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Despite some complicated dealings and questionable friends, Florida senator Marco Rubio has risen to become one of the new faces in the Republican Party. In a party of old white males, Rubio stands out as a boyish-looking 41 year-old male of Cuban heritage. Since Republicans are desperately courting Latinos after alienating them for the last […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not just their last candidate for President, Mitt Romney(65), seems to have emerged from a 1950′s time machine, the entire Republican Party is like a faded old image from a mid-century Sears catalog. From right wing billionaires like the Koch Brothers(72-77) and Sheldon Adelson(79), to media manipulators like Rupert Murdoch(81) and Roger Ailes(72), to conservative commentators like […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Hurricane Sandy devastated the Eastern Seaboard, Mitt Romney spent Tuesday in Ohio loading trucks with fake donations for Hurricane relief where he ignored all questions concerning his position on the FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Romney was asked 14 times whether he still believed that FEMA should be turned over to the private […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Labor Department announced Friday that 114,000 jobs new jobs were created in September and raised the July numbers to 181,000 and Septmember’s to 142,000 causing the overall national unemployment rate to fall to 7.8%, the lowest it’s been since President Obama took office. Besides Republicans, everyone else considers this to be good news. ”Absolutely, it’s positive,” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While Republicans try to take us back to the 1950′s when smokestack industries dominated, when military spending had no limit, and the environment was something to use and discard, President Obama is leading the country into the future. Rather than focusing on the rich and the corporations who ship jobs overseas, the President is giving direction for the 21st century. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Devastating critique of the sputtering old jalopy kalomping and sputtering down the road, otherwise known as the Mitt Romney presidential campaign, from Jill Lawrence; Although the trains may run on schedule in RomneyWorld, the message has often gone off the rails. The topline examples were when he offended the British and Palestinians on a trip abroad; […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In another shameful episode of Republicans playing politics, 40 GOP senators voted against a job bill for military veterans, even after Democrats bent over backwards to address the job crisis. Last week, Democratic leaders inserted several Republican-backed provisions into the legislation in an effort to generate widespread support for the measure, including rules requiring states […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term.”
John Boehner has failed to lead. John Boehner has obstructed job creation. John Boehner has deliberately hurt the American economy. John Boehner has vigorously opposed anti-discrimination legislation. John Boehner has made Congress dysfunctional by refusing to work with the other side. John Boehner is too “tightly bound to lobbyists” to do his job. John Boehner […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
video platform video management video solutions video player President Obama and the Democrats tried to pass the DREAM Act, the law that addressed the problems of American children who came to this country with their parents who don’t have documented status, but the do-nothing Republicans in Congress voted against it. Republicans aren’t interested in helping […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of the states with the worst unemployment rates in America, two-thirds of them have Republican governors. On Thursday, Mitt Romney basically called these Republican state governors moral failures for failing to lift their states out of poverty. Romney said, “It is is not just a failure of policy; it is a moral failure of tragic proportions. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That’s according to former President Bill Clinton. Calamitous. Clinton went on to say that, ” the politics is wrong on the Republican side, the economics are crazy.” Why would President Clinton be moved to make such forceful statements? If you’ve been following events around the world you know that the economies in Europe are in free fall, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They call him crybaby on Capitol Hill. Republican House Leader John Boehner erupts in balls of tears whenever his heart is touched. Unfortunately, it’s never touched by pleas from the poor or the dispossessed, the down and out, or the needy. Usually, it’s the notes of a favorite song or the bogey on number seven […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A year ago, Scott Brown had a chance to reign in Wall Street, instead he took their money and fought for their interests. As the money poured in, Brown and his Senate staff were working both publicly and behind the scenes to scuttle $19 billion in fees on the financial industry that would have paid […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arnold Schwarzenegger used to be a star in the Republican Party. Now, he’s only a reject, discarded by a party that has drifted far into extremism and rigid dogmatism. Listen to what he had to say in an op-ed on Sunday. …in the current climate, the extreme right wing of the party is targeting anyone […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wisconsin is a state of 5.7 million people. Over 900,000 people have signed a recall petition to toss Governor Scott Walker out of office. Under this dark cloud, Mitt Romney still embraced the radical far-right governor last week, showing up at phone banks in a show of support. Less than a week later, Walker repealed a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“If we take seriously what he has been saying in the course of the campaign, we have every reason to be very worried,” former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. “He probably subscribes to the notions articulated by his Republican […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mitt Romney has been running for President for what seems like forever. He lost to John McCain in 2008 and figured he was next in line. Despite one of the worst fields in Republican primary history, Romney has found it next to impossible to cinch the deal. His one saving grace is that his Republican […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lisa Jackson is the current head of the EPA. She has a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Tulane University. Mitt Romney doesn’t like her and wants her fired. Jackson is the fourth woman to hold the head position at EPA and the first […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trying to stay in the public eye, Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, former nude centerfold, decided to ridicule the Republican presidential candidates, especially Rick Santorum. “I’m hopeful that all of you are actually following presidential politics. I see that both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum now have secret service with them on the campaign trail and in Santorum’s case, I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mitt Romney turned 65 recently. Like an aging boxer, Romney can’t see that his best years are behind him. It’s an old story, a once promising contender who’s taken one too many punches, hit the buffet line one too many times, who’s barely able to see the future through blurry eyes, then has a beer or two […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That would be First Lady Barbara Bush and mother of President George W. Bush commenting on the hapless Republican presidential race. She should know. If Mitt Romney and the other Republicans can’t run a simple presidential race, how in the world are they going to run the country?
Republican David Frum gives a devastating critique of Mitt Romney’s failed candidacy. Here are a few of the gems; Romney instead is following the Walter Mondale approach of knuckling his forehead to every interest group in the party. Each succeeding act of submission makes him look weaker. Romney has now wholly identified himself as the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The governor of Indiana, Republican Mitch Daniels, isn’t impressed by how Republicans have run the way they pick their presidential candidate. “I don’t know anybody who thinks if you started out to design a good process to pick a president you’d choose exactly what we have now,” he said. Others have noted that the Republican process for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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