Tea Party darling, child support non-paying, Rep. Joe Walsh has decided that Tammy Duckworth, his Democratic opponent this fall, is not a true hero. Duckworth, for those that don’t know, lost both legs when an RPG hit her helicopter in Iraq in 2004. She was busy fighting over there while the cowardly Joe Walsh was […]
The news is still coming in, but the Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate. They did say it didn’t fall under the commerce clause, but it does fall under taxing. That makes more sense to me. Oh and the one breaking with the right to uphold it? The Chief Justice himself, John Roberts. Get […]
Tropical Storm Debby has just made landfall in Florida and while it lacks the punch of a hurricane, what Rand Paul is doing doesn’t hold back: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) moved this week to hold a noncontroversial flood insurance bill hostage until the Senate agrees that life begins at fertilization. The bill, which would financially […]
We always here Republicans talk about “state sovereignty” and an “overreaching federal government”, but they really don’t believe in what they say. Take this latest example from the conservative Supreme Court: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down Montana’s century-old limits on corporate political spending, putting an end to the state’s resistance to Citizens […]
Every single American should be outraged over this: One-hundred-thirty members of Congress or their families have traded stocks collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars in companies lobbying on bills that came before their committees, a practice that is permitted under current ethics rules, a Washington Post analysis has found. The lawmakers bought and sold […]
So the news right now is that the Issa’s committee has decided to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. To that Nancy Pelosi had this to say: “I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day,” Pelosi said to laughter, during a sit-down with reporters. “I’m not kidding. There’s a prison here in […]
With the a contempt vote set to take place anytime against Eric Holder over the Fast and Furious gun running program, President Obama has finally taken a stand: The White House granted Attorney General Eric Holder with executive privilege regarding Fast and Furious. Regardless of the action, Rep. Darrell Issa, R.-Cal., head of the Oversight […]
We hear stories all the time of GOP candidates using music without proper permission. Apparently they believe the IP laws they have pushed and enacted shouldn’t apply to them. Well now it goes beyond music. First off we have this perfect example of thievery from Wonkette: So, you know that painting by David Bugnon of […]
There has always been something about Republicans and their circling the wagons around the younger George Bush.But you would think that even the “fiscally conservative” members of America’s right would cut their loses when it comes to Bush’s economic performance. Instead they have constantly defended him and even attempted to rewrite history making the current […]
The man who many on the right wanted to see run for President this year has said what many of us on the left have been saying for the past several years; the right is too far right for people like Reagan and even Bush, sr.: “Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of […]