Remember that dreaded device that Republicans hated so much: Reconciliation? That was the one they said perverted the Constitution when Democrats were looking to use it during health insurance reform. Well, back in the day when George W. Bush was president, Republicans didn’t think it was so danged bad. In fact, they loved them some reck and silly ayshun just […]

Illinois GOP Senate candidate Mark Kirk isn’t the only Republican setting out to intimidate “vulnerable” voting precincts. Not by a long shot. The Michigan Republican Party is training as many as 3,000 people to work as poll watchers, targeting mostly the southeastern part of the state: Michigan Republicans are recruiting and training up to 3,000 people to work as poll […]

This is no surprise. An Associated Press-GfK Poll shows whites without four-year college degrees preferring Republican candidates by twice the margin of the last two elections, when Democrats made significant gains in the House and Senate. I’m just sayin’…

Oopsy: Two of gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder’s companies have been hit with liens for unpaid state taxes, one as recently as two months ago. Records show the state of California filed a $1,265 tax lien against Avalon Ventures LLC of Ann Arbor on Aug. 2, the day before Snyder won the Republican primary. The company’s 2010 annual report lists Snyder, […]

Via Think Progress. Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, John Boehner showed his contempt for the American electorate by suggesting that they are not ready for solutions to the large issues affecting this country. Host Chris Wallace asked him directly why there are no references at all to solving the big issues of entitlements in the USA which account for upwards […]

What the hell is it with conservative Republicans and their violent rhetoric? I was searching Twitterland for info on Congressman John Dingell (“The Dean of the House”) when I came across this tweet from his opponent, Rob Steele: Henry Payne writes “A stuffed Dingell trophy on the wall would send shock waves through Washington.” http://fb.me/AsilJ9Ty I’ve written about Rob Steele […]

I’m just sayin’… Giving my wife props for the idea for this blog entry. It’s time we changed the meme and change how we talk about the teabaggers. There is no “Tea Party” in the USA, not as a political party. There may be a bunch of clubs scattered around the country, groups of like-minded mostly-white, mostly-bigoted, super conservative no-brainers […]

Most of us that have been paying attention have known for some time that the Republican game plan for the Obama administration is to make sure the economy stays depressed and jobless. Any hint that the economy is improving will spoil any electoral chances they have. Now they are pretty much admitting it. Here’s House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Tanfast): […]

Sorry for so much MI-07 blogging lately but there’s just too much goodness emanating from my humble little Congressional District these days. This one actually made it to the front page of Daily Kos: Tim Walberg ain’t exactly a Harvard-trained surgeon. He only beat one in 2006. But the former Bible salesman turned one-term congressman oddly seemed determined to prove […]

Several recent polls say that the top issue for Americans right now is unemployment. So what do Republicans do? Filibuster and block a bill that would extend unemployment benefits for upwards of 1.2 million Americans. Also this week, they blocked passage of a bill that would help homeless female veterans and veterans with children. No, seriously. I can not for […]

We all heard it and we all laughed at it. We know we consume 25% of the worlds oil but only own 2% of the worlds’ oil reserves. We know that the amount of oil we’d get from additional domestic drilling is a tiny smidgen of what is produced globally. [Click for bigger version {.pdf}] But, nonetheless, the GOPosaurs and […]