Conservatism in the United States

The Big Lie Behind Rand Paul’s Pack of GOP Shutdown Lies

The Big Lie Behind Rand Paul’s Pack of GOP Shutdown Lies

The shutdown Republicans initiated claiming Obamacare is costing Americans too much money, costs more money than Obamacare.

11 years ago

Ron Paul Talks Religious Demagoguery with Pat Robertson

Ron Paul joined Pat Robertson on the 700 Club to show his Religious Right bona fides and his new homeschool…

11 years ago

Michele Bachmann Says Only God Can Defeat Hilary in 2016

Republicans know they are in such trouble in 2016 that only divine intervention can save them from themselves and those…

11 years ago

It Turns Out Conservative Jews Don’t Like Chris Christie Either

Chris Christie has positioned himself outside of support from the Republican base, but also from liberals

11 years ago

Louisiana Republicans, Hurricane Katrina, and Time Travel

Progressives sometimes criticize the south as backward, but that's not entirely fair. For example, Louisiana Republicans have developed time travel

11 years ago

Gun Owners of America and its Racist Justification for Gun Violence

Citing concerns for gun owners faced by "black mobs" Gun Owners of America isn't even trying to hide its racist…

11 years ago

The Republican Version of a Great Idea: For Profit Natural Disasters

If you want to see what privatized relief would look like, think of Walmart. That's the face of Republican disaster…

11 years ago

Rick Perry Under Investigation for Coercion of a Public Servant

It is no surprise that Rick Perry now finds himself being investigated for abuse of office charges and coercion revolving…

11 years ago

Sarah Palin and the Banality of Republican Evil

On behalf of those who are trampling their rights, Palin convinces people that somebody else is is responsible. She pronounces…

11 years ago

The GOP’s Tea Party Astroturf Has Sprouted Roots and Grown Into Fringe Crazy

When the Tea Party emerged four summers ago, many of us dismissed them as a corporate-seeded astroturf movement. We were…

11 years ago

Getting Cray-Cray for God in Iowa – or Let’s Party Like it’s 2016

Though we're three-years-plus out from Election Day 2016, the Iowa clown car is fast filling up with those jockeying to…

11 years ago

Pamela Geller Makes Herself the Victim in the Reza Aslan Controversy

Muslim baiter Geller is affronted that anyone defends scholar Reza Aslan for writing a book about Jesus yet not defend…

11 years ago

Limbaugh Says GOP Wants New Base and that Obama Likes Scandals

Rush Limbaugh told Greta Van Susteren that the GOP hates the Tea Party and the Tea Party, feeling rejected, stayed…

11 years ago

Things Thomas Jefferson Never Said About Gun Control

Conservatives love to invent quotes to back up their positions and they hate it when somebody - including "communist" CNN…

11 years ago

Rick Perry Takes A Very Personal Cheap Shot at Wendy Davis

Rick Perry takes it very personally what choices Wendy Davis and her mother have made and demands that all women…

11 years ago

Federal Court Rules Shirley Sherrod Can Continue Her Defamation Case Against Breitbart

A federal appeals court upheld a federal district court's rejection of a request to dismiss Shirley Sherrod's defamation case against…

12 years ago

Marco Rubio’s Epic Fail as the Aspiring Hero of 2016

Making Rubio the face of immigration reform has backfired and he has become a target of ridicule, all of it…

12 years ago

Rand Paul Claims Liberal Elites Want to Exterminate Christians

"There is a war on Christianity," he said, well ahead of the Christmas season. "Not just from liberal elites here…

12 years ago

Michele Bachmann Warns Immigration Bill Puts Republic at Stake

Bachmann says, 'We will not successfully pass the torch of liberty if we have perpetual amnesty. It won't happen.'

12 years ago

Ann Coulter Tells Hannity He is Like a Liberal Making a Silly Argument

Ann Coulter didn't stop with Hannity but called Marco Rubio the Jack Kervorkian of the Republican Party

12 years ago

Gov. Phil Bryant’s Working Moms Comments Are Why GOP Ignorance Must Be Run Out of Office

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant's comments blaming the nation's education troubles on women joining the workforce are exactly why Republicans must…

12 years ago

Bearded Muslims and the Incredible Mental Midgetry of the Tea Party

Cathie Adams' stunning conclusion that Grover Norquist is a Muslim because he has a beard, left me speechless despite five…

12 years ago

Joseph Farah Laments Fox News’ Liberal Biases

Joseph Farah wishes to point out that useful as Fox News is, it isn't WND, the home of wingnut excess.

12 years ago

Meet Roan Garcia-Quintana, South Carolina’s non-Native Tea Party Nativist

Havana-born Roan Garcia-Quintana doesn't want America to be for others what it has been for him

12 years ago

Republicans Push Back Against Anti-Semitism Charge by Smearing ‘Jewish Guy with Nasally Voice’

If there's one thing Republicans know how to do, it's get out of hot water by getting in deeper. Republicans…

12 years ago

Sarah Palin Hypocritically Accuses Obama of Playing the Politics of Emotion

The queen of the politics of emotion accuses President Obama of playing the politics of emotion

12 years ago

The Tea Party Speaks From The Gutter and Tells the GOP to Forget Hispanic Voters

Tea Party Republicans like Rep. Tim Huelskamp are spewing more hate and intolerance by decrying Republican outreach to "so-called" Hispanic…

12 years ago

New Poll Shows Things Have Gotten So Bad for the GOP that They’ve Lost the Culture War

Forty-seven percent of Americans now disagree with the Republican Party's approach to cultural and social issues, while just 22% agree,…

12 years ago

Newsflash: Sarah Palin Comes Out Against Education

Sarah Palin thinks that Melissa Harris-Perry's ad calling for an investment in public education is evidence that MSNBC thinks your…

12 years ago

Bill O’Reilly is ‘Furious’ Over Being Treated Like Fox Treats President Obama

Bill O'Reilly is 'furious' that people are 'lying' about him saying that opponents of gay marriage haven't 'been able to…

12 years ago

Sarah Palin’s Cash Grab War on Christmas Book Doesn’t Mean She’s Back

Sarah Palin's upcoming book complaining about the commercialism of Christmas doesn't mean she's back. Palin is just doing a drive-by…

12 years ago

Sarah Palin Hits Rock Bottom, Would Lose Alaska to Her ‘Rival’ Hillary Clinton

A new poll by Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows that not only are Alaskans done with Palin, but Clinton could…

12 years ago

Eric Cantor Thinks America Will Love the GOP Agenda If They Don’t Understand It

The Republican Party is sending missile of destruction Eric Cantor (R-VA) out today to rebrand the GOP with their 'New…

12 years ago

The Right Claims Liberals Have a Dull-Witted, Self-Defeating, Abjectly Wicked Worldview

Conservatives seem completely confused and befuddled by reality, as evidenced by Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber and his recent scree

12 years ago

Misremembering is the Conservative Way of Treating Martin Luther King

As our nation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr, conservatives choose NOT to remember him, but to misremember him as a…

12 years ago

The Right Calls Obama a Dictator, but Sarah Palin Disarmed the Alaska Civil Militia

The same people who love Sarah Palin call Obama a dictator. But in 2008, then Gov. Palin stripped the militia…

12 years ago

GOP: Refusing to do What We Want You to Do is a Violation of the Constitution

The Republican Party seems to think if Obama doesn't do what they want him to do, he is violating the…

12 years ago

The Party of Hotheads Cheney and McCain is Concerned About Hagel’s Temperament

On ABC's This Week, Senator Bob Corker, (R-TN), concern trolled about the 'temperament' of Republican former Senator Chuck Hagel, whom…

12 years ago

Republicans Around the Country Introduce a Wave of Unconstitutional Legislation

Besides being deluded that America is lurching towards Marxism, Republicans are so desperate to impose their vision on the nation…

12 years ago

Conservative Cluelessness Seen Aboard Political Cruise

Mirroring their counterparts nationwide, conservatives on a post-election political cruise reveal they still don't understand their faults.

12 years ago

A Desperate Grover Norquist Claims Fiscal Cliff Deal Not Violation of Pledge

Grover Norquist tried to defend his pet congressmen and women while simultaneously branding President Obama as an enemy of liberty

12 years ago

The Media Ignores Facts in Order to Push Republican Lies on Fiscal Cliff

The AP is assisting Republicans with their desperate meme that Democrats are to blame for the failure to avert the…

12 years ago

Mormon GOP Senator Who Claims to Abstain from Alcohol Arrested for DUI

Idaho Sen. Michael Crapo is a strict social and fiscal conservative who doesn't drink. Or so he says. He was…

12 years ago

If Republicans Elect Tom Price as Speaker, They Will Be in Exile for a Decade

That low rumble you're hearing about a challenge to Speaker Boehner from conservatives now has a name attached to it…

12 years ago

Conservatives Are Dreaming of a ‘White’ Christmas

Conservatives are dreaming of a 'white' Christmas, and that is all Christmas really is to them: a means to an…

12 years ago

Republicans Are More Willing to Cause Another Recession than Abandon the Rich

The tragedy is that Republicans are more than willing to see America suffer a deep recession than they are to…

12 years ago

Pamela Geller Really, Really Hates Islam, Obama, and the UN

Even when compared to 2012's other conservative ranters and spewers, a sour-faced lot if there ever was one, Muslim-baiter Pamela…

12 years ago

Glenn Beck’s Philosophical Belch – Agenda 21

Glenn Beck takes the new Egyptian Constitution as an opportunity to push his UN conspiracy and to predict a US…

12 years ago

Grover Norquist Faces a Full-Out Republican Revenue Insurrection

Apparently, to Grover Norquist an agreement with him is as legally binding as a mortgage, at least in his own…

12 years ago

Move Over Star Wars: A Trilogy of GOP Cognitive Dissonance: 2008, 2012, 2016

The Republican Party's doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening…

12 years ago

Hardcore Conservative Saxby Chambliss Repudiates Norquist Tax Pledge

Cracks begin to appear in the no new taxes wall as Saxby Chambliss signals a willingness to rethink the question…

12 years ago

Republicans Declare Defeat and Claim They Have Lost the Culture War

Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics

12 years ago

Idiot Republican Says Conservatives Are the New N-words

We've seen some crazy conclusions drawn since Election Day, but Larry Klayman's claim that conservatives are the new N-words is…

12 years ago

Mrs. Cleaver’s America is Dead – and Thank God For It

Republicans, in appraising the causes for the Republican defeat in 2012, shy away from the real reasons for that defeat:…

12 years ago

What Obama’s Victory Means to the Religious Right

The Religious Right took a black eye in 2012 but they are far from powerless and will be back to…

12 years ago

ReBiblican vs. Republican – The Difference is Extremism

This effort is dedicated to exposing extremist politicians and their funding sources that are immersed in ultra conservative Christian Dominionist…

12 years ago

The Recipe for a Republican Politician

The unsavory ingredients that go into making a Republican politician create a perfect storm for America and the world in…

12 years ago

Hypocrite Mitt Romney Demands an Apology for Eva Braun Reference

On the day Rush Limbaugh called Democratic women FemiNazis again, Mitt Romney is ordering Obama to get Democrats to 'cease…

12 years ago

Michigan Tea Party Republican Candidate Wanted to Make His Students Cry

MI Republican candidate for Congress Kerry Bentivolio told his students his goal was to make them cry and he added,…

12 years ago