Many in our country feel that everything should be privatized, from road repairs to our military. Somehow they feel that corporations, which exist solely to make money, are a cheaper route than the government, which of course isn’t in the profit business. It’s one of the most infuriating and mind boggling ideas out there, and […]
Something I have hit Mitt Romney on time and time again is the fact that he has laid out no plans at all for our nation, should he win in November. All we hear is “Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing” and “repeal”, yet details have been non-existent. Well today the Wall Street Journal takes […]
Today a perfect example of right wing media scare tactics appears on Drudge. Currently this is his big story: And when you read it you quickly think “there goes Obama and his power grab ignoring state sovereignty and even the birth of our nation”. Of course if you actually read the article, this is what […]
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 […]
It turns out that Mitt Romney invested in a firm that disposes of aborted fetuses: Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed in a politically perilous controversy when the Huffington Post reported that in 1999 the GOP presidential candidate had been part of an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal […]
Today CNN reported that the mandate was struck down. Here’s their televised report: On their website they reported: They later went back and edited it to say: “[Updated at 10:06 a.m. ET] In a landmark decision that will impact the nation for decades, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a key provision of President Barack […]
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 […]