Writing in an op-ed in today’s Mooney Times, Jeffery Kuhner floats the idea of impeaching President Obama if health care reform passes. His argument is the same old strawman we have been hearing all week – the “deem and pass” of the House of Representative: Many Democrats could claim they opposed the Senate bill while […]
Nothing gets to me more than hearing Republicans talk about Obama and how he is anti-Israel. Of course these Republicans aren’t Jewish, but if you don’t listen to them then you don’t know what you are talking about. Well it seems like Israel is speaking out and showing that the Republicans are just flat out […]
How many times have we heard Republicans say that health care reform will lead us to “socialized medicine”? How many times have they used Canada as an example of what we don’t want to be? Well check this out: Sarah Palin’s family use to “hustle” across the Canadian border to get healthcare, the former Alaska […]
It amazes me every time I hear Boehner decry federal money as being a failure. He tried to do it on the stimulus by saying there were no stimulus projects happening in Ohio, despite one going on a couple of miles from his own house. Now we have this issue: Nearly a year and a […]
Rep. Anthony Weiner totally reamed the Republicans today on the House floor. Watch the entire thing. You might think it’s over, but it isn’t.
In a vote of 406-19 the House passed a bill today that will allow health insurance companies to actually compete across state lines. That is something a lot of people have been pushing for for years, including Republicans. As matter of fact it has been a key of the Republicans “health care plan”, so it […]
John Cole reminds us of a harsh reality when it comes to the little $15 billion jobs bill: What is fifteen billion? A couple weeks of unemployment benefits? Not to go all Everett Dirksen and everything, but we ***LOST*** almost that much in Iraq, and no one flinched. But $15 billion is going to remedy […]
Rep. Steve King is trying to justify the attack on the IRS in a discussion with Think Progress: TP: Do you think this attack, this terrorist attack, was motivated at all by a lot of the anti-tax rhetoric that’s popular in America right now? KING: I think if we’d abolished the IRS back when I […]
Without the help of Ben Nelson, Democrats were able to break the GOP filibuster on the jobs bill with the help of Kit Bond, George Voinovich, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Scott Brown. The final vote was 62-30, with Frank Lautenberg missing the vote because of his chemo. As Aravosis points out, Conservatives are on […]
Toyota doesn’t think the Obama administration likes them: Internal Toyota documents derided the Obama administration and Democratic Congress as “activist” and “not industry friendly,” a revelation that comes days before the giant automaker’s top executives testify on Capitol Hill amid a giant recall. According to a presentation obtained under subpoena by the House Oversight and […]