The Daily Show is freaking brilliant. You absolutely have to watch this. UPDATE: Don Yelton, the GOP precinct chairman interviewed in this video who said that the new GOP-backed Voter ID law will hurt “lazy blacks”, and will be bad for Democrats, has resigned. And it sounds like his resignation was forced on him.
© Clay Bennett Commentators like to appear unbiased by declaring that our biggest problem is partisanship in Washington. What a joke. The problem is not partisanship. In fact, according to Jon Favreau, the problem isn’t even the partisans. It is not Democrats (including Obama), and it isn’t even Republicans. The problem is the Tea Party. […]
Krystal Ball tells it like it is: Why can’t the rest of the media explain it as simply and straightforwardly as this? UPDATE: Apparently the American people agree. In a new poll, 54% think it is a bad thing that the GOP controls the House (compared to 38% who think it is a good thing). […]
So a question I’ve been asking myself is why did the Republicans fold on both the shutdown and the debt limit, without getting anything in return? I think the answer, as usual, has to do with following the money. Campaign contributions to Tea Party members of the House of Representatives dropped significantly because of the […]
© Adam Zyglis Ted Cruz seems to think that the government shutdown was “a remarkable victory” and when the shutdown ended, he claimed “The American people rose up and spoke with an overwhelming voice and at least at this stage Washington isn’t listening to them”. But fully 70% of Americans think that Republican politicians put […]
© Keith Knight One of my favorite pieces of advice is that you should never, ever believe your own PR. Somebody needs to tell the GOP. They invented the Tea Party, funded it, and praised it, in order to use it as a weapon against the Democrats. But as the CIA knows all too well, […]
© Brian McFadden Has Ted Cruz become the defacto leader of the Republican party? If not, why are they doing everything he tells them to do?
© Matt Wuerker I guess the GOP figured that Obamacare isn’t going to be repealed, so now they have changed their tune back to one of their greatest hits — the deficit. Is it any wonder that the Republican party has now broken the record for the most despised political party since Gallup started polling […]
A must-read article in the NY Times explains exactly how the shutdown was planned, financed, and executed. Down to the exact talking points you now hear coming from the mouths of tea-party conservative politicians. Heck, back in February they even published a self-named “Blueprint to Defunding Obamacare“, which was funded by a multitude of groups […]
Apparently the sex business is getting a huge boost from the government shutdown. The site SeekingArrangement.com has seen a 50% boost in signups since the start of the shutdown, which is interesting since usually October is a slow month for them. Other sites are seeing similar growth. But before you think all this growth is […]
USA Today has done a review of the new HealthCare.gov website and how it helps people sign up for health insurance in the new Obamacare marketplaces, and have declared it a winner. Look past its start-up glitches — they’ll get fixed — HealthCare.gov is an out-of-the-box success for consumers shopping for health insurance. As for […]
The Republicans in Congress keep complaining that the Democrats won’t negotiate with them. But what they don’t mention is that the Democrats did negotiate and already made big compromises, as you can see from this figure: © Center for American Progress But the Republicans waited until the last minute and then tried the extort the […]
© Tom Tomorrow I have a dream. A dream that one day (hopefully soon) this nation will wake up and realize that Obamacare is actually a pretty good deal. No, it is not single payer, but it is far better than what we had before. In the second part of the dream, the same Republicans […]
I am always willing to give credit where credit is due, so I will gladly point out that Fox News has one of the best, clearest, fact-filled articles on Obamacare that I have seen from any large media organization. Titled “Five reasons Americans already love ObamaCare — plus one reason why they’re gonna love it […]
Awesome quote: In response to the new Republican talking point that “the President will negotiate with the Iranians, but not with Republicans”. Jon responds “If it turns out that president Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian Mullahs in the world, but not with Republicans, maybe he’s not the […]
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