The Republican Party is on life support and needs serious help. Sure Democrats have reason to celebrate this week, but the left should be really concerned about what might happen if the GOP continues down their current path of self-annihilation. This is something I have been talking about for years now and Nicholas Kristof hits […]
Harry Reid is vowing to take on something that many of us have asked for – filibuster reform: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged on Wednesday to change the rules of the Senate so that the minority party has fewer tools to obstruct legislative business. In his first post-election press conference, the Nevada Democrat […]
The video that has sparked all the outrage in the Middle East is coming under having scrutiny, even from the White House: A top White House official has blasted as “truly abhorrent” the anti-Islam film which appears to have triggered an outpouring of violence against U.S. diplomatic posts in Egypt and Libya. Speaking to an […]
Bobby Jindal, the man who became famous by blasting federal spending on disasters, is begging President Obama for more money: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is asking President Barack Obama for more federal help as Tropical Storm Isaac approaches the Gulf Coast, urging him to reimburse Louisiana for the full cost of its preparations. “Given the […]
Herman Cain is still out there making unfounded claims: Herman Cain offered his take Monday on a recent poll showing that 0 percent of African-American voters support Romney. “[Black voters] are closet conservatives, but the polls aren’t going to pick it up,” Cain said on Fox News. “You may have heard about the Wall Street […]
This weekend Missouri Senate candidate, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), make big news when he declared women could shut off their bodies from getting pregnant during a “legitimate rape”. Since then we have seen troves of big names in the GOP come out and denounce the comments, including the head of the RNC, Mitt Romney and […]
One of the tools terrorists always try to employ is economic terrorism. Find ways to destroy an economy to help push their agenda. Now a U.S. Senator is pushing that very tactic here at home: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) called on government contractors to put employees on layoff notice before November’s election as […]
Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) has taken his parties leadership to task. In an interview with the Post-Standard editorial board, he had this to say: I have to say that I’m frustrated by how much we — I mean the Republican Party — are willing to give deferential treatment to our extremes in this moment in […]
This right here should spark a big national discussion about the state of our nation in 2012: In the debate over new laws meant to curb voter fraud in places like Florida, Democrats always charge that Republicans are trying to suppress the vote of liberal voting blocs like blacks and young people, while Republicans just […]
Time once again to expose the extreme hypocrisy of the wingnuts. Here’s video from yesterday’s White House presser: (via Real Clear Politics) Reporter: What city does this Administration consider to be the capital of Israel? Jerusalem or Tel Aviv? Jay Carney, White House press secretary: Um… I haven’t had that question in a while. Our […]