Harry Reid might be finally growing a pair. He did something very sneaky tonight: The handful of Republican members who had planned on skipping President Obama’s jobs address to a joint session Thursday night might have to think again. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has scheduled a vote for Thursday to proceed on a […]
Paul Ryan has admitted that his Medicare plan is nothing more than a mandate for seniors. This is from a townhall Ryan held in Racine, Wisconsin: Q: If Medicare becomes a voucher program, would you require seniors to purchase private insurance and if so isn’t that an individual mandate? If you will not require them […]
Finally we are starting to see some new ads come out from the left exposing the Republican’s quest to destroy Medicare. The first one is coming from Americans United for Change, in which they are targeting certain Republican members of the House who are supporting the Ryan Plan. Here’s the ad, which will air in […]
With the arrest of a Pakistani born, U.S. citizen in connection with the failed car bombing on Times Square, the Republican members of Congress are starting to show that they have absolutely no respect for the Constitution of this land: The morning after the arrest of 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad at John F. Kennedy airport on […]
This is a priceless move by several House Republicans yesterday: When it’s a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what’s a GOP lawmaker to do? We’ll give you one guess… Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post […]
Remember all the rage from the right a couple of months ago when Nancy Pelosi aid the CIA mislead Congress? Well according to the head of the CIA, Pelosi may have just been telling the truth: The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, has told the House Intelligence Committee in closed-door testimony […]
Yesterday a right wing extremist shoots and kills a doctor who provides abortions. Greg also reminds us that it wasn’t that long ago the right was in an uproar over a DHS report talking about right wing extremists: One passage from the DHS report that provoked nonstop outrage said that right wing extremists “may include […]
A “gang of 14” House Republicans won’t endorse John McCain: At least 14 Republican members of Congress have refused to endorse or publicly support Sen. John McCain for president, and more than a dozen others declined to answer whether they back the Arizona senator. Many of the recalcitrant GOP members declined to detail their reasons […]
Thank you! Love – Erick at Red State: (click for large view). Yup – that is the fearless leader at Red State insinuating that everyone in West Virginia is some kind of cross burning racist. I wonder how the people of West Virginia feel about the leader of a blog, which has a bunch of […]
The outrage over Larry Craig’s conviction is still loud and strong. I find it interesting to see all the outrage on the right. Today’s USA Today highlights some of this. I am still baffled by the outrage over Craig’s conviction by some of the same people who came to the defense of Mark Foley. Foley’s […]