Although President’s have been issuing executive orders for over 120 years, Republicans consider it the height of tyranny and dictatorial power because this President happens to be African American.
Just ahead of his State of the Union address where he will push for Congress to raise the minimum wage for all American workers, President Obama took action and issued an executive order to raise the minimum wage for all federal contractors to $10.10 an hour.
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.
Since when was it ever the intention of the U.S. Constitution that one branch should be able to not balance another, but to nullify it?
On New Year’s Day, the White House released a statement saying in no uncertain terms that the President will push for extended benefits to be reinstated for the 1.3 million people who were cutoff last week.
Justin Amash whined that Congress must “step up and take charge and point out when the President is going beyond his constitutional powers.”
It is difficult not to think back to Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and what his triumph said about Adolf Hitler’s racial conceits. Perhaps, in 2014, we can send the same message to Vladimir Putin about his gender identity conceits
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.
Republican Senators went through with their plan on Wednesday and held up business in the Senate by debating to delay the vote on one of President Obama’s judicial nominees.
The 2016 presidential election only seems a long ways off. Hillary Clinton has positioned herself for a second run since the first run ended
A Newsday columnist, Lane Filler, recently wrote some truly untrue things about our President and his health care plan. I emailed an answer
“You’re not a king, you’re not a dictator, you can’t do whatever you want. Our Constitution limits the president’s power, even though President Obama doesn’t act that way.”
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.
There are plenty of things for all Americans to be thankful for, but sadly, a substantial segment of the population has little reason to be grateful on this official “day of thanksgiving.”
One hundred fifty years later, President Lincoln’s Great Task remains uncompleted.
Five years ago we elected a man almost as young, certainly as intelligent, and for many as charismatic as JFK. Another with a young and beautiful family.
God really does NOT want you drinking Starbucks! It’s that “holiness” or “sanctification” thingie. Just don’t ask Barton which verse it is
They claim to defend religious liberty but they need to read the Pledge of Allegiance with its vow of “liberty and justice for ALL”
Today, we take a close look at the Senate Finance Committee and their relentless and unfair attempts to discredit the Affordable Care Act
Bryan Fischer says of Hinduism, “This is a counterfeit religion,. It is an Eastern religion. It is, in essence, an occult religion.”
A lot has been written and broadcast about the National Security Agencies’ surveillance of allies. In fact, the “allies” knew all about it.
Things didn’t go well for Ted Cruz when he tried to confront President Obama at the White House today, as the president shot down his demand for changes to the ACA.
Michele Bachmann, digging deep, claims Obama is supporting Al Qaeda, proving that we are in the End Times
“We are locked in an epic battle,” the speaker told his rank and file, those who attended the meeting said, urging them to “hang tough.”
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.”
An obsessed Islamophobe and birther has come up with what he thinks is master plan for people of faith and all true patriots to stage a coup to remove the twice legally elected president.
Republicans using the cover of the crisis to plot against Obama and the country itself, whine “no fair!” when Obama takes notice
Louie Gohmert wants the Obama administration to come clean about non-existent scandals or face being defunded
DeMint’s remedy for Obamacare is like burning down your house to stop a leaky pipe from flooding your bathroom.
President Barack Obama, Michele Bachmann claims, has a “perpetual magic wand,” (as opposed to a one-use magic wand?) and he is using it with impunity.
The Inspector General’s report didn’t mention the IRS targeting progressive groups for enhanced scrutiny, because Darrell Issa used the IG’s office to harass his own ‘Enemies List.’
Rand Paul has gone to staggering lengths to ignore the facts and manufacture others to “prove” Obama is guilty of things that never
What Price means by “the governed” is “angry white people” like himself who have sold their souls to the ravenous corporations seeking to replace the federal government
The truth behind the calls for impeachment is that Republicans won’t be happy until President Barack Obama is reduced to shining their shoes.
The emails Republicans have been accusing the White House of not releasing were actually released two months ago, but House Speaker John Boehner skipped that briefing.
Conservatives are outraged that Carney repeated the Candy Crowley ‘lie’ (also known as a fact in sane circles) that Obama referred to the Benghazi attacks as an ‘act of terror.’
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.
Obama’s best line was when he suggested that if the Republicans were sincere about their new outreach efforts to attract minorities, they might want to do a test run by reaching out to the President.
House Republicans are trying to divide and conquer the left by adopting the progressive attacks against President Obama’s budget as their own talking points.
The House used the sequester crisis to slip the Monstanto Protection Act into a short term spending measure. Activists are calling on Obama to issue an executive order labeling our food.
President Obama said today while signing the Violence Against Women Act, “I promise you this – not just as your President, but as a son, as a husband, as a father – I’m going to keep at it.”
Republican staffers are complaining about GOP leadership, while leadership is complaining that without being able to pay their staff a decent wage, they can’t attract the best workers.
Conservatives have convinced themselves that though Obama SHOULD be in jail even as president, he would certainly BE in jail if he were not.
Speaker John Boehner is pushing the hashtag “#obamaquester” in hopes of forcing the President to carry the weight of the Republicans’ failure.
In his Inaugural Address, the President assured the people he will fight to preserve their retirement investment, and he has the ability to make a strong case against the CEOs proposed cuts.
The President punched the NRA in their lobbyist mouth by releasing a photo of Obama skeet shooting.
The Republican plan to preemptively destroy a 2016 Hillary Clinton is another fail. Clinton returned fire by noting that ‘ some people refused to accept the facts’.
Vice President Biden will speak with a group of Google+ users about the White House policy recommendations and answer their questions.
The Republican Party seems to think if Obama doesn’t do what they want him to do, he is violating the Constitution
Should we worry about Obama’s white male cabinet appointments? How about we wait and see what his cabinet looks like before we complain
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.’
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.
Fossil fuel barons need to join the efforts to stem climate change, but their religious beliefs may be an unrecognized barrier to progress.
The GOP finds itself in trouble as Obama’s popularity soars and their own plummets, and Obama’s second term only promises more of the same
Paul Ryan (R-WI) explains his yes vote on the fiscal cliff deal, praising the House for ‘providing certainty’ by making lower taxes permanent.
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.
Piers Morgan, already being attacked for his stance on guns, has truly thrown caution to the wind by proclaiming that the Bible is flawed and must be amended.
Tea Partiers indulge in wild fantasies of sending President Obama to prison since they haven’t managed to impeach him for Benghazi
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.
Cracks begin to appear in the no new taxes wall as Saxby Chambliss signals a willingness to rethink the question of revenue
Don’t tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another Southern state of your choice, ‘Fine. Go. We admit it. 1861 was a mistake and we are undoing it now.’
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.
The braniacs at World Net Daily and the American Family Association have convinced themselves we voted for Obama because George Clooney did
The Religious Right took a black eye in 2012 but they are far from powerless and will be back to attack the Constitution in 2016
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.
As the President praised leaders from different parties working together, the Romney camp is threatening Chris Christie for working with Obama.
On Real Time, Bill Maher challenged and shattered the Republican delusion that Obama has ruined America.
Jack Welch caused a stir this week when he launched a conspiracy theory aimed at President Obama. Yesterday, he admitted he has no evidence
The Romney campaign is planning their White House transition. When Obama did it in 2008, he was accused of measuring the drapes, but Obama appeared to have a good shot of needing those drapes.
If Romney loses Michigan or Massachusetts and wins the White House, he will be the first candidate since 1916 to lose his home state and win the presidency. He’s not only losing his two home states, but Ryan’s as well.
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
Mitt Romney is not a leader, even conservatives have called his foreign policy positions ridiculous and accused him of merely mimicking others’.
Mitt Romney could barely contain his glee while discussing the murders of four Americans including the US Ambassador to Libya. What was he smiling about?
It’s 9/11, so right on schedule here comes the Republican Party with a story about how Obama has made America less safe. Only this time, the American people aren’t listening.
Obama campaign spokesperson Stephanie Cutter defended Vice President Biden from Republican attacks about his competency by calling Sarah Palin mentally incompetent.
The White House has silenced John McCain’s calls for Obama to dump Biden by reminding him of who he picked to be his running mate in 2008.
At his press briefing today Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took a not so thinly veiled shot at MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and other pundits on the Left who are complaining about Obama’s speech last night. Gibbs said of cable TV, “I don’t actually think that is where all of real America lives.”
White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer ripped Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) for blocking legislation that would extend COBRA and Unemployment Insurance benefits. If the legislation is not passed, 400,000 people will lose their benefits. Pfeiffer wrote, “There’s nothing wrong with someone taking a principled stand for something they believe in, but Senator Bunning voted to extend these same benefits in 2008.”
