A few website glitches aren’t stopping people who want and need insurance coverage — including Republicans. Republicans in Washington were willing to put the global economy at risk, not to mention the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Americans, to cripple Obamacare. They didn’t succeed. In fact, their temper tantrum over the last two weeks seems to have increased the […]

This level of hypocrisy is truly breathtaking Tim Walberg has sent out emails to his constituents twice in the past month bragging about his votes to “keep government running”. On September 20th there was this one: Then, on October 5th came this one: As I pointed out after first one, these weren’t votes to reopen government in any real sense. […]

You know the GOP is ridiculous. They discovered the deficit they created on the day President Obama was inaugurated. They ran against Medicare reforms that they then adopted in their budget. They shut down the government then demanded negotiations they rejected 19 times. They spent much of the this useless government shutdown yelling at people for things they shut down […]

Hallelujah and take your racist crap with you when you leave Photo by Anne C. Savage, special to Eclectablog Detroit Chief Financial Officer Jim Bonsall, the man who asked if he could “shoot someone in a hoodie” on Angels’ Night patrol in the city, has resigned from his $225,000 a year position. Bonsall, an appointee of Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, […]

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 […]

Texas is changing and YOU can be a part of that [CC image credit: texastribune | Flickr] At the risk of competing with our own Eclectablog fundraiser this week, we are participating in a National Money Bomb for Texas Senator Wendy Davis who is running for governor in the Lone Star State. We’re joining Burnt Orange Report, Feministing, The Rude […]

Go blue. When Michigan-native Mitt Romney went on his “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” tour, people missed his point. The future GOP nominee didn’t want the auto industry to go out of business — he wanted to use the financial crisis to bust the auto workers unions. He wanted the Big Three to survive just without the careers that helped create […]

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 […]

Remember that time President Bush canceled an overseas trip because Democrats shut down the government? Yeah, me neither. Photo credit: Anne C. Savage, special to Eclectablog President Obama had scheduled a trip to Indonesia and Brunei over the next few days but, because Republicans insist on holding the government hostage to exact some sort of concessions from President Obama and […]

Such utterly blatant pandering ought to be below ANY politician. Even tea partiers. It was a VERY busy couple of days at the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C. First, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann made an utter spectacle of herself, diving in front of cameras to slather herself in patriotic, anti O-BAH-mah rhetoric with elderly WWII vets as a […]