Republicans intentionally sabotaging the economy? Why does this keep getting a question mark?
If making the economy worse will hurt Obama,
what Republican cares about collateral damage?
Charles Babington asks that question in the first paragraph of his he said/she said piece Saturday on whether Republicans are out to sabotage the economy in h...
Republicans gain procedural advantage on Violence Against Women Act, may engage in hostage-taking
Speaker John Boehner has a procedural threat to
the bipartisan Senate Violence Against Women Act.
(Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
House Republicans may have found a potent procedural weapon in their fight to exclude groups of people they don't like from Violen...
Republicans infighting over Obamacare replacement
(Caricature by DonkeyHotey)
The fight over the "replace" part of "repeal and replace" in the Republican Party is now very public. Yesterday's news put the conflict in spotlight. On the one hand, you had budget guru Paul Ryan proclaiming that Republic...
John Boehner bemoans loss of earmarks: ‘I got no grease’
No earmarks is giving John Boehner a tear party
House Speaker John Boehner touts nuking earmarks as keeping one of the GOP's key pledges, yet manages to whine about it in the same breath:
CROWLEY: Think you've done these things?
BOEHNER: No earmarks....
John Boehner on previous GOP debt deal: ‘Blah blah blah’
From hell's heart, I giggle at thee. (Talking Points Memo)
I continue to find it hilarious and/or depressing that anyone with punditing skills above that of the average graham cracker honestly thought, even for a moment, that the House Republicans wo...
Coincidence? Republicans oppose affordable student loans, launch another stupid attack on Obama
You'd think that something like this wouldn't be all that controversial:
President Obama today begins a two-day tour of college campuses in three battleground states — North Carolina, Colorado, and Iowa — in which he will press Congress to extend ...
Vice President Biden and Senate Democrats fight for the Violence Against Women Act
Democrats are campaigning hard to get the Violence Against Women Act reauthorized, with Vice President Joe Biden, one of the law's original authors, and Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Dianne Feinstein of California, and Patty Murray of Washing...
Catholic bishops to House Republicans: Your budget makes Jesus cry. John Boehner to bishops: STFU.
Why are Republicans waging a war on the Church?
You know how Republicans in Congress believe all of our laws should be Catholic Church-approved, right? Well, all of our laws regarding lady parts, anyway. Other stuff, like, say, the federal budget ......
Republican men standing up for women’s rights … to play golf at Augusta (except John Boehner)
No girls allowed! (Keith Allison)
Well, well, well. Now that Republicans are starting to worry their pretty little heads about just how badly they're going to get a high-heeled election day ass-kicking from the women of America, everyone's a feminist...
John Boehner’s struggle to keep Republican caucus together gets even harder
John Boehner has a good reason
for that sad face.
While Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plots to take over the Senate, House Majority Leader John Boehner is just trying to hold his shit together. And that, in turn, makes life hard for McConnel...
House Republicans too radical to pass their own extremist transportation bill
Republicans at work
With an April 1 deadline for passing a new surface transportation bill looming, the House continues to be totally dysfunctional and evil. The Senate got its act together and passed a two-year bill in genuinely bipartisan fashion. ...
