Job Killing GOP Governors Have Resumes That Should Disqualify Them From Being President
Three sitting Republican Governors interested in seeking a promotion to become U.S. President, represent states that have posted well-below average...
Three sitting Republican Governors interested in seeking a promotion to become U.S. President, represent states that have posted well-below average...
Here in Detroit, the worst of what many of us have long suspected about Gov. Snyder’s intentions toward our city...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) will unveil a budget Tuesday night that aims to slash hundreds of millions of dollars...
It is probably true that most Americans do not begrudge other Americans reaping the benefits of hard work whether it...
Taking a page out of his brother George W. Bush’s playbook, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is trying to run as a...
On Friday, the Republican-controlled Wyoming Senate voted 19-11 to reject Medicaid expansion, which would have extended health care coverage to over...
Recently, Congress has passed measures to weaken regulations in Dodd-Frank that are intended to reduce the risk of another financial...
Despite the state of Kansas facing bankruptcy and a billion dollar deficit due to monumental tax cuts for the rich...
House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes, and could not come up with...
Senate Democrats are angry because Mitch McConnell ended debate on the Keystone XL bill so that Republicans could attend a...
Newly-elected Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) gave the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, perhaps providing further...
The GOP has a fresh strategy to attack Social Security: pitting older Americans against people with disabilities. The Social Security...
In a sharp departure from party leaders’ proposals over the last few years, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) today announced...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is warning that Republicans are plotting to cut Social Security benefits for 11 million disabled Americans...
There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous...
You can no longer say House Republicans are opposed to job creation. Set aside for a moment President Obama’s creation...
House Republicans passed a bill would take away health insurance from at least 1 million workers by a vote of...
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Social Security advocates are accusing House Republicans of launching a sneak attack on disability insurance on...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today will introduce legislation when the new session of Congress convenes this month to...
For the Koch brothers’ donor network, the 2012 elections were a keen disappointment. Not only did they lose what Charles...
If anyone in America was unsure what unmitigated greed entails, or to what extent the Koch brothers and Wall Street...
The House’s narrow passage of a massive spending bill that included a provision gutting a key financial regulatory reform is...
Although Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has been referred to as “America’s Craziest Governor,” he won his re-election last week –...
Presidents are rarely able to accomplish much in the last two years of a second term. Tuesday’s election results guaranteed...
What can we expect Congress to do about America’s staggeringly top-heavy concentration of income and wealth over the next two...
Silly season is almost over. But in these waning days before the November 4 election, Republicans are getting in their...
Name a major super-PAC or dark-money outfit and there’s a good chance it has helped Republican Scott Brown, the former...
Americans are working longer hours and are more productive—yet wages are largely flat. Indeed, the median worker saw a real...
Reasonable people may differ on the precise definition of a living wage. But the consensus is that $7.25 an hour...
Republicans’ most likely path to retaking the Senate in November requires GOPers to pick up seats in six key states:...
The Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders was in the city of Richmond, California on Thursday and said local...
The first national campaigns of the Republican Party, more than 150 years ago, linked economic progress with democratic participation, urging...
There may be no Washington lawmaker cozier with K Street than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). DC law firms...
What does “SWIMNUT” know that the world’s supposed experts on corruption or the elites who gather each year for skiing...
The battle between Democratic congressman Bruce Braley and Republican state Sen. Joni Ernst to be Iowa’s next US senator couldn’t...
Mitt Romney explains his 47 percent remark, Take 23. During a recent sit-down with the New York Times’ Mark Leibovich,...
On Wednesday morning, Wisconsin Jobs Now, Wisconsin Working Families, and a group of low-wage workers in the state submitted 100...
House Speaker John Boehner says that unemployed Americans are pretty clearly malingerers, bums on welfare who have decided that they...
It’s the home stretch of the 2014 election season. No single theme or issue has dominated the midterms, but 2014...
Dark money groups have already poured more than $5 million into Arizona’s elections this cycle. These organizations, carefully constructed to...
Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who resigned last month after losing renomination to an underfunded college professor, spent...
There are some congressional Republicans who believe the party’s commitment to supply-side, trickle-down tax policy is in need of an...
If you are not in the Chicago media market, you might not know much about Bruce Rauner, the Mitt Romney-like...
Paul Ryan’s fellow Republicans are quick to dismiss Elizabeth Warren as too radical, too progressive, too populist. But Ryan is...
Shortly after the anniversary of the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, wounded 226, and upended a large...
Every business sector has its friends in Washington. Financial companies — from the biggest megabanks to small payday lenders —...