James O’Keefe, the undercover video hero of the right, is at it again. Today he has released a new video showing people giving out “Obama” phones to people who say they will sell them for drugs and other items: Undercover video shot in May by a conservative activist shows two corporate distributors of free cell […]
The Senate just voted 68-31 to move forward with debate on expanding background checks, a measure overwhelmingly supported by the public, including 91% of veterans in a new poll. Of course we still have people out there that think expanded background checks won’t help, like John Cornyn: Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the second-ranking Senate Republican, […]
A couple weeks ago Richard Posner, one of America’s most influential conservative judges, made big news when he said the Republican Party has become “goofy“. Now he is backing that claim up more by offering his view on some of the bigger decisions the Supreme Court has made and the right supports, namely Citizens United: […]
The man who many on the right wanted to see run for President this year has said what many of us on the left have been saying for the past several years; the right is too far right for people like Reagan and even Bush, sr.: “Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of […]
The AP has done some great fact checking into a speech Mitt Romney gave yesterday on the economy. It turns out, to no shock, that Romney is echoing many of the lies that the right has constantly been pushing for the past several years. Here’s one of my favorites: ROMNEY: “America counted on President Obama […]
No other GOP candidate has invoked Ronald Reagan more than Newt Gingrich. Nate Silver has been keeping count and Newt has invoked the former President 55 times as compared to Mitt Romney, who has only done it 6 times. Perhaps that’s because Newt is trying to erase his history of bashing Reagan when it came […]
This might set up a really interesting fight that could emphasis the hypocrisy of the GOP: President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, a senior administration […]
I guess we should declare Rick Santorum now on suicide watch: While addressing America’s entitlement crisis at his first New Hampshire event since his stunning near-victory in the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday, Santorum said Reagan contributed to the entitlement crisis by pushing Social Security’s sustainability issues down the road instead of dealing with them head-on […]
A funny thing about this Republican primary season is that you never hear the past President mentioned. The GOP field seems to steer clear of George W. Bush as though he was some married gay couple. What’s this say about the GOP’s track record of picking presidential candidates? It goes beyond that. In the past […]
E.J. Dionne has a really interesting article up today and one I totally agree with. He finishes with this: Obama will thus be the conservative in 2012, in the truest sense of that word. He is the candidate defending the modestly redistributive and regulatory government the country has relied on since the New Deal, and […]