Of George W. Bush’s myriad of failures that continue to wreck havoc at home and abroad, 7.9 million Americans losing their health insurance rarely gets mentioned. “When [former president Bill] Clinton left office, the number of uninsured Americans stood at 38.4 million,” Ron Brownstein wrote in 2009. “By the time [former president George W.] Bush left office that number had […]

“I don’t want everybody to vote.” – Paul Weyrich, conservative activist Though Democrats have won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, our House of Representatives and many of our state governments are more radically conservative now that at least any time since the Civil Rights movement. We are one Supreme Court Justice from seeing the […]

Please proceed, GOP Republicans would like you to ignore that their Majority Leader lost last week to a Tea Partier whose main selling point is that he enjoys Ayn Rand novels. Instead, they’d like you to focus on poll numbers that show President Obama at lows he hit earlier this year. President Bush left us a hangover of the Bush […]

Michigan’s Republican led legislature adjourned on Thursday without passing the package of road repairs Governor Rick Snyder says he’s been working on for years. This should be clear reminder what happens when you elect Republicans to public office: sabotage. Business leaders need to face that an increasingly intractable GOP has no interest in doing anything that might give voters the […]

In the midst of the worst of the Great Recession, before Barack Obama was even sworn in, Eric Cantor was the leader of the movement to do nothing to help the new president fix the disasters he inherited. During the debt limit crisis of 2011, the author of The New New Deal Mike Grunwald points out, Cantor’s job was to […]

If there was one lesson of the last decade, it was that Texas Republicans weren’t extreme enough News that the Texas GOP is embracing the crock science of turning gay people into ex-gays known as “reparative therapy” has overwhelmed the bigger story coming out of the Lone Star State — the party’s latest platform is pretty much a complete list […]

We’ve recovered all the jobs Bush killed or, as the GOP says, time for a new Bush After a record 51 months of consecutive job growth, America has finally recovered all the jobs lost in the Great Recession. We now have 98,000 more jobs than January 2008 — a record for this country. This is a bittersweet victory considering that […]

We can’t do anything about climate change but we won’t just sit back and let women get birth control Less than a day after President Obama unveiled his plan to curb carbon emissions using the EPA’s regulatory power, China indicated that it will be curbing its carbon pollution for the first time ever. This historic act of cooperation (and self-preservation) […]

Without Obamacare, the KyNect exchange is just website that lets people know they can’t afford health insurance When Republicans lie about Obamacare, it’s hardly news. But the lies coming out Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul in Kentucky show what a bind the party is in now that the Affordable Care Act has truly began to take hold and work as […]

Koch tested. Right to Life approved. Democrat Gary Peters continues to lead his likely Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate Terri Lynn Land. Meanwhile, Republican hopes of a wave that could help them take over the Senate should be waning, if Republicans actually paid attention to polls they don’t like. The Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent notes: A pair of new […]

So what happens to the 259,000 Michiganders whose insurance you want to void, Terri Lynn Land? The GOP Obamacare repeal fantasy is falling apart and the media seems content to let Republicans pretend it still exists. Marking the the four-anniversary of the Affordable Care Act becoming law in March, GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan reiterated her pledge to […]