Joe the Plumber has finally seen the light: Joe, also known as Sam Wurzelbacher, told an audience in Pennsylvania this week that McCain “is no public servant.” “McCain was trying to use me,” Wurzelbacher said, according to public radio correspondent Scott Detrow. “I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy.” […]

Finally parts of the U.S. might see some real internet speeds: Google says it will run fiber-to-the-home trials at the astounding data speed of 1 gigabit per second. They’ll sell this service at “a competitive price” to 50,000 people, possibly rising to 500,000 people. It’s at this point that I’d like to toss around some […]

It took the President himself going after Mitch McConnell, but finally he has some of his nominees confirmed: The Senate confirmed a huge group of administration nominees on Thursday, following a tense exchange between President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). At a White House meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders on Tuesday, […]

Remember last month how the GOP constantly said cameras should be rolling during health care negotiations? Now that there’s a chance for that, well look at what’s happening: Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) today echoed Rep. John Boehner’s (R-OH) supposed concern that televising President Obama’s bipartisan health care reform summit would turn it into a “media […]

With all the problems that have been facing David Paterson, it really seems like Spitzer and his little sexual fetishes weren’t that bad: PIX News has learned that federal prosecutors are investigating Governor David Paterson’s awarding of a lucrative contract to a politically connected group to run a gaming center at Aqueduct Raceway. The embattled […]

Last night Rachel called out dozens of GOP lawmakers who constantly blast the stimulus package just to go back to their districts and tout the successes of it. This was an awesome segment on the hypocrisy of the GOP.

Last week news broke that Sen. Richard Shelby had placed a hold on almost all of President Obama’s nominees in lieu of getting funding for some of his pork projects. Now he has retreated: Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama will stop blocking Senate confirmation of about 70 government appointees nominated by President Barack Obama, […]

Here’s the press release from his office: Congressman John P. Murtha (PA-12) passed away peacefully this afternoon at 1:18 p.m. at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA. At his bedside was his family. Murtha, 77, was Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in February of […]

Yesterday Sarah Palin finally addressed Limbaugh’s use of the word “retard” and as expected, she approves! PALIN: I agree with Rush Limbaugh. He was using satire to politically correct — WALLACE: He used the “r” word. PALIN: He used satire. Name-calling by anyone, I teach this to my children and you teach it to your […]

Talk about being busted. Last night while giving her little speech to the tea bagger convention, Sarah Palin is caught reading answers from her palm. Not only that, but in the same speech she also gets on Obama as a “guy with a teleprompter”. Obama went to the House GOP and answered questions for a […]