We're Watching You
Here's the good news...Voting rights, now that it's been kicked back to Congress, is going to get some attention. Here's the bad news. It's not scheduled to be taken up by the Senate Judiciary...
View ArticleWho's The Real Food Stamp Party?
If you think it's the Democrats, think again. Ever notice how the Republicans always love to toss out terms like food stamp president, welfare queens, and other derogatory references to those who...
View ArticleThe Boehner Boner
Poor John, the orange man and I don't mean from Syracuse University. It must be hard picking out a tie that doesn't clash with your jaundiced complexion, but you have another clash to consider. You...
View ArticleBreaking the Glass (Steagall) Ceiling
Fortunately for us, we have Elizabeth Warren fighting to protect us. A few days ago I got an email from her that she was introducing her first big banking bill since arriving in the senate. I've been...
View ArticleLeave It To Maddow
Can you stand two and a half minutes of cringe-worthy? Yesterday Rachel M spent the day in North Carolina, reporting on the great GOP assault on voter's rights. Seems this well orchestrated attack has...
View ArticleThe Rose of Obamacare
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." So wrote Billy Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. And maybe the same is true for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka, Obamacare. We know...
View ArticlePied Piper Leads GOP Rats Into The River
Rafael 'Ted' Cruz spent much, if not most of his summer on a "Defund Obamacare Bus Tour." It's lead spokesperson, the 'drawing card' or Pied Piper for this publicity stunt was the junior senator from...
View ArticleChris Matthews Goes Ten Rounds With Scott Perry
It's fun to watch a good heavyweight championship fight. There have been some memorable bouts which included Ali-Frazier, Holmes-Norton, Bowe-Hollyfield, Forman-Frazier II, Tyson-Spinks. There have...
View ArticleMove Afoot To Arrest Boehner, Cantor For Sedition
Could high ranking Republican officials be arrested and tried for their activities leading up to the government shutdown? It's unlikely, but it actually is possible. Over on THE HILL: A petition on...
View ArticleCall Me, Irresponsible, Call Me John McCain
Once again, it's Sunday's favorite talking heads GOP puppet John McCain who's running off at the mouth without really thinking of what he's saying. Along with his apology for overstating the...
View ArticleFirst She Lied In GOP Reply To SOTU, Now Her Party Turns On Her Ethics
You know you must really have some enemies when the GOP doesn't have a problem with your blatantly lying in the official party reply to the State of the Union address, but they jump on you for other...
View ArticleBalance Budget Or Else -- Cut Your Pay
Well you have to hand it to the Republicans, or actually two of them. Both from Michigan, they want to put their money where their mouth is -- and they want the rest of Congress to join them. Rep....
View ArticleOld Habits And Larcenous Senators Never Die - They Just Become Rand Paul
Well, Rand Paul is at it again. After being caught plagiarizing passages from other people's work and passing them off as his own in speeches late last year, the junior Kentucky senator evidently...
View ArticleXenophobes Should Remember M.S. St. Louis, 1939
If you could ask FDR about his toughest decisions as President, one of them would be the "Voyage of the Damned" tempest. For those who don't associate that event, here's the simple recap: In 1939, a...
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