Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and the United Kingdom’s “News Of The World” news paper, got some bad news today. The 168 year old paper is shutting down, publishing its last paper this Sunday amid an ongoing investigation into the company’s…
Year: 2011
Former President Bill Clinton blamed Republicans in Congress for the state of the economy. Mr. Clinton called out the GOP as hypocrites for implementing massive tax cuts and increased spending during the Bush administration, policies that directly contributed to the…
Section 4 of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution says: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or…
Politics were on full display on MSNBC’s Morning Joe with Pat Buchanan demanding that Republicans do nothing on the upcoming vote to raise the debt ceiling. Buchanan’s reasoning to his Republican friends in Congress? – Don’t raise the debt ceiling…
If the debt ceiling talks fail, independent voters will see that Democrats were willing to compromise but Republicans were not. If responsible Republicans don’t take control, independents will conclude that Republican fanaticism caused this default. They will conclude that Republicans…
President Obama again spoke directly to the American people to let them know what he expects on the upcoming vote to raise the Debt Ceiling. Republicans, who approved massive spending under George Bush, are now willing to put the country…
House Republicans just voted to defund our only protection against E-Coli – a disease that is contracted by eating contaminated foods like fruits and vegetables. The Microbiological Data Program was responsible for the screening and testing of these food products,…
“Do they simply want the economy to go down the drain to further their political gain? They seem to be against anything that may create jobs, because they view a weak economy as key to their political chances in 2012….
You have to be of a certain caliber to appear on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and apparently, that caliber just got reduced to an even lower level, when an MSNBC contributor name Mark Halperin thought it would be funny to call…
If Republicans won’t listen to their fellow Democratic members of Congress, or even the President himself, on the importance and necessity of raising the debt ceiling, well maybe – and this is wishful thinking on my part – but maybe,…
The President used the bully pulpit today and did what many progressives were asking for – to stand up and tell the Republicans that although spending cuts will be necessary, revenue must be raised and the rich must pay their…
How do you guarantee that public schools in your state provide a better education? Well you cut $800 million in funding, that’s how. That’s what governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin just did. Of the bill that the Republican governor signed…