Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) is running for Senate. against Claire McCaskill. This Tea Party favorite has taken the misogynistic views of America’s right to a whole new low, declaring that: “First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways […]
Josh Mandel, Ohio’s State Treasurer who is also taking on Sherrod Brown for Senate, is hiding something: In a letter to Seth Metcalf, Mandel’s general counsel, the state Democratic Party asked for the resumes of 34 people Mandel appointed to posts in the treasurer’s office, noting that their eighth request from May 3 has not […]
There has always been something about Republicans and their circling the wagons around the younger George Bush.But you would think that even the “fiscally conservative” members of America’s right would cut their loses when it comes to Bush’s economic performance. Instead they have constantly defended him and even attempted to rewrite history making the current […]
Looks like someone from the party of Santorum, Gingrich, Palin, etc., is in some serious trouble: Lemon Grove resident Michael John Kobulnicky, 50, a leader in the San Diego Tea Party and former regional director of the Southern California Conservative Party, is under arrest for allegedly kidnapping and raping a local woman on Fiesta Island. […]
With Mitt Romney enjoying a huge win in Florida last night it’s time to look at the exit polls. The very first question is the one that pops out to me: Mitt Romney has almost double the support from women as does Newt Gingrich. That’s a rather large split and one that really spells problems […]
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. -Matthew 10:8 During last night’s GOP/Tea Party debate on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul if under his America would a sick man without insurance be allowed to die instead of receiving care. Before Paul could even […]
These Tea Party congressmen. They are nothing but common people, just like you and me. Right? One-fifth of the 50 richest members of Congress are freshman House Republicans sent to Washington last year with strong Tea Party support, according to The Hill’s 50 Wealthiest for 2011. Ohio’s Rep. Jim Renacci, the wealthiest of the 87 […]
If you watch Fox news or read the right wing blogs, that’s exactly what you would think. Yesterday Fox ran this clip of Hoffa warming up the crowd for President Obama: The “let’s take these son of a bitches out” is the big part the right is focusing on. You can see that by just […]
Hard to believe summer is winding down and we haven’t had a major hurricane make landfall in the U.S. yet. That could all be changing now with Irene: Irene, the ninth named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to pass over Puerto Rico overnight and could strengthen into a hurricane as it […]
I’m sure this will cause some heads to explode: In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard, and David E. Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame, say they have collected data indicating that the tea party is “less popular than much maligned groups like […]