I love it when candidates claim they have an answer to something but refuse to explain it. Herman Cain is the latest to do this to counter the attacks he is getting for his 9-9-9 plan hurting the poor. Speaking at the Western Republican Leadership Conference, Cain said they had come up with a fix […]
These people don’t even try to hide their hypocrisy anymore: A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in. Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who defeated freshman Democrat Frank […]
Apparently not the Republicans. Check out Eric Cantor admitting that extending the Bush tax cuts will increase the deficit: Transcript (via Think Progress): GUTHRIE: [W]ill you just as simply acknowledge that passing these tax cuts worsens the budget deficit problem? I mean, you can’t deny that, right? CANTOR: Savannah, let’s look at it through the […]
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 […]
Joe Barton apologizing for BP has been the talk of the media and beltway for the past several days, but Barton wasn’t alone. He was just saying what a lot of prominent GOPers are thinking, such as Bill Kristol: Transcript via Think Progress: WALLACE: Question Bill Kristol, is the President standing up to big business […]
Sounds like Judd Gregg is really pushing to expand the size of our federal government in this video clip: Transcript via Think Progress: DR. NANCY: So what do you say to the average American who has played by all the rules who can’t have the same health care you have, and you’re one of our […]
I got a feeling tweety felt an awful lot of heat today. Transcript via Think Progress: MATTHEWS: Now I’ve heard too many politicians say things like, “oh that was taken out context” to explain something they wish they hadn’t said let me just say to the cadets, their parents, former cadets and everyone who cares […]
Last week Bill O’Reilly made news by an apparent support of the public option. Well it didn’t take long for him to try and paint that support as some big conspiracy theory: Via Think Progress: GOLDBERG: Bill, Bill, don’t shoot the messenger. Right? I’m your friend. I’m telling you this as a friend. You also […]
Last week Michael Steele wanted to “protect Medicare”. Well this week that has all changed: Transcript (via Think Progress) STEELE: Well yeah. I mean you’ve got to look at the Medicare system as a whole and see that it’s in financial trouble. So how do you correct that? […] CHALIAN: Part of correcting it is […]
This guy seriously needs to be taken off the air. Via Think Progress: Gibson: Whites commit suicide, blacks ’shoot and move on.’ A student in Cleveland yesterday shot four people at a high school before killing himself. On his radio show that day, Fox News’s John Gibson claimed that he “could tell right away†that […]