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...
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Republicans Disheartened As 86% Of Enrollees Like Their Obamacare
As Republicans are working the Supreme Court to take Obamacare away from everyone in states that have not set up...
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...
Republican Nightmare: Bernie Sanders Exposes GOP Social Security Killing Dreams
Bernie Sanders is becoming a daily nightmare for Republicans. Sen. Sanders went on CNN today and cut through the Republican...
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...
GOP-Koch Drive To Privatize Rail Service Caused Deadly Amtrak Derailment
It is nearly impossible to keep track of the myriad ways America is falling behind the rest of the industrialized...
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...
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...
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...
GOP Controlled House Votes To Give Richest 0.2 Percent Of Americans a Tax Cut
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to give a tax break worth $269 billion to the richest few thousand estates...
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...
Obama Gashes Republicans for Trying to Give 4,000 Millionaires a $4 Million Tax Cut
President Obama exposed the Republican agenda by calling out the morally repugnant GOP budget plan to give 4,000 of the...
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...
Economist Paul Krugman Calls Republican Budget A Trillion Dollar Con Job
A scam is a fraudulent business scheme, or a swindle, and a deliberate ploy to defraud ignorant, naïve, and stupid...
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...
Bernie Sanders Demands War Tax On Millionaires To Pay For GOP Military Spending Increase
Sen. Sanders isn’t just demanding the war tax. He is going to force Republicans to vote on it by proposing...
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...
Chris Christie’s New Campaign Strategy? Run On Slashing Social Security and Medicare
Governor Christie, originally touted by the press as the “moderate” candidate in the GOP field, is desperately trying to stay...
Koch-Republican Governors Robbing Pensions And Slashing Wages
It is probably true that most Americans do not begrudge other Americans reaping the benefits of hard work whether it...
Scott Walker Secretly Meets with the Koch Brothers
Watchdog organizations Common Cause and the Center for Media and Democracy jointly filed a public records request today seeking details...
Wyoming Republicans Kill Medicaid Expansion
On Friday, the Republican-controlled Wyoming Senate voted 19-11 to reject Medicaid expansion, which would have extended health care coverage to over...
Bobby Jindal’s Experiment in Trickle Down Economics Proves Disastrous
The country is full of examples illustrating the failure of Republican economic policies. Scott Walker’s Wisconsin and Sam Brownback’s Kansas have become...
GOP Passes Bill That Would Take Health Care Away From 19 Million People
The House has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act 239-186, but House Republicans didn’t just vote to repeal Obamacare....
Bill Maher Mocks Republicans Who Pretend To Care About The Middle Class
Bill Maher calls out Republicans who feign concern for the middle-class by giving them a history lesson on where the...
Republicans Suddenly “Concerned” About Inequality
Instead of their usual diatribe about class warfare, or denying the existence of inequality, Republican leaders are suddenly talking up...
Republicans and Wall Street Line Up to Put Taxpayers on the Hook
Recently, Congress has passed measures to weaken regulations in Dodd-Frank that are intended to reduce the risk of another financial...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback Takes From Children And Retirees To Give Tax Cuts To The Wealthy
Despite the state of Kansas facing bankruptcy and a billion dollar deficit due to monumental tax cuts for the rich...
Boehner and McConnell Evasive When Asked About Alternative to Obamacare
House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes, and could not come up with...
GOP Majority Leader Cuts Off Keystone XL Debate So GOP Reps Can Meet With The Kochs
Senate Democrats are angry because Mitch McConnell ended debate on the Keystone XL bill so that Republicans could attend a...
Koch Party Shill Delivers State of the Union Response
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’s newest ruse to destroy Social Security
The GOP has a fresh strategy to attack Social Security: pitting older Americans against people with disabilities. The Social Security...
Bernie Sanders Exposes Republican Scheme To Cut Social Security For The Disabled
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is warning that Republicans are plotting to cut Social Security benefits for 11 million disabled Americans...
John Boehner Votes to Create 35 Jobs! It’s a Jobgasm!
You can no longer say House Republicans are opposed to job creation. Set aside for a moment President Obama’s creation...
ALEC Sharpens Attack on Environmental Safeguards
After being accused of “literally lying” about climate change by one of its own high-profile business members, excoriated for being...
Democrats Decry Social Security Sneak Attack
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Social Security advocates are accusing House Republicans of launching a sneak attack on disability insurance on...
Paul Krugman: Plutocrats Against Democracy
It’s always good when leaders tell the truth, especially if that wasn’t their intention. So we should be grateful to...
Eighty percent of Americans want to hike wages, but powerful Republicans keep saying “no”
The first national campaigns of the Republican Party, more than 150 years ago, linked economic progress with democratic participation, urging...
A Conservative Disdain for the Unemployed
House Speaker John Boehner says that unemployed Americans are pretty clearly malingerers, bums on welfare who have decided that they...
New Republican Bill Would Paralyze National Labor Relations Board
This week, Republican Senators introduced a bill they call the “The National Labor Relations Board Reform Act.” Its chances of...
House Republicans Pass Bill to Lower Taxes on the Rich and Raise Taxes on the Poor
So what are Republicans in the House of Representatives up to these days? According to Danny Vinik, they just passed...
The South is America’s poverty belt, and Republicans want to make all of America more like the South
The South has never been America’s bright spot when it comes to things like poverty and health outcomes, but recent...
Robert Reich: The Three Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Poverty
Rather than confront poverty by extending jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed, endorsing a higher minimum wage, or supporting jobs...
