When millionaires run Terri Lynn Land, the only Republican outside of tea partier Rob Steele interested in running for Senate against Gary Peters, is a wealthy woman. How wealthy? Wealthy enough that she could all but self-finance her campaign. She and her husband are worth at least $34 million and own nearly 70s pieces of property in Florida and Michigan. […]

Whassa matter, Tim. Embarrassed by your own vote? This is rich. Republican Tim Walberg joined the rest of the insane clown posse that is today’s tea party caucus in Congress in defunding Obamacare then has the audacity to call it voting “to keep government open”. Here’s the email: What an ass. Clearly not too proud of that vote or at […]

Woe be to the discontented, lazy rabble with heads filled with impossible ideas (like eating) Yesterday, on a nearly party line vote of 217-210, House Republicans passed a bill that would strip $40 billion out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, over the next 10 years. As Amy pointed out earlier this week, if […]

Sorry, Terri, they’re just not that into you. Photo by Anne C. Savage, special to Eclectablog It’s not easy being Terri Lynn Land these days. Nobody really likes her that much. She was once the Michigan Secretary of State and she’s been a fairly prominent figure in Republican politics as a member of the RNC for years. With Carl Levin’s […]

Vasectomies: Harming society since … wait. WHAT?!? I have written in the past about Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer, a Michigan couple who is suing the state to allow them, as a lesbian couple, to adopt each other’s children. When they brought their case before U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman, he encourage them to challenge Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriages […]

Children, may I please have your attention? Today House Republicans tried for the 41st time to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Dean of the House John Dingell, someone I am proud to call a friend, stood up and proceeded to dress down the anti-Obama tea party freaks that have come to dominate the Republican Party. He was addressing them […]

Metrics, schmetrics. Did they think we wouldn’t notice??? Governor Snyder is takes great pride in his reliance on transparency and metrics as indicators of his “success” as the leader CEO of our state. His “dashboard” is supposedly a way for the citizens of our fine state to keep an eye on his “progress”. However, looking at his dashboard today, it’s […]

What’s this? ANOTHER judicial smack-down of Governor Snyder and his Republican colleagues? Yes. Yes it is. [Caricature by DonkeyHotey from photos by Anne C. Savage for Eclectablog] Another day, another Republican bill signed into law by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder ruled unconstitutional. In this case, it’s not the entire law, just the part that requires state employees to pay 4% […]

Scott Walker has eradicated freedom of expression, free speech, and freedom to assemble in Wisconsin [Photo credit: Anne Savage, special to Eclectablog] This is shocking and can’t help but lead to lawsuits. Singers singing protest songs in the Wisconsin state Capitol building have been getting arrested in large numbers this week. Great coverage of this at Daily Kos by “Giles […]

Too poor to bail Graphic by Anne Savage Not that we were expecting the federal government to do for a failing urban giant like Detroit what they did for big corporations like GM and Chrysler or monstrous banks like Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase. But this right here? This is dickish: Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is pushing an amendment that […]

That was fun!

So, early today I received an email from the Republican National Committee titled “Tell us what you think about Obamacare”. In it was a link to a short survey. I clicked through and took their survey.

You should, too!

My answers and a link to the survey await you after the jump.