Essentially the EMF can, without recourse, fire elected officials, abolish collective bargain rights, strip a township of its identity and do away with any law that does not fit with the EMF’s agenda. The EMF will be appointed by the state’s treasurer and is only answerable to the Republican controlled legislature.

Bobby Franklin, who wants investigations into miscarriages and thinks driver’s licenses are unconstitutional, wants you to pay your taxes, and any other state fees, in gold and silver coins. According to him, anything else is unconstitutional.

Bobby Franklin, who thinks rape victims should be called accusers, wants investigations into miscarriages, and also thinks driver’s licenses are unconstitutional has now compared gays to unrepentant drug dealers.

Knowing that their bill would never pass with the 2/3 support it needed, Wisconsin Republicans drafted a second bill, primarily to strip unions of their collective bargaining rights, which only needed a simple majority to be passed. Labor unions vow to fight it, and to recall GOP Senators.

Demonstrating a severe lack of accountability for his own infidelity, Newt Gingrich attributed cheating on his former wife to “how passionately he felt about this country”.

According to a new article from the AP, that’s the problem. Pension Envy.

Recently the last living Veteran from World War 1 passed away. The senators from his home state want him to be honored in the Capitol building’s rotunda in DC, but House Speaker John Boehner has denied that request.

Maine Governor Paul LePage has no problem with BPA, a chemical that is released from plastic bottles when they’re microwaved. In fact, he’s quoted as saying “if you take a plastic bottle and put it in the microwave and you heat it up, it gives off a chemical similar to estrogen. So the worst case is some women may have little beards.”

Mike Stark from the Daily Kos recently called in to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, to ask him why modern-day conservatives idolize Reagan. After Stark gave several examples of things that Reagan did that modern-day conservatives would oppose, Limbaugh was at a loss for words as to why Conservatives idolize Reagan. […]

The controversial part of Governor Scott Walker’s proposed plan that cuts the budget, the part that strips collective bargaining rights from unions, could actually end up costing the state millions of dollars in federal transportation funds.

Governor Scott Walker is being investigated because a non-partisan Government watchdog group, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), believe he violated state law by sending the Wisconsin State Patrol to the home of the Democratic Senate Leader, Mark Miller.

Despite thousands of supporters protesting in the Capitol, The Wisconsin Assembly passed legislation that will strip workers of collective bargaining rights. No one knows when it will be voted on in the Wisconsin Senate, since Senate Democrats have fled to prevent a vote.

Despite George W. Bush’s effort to bring Democracy to Iraq, Iraqi citizens this week are rebelling against the corruption in their own Government, and poverty. Iraq had a surplus of 52.1 billion through then end of 2009, but many Iraqi citizens live in poverty.

So much for supporting smaller Government, these are just 9 of the causes that tea party backed candidates support, including a bill making it mandatory for citizens to purchase a gun within 6 months of turning 21.

A U.S. military general deployed “psychological operatives” to manipulate senators into more funding and troops for the war in Afghanistan, which is becoming increasingly unpopular among the American public.

Governor Scott Walker has already threatened to call in the National Guard against protesters. Now he’s threatening them with violent force, and a high ranking officer says they won’t hesitate to use it.

In what many are seeing as an obvious admittance of guilt on Sarah Palin’s part, the account “Lou Sarah” which Wonkette exposed as Sarah Palin’s personal facebook account, has been taken down.