Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams has decided to call it quits in his re-election bid for state chair: “I have loved being chairman, but I’m tired of the nuts who have no grasp of what the state party’s role is,” Wadhams told the Post. Wadhams, who has been chair since 2007, was considered a […]
Could this be the end of the national joke known as Michael Steele? That’s what Politico is reporting: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele faces an all-but-impossible path to reelection this month, as a majority of the RNC’s 168 members indicate that they will not support the controversial chairman for another term. A weeklong canvass […]
Tea Party Nation has just blasted out an email blaming Obama for the rising gas prices (login required): As we close out 2010, gas prices in much of the country crept about the $3 a gallon mark. In an interview a couple of days ago, the ex-president of Shell oil predicted $5 a gallon gas […]
Sovereign citizens are the craziest of the crazies. They are the most extreme of the right, believing that the federal government has zero authority and even rewrite history to say as much. But it doesn’t stop there. These people are also some of the worst predators out there: They call themselves sovereign citizens, U.S. residents […]
TPM brings us another epoisode of the crazies talking out the wrong orifice: Ed Martin, a Republican candidate for Congress in Missouri, said in a radio interview with a conservative talk show host that President Obama and Rep. Russ Carnahan are trying to interfere with America’s freedom to worship. Martin also has taken a swipe […]
It’s going to be the Republicans big campaign talking point this year – REPEAL! That might work for the crazies in the Tea Party, but a new poll shows that a big majority of those who support repeal actually want the bill repealed so we can get something better – a public option: When asked […]
Not that this is really shocking news, but it does deserve repeating: U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study suggests. The relationship could be due to the fact that communities with such religious beliefs (a literal interpretation of the […]
I been reading up on the craziness that descended upon our nation’s capital yesterday, and all I can say is that these people represent everything that is wrong with America. For a prime example of this, check out this racist shit talking about Obama “oppressing” white people Think Progress has even more of the crazy […]
I have heard a lot of support for President Obama’s speech to school children from a lot of unsuspecting allies on the right, but the latest is a real shocked. Newt Gingrich has tweeted: Just read President Obamas speech to students.white House posted it. it is a good speech and will be good for students […]
I found this argument to be beyond absurd: Fully 35 percent of Democrats believe George W. Bush had advance knowledge of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Fully 28 percent of Republicans believe Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States. Meet the fanatical third. The two can not be compared. A month prior to the attacks […]