Because gerrymandering has given the vast majority of House Republicans deeply red districts where they're more worried about Teabaggers, fascists and deranged Hate Talk Radio fans (or some combination of the 3) challenging them from the right than of ... »
Illinois Republican closet case Aaron Schock is pissing off a lot of senior Republicans these days with his interfering in the re-election of Members who were in Congress when he was still playing with dolls back in Peoria. There are now people who are... »
I'm no expert in the internecine struggles of the Republican Party but I can smell smoke when something is burning. Exactly one week ago we saw that something was fraying badly inside the House Republican caucus, with sleazy Mr. Majority Leader funneli... »
Bachus survived; Mean Jean went downThe Campaign for Primary Accountability is a classic SuperPAC. They're financed by some "scary" right-wing super rich fellas, Leo Linbeck III and Eric O'Keefe (the Club for Growth guy; Linbeck III is a Tea Party fina... »
David Plouffe, who is routinely described as an "Obama senior advisor," tends to be the ultimate spokesperson for the president on the Sunday talking heads shows. Yesterday his comments on This Week about Gingrich's overt racism in the Trayvon Martin m... »
On Friday, reading the polls , seeing all the talking of Willard's collapse, and sensing a Gingrich win-- read: a defeat for the Republican Establishment's pick-- GOP kapo, Eric Cantor, indicated it was time to wrap this crap up and, presumably, fall i... »
In the destructive, dangerous hands of Roger Ailes and Republican Party hate-talk radio hosts like Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Laura Ingraham, "science" has become just another hot-button word to rant and rave and demagogue over. In a blog... »
"The economists Barton Lipman and Wolfgang Pesendorfer argue convincingly that people have a profound distaste for temptation, and are willing to go to great lengths to avoid it. That's precisely what layaway does.""Americans have been big spenders for... »
Last time Virginia Republicans were polled (just over 2 weeks ago), Gingrich was up 26% over Romney.To have a lead this large requires broad support with the various different factions of the party, and Gingrich has it. For instance with Tea Party vote... »
Lately, there's no end to Boehner and his House cronies inveighing against the regulatory system. A constant thread is that regulations kill jobs and that particular lie predates Boehner by many decades. The GOP has always been the party of caveat empt... »
K Street's sleaziest lobbyist, Gary Andres (l), found the perfect home with Fred UptonFor all I can I can tell, economist and author David Korten may have never heard of Michigan plutocrat Fred Upton. I haven't noticed that he's mentioned Upton in his ... »
Would Bayer put your life at risk? Well... that depends on how much profit they could make. The company was founded in Germany in 1863 and later became a key component of IG Farben, the biggest of the Nazi conglomerates that bankrolled Hitler, made meg... »
