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...
House Republicans still focused on abortion, abortion, abortion
Isn't it amazing that despite all their concerns about jobs, jobs, jobs—and ending Medicare and giving more tax cuts to the rich and protecting light bulb freedom—House Republicans can still find time in their busy schedule of accomplishing nothin...
Republicans in Senate vote overwhelmingly for Paul Ryan’s extreme budget
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (Jim Young/Reuters)
Today, except for a couple of hypocrites worried about reelection, Senate Republicans joined their House brethren and voted to end Medicare as we know it. The only really interesting vote was on ...
Mike Huckabee raises money for Citizens United to battle Obama’s ‘political whores’
Symptoms of early onset Limbaughtis include hallucinations involving liberals,
reduced pot/kettle awareness, and the irresistible urge to call people whores.
The question before us today: Has former governor and common Republican fantasy presidential...
Too much for a barbarian to take…
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Open thread for night owls: Same nation, different worlds
This Slate piece published just before Sen. Dick Lugar lost his primary bid to the more froth-friendly Richard Mourdock is notable primarily for the number of looney statements freely proffered by the participants:
Taking out the Republicans who compr...
Private-sector jobs grew far more under Democratic than Republican presidents, 1961-2012
Picture. A thousand words. Etc. The instant any Democrat uses this chart showing that between 1961 and 2012, the United States added 42 million private-sector jobs under Democratic presidents and 23.9 million private-sector jobs under Republican presi...
