With gas prices going up daily the Republicans are using this as an attack against President Obama. Right now Drudge is pushing an article talking about $6 a gallon gas in Florida as his main story. The story does explain the cause of the price increases, however: One reason for the high prices is the […]
Seriously? This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Republicans oppose the administration’s rule and have sponsored legislation that would allow employers to limit the […]
It takes a very sick and demented individual to think of rape as a tool for jokes or insults, but that’s exactly what the GOP does over and over again. The latest example was last weekend at CPAC when drunken fat fuck Andrew Breitbart decided to call a bunch of occupiers ‘rapists’. Last night Keith […]
Over the past several years we have seen churches throwing themselves more into the political landscape. Today we see it even more: HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday that she didn’t consult with the Catholic bishops on the latest version of the contraceptive coverage rule. At a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Obama administration’s […]
Utterly disgusting: The measure, proposed by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) would amend the Affordable Care Act to allow any employer to exclude any health service coverage, no matter how critical or basic, by claiming that it violates their religious or moral convictions. Moreover, according to the National Women’s Law Center, the amendment would remove critical […]
One of the darlings of conservatives is up in arms over saving money: Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) fired up the crowd at Thursday’s Conservative Political Action Conference with red-meat rhetoric the right loves to hear. The five-term lawmaker, who faces a tough reelection bid this fall, accused President Obama and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi […]
Did you hear about that $8 billion “abortionplex” Planned Parenthood is opening? Well Congressman John Fleming (R-La) sure did and he even went to Facebook to complain about it: But apparently the rock Fleming already lives under doesn’t realize that The Onion is a satire site. Here’s the original article: Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday the […]
John Boehner is here, in his district today, to unveil the Republican jobs plan: U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., will talk at ThyssenKrupp Bilstein of America Inc. on Monday about the U.S. House Republicans’ jobs plan. This is the second time a major Republican politician has promoted their jobs plans at ThyssenKrupp, […]
“The Fix” in today’s Washington Post offers up this headline: Obama: The most polarizing president. Ever. When you look at how divided this country is that could be easy to conclude, but is it President Obama’s fault? First let’s take a look at how they come to this conclusion: For 2011, Obama’s third year in […]
Honestly this is one of those “common sense” bills that should already be in the books: Conservatives in the blogosphere found one small aspect of the president’s State of the Union address that they could praise: a bill banning insider trading by members of Congress. “Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members […]