Hillary Clinton Vows To Eliminate Taxpayer Subsidies to Big Oil
Hillary Clinton vowed to take away big oil’s subsidies and use the money for clean energy while campaigning in Iowa....
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Bush, Cruz, Rubio and Walker Court Their Benefactors, the Koch Billionaires
Five of the Republican candidates for president will be heading to a luxury hotel in Southern California from August 1st...
Senator Bernie Sanders Supports Federal Contract Workers’ Strike
A group of progressive members of Congress introduced a $15 an hour national minimum wage bill on Wednesday as hundreds of...
President Obama Vows To Oppose Any Republican Attempt To Erase Wall Street Reform
President Obama made his position clear to Republicans in Congress. He will veto any bill that repeals or weakens Wall...
Jeb Bush Calls for Medicare’s Destruction at a Koch Brothers Sponsored Event
Here’s your moderate, establishment Republican presidential candidate, Jeb! He’s the one who wants to “phase out” Medicare. Here’s exactly what...
Jeb Bush Cracks the Whip: Says Americans Aren’t Working Hard Enough
Hopefully working Americans are listening to Jeb Bush on the campaign trail. If they are, they should quickly recognize that...
Bernie Sanders calls on Americans to fight the billionaire class
On Friday, Bernie Sanders may have been the first sitting United States Senator to call for “political revolution” at a...
Obama Dismisses the Grumbling of Republican War Hawks
The accord struck in Vienna to rein in Iran’s nuclear activities has warmongers fulminating. Citizens worldwide should support U.S. President...
Republicans Favor Preserving a Tax Loophole for Billionaires Over Creating 1 Million New Jobs for Young People
Senate Republicans voted down a bill from Sen. Bernie Sanders that would have provided funds to state and local governments...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Thinks American Workers are Spoiled: For Walker $7.25 an Hour is a Living Wage
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed the new state budget into law on Sunday with a last-minute change that strips...
Jeb Bush Does the Koch Brothers’ Bidding
Any American alive should understand that Republicans not only work solely for the rich, corporations, and the billionaire Koch brothers,...
Bernie Sanders Vows That If Elected Wall Street Hoodlums Will Have No Place In His Cabinet
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped a bomb on Wall Street today when during a CNN interview he vowed...
Bernie Sanders to Jeb Bush: Americans need better wages not longer hours
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says Americans already work longer hours than employees in most other countries and shouldn’t...
The ALEC Scheme to Privatize Every City In America
The idea of absolute control means exerting one’s will over every aspect of an organization from the very top down...
Trump Slanders Mexicans Again: Insists He’s Not a Racist
The real estate mogul shared the tweet from one of his followers, a habit that’s gotten him in trouble before....
New Jersey Voters Have Finally Had Enough of Chris Christie
New Jersey wants to be free of Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) according to a Monmouth University poll taken after the...
Bernie Sanders’ Proposal to Raise Taxes on Billionaires
Sen. Bernie Sanders has introduced a bold new bill to combat income inequality by increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans....
As Louisiana Falls Apart Bobby Jindal Decides to Run for President
Just like Scott Walker and Chris Christie, Jindal destroyed his state with a disastrous combination of tax cuts for the...
Rand Paul Wants to Transfer More Wealth to America’s Rich
Senator Rand Paul, having recently taken on the GOP’s foreign policy wing in his battle against the Patriot Act, has...
The Unsavory Billionaire Pact: Sheldon Adelson And The Koch Brothers Team Up To Buy Republican Politicians
In late April, some 700 conservative luminaries, including presidential contenders, donors, fundraisers and former President George W. Bush, gathered at...
Chris Christie, “Supersize me!”: Christie and pals spend $300,000, including $82,000 at sporting events
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spent about $300,000 of his state allowance for food and alcohol over his first five...
Bernie Sanders Launches His Presidential Campaign With A Declaration Of War On The Kochs
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) officially launched his presidential campaign with a vowed goal of building a movement that will take...
Republicans Have Passed 0 Jobs Bills During Their First 138 Days Running Congress
In their first 138 days in control of Congress, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have passed zero jobs bill. Instead,...
Democrat Busts Republican Scheme to Screw With Medicare To Benefit Corporations
During a Health Subcommittee Hearing on Competition in Medicare, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) busted Republicans for trying to elimate competition...
Bernie Sanders Is Terrifying Wall Street By Pushing Hillary Clinton To The Left
Wall Street is openly worrying that Bernie Sanders is pushing Hillary Clinton to the left by calling for the biggest...
Governor Brownback’s Trickle Down ‘Experiment’ is Turning Schools into Poorhouses
At least eight school districts in Kansas are closing their doors early for the summer as a result of Kansas...
Study: Thirty-five Years of Conservative Policies Contributed to Violence In Baltimore
Ayn Rand devotee Paul Ryan weighed in on the reason for violence in Baltimore and used it to continue his...
On Day One Of His Presidential Campaign, Bernie Sanders Is The Kochs Worst Nightmare
At a press conference where he laid out his agenda, Sen. Sanders took on the Koch brothers: “The major issue...
Obama Stands Up For Veterans By Vowing To Veto GOP Bill That Cut Benefits For 70,000 Vets
While Congressional Republicans wave the flag with one hand, they are trying to cut benefits for 70,000 veterans with the...
Bernie Sanders Reveals That Republican Budget Kills 2.3 Million Jobs
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) dropped a bomb on Senate Republicans by revealing that their budget would kill more than 2...
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...
Governor Snyder’s Plan To Erase Public Education In Detroit
Here in Detroit, the worst of what many of us have long suspected about Gov. Snyder’s intentions toward our city...
The Koch Brothers Have Picked Scott Walker To Be Their 2016 Presidential Puppet
The Koch’s didn’t say why Jeb Bush isn’t their “chosen one,” but odds are that it is because Bush doesn’t...
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback Is Stealing From Taxpayers To Enrich Banks
It is beyond refute that Republicans have devised some truly cruel means of stealing from taxpayers and the poor to...
Jeb Bush Boards The GOP Crazy Train With His Proposal To Raise The Social Security Retirement Age
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush proposed raising the social security retirement age during a Friday speech at Saint Anselm College’s...
Obama Calls Out Republicans About Their Plan To Cut Taxes For The Rich
President Obama used facts and math to reveal the true agenda behind the Republican plan to cut taxes for the...
Bernie Sanders Shreds Rand Paul By Unmasking His Great Libertarian Fraud
Sen. Sanders was speaking about Rand Paul on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show when he said: He’s a legitimate candidate,...
Bully Sam Brownback Stomps On The Poor While Living Off Of His Wife’s Millions
Back in June of ’96, the Lawrence, Kansas Journal-World did a fiscal check of the Kansas Congressional delegation. Included, was...
Senator Denies 280,000 People Health Care, Calls Advocate ‘A–hole’ For Asking Him To Give Up Same
On Tuesday night, a Tennessee Senate committee voted to deny some 280,000 state residents access to health care, rejecting a...
Wall Street wants to withhold campaign donations to Senate Democrats because they’re upset with Elizabeth Warren
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Big Wall Street banks are so upset with Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren’s call for them to...
Florida Republican senator denounces Koch brothers: ‘You people serve no purpose’
It’s no secret that the billionaire Koch brothers own the Republican Party – after all, they’ve committed themselves to spending...
GOP Targets America’s Students
Senate Republicans have acted to protect a few millionaires at the expense of millions of students by voting to block...
Republicans Want to Take Away Your Weekend: In Wisconsin, a new bill is threatening to kill workers’ one day of rest.
As Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the so-called “right to work” bill on March 9, making Wisconsin the twenty-fifth right-to-work...
If We Don’t Overturn Citizens United, Congress Will Become Paid Employees of the Billionaire Class
Here’s what I asked my Senate colleagues to consider: Are we comfortable with an American political system which is being...
GOP Sociopaths Don’t Want Americans To Have Medical Care
It is a good bet that many Americans think they do not personally know a certified sociopath, but they certainly...
Rightie Ted Cruz says he’s signing-up for Obamacare
Ted Cruz — one of the Affordable Care Act’s harshest critics — announced Tuesday that he would be signing up...
Christie’s sweetheart deal with ExxonMobil?
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he wants to settle an $8.9 billion environmental lawsuit against ExxonMobil for just $250...
President Obama Smacks Down Republicans With The Reality Of His Economic Success
President Obama smacked down Republicans today by contrasting his record of economic success with the reality of their trickle down...
Koch-Congress Preparing To Starve the Poor With Drastic Food Stamp Cuts
One of the reasons the Koch brothers invested so heavily in the midterm elections was to put a stop to...
Scott Walker To Cut $300 Million From Universities, Spend $500 Million On A Pro Basketball Stadium
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) will unveil a budget Tuesday night that aims to slash hundreds of millions of dollars...
