Tea Party

Tea Party Congressman Steve King Idiotically Compares Obama To North Korean Dictator

Tea Party Congressman Steve King Idiotically Compares Obama To North Korean Dictator

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is known for going out of his way to make blatantly offensive and outlandish comments in…

10 years ago

Right-Wing Radio Host Laura Ingraham Bullies GOP Congressman Over Immigration Reform

During the broadcast of her radio show Tuesday, Laura Ingraham had Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) on to discuss his attempt…

10 years ago

Howard Dean Feels That Eric Cantor’s Loss Can Lead The Way To Big Democratic Gains

In an op-ed piece for Politico published Sunday, former Democratic Governor of Vermont Howard Dean stated that the recent primary…

10 years ago

Republicans Self Destruct By Moving To the Far Right After Cantor’s Loss

Republicans are convinced that tea partiers are enraged that establishment Republicans did not oppose President Obama over the past five…

10 years ago

Introducing the Current Era of New and Largely Unknown Republican House Leaders

Word has it that a California Republican Representative named McCarthy is in line to take over Eric Cantor's post as…

10 years ago

Corporate Media’s Idea Of Diversity: Nearly All Sunday Show Guests Were White GOP Men

On this week's five Sunday news shows (CNN's State of the Union, ABC's This Week, NBC's Meet the Press, CBS'…

10 years ago

The Cantor ‘Upset’ and Other Primary Potpourri

After a couple of days of recovering from a 15-hour stint as head of a polling place and processing the…

10 years ago

Extremist On the Horizon: Dave Brat Fits In With Government Destroying House Republicans

Even though Brat appears to be an extremist outlier in the conservative movement, his outrage that Cantor voted to raise…

10 years ago

Determined to Become a Regional Party, Texas GOP Wants to Dump NASA, the FAA and the FBI

Texas Republicans want to "fix" the economy by getting rid of NASA, the air force, the Federal Aviation Administration and…

10 years ago

Louie Gohmert Tells Americans Without Jesus, They’re All Going to Hell

Gohmert asks, "So, you do not believe somebody would go to Hell if they do not believe Jesus is the…

10 years ago

Sore Loser Eric Cantor’s Campaign Blames Democrats and the Liberal Media For Loss

After his seismic loss, Eric Cantor's pollster is blaming Democrats, the liberal media, and the 'Cooter factor'. No kidding.

10 years ago

Tea Party’s Defeat Of Eric Cantor Could Eventually Spell Doom For The Republican Party

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) lost in the Republican primary Tuesday night to Tea Party upstart David Brat. Republicans…

10 years ago

Republicans Are Guilty of Inciting Gun Violence Against the Government in Las Vegas Shooting

Call the shooting the start of a revolution, "taking our country back," watering the tree of liberty, 2nd Amendment remedies,…

10 years ago

Much To Fox News’ Chagrin, Majority Of Republican Voters Support Immigration Reform

A poll released Tuesday by the Public Religion Research Institute shows that a large majority of Americans support a path…

10 years ago

Conservative Columnist George Will Claims Rape Victim is a ‘Coveted Status’ on Campus

George Will attacks college campuses for rape prevention efforts, mocking them as political correctness gone too far.

10 years ago

Surprise, Surprise! Alex Jones Calls Las Vegas Shooting a False Flag Set Up By Obama

Well, that sure didn't take long. Alex Jones, crazy right-wing conspiracy theorist and con artist, took to his radio show…

10 years ago

Thomas B. Edsall Gives Voice to Rare Breed: GOP Defectors

For years now, we've watched the Republican Party degrade from a once viable conservative response to liberal philosophy, into an…

10 years ago

Stick A Fork In Republican Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, He’s Done

A PPP survey released today shows that Republican Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is doomed in his bid for re-election.

10 years ago

The Quartet That’s Most Responsible for America’s Decline

The four most despicable and repugnant Americans are Charles and David Koch, Karl Rove and the occupying army of corporate…

10 years ago

Ted Cruz Actually Thinks Government Shutdown Will Lead The GOP To Victory In Midterms

During a speech at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated his belief…

10 years ago

After Receiving Endorsement From Michele Bachmann, Veteran GOP Congressman Loses In Primary

Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX), 91, was seeking his 18th term in office this year. It appears that the oldest member…

10 years ago

The Republican Party Has Become a Haven For All Forms of Right Wing Extremism

The Pew survey should disabuse Americans of the notion that the teabagger or Republican movements are not havens for right…

10 years ago

What Conservatives Fear Most Is a Well Educated America

Conservatives are terrified of a well-educated populace, and for over a year the terror du jour is Common Core that…

10 years ago

Texas State Senator Claims That Obama ‘Thinks He’s God’ During Republican Debate

Republican State Sen. Dan Patrick of Texas is currently in a primary runoff with Texas' current Lieutenant Governor, Republican David…

10 years ago

Tea Partiers Don’t Endorse McConnell and Get Grimes’ Name Wrong in Press Release Full of Fail

Upon Matt Bevin's primary loss, Tea Party Patriots' Jenny Beth Martin put out a Kentucky Senate press statement that refers…

10 years ago

Crazy Tea Party Congressman Suggests Only Property Owners Should Be Allowed To Vote

The watchdog group Right Wing Watch recently uncovered video footage of Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) telling voters in his district…

10 years ago

Operation American Spring Rallies a Few Hundred Lunatics at Most

Protesters has no problem finding places to sit on the capital mall while they try to wish Obama away

10 years ago

President Obama Makes Unintentional Joke by Mentioning Brains and This Congress Together

Somehow President Obama managed to say this without twitching, "It is a no brainier for Congress to do what it…

10 years ago

Lone Star Lunacy as ‘Obama=Hitler’ Candidate Leads Democratic Senate Primary

Kesha Rogers, a LaRouche supporter who equates Obama to Hitler and calls for his impeachment, is leading the Dem Senate…

10 years ago

Kentucky Tea Party Senate Candidate Matt Bevin Has No Clue What The National Debt Is

This week, Bevin decided to release an attack ad against McConnell regarding his vote on the debt ceiling increase that…

10 years ago

It’s Time to Call the Republican Spade a Spade Instead of a Spoon

For years, the Republican Party has tried, and succeeded, in brainwashing their base to believe that Barack Obama and the…

10 years ago

If Republicans Don’t Want to be Compared to Nazis, They Should Stop Acting Like Nazis

Republicans, like the Nazis, want to enforce through legislation obedience to and a belief in a mythical white paradise

10 years ago

Hillary Clinton Way Ahead Of Every GOP Candidate In Battleground State Of Ohio

Quinnipiac University released a new poll on Thursday showing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds double-digit leads on…

10 years ago

Ted Cruz Stands Up For Hateful Racist Ted Nugent During CNN Interview

In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) defended Ted Nugent as a passionate fighter for Second…

10 years ago

Gun Sense Prevails in Dixie as Open Carry Bill Shot Down in South Carolina Senate

An open carry bill that would have allowed citizens to openly carry firearms in public without a permit, was resoundingly…

10 years ago

Crazy Steve Stockman Could Force Senator Cornyn Into Runoff in TX GOP Primary

A newly released poll shows Tea Party Congressman Steve Stockman closing the gap on Senator Cornyn, setting up a possible…

10 years ago

Did President Obama Really ‘Miss an Opportunity’ by Avoiding Sochi?

The White House's decision to let the athletes do their thing while avoiding overt support of a regime that has…

10 years ago

The Tea Party Demands that Mitch McConnell Drop Out Or Else Alison Grimes Will Win

The United Kentucky Tea Party said McConnell should drop out of the race so Matt Bevin, the Tea Party candidate,…

10 years ago

Marco Rubio Whines About Stimulus Five Years Later But Still Has No Ideas To Speak Of

Monday marked the fifth anniversary of President Obama's stimulus package that helped pull the nation out of the worst recession…

10 years ago

A Post Mortem look at the VW, UAW vote and the absurd spin of the winners

The late Friday votes are in and yet another union is kept out. Workers at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant were…

10 years ago

Chris Christie Says Income Equality is Mediocrity – Doesn’t Know Sh*t from Shinola

"You want income equality? That's mediocrity." That's Chris Christie being pragmatic

10 years ago

Virginia’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge

Judge Arenda Wright Allen demolished every Republican argument, ruling that "the right to marry is inseparable from our rights to…

10 years ago

The Tea Party’s ‘My Way or the Highway’ Candidate Strategy is Pure Old School

In the current political climate, the only compromising from the Tea Party is the highly transparent dive to the middle…

10 years ago

Montana Republican Charged With Felony Assault After Throwing 4-Year Old Daughter

'Family Values' Republican Senator Jason Priest is accused of throwing and injuring his four year-old daughter, and assaulting his wife.

10 years ago

Sarah Palin Gets Dose Of Reality As Hillary Clinton Leads By 27 Points In 2016 Matchup

A poll released by McClatchy-Marist on Wednesday shows that former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds a…

10 years ago

An Unknown Crazed GOP Congressman Appears To Be Sending Threats To House Republicans

Republican lawmakers have been receiving threats for the past few weeks over the debt ceiling vote, and the threats appear…

10 years ago

Georgia Rep. Paul Broun Supports the Bible, Not the Constitution

Broun asks a question based on a false premise: "does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is…

10 years ago

Give Those With Mental Health Issues and Addiction Problems a Break; Elect Democrats!

Let our Democratic candidates run on a platform of both mercy and pocketbook practicality. The issue is out there for…

10 years ago

Say What? Now House Republicans Won’t Raise Debt Ceiling Unless Spending Is Increased

It appears that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) has a new plan for Republicans to apparently get a…

10 years ago

Why Aren’t More Republican Politicians Following Charlie Crist’s Example?

The real question as I see it does not revolve around why Crist fled into the more inclusive arms of…

10 years ago

Winds of Change: How a Residency Issue Might Open Up a Senate Seat in Kansas

Senator Pat Roberts is not a current resident of Kansas. This issue has opened the window for the Kansas Tea…

10 years ago

Impending Terror As Americans Are Forced To Depend On Republicans To Do Something

On Friday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew stated that the debt ceiling will need to be raised no later than February…

10 years ago

The Only Scandal In Washington Is Darrell Issa, and It Is Time He Gets Investigated

The only scandal in Washington is Darrell Issa, and it is high time he faces an investigation into why he…

10 years ago

Unemployment Rate Continues To Improve With Absolutely No Help From Republicans

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released January's jobs numbers and there was good, mediocre and bad news all mixed in…

10 years ago

Republicans Are Making Sure That An Immigration Bill Will Not Pass Until After 2014

Republicans want a permanent immigrant sub-class of mostly non-voters to do the laundry, mow the yard and have no say…

10 years ago

House Republicans Continue To Falsely Claim President Obama And IRS Committed Crimes

During a recent subcommittee hearing conducted by the House Ways and Means Committee, Republicans continued to push their false accusations…

10 years ago

Clay Aiken Announces He’s Running For Congress Against Republican Renee Ellmers

Singer and former American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken officially announced on Wednesday that he will run for Congress against Rep.…

10 years ago

Alaska Voters Reject Sarah Palin and Every Other Republican for US Senate

  A newly released Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey from Alaska reveals how badly tarnished the GOP brand is even…

10 years ago

Republicans Want to Change States’ Constitutions to Conform to Their Ideology

What happens when a constitution doesn't conform to the Republican Party's ideology? If it's the constitution of the United States,…

10 years ago

Real Republican Response to SOTU: President Obama is a ‘Socialist Dictator’

Congressman Randy Weber (R-TX) disrespectfully tweeted from the House floor that Obama was a Socialist Dictator shortly before the President's…

10 years ago

SOTU: Obama is Hope. GOP Responses – All Four of Them – Are Despair

What Tuesday night demonstrated to every American and to the world, is that President Obama has a plan and that…

10 years ago

Tea Party Darling Steve Stockman Gives Pathetic Excuse For Being MIA This Month

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), who is running a primary challenge for Sen. John Cornyn's seat this year, came out of…

10 years ago

Tom Perkins Is Wrong – Germany’s 1 Percent Were Hitler’s Allies, Not his Victims

Venture capitalist Tom Perkins would have you believe America's 1 percent are yesterday's Jews but nothing could be further from…

10 years ago

The Real World Story of Human Lives Sacrificed at the Altar of Deregulation

  I went to one of those "poisoned citizens" meetings the other night. It was a community meeting called by…

10 years ago

Fox News Observes Martin Luther King, Jr. Day By Race Baiting

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a national holiday that observes the birthday of our greatest civil rights champion, Fox…

10 years ago

A Venture Into Real Democracy On Red State Capitol Grounds

Dennis S. attended Truthful Tuesday, a demonstration in Columbia, SC on Tuesday and provided a detailed breakdown of the event.

10 years ago

Alison Grimes Hammers Mitch McConnell for Heartlessly Laughing at the Unemployed

The campaign for Alison Lundergan Grimes released a statement slamming Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his stance on the…

10 years ago

Limbaugh Says GOP Are ‘Like A Bunch Of Wildebeests’ For Not Coming To Christie’s Defense

As one would suspect, Rush Limbaugh totally lost his sh*t Thursday regarding the Chris Christie bridge scandal. For the most…

10 years ago

American Apartheid 2014

I wrote just the other day that Americans should not expect any major progress on immigration reform in 2014. In…

10 years ago

Obama Turns Up the Heat and Pressures Boehner to Restore Unemployment Benefits

On New Year's Day, the White House released a statement saying in no uncertain terms that the President will push…

10 years ago

When It Comes to Homophobia, Not Much Separates Neo-Nazis and Conservative Christians

Now that the charade of Phil Robertson's pretend suspension is over, homophobes nationwide can rest assured that their "right" to…

10 years ago

Obama’s New DOJ Voting Rights Advocate has Texas and North Carolina In Her Crosshairs

The Republicans and the Tea Party thought they had it made when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.…

10 years ago

Rather Than Turning the Other Cheek, Robertson Fans Want to Slap us for Christmas

But I say to you, do not resist an evil-doer. But If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn…

10 years ago

As the 2013 Political Year Disappears Into the Night, Little Light Appears on the Horizon

  I've probably submitted 320 articles or so to this august, informative and objective progressive website. That's no big whoop…

10 years ago

Harry Reid Forces Senate Republicans to Flinch and Will Get Nominees Confirmed Friday

Late on Thursday evening the Senate reached a deal regarding the remaining Presidential nominees waiting to be confirmed. The Senate…

10 years ago

Poll: Who is the biggest Republican tool in the box?

It's been a year of epic toolery in the GOP. From Ted Cruz's government shutdown to the GOP's endless ObamaCare…

10 years ago

Unpopular McConnell Can’t Shake Grimes, Another Poll Brings Bad News for Mitch

A newly released PPP poll shows MItch McConnell clinging to a one point lead over his Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan…

10 years ago

Get Ready to Tread on Some Tea Party Snakes

Isaac Asimov wrote that, "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." The tea party is bending over backward to…

10 years ago

Hearing for North Carolina Election Law Challenge Set For July 2014

Last week, federal Magistrate Judge Joi Elizabeth Peake scheduled a hearing for July 2014, to impose a temporary injunction on…

10 years ago

Republican State Senator Moronically Compares ACA to Nazis and Terrorists

On Sunday, State Senator Bob Rucho, a Republican out of North Carolina, took to Twitter and decided to make a…

10 years ago

Desperate To Save His Job John Boehner Declares War on Tea Party Groups

In a private meeting John Boehner claimed that outside groups aren't real conservatives, as he escalated his war on tea…

10 years ago

USA Today/Pew Poll Shows Democrats With Advantage in 2014 Elections

A new poll released on Friday by USA Today and Pew Research shows that voters prefer Democrats to Republicans in…

10 years ago

Time Re-Validates Humanity By Choosing Pope Francis Over Ted Cruz as Their Person of the Year

Time Magazine named the Pope their Person of the Year, with Ted Cruz as first runner up. Under their criteria…

10 years ago

Virginia Republican Leader Tries to Incite Assassination Attempt On President Obama

At the Virginia Republican retreat, party chairman Pat Mullins tried to incite an assassination attempt against the President of the…

10 years ago

NBC/WSJ Poll Shows Majority of People Reject the Republican Party and Their Views

While the media will focus on the President's disapproval ratings showing as an all-time high in this poll (54%), the…

10 years ago

Dems Get Wish as Cornyn Will Face Tea Party Primary Challenger In Texas Senate Race

Late on Monday, just 15 minutes before the deadline to file, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) shocked the GOP establishment by…

10 years ago

Ted Yoho Callously Schedules ‘Family Firearm Safety Event’ On Newtown Anniversary

Representative Ted Yoho (R-FL) sent out an invitation through his Facebook page for a 'Family Firearm Safety Event' that will…

10 years ago

Sarah Palin Scores Another Cable TV Series That is Doomed to Fail

Here we go again. America's favorite half-term governor and failed Vice-Presidential candidate has scored herself another documentary television series.

10 years ago

Jerry Brown Soars to Record Approval Rating and Enormous Lead Over Republican Challengers

  Yesterday's California Field Poll is full of good news for Democratic Governor Jerry Brown. Republicans on the other hand,…

10 years ago

John Boehner Won’t Take Responsibility for Least Productive Congress Ever

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) was confronted by reporters on Tuesday and asked his thoughts about this being…

10 years ago

In Two Farm Bills Being Conferenced, Democrats Once Again Play Mr. Nice Guy

The House farm bill tilts toward corporate farm favoritism while decimating the food stamp budget. The Democratic bill tries to…

10 years ago

The Big Oil and Gas-Owned Republican House Trying to Do the Fracking Bidding of Big Gas and Oil

The political attention of most Americans has been concentrated on the latest developments at HealthCare.gov. Meanwhile fracking explodes.

10 years ago

Koch Brothers Reach New Low With Deceptive Television Ad in Alaska

As you can see, the ad implies heavily that the woman is an actual resident of Alaska and a constituent…

10 years ago

Tea Party Mantra; Save the Embryo, Forget About the Children

In the wake of Rmuse's story about heartless Republican cuts in the House a closer look at what young 'life'…

10 years ago

Taking Back the House, Vol. 20: Jeff Denham and California’s 10th District

This is the twentieth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of…

10 years ago

Republican Condemns President Obama For Not Using the Old Testament to Guide Policy

It is astonishing, but one of their champions used the floor of the House to condemn President Obama for not…

10 years ago

Taking Back the House, Vol. 19: John Campbell and California’s 45th District

This is the nineteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House.The purpose of this…

10 years ago

Taking Back the House, Vol. 18: Ken Calvert and California’s 42nd District

This is the eighteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of…

10 years ago

Taking Back the House, Vol. 16: Paul Cook and California’s 8th District

This is the sixteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of…

10 years ago

Taking Back the House, Vol, 14: Tom Cotton and Arkansas’s 4th District

This is the fourteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of…

10 years ago