If you don’t know who Alan Grayson is, then you must have had your head under a rock! Please allow me to me to remind you. On the House floor on Wednesday, Grayson educated his fellow House colleagues on just…
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) blamed tea party Republicans for the government shutdown during a CNN interview on Wednesday, saying Congress never had a shot at defunding Obamacare. “We started this on a fool’s errand, convincing so many millions of Americans…
We all know that the Koch brothers are financially responsible for the Teaparty and all they stand for. And we all know based on reporting from the New York Times that this government shutdown was planned months ago by the…
A lot of the market indicators of how much the financial world is worrying about a debt default have been quite calm over the last week. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index, for example, is only about 1 percent below…
If it wasn’t for their families, Republicans’ favorable ratings would be hovering somewhere around 1%. Only 28 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party, according to findings from Gallup released Wednesday. That number represents a nadir…
There is a cysts on the ass of Congress, and the scientific name for it is Republican. This Republican cyst is so freaking annoying, that given the choice, most Americans would prefer to deal with a hemorrhoid or toenail fungus….
President Obama on Tuesday said he’s willing to sit down and talk with Republicans over anything they wish to negotiate after they re-open the government and drop the threat of letting the nation default on its loans, if only for…
In what veterans call an outrageous slight after the ultimate sacrifice, the shuttered federal government is withholding a $100,000 payment normally wired to relatives of fallen soldiers — including the families of five killed in Afghanistan over the weekend. The…
The ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is being played mainly in John Boehner’s district in Ohio. John Boehner has been adamant over the last few days about not bringing a clean Continuing Resolution to the House floor for…
Let’s just make this clear from the outset: Steve Lonegan is not going to defeat Cory Booker in the New Jersey Senate election next week. Yes, I know that only having a 13 point lead puts Booker in the endangered…
Good to know there are still some sensible politicians out there who see the needs of their constituency and do whatever they can to help. After all, that is the most basic function of a politician – to institute laws that…
It wasn’t that long ago! As a matter of fact, Boehner said it right after President Obama won re-election in 2012. Back in November, when Americans went to the poll and overwhelmingly reelected President Obama who ran his entire campaign…