Tea Party Nation is out with another piece of misinformation attacking President Obama. In “The Do-Nothing President and his awesome vacation”, founder Judson Phillips is once again attack the President for taking a vacation, something that has become the norm for the right. Phillips is also taking a preemptive strike against the counter point of […]
Over the past several months the mailings and phone calls from your insurance company have changed. Now they seem to be more geared towards “your healthcare” and “educating” you. Well there’s a reason for that. Yesterday the provision of Affordable Healthercare Act went into affect that says insurance companies must spend 80-85% on patient care […]
Totally amazing: GOP leadership told its membership at a closed-door meeting Friday morning it would couple with the expiring tax provisions an easing of environmental regulations on boilers, selling broadband spectrum and paving the way for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. […] Speaker John Boehner referred to the package he’s putting forward as turning “chicken-sh […]
The fad that is the Tea Party is starting to show real signs of fading: Since the 2010 midterm elections, the Tea Party has not only lost support nationwide, but also in the congressional districts represented by members of the House Tea Party Caucus. And this year, the image of the Republican Party has declined […]
Wow! What an interesting twist this story just took: Gov. Sam Brownback apologized Monday for his office’s reaction to a Kansas high school senior’s disparaging tweet about the Republican during a visit to the Statehouse. The governor’s staff complained about a post by Emma Sullivan, 18, and the student quickly landed in hot water with […]
In what can only be described as one of the most egregious violations of the First Amendment, a high school senior in Kansas was disciplined for making a disparaging tweet about former Senator and now Governor, Sam Brownback: Emma Sullivan, a senior at Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, was in Topeka on […]
My last post really got me thinking. The right constantly invokes “state sovereignty” when complaining about the “over-reach” of the federal government, yet their own actions prove that the right actually cares nothing about this issue. Let’s look at some of the recent issues in the news. My previous post was about the GOP telling […]
Remember back in 2010 when Republicans won tons of races across the country and retook the House? They said up and down it was a sign that people wanted new direction on the economy and they were right in that. But since then we have seen all these Republican victories result in very little direction […]
David Frum has a very lengthy piece in the New York Magazine in which he asks “When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?”. One part that really stuck out at me was this: It was not so long ago that Texas governor Bush denounced attempts to cut the earned-income tax credit as “balancing the […]
There’s an emerging new message coming from the GOP and that message is that the United States should give up and just become China. This is coming from the field of Republican Presidential contenders. Michele Bachmann seems to have started this, when she proclaimed our country should be more like China on social-economical issues. Now […]