Being the party of “NO” is more important than helping get our economy back on track: Senate Republicans on Thursday rejected a bill to aid small businesses with expanded loan programs and tax breaks, in a procedural blockade that underscored how fiercely determined the party’s leaders are to deny Democrats any further legislative accomplishments ahead […]
Since the oil started flowing 83+ days ago there have been those on the right floating conspiracy theories. They range from “Liberals blew up the well” to “Obama doesn’t want to stop it quick so it looks bad”. Well now we have one of these claims coming from an actual GOP member of Congress. Here’s […]
The “mommy! mommy! He did it too” defense of the Republican Party is in full swing. They are deploying it every chance they get when it comes to the recent rise of threats of violence against Democratic lawmakers. Think Progress caught up Texas Republican, Rep. Pete Olson and asked him about what’s going on. When […]
Every blog needs to do a post on it because it shows a serious fracture that is developing in the GOP this week: In the wake of the passage of health care reform, nearly the entire slate of Republican senatorial candidates seems ready to run on a repeal of the bill. But now, the lawmaker […]
The GOP leadership is trying to get Dick Cheney to go back into his hiding hole: Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input. Displeased with the former vice-president’s recent media appearances, Republican lawmakers say he’s hurting GOP […]
In a defeat to Sarah Palin, a judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Alaskan Republican lawmakers trying to dismiss the troopergate investigation. We are only a couple weeks from the report being released, so things are going to get interesting now.
So Bush is supposed to make a big speech today on climate change. The problem is he still doesn’t want to do anything: Bush will speak forcefully about concerns he has over a possible rush to address the Earth’s warming through a hodgepodge of regulations under existing federal laws such as the Clean Air Act […]
The New York Times is now reporting on the NRCC financing scandals (see earlier posts here, here and here). Here are some highlights from the article: Hundreds of thousands of dollars are missing and presumed stolen from the chief fund-raising arm of House Republicans, according to party officials who described the findings of emergency internal […]
That needs to become the slogan of any Democrat running for congress this year. The evidence is right in the NRCC accounting scandal, which seems to be going unnoticed by the mainstream media. There is now more evidence pointing to the NRCC’s lax management that may have contributed to this scandal: The accounting scandal now […]
Think Progress brings us this little gem: On Monday, Republican lawmakers visiting Iraq tried to argue that President Bush’s escalation in Iraq has made Baghdad — especially the Shorja market — safer. Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) told reporters that Shorja — where a suicide bomber killed 88 people in January — is now “like a […]