David Barton, leader of the right-wing group, Wallbuilders, thinks that the four GOP state Senators who voted to pass gay marriage in New York should be scalped.
Blaming the S&P downgrade of the United States credit rating on excessive military spending by the United States, Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) stated on Monday that a logical key component of further deficit reduction is the reduction of military spending.
Any talk of finance reform becomes stalemated as long as the Supreme Court precedent of Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission stands unchallenged. This basic fact must be acknowledged before we can move forward.
I look at the subject of taxes differently than most Republicans. I don’t look at welfare as ‘giving’ to poor people. I see it as money that contributes to society by allowing the poor a more acceptable standard of living which makes America as a whole a better place to live.
I care about the things taxes that taxes pay for, which I why I’m OK with taxation.
Rick Santorum equates gay rights to ‘super’ rights, and has also said many other things which will seriously hurt his chances of getting the Republican Presidential nomination.
As more and more unreconstructed PUMAs and Clintonistas emerge from the woodwork to whine, cry, and generally stir crack over the fact that they really, really, really, really, really don’t like having a black man at the helm, they seem to have taken advantage of the mental historical shallowness that lies comfortably in the minds of most Americans.
I am so pessimistic about this decision by Harry Reed to appoint Blue Dog Max Baucus to the Super Congress. I know, I know, technically Blue Dogs are traditionally House members, but tell that to the American People who have been stabbed in the back by his atrocious voting in the past.
Since S&P downgraded the United States’ credit rating from the sterling AAA to AA+, attacks across the aisle have been complete rubbish. I am not a conspiracy theorist, but this article from CNN seems credible enough to me
Tex Shelters writes a fake speech discussing how the wealthy deceive and use the Tea Party base for a fictional meeting in Rancho Mirage. And how conservatives regret missing the meeting and the speech.
Take away our right to vote? I think not!
While Americans enjoy picnics, run after ice-creams trucks and enjoy endless summer treats, millions of Somalis fall victim to fatal starvation. Our western obsessions for bikini-ready fad diets and debt-ceiling chatter restrict us from one harsh, disgusting reality: 30,000 Somali children have died in the last 90 days.
The GOP is looking to redefine ‘frivolous lawsuit.’
Michelle Bachmann endorses the view that slaves and their owners once worked together without hate because they all felt the love of Jesus. Wow.
Tonight’s Sleepy Time Thought is brought to you by Wisconsin kicking the GOP’s ass tomorrow.
It seems to me that HuffPo seems to grow like the weed it is and spread like a cancer through the media world, and at the most opportune times. The week that Rupert Murdoch was testifying in Parliament and getting slammed in the smacker with a shaving foam pie, Arianna turned up in London to launch – you guessed it – HuffPost UK Edition.
Awarded to Michelle Bachmann for perpetuating the Right’s ignorant crusade against the Environmental Protection Agency.
A simple statement can have more meaning behind it than even the longest of novels. By the people, for the people. When did our perspective shift away from that? We are no longer a nation that believes in this statement; at least by the way the federal government is acting.
Mitch McConnell is quite pleased with himself for helping to weaken American democracy. ‘Majority rules’ is for suckers if you’re a Republican.
After a speaker at a tea party rally told the audience that commentators were describing the downgrade of US debt to AA+ from AAA as the ‘tea party downgrade,’ the audience cheered proudly that their right wing faction in Congress had caused it.
