Kansas’ Republican legislators are all but admitting their precious trickle down experiment was not only a failure, it is a scam. In fact, although not quite stating “our only economic policy is a scam to enrich corporations and the wealthy,” just admitting they have to raise taxes to plug gaping revenue holes and more recently, that income inequality is a problem in America, is just as good.
But there really was an offensive video, and it did actually offend Muslims, and it did actually play a role in the attack that left four Americans dead
Republicans were wrong again. 12 million people have chosen private policies through Obamacare exchanges.
On Friday, Ben Carson doubled down by repeating his theme that President Barack Obama reminded him of a psychopath.
Republicans are making much of their “balanced” budget but this “work harder for less” budget is not really balanced at all
Republicans and the media are accusing President Obama of being forced to apologize for the deaths of two Americans who were killed in a US drone strike, but the reality is that it was the White House who gave the scoop to the media.
Republicans are more than willing to waste money to help the rich and corporations, but money spent protecting the rest of us is “wasteful”
A Kaiser Health Tracking Survey finds that more Americans now have a favorable opinion of Obamacare than an unfavorable one.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito opened a Pandora’s box that has the potential to give some corporations the right to impose their “deeply held” religious objections to birth control on other corporations.
While Republicans aren’t waving the white flag publicly, the GOP is becoming quietly aware that they have lost their war against Obamacare.
Montana’s House voted 54-46 to approve federal subsidies for Medicaid expansion, with 13 Republicans joining 41 Democrats to pass the bill.
The Montana House failed to pass a “religious freedom” to discriminate bill, deadlocking on a 50-50 vote on Friday.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers solicited Obamacare “horror stories” on Facebook, but instead got bombarded with positive ACA testimonials.
Eviscerated by President Obama in Cleveland, Speaker Boehner had no option but to try to bury Obama’s budget in well-tried but obvious lies
The President launched an initiative last week to train 500,000 Americans for high-paying jobs in high-technology services.
John Boehner wants you to believe the demands of ideology over demonstrable facts, the same recipe that led us to the crash of 2008
The latest outrage, the open letter signed by 47 Republican senators, is the greatest sign to date that the spoiled little children are throwing a fit and are furious they are not allowed to be president and control foreign policy.
As the saying goes, stupidity is its own reward, and Republican Senator Tom Cotton has certainly proven the truth of that anonymous proverb
Jeb Bush can look at an Iraq wracked by civil war and marauding barbarians, and somehow imagine that America power is a force for good.
Every U.S. state and the District of Columbia, saw their unemployment rate drop from 2013 to 2014.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released February’s jobs numbers on Friday showing that the unemployment rate ticked down to 5.5%, the lowest rate the country has seen since May 2008, months before the financial crisis that rocked the American economy and led to huge job losses.
t is true that Republican policies are why Americans are rapidly losing economic ground to the few wealthy elites, but the media is not only culpable, they are facilitating this country’s slide into oligarchy by perpetually campaigning for the rich and powerful.
In a speech where President Obama condemned ISIS as a “death cult”, Congressman Fleming interprets Obama’s words to be supportive of ISIS.
Next month, the Supreme Court of the United States will consider King v. Burwell, in which millions of people will be affected.
On Friday, the Republican controlled Wyoming Senate voted 19-11 to reject Medicaid expansion.
She hasn’t even announced yet, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign is looking like an incumbent’s reelection campaign.
John Boehner continues to pretend he cares about jobs while pushing his Keystone XL get rich quick scheme on the American people
Boehner twisted history to claim that “the American people can’t afford a repeat of the same old top-down policies of the past”
The President’s plan is a common sense approach to reinvesting in America by rebuilding its transportation infrastructure.
Republicans hope to create a social security crisis, but President Obama has declared that he has no desire to indulge them in that fantasy.
After a year of relative peace in Washington’s budget battles, President Barack Obama will lay out a $4 trillion budget on Monday that needles Republicans with proposals for higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses to pay for education, public works projects and child care.
On Thursday afternoon, President Obama sat down for live interviews with three well-known YouTube personalities. As is the case with anything this president does these days, there was immediate criticism from the right.
If there’s one bargaining tactic Congressional Republican lawmakers have perfected since President Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, it’s trying to cut off America’s nose to spite its face.
President Obama’s proposal to give middle class and working class Americans a tax break has the GOP on the defensive.
If Democrats had proposed any of their current populist plans last year, Republicans would have went into the midterm elections defending their religious allegiance to the richest one-percent of income earners and their highly-profitable corporations.
Until it is fully funded, the Secret Service will not be able to move forward with the additional security measures recommended for the White House and President Obama.
As Detroit continues its comeback struggle, perpetually seeking to redefine and recreate itself as a more updated community, one of the largest potential barriers to the realization of that goal is a sufficiently educated workforce.
Keystone XL will create 35 permanent jobs, not even one person from every state in the Union. Maybe we should have a lottery for each state!
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released December’s job numbers and revealed that the strong growth we had seen throughout 2014 continues unabated.
President Obama and Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, talked yesterday about various issues involving the two countries, including Cuba, immigration, drug war violence and border security
The federal government reported Friday that real GDP growth rose by 5.0% for the third quarter of 2014, marking the fastest growth in any quarter since 2003.
The Times says this is “about ensuring that this never happens again and regaining the moral credibility to rebuke torture by other governments”
Tom DeLay said, “Frankly, I think this could also be payback by Obama to those Cubans who normally support Republicans”
Because he can’t admit to the most likely explanation, insanity in his own party, Matt Drudge tweets the least likely explanation, blackmail
There has been an ongoing Republican crusade to eradicate any legislative accomplish this President supported since the Koch brothers took control of the House after the 2010 midterms.
On Tuesday, after Senate Democrats released a detailed report showing the CIA’s use of torture was both ineffective and far more expansive than previously acknowledged, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released a statement where he said that the release of the report was “politically motivated.”
GOP staffer and former RNC media director Elizabeth Lauten lost her job after an ugly rant against the Obama daughters.
Immigration reform is not just something the bishops want, says Cupich, but God himself. How successful will the GOP be saying ‘no’ to God?
Almost half a million people signed up for Obamacare in one week.
135 legal and immigration scholars say that President Obama’s immigration actions are well within the legal authority of the executive branch.
In examining the GOP’s wild accusations of Obama “lawlessness,” CNN declines to go beyond GOP talking points to the facts themselves
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that House GOP will be using taxpayer money to sue President Obama over the implementation of the ACA (aka, Obamacare)- a suit that nearly every reasonable person has told them has no merit and a suit that two law firms dumped the GOP over.
Pelosi detailed the threats Republicans have been making against President Obama for doing what all modern presidents before him have done, and then urged people not to listen to Republicans on immigration reform, saying we “welcome President Obama’s meaningful, courageous and imminent action.”
Republican Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama thinks they can send President Obama to prison for 5 years for doing what every other modern president has done by taking executive action on immigration reform.
The timing seems like it couldn’t be better for this clever ad from Get Covered Illinois, the Land of Lincoln’s health insurance marketplace. It targets the under 30-somethings using a healthy dose of realistic fear, mitigated with humor.
In a column on his website RedState Tuesday, Fox News contributor Erick Erickson told Republicans in Congress that they should shut down the federal government in order to defund Obamacare and block any action on immigration.
Media Matters went to the trouble of exposing the GOP’s latest Obamacare scandal on Thursday, three days before CNN made a big deal bout it
There is an idiom that parents and employers likely put in practice when an important task has to be completed correctly; “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” President Obama certainly understands that sentiment with a slight variation; if the nation wants anything done at all, the President has to do it himself due to Republicans who have done nothing since January 2009.
Republicans are even talking about embarrassing themselves with another lawsuit, like the one that worked so well with healthcare reform
Republican strategist Frank Luntz said that after winning the Senate majority, Republicans should work with Democrats and President Obama to find “common-sense solutions” to a number of issues. Luntz was behind the plan to create gridlock in Washington to hurt Democrats and Obama.
According to Georgia Republican Senate candidate David Perdue, his only reason for serving is to prosecute Democrats and President Obama because he does not approve of the “direction of this country.”
This week The New York Times published an assortment of answers to the question, “Is the Affordable Care Act Working?” If readers are able to get past the meaningless non-reporting of the piece’s opening summary, there is plenty of good news to be found.
A series of episodes of egregious dishonesty this past week have clearly demonstrated Ted Cruz’s unsuitability for public office
“travel ban works for african countries, liberal logic: liberal political hacks spread ebola to stop the spread of ebola, nice try”
During President Obama’s tenure in the Oval Office, conservative pundits and Republican politicians have continuously blamed him anytime the price of gasoline has jumped up. Interestingly, those same voices tend to grow very quiet whenever we see a drop in the price.
In a post on his Facebook page Tuesday, has-been rocker Ted Nugent wrote that if those who supported the NRA and the 2nd Amendment didn’t get their freedom that they’d demand the “evil carcasses” of President Obama and other notable Democrats.
There are very few nonpartisan, unbiased institutions left to us. But we always have the Congressional Budget Office. Or do we?
It is difficult to believe that any American might think, even for a nano-second, that Republicans serve anyone other than the rich and corporations, and it is why they are hesitant to lay out their true agenda heading into the midterm elections.
Led by Fox News (again), the mainstream media’s reaction to Obama’s admission of American intel failures has become the latest Benghazi hoax
As we head into precarious midterm elections, President Obama needs to stop trying to explain why he feels it’s necessary to strike ISIL and instead he needs to call out Republicans more.
We are supposed to believe that “Republicans are working to create jobs for Americans. Democrats are working to save their own.”
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) criticized Congress for leaving Washington on a lengthy recess without having a debate or vote on a new authorization for use of military force (AUMF) to be used in regards to the conflict with ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
During Thursday’s broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh made the unbelievable claim that the Great Recession, which took place from December 2007 to June 2009, was President Obama’s fault.
In an ‘exclusive’ article for Breitbart.com, the former half-term Governor of Alaska wrote that the President needs to be removed from office due to the crisis at the border involving tens of thousands of refugees, most of them children, who are trying to escape violent conditions in Central America.
On Wednesday, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), released a letter to the press that he had sent to the White House earlier in the day. The letter demanded that Obama start deporting DREAMers.
During a panel discussion on Wednesday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, conservative pundit Nicolle Wallace made the claim that President Obama sees himself “as a victim” and is as much to blame for Congress’ refusal to govern as House Republicans.
CBS News and The New York Times released a poll Monday showing that 50% of Americans feel that the United States does not have a responsibility to do something about the recent violence in Iraq.
If you expected change, tailor your expectations to expect more of the same because this is another House defined by its hatred of all things Obama
Oh, how they hate Obama. I mean ‘hate’ with a capital “H.” We’re talking about most of the world’s population. I know this animus to be true because the right wing echo chamber led by wildly overpaid, radical talk show hosts, Fox News, and pollsters tell me so, relentlessly.
U.S. intelligence agencies and the military have successfully apprehended one of the ringleaders of the Benghazi attack.
Republicans refuse to let Barack Obama have any political victories. However, by attacking a United States soldier Republicans have signed their own death warrant.
GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss said if he had been told of the exchange of the Gitmo prisoners for Bergdahl, he’d have raised “holy hell” in “public opposition”.
Graham is doing his best to take up the slack and perpetuate racial animus toward people of color; particularly the person of color occupying the Oval Office.
On Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent a strongly worded letter to Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
On Sunday afternoon, Democratic Congressional candidate James Kimber, who is running against Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) in California’s 50th District, contacted me to express his disgust with the tactics that Republicans are using to undermine the President.
The reaction from three Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee to the President’s announcement that America’s longest war was coming to an end was despicable and revealed that, in their minds, there is never a time to end war.
During a talk about the dangers of concussions, the President said he had probably had multiple “mild” concussions when he played sports.
During Thursday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, the panel, which included former Democratic Vermont Governor and DNC Chairman Howard Dean, discussed President Obama’s commencement speech at West Point earlier this week. I
Dinesh D’Souza, author of the conspiracy laden “Obama’s Rage”, plead guilty in a Manhattan federal court on Tuesday to a campaign finance law violation.
The President — the one that the media keeps tittering Democrats must distance themselves from because he is so hated — has a 50% approval rating in the somewhat dubious Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking poll.
A plurality of registered voters in Kentucky have a favorable impression of Kynect. Kynect is Obamacare, by a different name.
The Koch Brothers SuperPAC, Americans for Prosperity, is currently running an ad in Michigan targeting Democratic Senate candidate Gary Peters, who is up for election in November. It is a lie.
Another day, another lie debunked. WaPo’s fact checker gave Darrell Issa’s stand down accusations against POTUS and Hillary Clinton Four Pinocchios.
Monday marked the fifth anniversary of President Obama’s stimulus package that helped pull the nation out of the worst recession seen since the Great Depression.
President Obama tells the people to ask their representatives why Congress won’t raise the minimum wage for everyone, after he raised it for federal contractors.
President Obama declared an emergency in the State of Georgia after birther Gov. Nathan Deal failed to respond appropriately to the severe winter storm.
Apparently, realizing he was in a no-win situation, Boehner finally conceded on Tuesday morning and told his caucus that he will bring a a clean debt ceiling bill to the House floor on Wednesday.
It appears that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) has a new plan for Republicans to apparently get a political victory out of raising the debt ceiling at the end of this month.
A Republican John Boehner ally tries to justify why the Speaker can’t do his job by saying that even Jesus couldn’t lead this House of Republicans.
What Farah demands from Obama is that the president set aside the United States Constitution and embrace an imaginary Bible in its place