Tag: conservatives

Our country is broke and can't afford to keep supporting freeloaders, so let's make a change!

There’s not much I like about Rick Perry, but this idea from his book ‘Fed Up’ is one I can definitely get behind: One solution the governor embraces is to end lifetime tenure — a cornerstone of the Constitution, whose drafters worried far less about activist or senile judges than about meddling tyrants and political […]

John Boehner has said that they are listening to the people, so will they listen to this poll? A 53% majority of registered voters also think that those who came into power campaigning on Obamacare repeal should decline their federal health plan, and only a third think they should accept it.  Many Democrats have been […]

Sarah Palin opens mouth and creates another shit storm: Seeking to channel the sign-bearing, flag-waving enthusiasm of the “tea party” movement into ballot-box victories, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told hundreds of supporters Monday they couldn’t “party like it’s 1773” until Washington was flooded with like-minded conservatives. The led to Gwen Ifill to tweet the […]

Moving the few hundred remaining prisoners at Guantanamo should be something conservatives rally behind. The reason for this is in the numbers: A Bureau of Prisons spokesman on Monday revised upwards the cost of housing a captive in federal detention, days after the bureau said it spends a tiny fraction of what the military spends […]

You can tell it’s election season. Commercials are on the air and the robocalls are ringing off the hook. The yard signs are in full bloom along with the attack ads. But the biggest indicator that an election is nearing? More charges of Republicans using copyright material without permission: A company has sued Republican U.S. […]

This is absolutely amazing. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) apologized to BP today for the “shakedown” from the President: This is so bad that even John Boehner is distancing himself from it: House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) broke with a top Republican on Thursday who suggested BP had suffered a “shakedown” by being forced to […]

Here is an article conservatives are using today to point to Obama being at fault for the oil spill: If U.S. officials had followed up on a 1994 response plan for a major Gulf oil spill, it is possible that the spill could have been kept under control and far from land. The problem: The […]

A new poll out has found that a majority of Minnesotans are embarrassed by their most famous member of Congress, Michele Bachmann: A new survey of Minnesotans shows that a majority of residents — 56 percent — are embarrassed by Rep. Michele Bachmann. The release of the survey, commissioned by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, […]

Harold Ford on Morning Joe today was saying that people were wrong saying liberals wouldn’t support his Senate run. Yeah – just like conservatives would vote for Russ Feingold.