Ronald Reagan

Liz Cheney’s Support For Kamala Harris Already Helped In A Big Way

Liz Cheney’s Support For Kamala Harris Already Helped In A Big Way

Trump has pretended to be Ronald Reagan for years, but that myth was wrecked on Sunday by Liz Cheney.

2 months ago

You Know Things Are Going Well For Biden When Republicans Complain About His Tone And Mood Music

The best that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) could do after Biden met with President Xi of China was complain about…

1 year ago

Opinion: Manchin’s Betrayal Typifies Long-Standing Conservative Misinformation Campaign Against American Worker

The ongoing public negotiation among Manchin, Biden, and progressive Democrats has made clear that Manchin has been trafficking the same…

3 years ago

Trump Attacks the Ronald Reagan Foundation and Fox News as Poll Numbers Sink

Donald Trump attacked two conservative bastions over the weekend in an outburst that was likely caused by his consistently poor…

4 years ago

Opinion: Trump’s Attack on Land, Environment Undermines American Lives and Economy

Ronald Reagan notoriously once asked, “Where would this country be without this great land of ours?” As ridiculous as Reagan…

5 years ago

Opinion: What Do The 99.9% Think About A Wealth Tax?

The wealth taxes Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed continue to provoke the malice of Wall…

5 years ago

Beyond Disowning Trump, GOP Apostates Must Be Accountable for History of Exploiting Political Offices at People’s Expense

Joe Scarborough, former Republican but still self-proclaimed conservative host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, has hoisted himself into media and political…

5 years ago

National Review Writer Claims Dems Sentimentalize Past Republicans. No, We Don’t

It is troubling that Republicans insist on projecting: making their problems a liberal or progressive problem. Like being blamed for…

8 years ago

The Republican Party Has Gone Completely Insane As Pence Compares Trump To Reagan

The Republican Party is so desperate to avoid the reality of Donald Trump that Gov. Mike Pence is comparing Trump…

8 years ago

Rauner’s Illinois Portends America’s Disastrous Future Under GOP Rule: Part III of a Series Covering the Illinois Debacle

The GOP has given up on governing and instead dedicated itself to aggressively redistributing wealth to the top at the…

9 years ago

Joseph Farah Offers Bizarre, Nonsensical Endorsement of Ted Cruz

Farah says Cruz is the 'real deal,' a new Reagan when all Democrats Sanders and Clinton offer us is the…

9 years ago

Rafael Cruz Says His Lying Son is Telling the Truth Just like Jesus

Ted Cruz being persecuted for telling the truth like Jesus? The truth is, Rafael Cruz is the Father of Lies,…

9 years ago

Donald Trump Drops the Reagan Bomb: Says He Has Evolved Like Reagan

Donald Trump is now evoking Ronald Reagan to explain the dramatic "evolution" of his political views from liberal to wacky…

9 years ago

Reagan Started the GOP’s Fascism Destroying America From Within

Reagan ushered in the first step of fascism, economic stagnation, when his extremist trickle down economic theory was imposed on…

9 years ago

Feuding Bill O’Reilly And George Will Get Into Heated Argument About Reagan Book

Conservative columnist George Will and Fox personality Bill O'Reilly engaged in a bickering match over O'Reilly's book "Killing Reagan."

9 years ago

Former Bush Adviser Claims Democrats Moved Further Left than Republicans Moved Right

Peter Wehner says the liberal claim that Republicans are the ones who have become more extreme over the years is…

9 years ago

Study: Thirty-five Years of Conservative Policies Contributed to Violence In Baltimore

The problem with the Republicans' argument and lies, and there are many, is that statistics continue to prove that conservative…

10 years ago

Senate No-Show Cruz Criticizes Evangelicals Who Didn’t Show in 2008 and 2012

2016 may be the Year the mainstream media is surprised to discover there are actual Christians out there - and…

10 years ago

Delusional Michele Bachmann Thinks President Obama Has Virtually Guaranteed World War III

In a radio interview, former GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann asserted that President Obama's policies will lead to World War III.

10 years ago

More Bad News For Republicans As President Obama Sets A New Job Growth Record

Well, this is awkward for Republicans. The Obama economy has set yet another job growth record in the private sector.

10 years ago

Wisconsin Eliminating Weekends Is Another Koch Idea For A Nation of Slave Labor

Democrats expected Walker to eliminate the state's 'prevailing wage' law requiring workers on public projects to be paid the established…

10 years ago

Indiana Enacts Theocracy Legalizing Discrimination

On Thursday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed legislation legalizing discrimination based on the religious right's "free exercise" of their bigoted…

10 years ago

Republicans Are Paying For Making a Deal With Koch Devils

Republicans were so certain that if they allowed the Koch brothers to buy them control of Congress, no matter how…

10 years ago

Red State Voters Are Stupid For Electing Insane Republicans

One can hardly feel empathy for the people living under Republican extremists because unlike people suffering under fanatics in Taliban-controlled…

10 years ago

Judge Gives Former Virginia First Lady Maureen McDonnell Slap On The Wrist In Felony Case

U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer sentenced former Virginia First Lady, Maureen McDonnell, to just 12 months plus one day…

10 years ago

Backlash Pushes Oklahoma To Look For Ways To Fix Anti-AP History Bill

Facing public pressure, Republican lawmaker Dan Fisher is rewriting a bill that would have cut off funding for AP U.S.…

10 years ago

Republican Lawmaker Doesn’t Want To Fund Schools Because Blacks Get “Welfare Crazy Checks”

In comments made to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi State Representative Gene Alday said he opposed additional school funding because he…

10 years ago

On His Birthday Remember Reagan’s Extremism Drives Republicans’ Agenda

Instead of celebrating B-movie actor Ronald Reagan's birthday today, Americans should reflect, deeply regret, and grieve that they and their…

10 years ago

GOP Trickle Down Has 70% of Americans Near Financial Calamity

Instead of changing course and helping the majority of the population, Republicans still propose heaping wealth on the rich and…

10 years ago

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Emerges As The Republican Candidate To Fear Most

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker impressed the crowds at the Iowa Freedom Summit. Democrats cannot afford to underestimate him.

10 years ago

Washington Post/ABC Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Crushing Every Potential GOP Candidate

Hillary Clinton enjoys double digit leads over five prominent Republican contenders, according to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll.

10 years ago

Obama’s Tax Plan Forces Republicans To Choose Main Street Or Wall Street

President Obama's proposal to give middle class and working class Americans a tax break has the GOP on the defensive.

10 years ago

Gallup: Record Number Of Americans Identify Themselves As Liberals

A growing number of Americans call themselves liberals. Going forward, Democrats need to embrace liberal ideas.

10 years ago

Religious Right: Loving Israel and Hating Islam Bestows Foreign Policy Cred

When Indiana Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Pence went to Israel he met Benjamin Netanyahu but not Palestinian leader Mahmoud…

10 years ago

Republicans Plan Another Bush Trickle Down Assault In 2015

Some Republicans are beginning to express little hope that the President will go along with the scam and may eschew…

10 years ago

CNN Suddenly Seems to Notice Republican Reliance on Religious Right

CNN is reporting that the GOP moves early to court conservative Christians. We are told that, "The first votes of…

10 years ago

White Conservatives Justify Their Racism By Claiming Black Criminals Are Racists

Even when the right tries to explain racism, they end up being racist. They are all in agreement that there…

10 years ago

Blame Reagan For America’s Persecution Complex, Victim Mentality and Decline

Conservatives in the 21st Century, from Republicans to Koch-libertarians have embraced, perpetuated, and transformed Reagan's extremist language into party policy…

10 years ago

Friday Fox Follies – Impeaches and Cream

It's only taken 6 years of blindly throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks, but Fox "News" has…

10 years ago

Kansas’ Kobach Warns Immigration Action Leads To Ethnic Cleansing and Socialism

According to one angry racist Republican, the start of ethnic cleansing is when an African American President takes executive action…

10 years ago

Fox & Friends Invoke Chuck Norris Over Religious Diversity in Our Public Schools

A Maryland school board removed all religious holidays from its calendar, angering Norris - would adding Muslim holidays have made…

10 years ago

According to Ted Cruz, Reagan and Both Bushes Acted Like Monarchs

De facto Speaker of the House and self-appointed incoming Senate Majority Leader Ted Cruz accused the President of being a…

10 years ago

Child Homelessness and Poverty Are Rising So Republicans Plan Harsh Program Cuts

Coupled with inhumane austerity cuts, the GOP is getting precisely what they apparently live for; more despair and destitution among…

10 years ago

Michael Bloomberg Picks Up James Brady’s Legacy Where Republicans Abandoned It

In this season of discontent, we lost a legend in the crusade for sensible gun reform. James S. Brady, the…

10 years ago

Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough Gets Caught Telling Huge Lie About Ronald Reagan

During Monday's broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough had to be corrected by co-host Mika Brzezinski after Scarborough claimed…

10 years ago

Republican Outrage Over The Bergdahl Release is More Proof Conservatives Hate The Troops

The current Republican outrage over the President negotiating the release of an American soldier held as a prisoner of war…

10 years ago

Fractured Republicans Working Harder For Hillary 2016 Than Democrats

If Republicans keep this up, Democrats won't have to work hard to elect Hillary Clinton in 2016.

11 years ago

Barack Obama Is Nothing Like The Tax and Spend Liberal That Ronald Reagan Was

In nearly every respect, President Obama is nothing like the tax-and-spend liberal Ronald Reagan was, and is not even close…

11 years ago

Playing With Fire: How the House GOP Plans to Address the Immigration Issue

Leave it to House Republicans to find a way to both enrage their base and alienate an entire voting bloc…

11 years ago

Today It’s President Obama Fighting For the Opportunities That Dr. King Sought

Today it is President Obama fighting Republicans to give all Americans the opportunities Dr. King sought for people of color,…

11 years ago

Eliminating Poverty Is More Than Just Putting Dollars In The Pockets Of The Poor

An implicit goal of the War on Poverty was to make the US a true meritocracy, and in this sense,…

11 years ago

Liberals Have Fought Alone Since the War on Poverty Ended in 1980

The snide satisfaction conservatives gloat in their declaration that the War on Poverty failed is apropos given how they sabotaged…

11 years ago

Marco Rubio Embarrasses Himself By Claiming Marriage Is the Solution To Poverty

Rubio, as an anti-poverty crusader, is nearly as hysterical as Reagan, and so was his contention that opposite sex marriage…

11 years ago

The Chamber Of Commerce Attacks Obama Because He Won’t Screw You With Trickle-Down

The Chamber of Commerce president gave his state of American business address that was replete with propaganda that the economy…

11 years ago

South Carolina Violates the Constitution With Plan For Mandatory Prayer In Public Schools

As the new year is getting underway, there is a renewed push to force prayer into South Carolina public schools.

11 years ago

Republican Budget Cuts Are Literally Causing People to Freeze to Death In the Streets

As tragic as the number of Americans freezing to death is, it is the number of Americans who are homeless…

11 years ago

As Republicans Flee Into Retirement Democrats Seize Their Chance to Retake the House

On Tuesday night, three Representatives announced that they would retire at the end of their terms and not seek reelection…

11 years ago

A Tale of Two Heroes: How Nelson Mandela Was Truly the Anti-Reagan

Nelson Mandela was everything that Ronald Reagan wasn't. For Conservatives today, that simply means that Mandela was clearly in the…

11 years ago

It’s Time to Kill the Absurd Notion That Cutting Taxes on the Rich Grows The Economy

Ronald Reagan has been dead for over nine years and it is time to kill his absurd notion that cutting…

11 years ago

Republicans Won’t Admit that Cutting Social Security Is Stealing From the American People

What Republicans, and some Democrats, refuse to tell the American people is that cutting Social Security is stealing from the…

11 years ago

Republican Traitors Draped in Tea Keep Their Promise to Break the Government

The current Republican government shutdown is what teabaggers came to Washington to do; "break the government of the United States."

11 years ago

Edward Snowden Highlights the Peculiar Republican Obsession with Russia

Remember when Mitt Romney said that Russia is "without question our number one geopolitical foe"? Thanks in part to Edward…

11 years ago

Bill Maher Slaughters Republican Sacred Cow Ronald Reagan

Bill Maher, not only exposed the the legacy of Ronald Reagan for what it really is, he also slaughtered the…

11 years ago

Republicans Want an Immigration Reform Bill That is Laced With Bigotry

Conservatives are attempting to put provisos on the invitation to immigrants and some are making it clear that not all…

12 years ago

Conservative Calls For Obama’s Impeachment Are A Cover for Their Sore Loser Racism

The list of charges conservatives have leveled at the President that they claim are irrefutable impeachable offenses that demonstrate their…

12 years ago

Larry Pratt: Bombing Seen by Liberals as Opportunity to Increase Government Control

Republicans want bombing suspect treated as enemy combatant but it's liberals who want increased government control?

12 years ago

15 Republican Governors Would Rather Kill Their Own Citizens Than Expand Medicaid

15 states with Republican governors are refusing to expand Medicaid even though the first 3 years are free and never…

12 years ago

House Republicans Dig In Their Heels and Refuse To Create Middle Class Jobs

The House Democrats plan is founded on creating jobs and a thriving middle class that will never see the light…

12 years ago

Republicans Are Ready to Traumatize Poor Children

No matter how much they try to blame sequestration on Obama and the Democrats, Republicans set it up, and the…

12 years ago

While Republicans Focus on Public Debt, the Real Issue is Private Debt

Could the answer to the ongoing economic woes of the country be a forgiveness of household debt? At least one…

12 years ago

Republicans Can’t Let Go Ronald Reagan’s Economy Crushing Failed Policies

Republicans are intent on returning to policies that, thirty years later, finally bore fruit and nearly destroyed the nation's economy.

12 years ago

Republican Myth Busted: Reagan Raised the Debt Ceiling 3 Times More than Obama

President Reagan raised the debt ceiling the more times than any other President since 1960. He raised it 18 times.…

12 years ago

Hypocrite Republicans Ignored Decades of Debt Until Obama Became President

Republicans never place a high-priority on spending and the national debt until there is a Democrat in the White House…

12 years ago

President Obama is More Popular Now than During His First Term

The GOP finds itself in trouble as Obama's popularity soars and their own plummets, and Obama's second term only promises…

12 years ago

Unlike most of your public utterances Republicans, Hillary was telling the truth

Unlike most of the words that come out of Republicans like John Bolton's mouths, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was…

12 years ago

Sen Graham Exposes Republican Debt Lie by Attacking Social Security

Sen. Graham insisted that we must raise the age for Social Security in order to deal with the debt, but…

12 years ago

Why America Needs a Left

In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a 'hard' left, something beyond either progressivism or…

12 years ago

Repeating Their Past Mistakes, Republicans Urge a Return to Cowboy Diplomacy

Neo-con leaders are warning that Republicans have to pressure President Obama to return to George W. Bush's cowboy diplomacy by…

12 years ago

The GOP Obsession with the Rich and Corporations Has Brought Us to the Fiscal Cliff

The Republicans' love affair with an anti-tax agenda goes back to before the Reagan era, and has persisted as the…

12 years ago

Grover Norquist Makes a Fool Out of Himself By Demanding Reagan Era Tax Rates

Grover Norquist made a fool out himself by demanding a return to the Reagan era tax rates, which were higher…

12 years ago

The Republican hyperbole about the ‘fiscal cliff’ is deafening and misleading

The ongoing debate about the fiscal cliff continues as the U.S. approaches the current debt ceiling. Republicans are responsible for…

12 years ago

Obama’s Support for Israel’s Iron Dome Gives GOP Fits of Cognitive Dissonance

Facts crash into belief where Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system is concerned. How could Obama have paid for it…

12 years ago

Pushing Back against George Will’s Half Truths and Lies About Elizabeth Warren

George Will writes about an agency founded and briefly run by newly-elected Senator Elizabeth Warren. Will tells many half-truths and…

12 years ago

A Revealing Look at Racism’s Role in Which Party White People Support

Ever since Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act and championed policies supporting minorities, whites have been defecting from the party.

12 years ago

The Mystery that is Hillary Clinton: To be, or not to be a 2016 Candidate

There are 2 prominent women who could assume their party's mantle as Presidential candidates in 2016. They are Condoleezza Rice…

12 years ago

Bill Maher Torches the Right For Being Completely Wrong About Obama

Bill Maher laid waste to the right for getting every prediction they made about Obama's first term completely wrong.

12 years ago

Mitt Flipped-Flopped At the Debate, but Jim Lehrer was the Biggest Loser

Obama wasn't on his game, as he looked down a lot and didn't speak eloquently like he normally would. Romney…

12 years ago

Romney is a Charlatan Who Can’t Convince the True Believers

Romney is a charlatan who is stuck reiterating Reagan and Bush lies and hoping that Americans will be tricked just…

12 years ago

GOP Convention Shows How Little the Truth Matters to Them

The usual BS'ers took to the podium on the last night of the GOP convention. An addled Clint Eastwood was…

12 years ago

Ross Douthat Wants Moderates to Believe Paul Ryan is Their Guy

Ross Douthat removes the details from the picture so he can clarify it, getting rid of all those pesky, distracting…

12 years ago

Rachel Maddow Shows Why Paul Ryan is a Democrat’s Best Friend in 2012

Rachel Maddow shows us what a monumental mistake the Romney Campaign made in selecting the Kill Medicare Guy as his…

12 years ago

The GOP and the Limits of Positive Thinking

When bad news piles on bad news, how does a person carry on, and how far can positive thinking carry…

12 years ago

The Tea Party May Think it Runs the Country, but They are Wrong

Citizens may think the ultra right tea party has all the power in the U.S. In truth, they have almost…

12 years ago

Jeb Bush Tells It Like It Is, ‘Reagan Would Not Win In Today’s GOP’

Jeb Bush has stated the obvious. Due to his record of raising taxes and bipartisanship, Ronald Reagan could never survive…

12 years ago

Chuck Norris Displays Comedic Talents on Scott Walker’s Behalf

Chuck Norris takes to WND to display comedic talents in support of Scott Walker, and badly misrepresenting Ronald Reagan in…

12 years ago

California Dreamin’ of Big Campaign Dollars and a Democratic House

A turnover of as little as 5 or 6 house seats in California could mean that Democrats once again control…

13 years ago

Before Obama A Socialist President Named Reagan Supported the Buffet Rule

Before Barack Obama another president stood up on a June day in Atlanta, and supported the socialist Buffett Rule. That…

13 years ago

The Best Supreme Court Money Can Buy Will Support Corporate Oligarchs on Health Care

The conservative justices want to kill the ACA. If they do, it will mark the beginning of the end for…

13 years ago