All of the eight new Republican speaker candidates were vetted by the former president in a process Rep. Pete Sessions described as “the president is interested in having someone he can work with.”
Things are so bad in the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives that CNN’s chyron read “GOP in Crisis, GOP Scrambling after Scalise Drops Out of Speaker’s Race.”
Democrats lead the GOP by a whopping 18 points among registered voters – the largest lead they’ve held in two decade’s worth of midterm election cycles.
Schumer said the plan’s combination of tax increases for middle-class Americans and dramatic reductions for the wealthy is a recipe for a GOP bloodbath next year.
According to a new report, many GOP lawmakers are restless and “ready to close the books” on the probe.
Take away healthcare because it’s hurting you. Take away corporate taxes (and raise yours). Take away regulations that protect you from clean air, water, and food.
When Paul Ryan says “it’s time to take these lessons learned and apply them on a national scale—that’s a Better Way,” he means the same way
“GOP Congress spends a year and a half investigating Clinton emails, but refuses to investigate whether Russia is hacking our election? WTF?”
Paul Ryan Ignores the Wells Fargo fraud scandal and instead accusing Dodd-Frank of killing free checking accounts
Ryan accuses Democrats of attacking bipartisanship even though he was in the room of GOP luminaries who decided to obstruct Obama
Despite the protests of many medical organizations, Republicans ignore the health cost to Americans in favor of corporate profits
Ryan says prayer comes first, when disaster strikes their home districts, it’s money that comes first. Prayer is what they offer for other people.
Ryan says, “If we make it an ideas contest, we win.†But to have an ideas contest, you have to actually have some ideas.
Ryan wanted Americans to believe Republicans are actually doing something, when really it’s just more prime-time Republican theater
Paul Ryan wants to use the the Congressional Review Act to prevent the president from saving the American people from corporate tyranny
Paul Ryan insists he is going to ‘fix’ things, but since Obama has already done that, he can only mean he’s going to destroy them
The Republican-run House is up to its same old tricks: rather than helping Americans, attacking their access to healthcare
Ryan says he wants to protect us from the overreach of intrusive government bureaucracies but he really wants to protect his corporate owners
It was inevitable that at some point, the radicalized United States House of Representatives would become involved in an official way, in the imaginary “War on Christmas” Fox News works so hard to sell in between their “Happy Holiday” breaks:
The House voted to legalize the profiling of Muslims as part of HR 158 – a revision of the Visa Waiver Program used by 20 million tourists
Obama has a strategy for defeating ISIL so of course Paul Ryan demands that the he submit to Congress a plan of which the House approves
“We are wiping the slate clean,” we are told by Paul Ryan, which means the same “screw America” agenda advanced by a new face
There is plenty of blame to go around. No small share of it attaches itself to Boehner, who let the crazies take over the House on his watch
Paul Ryan, who is likely to become the next House Speaker, announced his support for a two-year debt and budget deal on Wednesday.
72 percent of Americans believe the House Select Committee on Benghazi is mostly using the Benghazi investigation to achieve political gain.
Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton wants to put chickenhawk Dick Cheney back into a position of political power.
A spokesperson for Ryan reiterated that the Congressmen was still not interested in becoming the next Speaker of the House.
After recalcitrant members of the House Freedom Caucus threatened not to back McCarthy, the California Rep. surrendered without a fight.
Only 12 percent of Americans view McCarthy favorably, while 38 percent hold an unfavorable opinion of the California Congressman.
Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz plans to challenge Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to become the next Speaker of the House.
With the tea party taking the wheel, the crazies can move forward with their plan to dismantle functioning government.
Clinton called out the Republican “race to the bottom,” their hateful rhetoric and lies used as an excuse to shut down the government
While 162 Democrats stood with the president, 25 Democrats defected and sided with the Republicans in the House.
There is no low Republicans will not sink to when they are deprived of the opportunity to launch another baseless attack an innocent nation
The Israeli Prime Ministers speech to Congress backfired and pushed Democrats who were on the fence into siding with President Obama.
House Republicans will be voting on a resolution of disapproval of the Iran deal, and Senate Republicans are talking about a resolution too
House Republicans want us to believe that by gutting Wall Street reform, we can somehow end bailouts and have a healthier economy
The GOP is determined to ignore every relevant fact about Benghazi on their mission to crucify Hillary Clinton
It is not enough simply to remember Selma. The courageous men and women on the Edmund Pettus Bridge could not be deterred by brutal force. They marched forward with undaunted courage, staring death in the face. Members of Congress who lack the minimal courage required to pass legislation protecting the right to vote, have no business paying tribute to the marchers in Selma. By their inaction, their allegiance lies with the Alabama State Troopers who turned the marchers around.
This is really about opposition to Obama, and in violation of the Constitution, forcing him into the role of a compliant puppet of Congress
Bachmann said the Speaker of the House is under the authority of Moses, something that comes up neither in the Bible nor in the Constitution
This is the ninth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the sixth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
This is the second edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. You can check out the previous edition here . The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’ To do this,…
Since only a communist would oppose rampant crony capitalism and its corporatist/theocratic ideals, Democrats must be commies
The Alabama Public Service Commission started a meeting about power rate structures with a prayer against Marriage Equality.
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
We had some rough times in 2012 but there are things to like about the year just past. Here are a few of them.
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power – or influence on American politics
The fundamentalists got themselves covered now, so don’t even try to argue: if Obama wins, it’s God’s will. If Romney wins, it’s God’s will.
Christian end time fantasies are not limited to the world of fiction; these people get elected to office and influence, even control policy
Ezra Klein, filling in for Rachel Maddow, gave the GOP no respite as he labeled this Congress the “do less than the do-nothing Congress” of 1947
The Dirty Thirty New Year’s Edition updates our survey of the GOP’s war on women, the environment, education, voting rights and more
A new group wants to nominate a third candidate in 2012 but if there is no clear winner, extremists in the House will choose our president