When the enemy is in the halls of Congress, and is openly calling for economic destruction to avoid revenue, it is safe to say Republicans have declared open war on America and its people.
A Republican by any rebranding is still pushing education cuts, Medicare privatization, cuts to Medicaid, safety net cuts, and the vaunted “tax reforms” to benefit corporations and the wealthy.
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 rising calls for civil or revolutionary war are the result of President Obama’s re-election, but with NRA and Republican backing, a well-armed group of lunatics cannot be taken lightly.
Unlike football, one group of Christians is playing by a different set of rules that defy the tenets of the religion and its adherents’ claim to be followers of Christ.
The gay-hate being defended by the right is not part of the Boy Scout’s motto or any of Christ’s teachings, and fortunately, there are Boy Scouts and “real” Christians who have finally figured it out.
Although the right wing bible crowd is solidly behind any politician promising to impose the bible’s sanctions on women and gays, the rest of America is moving forward and supporting Obama’s agenda.
One can say with confidence that when Republicans find an economic policy that fails, they are duty-bound to repeat it regardless the consequences.
What Americans are witnessing today is the culmination of four years of ultra-right wing propaganda inciting fear of change and hatred for other Americans; all Americans.
The new front in the Republicans class war is just getting underway as governors are proposing new tax schemes that raise taxes on the poor to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
Republicans are intent on returning to policies that, thirty years later, finally bore fruit and nearly destroyed the nation’s economy.
The Republican National Committee has decided that if they present detrimental legislation with a smile on the faces, their harmful agenda will be embraced by Americans.
Like every dirty trick Republicans use to steal elections, the American Legislative Exchange Council is behind Electoral College rigging efforts in blue states that overwhelmingly voted for Obama.
After the president mentioned climate change in his inaugural address, 44 Republicans and 9 Democrats responded by sending a letter to Obama demanding immediate approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
According to most scholars of fascism, it historically attacked parliamentary liberalism, and attracted support primarily from the far right/ extreme right. In America fascism is the Republican Party.
There is a contingent of gun fanatics driven by racial prejudice and gun lobby fear mongering who desperately long to initiate a revolutionary war over attempts to stop the senseless gun violence.
If one analyzes the President’s speech carefully, every aspect he touched on was contrary to conservative ideology, and none more than we the people, together, will face the challenges ahead.
As the nation remembers Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of an America where all men are created equal, it is evident that King’s dream is unattainable so long as Republicans promote inequality.
The biggest threat to America, its people, and government is from domestic right-wing extremist groups that fall under the purview of the Republican Party.
The current outrage from gun-fanatics that President Obama is sending federal forces to confiscate their precious firearms is a microcosm of the past four years of teabagger claims.
There is a growing movement to insert religion into the education system using taxpayer dollars.
President Obama issued benign executive orders to quell the bloodshed from military-grade weapons, and Republicans responded with threats of civil war.
There is a contingent of wealthy libertarians who are actively promoting gun proliferation to transform America into a nation where domestic tranquility is figment of one’s imagination.
Republicans never place a high-priority on spending and the national debt until there is a Democrat in the White House that has been a regular occurrence dating back to the Reagan era.
The reason Washington is unable to function as it did for 232 years is that Republicans decided, after Barack Obama won in 2008, to abandon any pretense of governing in a representative democracy.
None of the so-called leaders of the Republican Party have made any attempts to tamp down the seditious rhetoric inciting civil war, revolution, or violent action against the government.
It is a mystery why the Justice Department, FBI, and law enforcement officials do not summarily round them treasonous congressional tea partiers and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
The reaction from gun-proliferation addicts over the past week have revealed a deep-seated belief among firearm fanatics that simply talking about gun control is a cardinal sin worthy of civil war.
Apparently, voter rejection of extremist views against women in the recent election is lost on Republicans because they are persisting in attacking women’s reproductive rights as the primary focus of their war on women.
The response and support the Steubenville rapists are receiving is typical given the recent attacks on all American women at the hands of Republicans.
The concept of shutting down the government unless Republicans control the direction and vision of the nation is nothing less than criminal.
Besides being deluded that America is lurching towards Marxism, Republicans are so desperate to impose their vision on the nation that they are willing to legislate the Constitution out of existence.
Paul Ryan justified his no vote for Sandy victims claiming that maintaining the existing flood insurance relief program was irresponsible.
A cabal of CEOs who are upset about the fiscal cliff deal are proposing that corporate America bypass the legislative process and lay out a plan for deficit reduction.
Sandy victims got a preview of the you’re on your own mindset Republicans have advocated for the past four years, and it portends a drift toward a nation defined by selfish greed.
John Boehner’s recalcitrant caucus assures the Senate they will waste time in 2013 passing the same legislation they worked diligently on in 2012.
Telling the truth about Republicans will garner outrage and after the President’s statements, Republicans were furious.
It is an incredibly sad commentary on American politics to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Republican Party’s view of the population they were elected to serve is one of contempt.
Republicans are on pace, and appear pleased, to hold the distinction as the most unproductive Congress since the 1940s, and it looks as if that was their intention all along.
One of the hallmarks of so-called hard-right ‘patriots’ is their immutable adherence to the Constitution and all of its tenets, and yet they reserve the most important right, that of free speech, for themselves.
President Obama has learned that dealing with Republicans is an exercise in futility regardless the issues facing the nation.
There has been no huge increase in spending under President Obama, and yet Republicans claim he has been on a spending binge that is the sole cause of the nation’s economic woes.
It is simplistic to think Republicans are misguided and misinformed about the damage their policies will cause. As ideological saboteurs, they know what will result if their policies are enacted.
However, as important as the message, ‘peace on Earth, goodwill toward men’ is to Christ’s life and teachings, it is lost on a large segment of American Christians.
The idea that an armed good guy can stop a bad guy is not borne out by reality. Law enforcement officers go through extensive firearm training, and yet they do not always stop bad guys with guns.
There has been no dearth of outrage from EmoProgs who are furious with the president for his third fiscal cliff proposal, and their anger is based on ignorance of the negotiation and governing process
This Christmas is shaping up like every other year’s end since President Obama has been in office, with Republicans holding the economy hostage over the level of damage they can inflict.
Republicans are ending President Obama’s first term the way they started, with the same set of tired proposals, the same motivation to punish the American people, and the same hatred of this president
Despite misguided appeals for more weapons and more god, the nation is ill-prepared to address the real problem; more guns.
The American people have signaled repeatedly that they expect their representatives to compromise to solve the nation’s problems. Obama has fulfilled his part of the deal, but Republicans remain MIA
In the wake of the massacre of 20 children and 6 adults in Connecticut last Friday, the people most responsible for the firearms that contributed to the tragedy have shown nothing but cowardice.
In one sense, the same sex marriage cases the Supreme Court will hear are about civil and equal rights, but they are also about determining whether or not the bible is the law of the land.
Instead of addressing the proliferation of guns in America, each new tragedy inspires gun advocates like the NRA and conservatives to expand public areas where Americans can carry weapons.
After nearly 30 years of conservative assaults on government, the richest country in the history of the world is now rated number 16 among advanced nations as the best country to live.
It is an assault on the people’s intelligence for men like John Boehner to proclaim America is broke while hundreds of billions of dollars are squandered on over 1000 military bases around the globe.
A carefully planned, long term campaign to subvert democracy is the sole intention of GOP governors, ALEC, and their puppet masters Charles and David Koch.
As a hateful attempt to cut the nation’s deficit, and avoid the dreaded fiscal cliff, the GOP is going all in to make cuts to Medicare despite the damage to the nation’s elderly, and the budget.
Republicans are megalomaniacs who will continue punishing the people for re-electing President Obama to raise taxes on the wealthy by holding the economy hostage to enact austerity.
Conservatives have rejected the idea of the country’s progress into the 21st century and by their own admission, Republicans are devolving and attempting to drag the entire society backwards.
The tragedy is that Republicans are more than willing to see America suffer a deep recession than they are to abandon their ideology of upward wealth redistribution to the wealthy.
The American people are demand that the wealthy lose their lower tax rates. Instead of accepting this reality, Republicans are going off the rails and heading toward irrelevance.
38 Republican senators voted against ratifying a United Nations treaty on the rights of the disabled modeled after the Americans with Disabilities Act, because they ‘feared for US sovereignty.’
The GOP bears most of the blame for the economic woes over the past 12 years whether it was unfunded tax cuts, two wars, blocking job creation, credit downgrade, sequestration, and the fiscal cliff.
The election was a rejection of Republican extremism on women’s reproductive rights, but in states with GOP majorities, there is still a crusade to restrict choice.
The Republicans’ love affair with an anti-tax agenda goes back to before the Reagan era, and has persisted as the GOP embraced the lunacy of supply-side economics.
Grover Norquist made a fool out himself by demanding a return to the Reagan era tax rates, which were higher than taxes are under President Obama.
The Department of Justice cannot allow the miscarriage of justice by any American under any circumstance, and because Romney is no longer running for public office, he is no longer above the law.
Due to the influence of ALEC, Arizona, public school students who were treated like convicts in a lock down maneuver during regular instructional hours.
Whether bible-loving opponents of same-sex marriage like it or not, marriage is not a religious institution.
The GOP’s insane obsession with obstructing the President is a danger to economic recovery and 98% of the population.
At a time when Republicans are proposing deep cuts to programs like SNAP (food stamps), WalMart heavily supported Republican candidates in the recent election.
The latest joke from Republicans was offered up by Eric Cantor who called for Obama to put Obamacare on the table for elimination in order for Republicans to compromise on revenue increases.
The President and Democrats could protect the environment and Americans’ health if they informed the people that Canadian tar sand is not coming to America, but through it to China.
Regardless one’s definition of treason, Norquist and his Republican acolytes are guilty of acting against the government with the goal of destroying it.
Clear Channel assisted Romney’s ‘business experience’ propaganda campaign while they are being quietly gutted to pay back debt run up by Bain.
For nearly 12 years, one man with unwavering faith in the judicial system has taken on a modern day giant based on a belief that justice is due diligence and that in America, right overcomes might.
Conservatives should be thankful the rest of the population elected a President not inclined to deliberately cause suffering for 98% of the American people, including them.
There has never been a better time for President Obama to educate the people about Social Security and its non-effect on the deficit and its financial health.
The sad fact is regardless the GOP’s words that they heeded the voters’ message, they are plotting the same course with the same players the voters rejected two weeks ago.
Regardless if religious organizations abuse their agreement with the IRS or not, it is long past the time to end their government-sanctioned and taxpayer-funded entitlements once and for all.
Much of the responsibility for Hostess shutting down lies with the company’s management and the private equity firm behind them, and yet union workers are the ones bearing the blame.
There are already over a hundred reasons in the public record to begin impeachment proceedings, and if Democrats were empowered, they could impeach every Republican in Congress.
It appears there was at least one very specific reason for Mitt Romney’s desperation to be president that the public was not aware of.
The secessionists whose real reason for wanting to leave America has nothing to do with the Founders, the Constitution, or the economy and everything to do Barack Obama’s skin color.
There are different types of denial, and after President Obama won re-election last week, Republicans expressed minimization and simple denial over raising taxes on the rich.
Honor the sacrifice of veterans by telling Republicans to pass, immediately, the Veterans Jobs Corps Act and oppose the Ryan budget cuts that affect Veterans cost of living adjustments.
The Koch Brothers handed down a warning to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for not rejecting provisions in the ACA to submit health insurance exchange.
Republicans are laboring under the fallacy that President Obama and his supporters are enemies because they rejected the great white hope as president.
Arrogant leaders in the House and Senate have issued statements that gave the appearance Republicans had won the election handily and put them in control of the government.
Now that the election is over, it is time for this country to address the deplorable state of voting and start seriously considering transforming America into an easily accessible democracy.
Where Republicans represent all that is wrong with humanity, Barack Obama stands apart with compassion, morality, and patriotism Republicans like Romney are ill-equipped to comprehend.
While PoliticusUSA was investigating a recently re-opened case in bankruptcy court in Delaware, a clerk of the court indicated that where Romney and Bain are concerned, they are above the law.
There are myriad reasons why Romney is unqualified to serve as president, but chief among them is his willingness to pit American against American on the basis of race and socioeconomic status.
Public records, FEC and SEC filings show that Mitt Romney profited from corruption, fraud, and racketeering (RICO) as head of Bain Capital.
A prescient question Romney will not answer is why he hates retired Americans, the poor, and disabled Veterans, and yet loves his church when neither group pays income taxes.
There are 25 dead Americans because Romney believes government oversight restricts corporate profits, and that a company with a poor safety record should be allowed to regulate themselves.
Romney is right that there is a morality problem in America, but it rests solely with himself and Republicans who are willing to, slash funding for emergency disaster relief and early warning systems.
Richard Mourdock’s so-called extremist view is the mainstream position of the Republican Party including the party’s presidential ticket.
There is a report that Willard Romney committed perjury in his friend’s divorce proceedings, and it is not the first time he is accused of perjuring himself.
Americans should be uneasy that Romney surrounds himself with foreign policy advisors who share his love of America at war,