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Club for Growth opposes House Republican budget

Well, so much for that. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget, given the go-ahead by House Republican leadership, is first and foremost a political statement, since no one could be deluded enough to think it would pass in the Senate or be signed by President Obama....

Republicans not leaping to full-throated support for Paul Ryan’s budget

The reviews from Democrats on the House GOP's budget proposal, authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, are in, and are scathing. So what are Republicans thinking? Here's an anonymous take, emailed to Atlantic reporter, Molly Ball. GOP staffer emails: "The GOP budg...

House Republicans will break the debt limit budget deal

John Boehner and Eric Cantor ready to renege. The signals have been being sent for weeks that House Republicans were ready to threaten, again, a government shutdown by reneging on the budget deal they agreed to last August during the debt limit deal....

John Boehner’s bad, bad week caps a bad, bad few months

Speaker John Boehner giving Majority Leader Eric Cantor the evil eye (Larry Downing/Reuters) House Speaker John Boehner, recognizing that the "where's the jobs" needling wasn't just Democrats and progressives making fun of him but actually an importa...

Republicans flirt with another government shutdown threat over budget

House Speaker John Boehner (Larry Downing/Reuters) House Speaker John Boehner has yet another serious problem in his caucus: a cohort of extremists who are demanding steeper cuts to domestic programs in the budget than agreed to in last August's bipa...

Senate Democratic women punctuate birth control fight in letter to John Boehner

Democratic senators standing up for women's health. (Mike Theiler/Reuters) The women in the Senate Democratic caucus are having some fun at the expense of a Republican party tied up in knots over having their "religious freedom" fight hijacked by Rus...

Senate to vote on transportation amendments. Boehner caves, says House may take up Senate version

Republicans at work After being repeatedly stalled by various Republican obstructions placed in its path, the Senate is voting today on as many as 10 amendments to its two-year, $109 billion transportation bill. Voting is scheduled to start at 2:15 P...

Nancy Pelosi rips Rush Limbaugh, calls on GOP to repudiate him

Nancy Pelosi wants to know where the GOP is on Limbaugh's misogyny. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) House Speaker John Boeher is afraid to take on Rush Limbaugh over his disgusting attack on Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke. Which has former Speaker Nancy P...

John Boehner finally issues bold condemnation of Rush Limbaugh’s misogyny … NOT!

The headline on CNN.com for Dana Bash's post on John Boehner's response to Rush Limbaugh's disgusting display of misogyny: TRENDING: First on CNN: Boehner hits Limbaugh's comments as 'inappropriate' But what did John Boehner actually say? Well, nothin...

John Boehner vows to continue war on icky lady parts

Vaginas make John Boehner cry Asshole: “I think it’s important for us to win this issue,” Mr. Boehner told reporters just before the Senate killed a Republican measure with a vote of 51 to 48. “The government, our government, for 220 years ha...

John Boehner doubling down on birth control fight

I'm beginning to think this fellow has no idea what he's doing.   The bishops may or may not be backing down (really, they don't have a leg to stand on here anymore, since the Obama compromise means they aren't going to be paying for birth contr...

John Boehner threatens to overrule the American people on behalf of the American people

John Boehner's got a new reason to cry Unnaturally orange whiny crybaby and Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner has found something new to be a whiny crybaby about: women's health care. Actually, it's not new; he's been whining and crying ab...

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