Michigan’s Republicans are STILL trying to take health insurance from 470,000 Michiganders The New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza has a great piece breaking down “Where the GOP’s Suicide Caucus Lives.” The Suicide Caucus is a convenient monicker for the 80 House Republicans who persuaded  Speaker Boehner pass legislation that adopted Senator Ted Cruz’s defund Obamacare scheme. They are the same House […]

If Ted Cruz is really against things that kill American jobs, I can see why he’s trying to destroy the Republican Party. Last week, House Republicans erupted after Ted Cruz for indicating that he might not fight to pass the continuing resolution that defunded Obamacare he bullied them into passing. On Tuesday night, Cruz went out to the Senate floor […]

If only we could have a big election or something to decide if we wanted Obamacare. On Friday, House Republicans voted to embrace a strategy that ties “defunding Obamacare” to keeping the government open, a position embraced by about 27 percent of the population. They’re denying it publicly but what’s obvious is that for the strategy the GOP is embracing […]

The GOP: Willing to risk your job and your retirement to make sure you don’t get health insurance. First of all, let’s be honest about what the “Defund Obamacare” wing of the GOP is doing. They lost the 2012 election, which was in large part part about Obamacare, and in protest of that election they’re threatening a depression if the […]

Or, GOP threatens shutdown/default if we don’t increase the deficit As the Tea Party faction of the House of Representatives tries to create another completely unnecessary budget crisis that could end up wounding their brand almost as much as it would sabotage the economy, here are a few things to keep in mind: 1. The deficit is shrinking rapidly, probably […]

An open letter to the soon-to-be-former governor of Michigan Yo Mr. Snyder: Your first campaign for governor was impressively banal. In the heat of a Tea Party year, you promised competence and nerdiness. What you’ve provided is an extremism cloaked by a nearly unprecedented lack of charisma. You’ve been a consistent rubber stamp for the far right as you raised […]

Enough with the reindeer games, corporate America needs a reliable vote Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI) is exactly the kind of Republican politician that Republican donors should be afraid of. As a high-school teacher, Bentivolio told his students that his goal was to make each one of them cry at least once. As a reindeer rancher, he dressed as Santa and […]

Nothing scares a conservative like a worker willing to hold a sign As we approach Labor Day, I feel obligated to make a couple of points about the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The first was a demand of the March for a “A national minimum wage act that will give all Americans a decent standard of living.” […]

A house divided against the middle class cannot stand. It took two votes, but months after Governor Rick Snyder (R-MI) told legislators to “take a vote, not a vacation,” Medicaid expansion has finally passed Michigan’s state senate. An estimated 470,000 Michiganders who currently earn too much to qualify for Medicaid are likely to get fully subsidized health insurance as part of […]

The so-called ‘party of personal responsibility’ again looks like the party of sweaty bullies. Cory Booker is the Michael Stipe of politics: not only does he not declare his sexual orientation, he purposely keeps it ambiguous. In a Washington Post profile on Tuesday, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate noted that he hasn’t found a “life partner” yet and […]

‘While poverty persists, there is no freedom.’ – Nelson Mandela A few months ago, PPP Polls found that my Twitter account @LOLGOP would be slightly ahead of Rep. Justin Amash in a head-to-head race for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat. Since then, Amash has expanded his national profile as a leading voice calling for an end of the broad surveillance being […]