Under fire and on the run You can always tell when you have the tea party backed into a corner. That’s when they bring out the Big Crazy guns with both barrels blazing. That happened this week when the tea party’s Madison Project Michigan PAC sent out an email from Jack Hoogendyk, a tea partier who primaried U.S. Representative Fred […]

The Democratic candidate for Michigan’s 11th Congressional District stands to give Republicans a run for their money. In news from the Bobby McKenzie campaign, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has placed McKenzie on its Jumpstart program, according to MIRS. The DCCC began the Jumpstart program (PDF) this year to give what it considers “top-tier” candidates early financial, communications, operational […]

What’s the hold-up, Mr. Boehner? In about 60 days, the current agreement to keep our federal government funded will run out. This sets the country up for another battle with tea party Republicans dead-set on repealing the Affordable Care Act. With the power of the Republican-led House of Representatives apparently in the hands of Senator Ted Cruz, there is, apparently, […]

And STAY out!

As I reported back in August disgraced former Troy mayor Janice Daniels was on the ballot yesterday for one of three seats on the Troy city council. Daniels, a known homophobic tea partier who was recalled from office in 2012 after only a year in office, was rejected again by voters, this time coming in fourth place. She received only 11.33% of the vote.

It was a victory for sanity for Troy. The only question remaining is whether Ms. Daniels will take “get the hell out of here” for an answer. If the past is prelude to the future, sadly, she won’t.

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”, […]

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 […]

They’re trying to turn back the clock to re-fight the 2012 election. Or the Civil War. At first, many of us had trouble keeping track of what the Tea Party GOP wants in exchange for ending the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling. But now it’s clear: What they’re really after are the same things they’ve wanted since 2010, […]

Head, desk. The inability of Tea Partarians to spell words correctly on their crazysigns is legendary. But we now have what might be “The Mother of All Misspelled Tea Party Signs”: [Photo credit: GoodDream | Imgur/Reddit] Michigan contiguous with Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas? No, of course they meant Mississippi. A state whose two-letter abbreviation is MS. Phew! I’m so […]

Chris Savage — the man himself — and Amy Lynn Smith join ‘Night Shift with Tony Trupiano’ on Thursday night. A quick heads’ up that Chris and I will both be guests on ‘Night Shift with Tony Trupiano’ tonight, October 10. I’ll be on at 7:30ET to discuss my blog post from earlier this week, ‘I’m sick and tired of […]

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 […]

Think it’s wrong for a vocal minority to tell the rest of us how to live our lives? Me, too. I’ve had it. Enough is enough. Our country has been held hostage since the 2010 midterm elections by a vocal minority that somehow thinks if they scream loud enough, waving woefully misspelled signs and threatening their puppet-strung representatives with primary […]