Nothing spells trouble like a good old fashioned inner-party fight for leadership.
While the nation celebrated a milestone in civil rights history, the right has decided to turn that celebration into a false call of discrimination while using the only African American currently serving in the Senate.
Let’s face it, Republican’s are angry. You can’t even talk to one about President Obama or the Democrats without them devolving into some shouting and name calling. But is that where their anger should really be? In November we saw something really interesting. The Republican Party was losing Latino and women voters quicker than our […]
There has been a lot of speculation that John Boehner’s job as Speaker could be in jeopardy. Now Breitbart is reporting that could very well happen: American Majority Action spokesman Ron Meyer told Breitbart News late Tuesday that enough House Republicans have banded together in an effort to unseat House Speaker John Boehner from his […]
Yesterday Chris Wallace challenged Romney adviser Ed Gillespie on rather Romney’s tax cut plans were feasible. At issue was the “six independent studies” that the Romney campaign has been touting. Here’s the exchange from Think Progress: GILLESPIE: Six different studies have said this is entirely doable. WALLACE: Those are very questionable. Some of them are […]
Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) has taken his parties leadership to task. In an interview with the Post-Standard editorial board, he had this to say: I have to say that I’m frustrated by how much we — I mean the Republican Party — are willing to give deferential treatment to our extremes in this moment in […]
Remember back towards the end of last year when it came out that members of Congress were exempt from insider trading laws? The Senate quickly acted to fix that, rightly so, yet the House delayed acting on it. Actually it wasn’t the whole House, but rather one man – Majority Leader, Eric Cantor. Here was […]
There has always been something about Republicans and their circling the wagons around the younger George Bush.But you would think that even the “fiscally conservative” members of America’s right would cut their loses when it comes to Bush’s economic performance. Instead they have constantly defended him and even attempted to rewrite history making the current […]
Honestly this is one of those “common sense” bills that should already be in the books: Conservatives in the blogosphere found one small aspect of the president’s State of the Union address that they could praise: a bill banning insider trading by members of Congress. “Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members […]
Newsweek has just published a in-depth look into some of the “anti-government spending” darlings of the right and how they actually love government spending, when it’s for them: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Republican leadership’s tether to the Tea Party, flutters the hearts of the government-bashing, budget-slicing faithful with his relentless attacks on runaway […]