Trying to show that they mean business, House Republicans have released a list of proposed budget cuts -- not specific proposals of course, just a broad laundry list of red meat for their base -- and what's particularly striking about this list is what it says about the so-called "pro-life" party:
In what was officially just the 12th day in session for the new House Republican majority, the wheels have come off the GOP vote-counting machinery.
There were just two bills schedule for floor action yesterday, both under suspension of the rules, meaning they were thought to be non-controversial enough to...
Here's the latest effort by House Republicans to create jobs waste more time pandering to their base:
Republican Rep. John Kline is a sponsor of a resolution in the U.S. House that would reaffirm “In God We Trust” as the national motto and encourages the posting of the motto on government buildings...
Good new! Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) says that:
... he "made a mistake" when he suggested raising the retirement age to 70 last year.
Oh, wait. It wasn't so much a mistake as a premature suggestion:
The Speaker indicated he was premature in suggesting raising...
Now that House Republicans wasted time (and taxpayer money) for their teahadist-pandering, going-nowhere "repeal" of the Affordable Care Act, it's just occurred to them that they were supposed to replace it with something.
So far they have Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) congratulating (himself?) for "voting to begin replacing" ... and...
The latest CBS/NYT poll:
one area of agreement among pluralities of each party’s loyalists is that job creation should be of paramount concern to Congress — half of Democrats, 41 percent of independents and 35 percent of Republicans agreed.
On the whole, more than 4 in 10 Americans said jobs should...
We're on day two of the House Republican's pander to their base -- the repeal-of-the-health-care-that-will-never-happen show, best summed up during Rep. Steve King's two minutes on the floor yesterday:
No, it's not anything King said, it's what it says on the screen:
Senate Majority Leader Reid...
The fact that Tim Pawlenty said on Sunday that congressional Republicans should vote against an increase in the debt limit tells you more about his campaign for president than it does what congressional Republicans will actually do. Unlike Pawlenty, congressional Republicans will have to live the political consequences of their decision, and if you...
Never mind that nearly 80% of all Americans supported the repeal of the military's discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy, Republicans must bow to -- or pander to, take your pick -- their teabagger overlords:
A member of the House Armed Services Committee plans to introduce legislation next week designed to put...
That didn't take long:
Just hours after taking control of the House, Republicans passed a sweeping set of rules promising transparency and reform.
But the new majority is already showing these promises aren’t exactly set in stone.
After calling for bills to go through a regular committee process, the bill...
