Here’s a view of a Republican America: From Think Progress: Yesterday, Chevron discovered a leaking pipeline that was spewing 50 gallons of crude oil per minute into Red Butte Creek in Salt Lake City, UT. By the time crews capped the leak, more than 21,000 gallons — between 400-500 barrels — of oil had spilled […]
‘Drill Baby Drill’ may no longer be a good rallying cry for the GOP, as Americans are now turning on offshore drilling according to a new CBS poll: Isn’t it ironic that the warnings all of us “tree-hugging liberals” have been yelling for years about offshore drilling are coming to fruition? And now that Americans […]
Yesterday another attempt to raise the liability limit on big oil for spills was blocked by the GOP. Now the GOP is trying their own bill: After a third Republican block of a Democratic bill to raise the liability on oil spills, the GOP put forward its own bill on Tuesday afternoon. This one would […]
Welcome to my newest acronym – Angry Men With Guns. I came up with it while reading this article from Politico talking about the rise in threats against lawmakers. The key passage: Though each threat case is different, the FBI documents reveal some common characteristics. The suspects are mostly men who own guns, and several […]
Rachel Maddow started her show last night with Rand Paul, the Kentucky GOP Senate candidate. By the end of the 20-minute long interview, Rand Paul came off looking like some totally blabbering idiot. Jack Conway’s campaign must be thankful for this interview, as it has just given them a ton of information to use against […]
An ad by Dan Fanelli, the Republican running against Alan Grayson, shows a dark skinned man and uses it to promote racial profiling: For a party trying to appear as not being racist, the GOP sure is doing a crappy job. I hope Grayson decides to go after this ad, in a way that only […]
Pat Bertroche, who is running for Congress in Iowa has a great idea: “I think we should catch ’em, we should document ’em, make sure we know where they are and where they are going,” said Pat Bertroche, an Urbandale physician. “I actually support micro-chipping them. I can micro-chip my dog so I can find […]
With Charlie Crist facing more pressure to drop out and the rumors growing of him running as an independent, it leaves a big question; if Crist wins, who will he caucus with? Now take that a step further. Imagine a Senate much like we had after 2006, one that was pretty much evenly split. The […]
It finally looks like the White House is going to get out front and show America who the party of no really is: The White House is preparing late this week to aggressively go after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his GOP colleagues on financial reform. A Democratic party source said Thursday evening […]
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 […]