Candidate for Michigan’s 11th Congressional District launches initiative seeking real stories of foreclosures executed by Trott and his law firm. During the housing market crisis, there’s a good chance you or someone you know went through a foreclosure or eviction. And if you live in Michigan, it might have been done at the hands of David Trott in his position […]

The GOP’s ongoing efforts to cripple Obamacare get more bizarre every day. And they’re not working. First, there was the refusal by most Republican-led states to create their own health insurance marketplaces, deciding instead to leave it to the federal government. It was a hypocritical stance given Republicans’ penchant for giving states more control but, hey, anything to get in […]

This is what happens when you elect people who hate the government to run the government Whether it’s the Tea Party Nation, TeaParty.org, the Tea Party Express, the Tea Party Patriots, or any number of the myriad local tea party groups across the country, their message is the same: We hate president Obama Shrink government and lower our taxes. “TEA”, […]

Straight talk A couple of weeks ago, U.S. District Court Judge Richard George Kopf from the District of Nebraska weighed in on his blog “Hercules and the Umpire” regarding the Republican shutdown of the U.S. government. In particular, he was addressing the issue of determining which government employees are “essential” and which ones should be furloughed while the tea party […]

It’s baa-aack.. Photo by Chris Savage | Eclectablog As Republicans continue to act like the “aggregation of petulant children” that Dean of the House Congressman John Dingell called them out to be, Fitch Ratings is “accelerating” its timetable toward downgrading the credit rating of the federal government: The Republican-controlled House will vote Tuesday night on a plan to reopen the […]

We Will Make Them Famous And You Will Know Their Names Things are not looking good for the Republican Party these days. Poll after poll shows that they are bleeding support in literally historic fashion. Here’s the most recent Gallup poll: [Image credit: Anne C. Savage, special to Eclectablog] With the Republican-controlled House of Representatives engaged in a tense, government-shuttering […]

Here, Republicans, have some crow. It’s delish. Graphic by Anne C. Savage, special to Eclectablog Facing the fact that everyone in the country who isn’t a die-hard Republican thinks the current shutdown of the federal goverment and the impending crashing of the U.S. economy resulting from a failure to raise the debt limit are their responsibility, there are some interesting […]

I see what you’re doing here. We all do. I think all of us are, like Amy described in her righteous rant yesterday, sick and tired of being held hostage by extremist right wing ideologues who behave like petulant children when they don’t get absolutely everything they want. What’s most infuriating about it is that these very same ideologues have […]

Wow, you guys are incredible I suppose it’s a good sign that Republicans are finally waving the red flag on repealing the Affordable Care Act as a condition for not putting a bullet in the brain of our national (and possibly the international) economy. For weeks now, that has been their precondition for passing a budget to fund the government […]

“Germany started with national health care and gun control before any of that other stuff happened” Arizona Republican Brenda Barton posted on her Facebook page that “Someone is paying the National Park Service thugs overtime for their efforts to carry out the order of De Fuhrer.” The post was still up on her page as of 6:30 p.m. today: Sparking […]

Ruh roh, Raggy The whole “if you’re in a hole, stop digging” thing seems to really be escaping the tea party members in Congress these days. This past week, for example, my Congressman, Tim Walberg, sent out an email hilariously titled “Rep Walberg Works to Reopen Government”, claiming that he “passed four pieces of legislation to fund the entire government”. […]