardous To Their Health

Americans will discover in the next week the only hazard to their health is Republicans on a crusade to see…

11 years ago

Republican Hunger Mongers Are Starving People To Give Corporations Welfare

Republicans certainly find revenue to fund billions of dollars for oil subsidies and agricultural corporations but they claim they do…

11 years ago

Republican Refusal to Fix the Sequester Has Created a Death Panel For the Poor

Republicans have assumed the power of life and death over Americans in need of basic sustenance, shelter, and healthcare.

11 years ago

Fox News Preys on Poor Kids and Demands They Be Forced To Work For Their Food

Fox News has opened a new front in the war on America's poor children that reveals no-one is safe from…

11 years ago

Sequester Tantrums Reveal Yet Again That Republicans Are Developmentally Stunted

Republicans are enthusiastic about sequester cuts until it affects their wealthy constituents. Then, they throw temper tantrums.

11 years ago

Cancer Patients Facing Death Thanks to the Republican Sequester

While conservatives whine about White House tours cancer patients will die because of their sequester cuts.

11 years ago

Jobs Report Proves Obama Correct About The Sequester Killing Jobs

The best thing about the March jobs numbers is they prove that President Obama was right when he said the…

11 years ago

Republicans Disguise Their Economic Abuse of the American People as Debt Hysteria

Americans can hardly take much more economic abuse from Republicans and Wall Street CEOs, panting to cut spending under the…

11 years ago

By Design Republican Policies Have Sent America Into Decline

Thirty years ago Ronald Reagan set in motion a movement that hastened America's deterioration that another Republican president, George W.…

11 years ago

The Koch Brothers Take Credit for Imposing Economic Hardship on Millions of Americans

Koch brothers' front group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), sent congratulations to Republicans and their supporters around the country for helping…

11 years ago

House Republicans Congratulate Themselves On Killing a Million Jobs

Republicans are congratulating themselves for allowing the dreaded sequester to take effect knowing full well that in the first year…

11 years ago

Obama Delivers the Devastating Truth: Republicans are Intentionally Killing the Recovery

The President is right to tell Americans the devastating truth; Republicans are deliberately punishing people and reversing economic recovery.

11 years ago

Paul Ryan Looked America In The Eye Today, and Completely Lied About the Sequester

Rep. Paul Ryan went on CNBC today, looked straight into the camera, and completely lied about the sequester to the…

11 years ago

Democrats Must Call Out The Absurd Canard That Spending Cuts Make The Economy Grow

It is time for Democrats to call out the absurd canard that taking money out of the economy helps the…

11 years ago

Top Senate Republican Throws National Security Under the Bus as He Flees the Sequester

The Senate Republican Minority Whip, who accused Obama of threatening national security by nominating Chuck Hagel, claimed that sequester cuts…

11 years ago

Boehner Says Obama Is Using the Troops as Props But His Sequester Will Leave Vets Homeless

Speaker Boehner claimed today that President Obama is using the troops as props, but his House passed sequester would leave…

11 years ago

Clueless House Republican Says We Need Sequester to Get Economy Rolling Again

The ever clueless Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia thinks the sequester is necessary to "get this economy rolling again."

11 years ago

President Obama Has Had Enough of John Boehner’s Sequester Lies

While speaking to the nation's governors today, President Obama took aim at John Boehner for his hypocrisy on his own…

11 years ago

The Real Reason the Sequester Will Hit is that Some House Republicans Want It

These House Republicans are the real reason Speaker John Boehner is not proposing a sequester solution. He doesn't have the…

11 years ago

Paul Ryan Championed Sequester Since 2004, Now Calls His Own Idea Not Good Government

Paul Ryan has been pushing for sequestration since 2004. He bragged about getting it in 2011. Now that it's here,…

11 years ago

Unhinged Republicans Completely Abandon Reality With Latest Sequester Lies

Republicans and their punditry have finally gone so far off the rails to avoid any responsibility for the sequester that…

11 years ago

The Sequester Cuts are the Latest Crime in the Republican War on America

Republicans have revealed that the harm their sequester cuts were intended to cause is part of their plan that defines…

11 years ago

Republicans Want to Take Away Healthcare from 30 Million to Pay for More Military Spending

Sen. Lindsey Graham spoke for many of his Republican colleagues today when he proposed avoiding the military cuts in the…

11 years ago

Most Americans Are No Longer Fooled By Republican Buzzwords and Dishonest Slogans

Americans not mesmerized by the GOP's buzzwords like "pro-growth" understand it was President Obama's stimulus that saved the economy and…

11 years ago

Worst Speaker Ever: John Boehner Uses Pathetic Twitter Campaign to Blame Obama for Sequester

Speaker John Boehner is pushing the hashtag "#obamaquester" in hopes of forcing the President to carry the weight of the…

11 years ago

A Republican Sequester Self Destruction Could Cost Them at Least 10 House Seats

If House Republicans follow through on their plan to let the sequester defense cuts happen, they could immediately put 10…

11 years ago

House Republicans Embrace Sequester Dirty Bomb In their Economic War on America

When the enemy is in the halls of Congress, and is openly calling for economic destruction to avoid revenue, it…

11 years ago

Obama Checkmates Republicans By Offering a Sequester Escape Hatch Tied to More Revenue

President Obama took steps today to make sure that Republicans have already lost the sequester battle. He offered Republicans one…

11 years ago

Isn’t That Cute? John Boehner Pretends Like He Has a Choice on Raising More Taxes

In a statement today, Speaker Boehner issued more tough talk about about no new tax hikes as a part of…

11 years ago