VIDEO-- Why everybody would like to be a member of Congress: Lots and lots of...
Link Back in November 2012, I posted 113th Congress: Work?! It included this segment from The Rachel Maddow Show: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Then in...
View ArticleEric Cantor's 2014 House schedule allows for even MORE time off
Here's what I wrote in 2012: Republicans control the calendar in the House of Representatives. They're cutting back their work schedule. Again. And this: 113th Congress: Work?! Then earlier this year...
View ArticleOpen your eyes, voters-- U.S. Attorney: “We’re OK now but at some point that...
Crackerjack move, Republicans, keep it up. Continue to reveal what true geniuses you are. See, by slashing federal jobs, by cutting resources needed to litigate important matters that affect all of...
View ArticleJobless, aidless, homeless v. the wealthy who live in homes with moats, Botox...
Via Mike Lukovich, amuniversal In the past couple of days, the Los Angeles Times letters to the editor about the jobless and homeless knocked it out of the park. I'm sharing a few samples, because our...
View ArticleENTIRE VIDEO- Pres. Obama on extending unemployment benefits: "Hope is...
Via UpTakeVideo: President Obama says Americans who need an emergency extension of unemployment benefits are "not lazy" as some might want you to believe. He points to the case of Katherine Hackett...
View Article"Any visit to Washington DC will prove" that Neanderthals did not vanish.
Neanderthals are alive and well in Washington DC as you can see in this Los Angeles Times letter to the editor, one of the few places remaining where our voices matter: Re "The human race is part...
View ArticleWho's leaving the US House of Representatives, in one handy chart
For your consideration, a handy dandy at-a-glance chart that allows you to see which members of the US House of Representatives are waving bye-bye. Or as I like to call it, Get Out the Freakin' Vote...
View ArticleWho's leaving the US Senate, in one handy chart
The US Senate will be missing a few overpaid members in the near future. Recently, I posted Who's leaving the US House of Representatives, in one handy chart. Now it's time to fill you in on who's...
View ArticleCover-up: Border agents created pretext to shoot Mexicans
What's that saying again? Oh yeah: The cover-up is worse than the crime... or as in this case, at least as bad. The Los Angeles Times is reporting on border patrol agents who purposely got in the way...
View ArticleFla. GOP conservative candidate's double life as bizarre vampire
Photo via St. Peters Blog Here we go again, another "conservative" candidate for U.S. Congress (this time from Florida) leading a double life and revealing himself to be a complete crackpot. No hype,...
View Article"Here's what your money is buying right now..."
We have written countless posts about the Supreme Court's terrible Citizens United decision, followed by their latest debacle, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the other appalling Supreme...
View ArticlePublic faith in Congress falls, so do weekly jobless claims
Americans don't much like Congress. What an understatement. Let me reword that. Americans hate Congress. There, that's better. And for good reason. GOP obstructionists prevent any progress on fixing...
View ArticleYawn: Weekly jobless claims slip... again. #BlameObama
Fox Biz keeps bugging me with upbeat email alerts like the one below. And we all know that they are the single most reliable source of information in the entire world, so I pay attention to every...
View ArticleFvx's Megyn Kelly Accuses Nancy Pelosi of Sexism Re Hobby Lobby
Are you kidding me? Megyn Kelly has less credibility to talk about sexism than Sean Hannity has, although she used to have slightly more than Ann Coulter. Not after this banner month over at Fvx...
View Article'Get Out and Push', Says Maddow of the Useless, U.S. Congress
Maddow finally did it! Put her head on the desk in despair and choked out a couple of frustrated, choked "Gaah!!!"s in the opening block of her Friday evening show … on the gobstoppingly absurd...
View Article"Not a skit! Our actual Congress! Gaaa!"
Our own Sherry Hardy covered Rachel Maddow's edible take-down of the Worst Congress Ever in her post, 'Get Out and Push', Says Maddow of the Useless, U.S. Congress. Maddow went ballistic, and...
View Article"Absence of a strong wave comes as something of a setback for GOP"
A report just came out from the Center for the Study of the American Electorate. It confirmed what many of us already knew: that Americans are "staying away from the polls in droves." Not good, not...
View ArticleRadioactive waste a toxic byproduct of fracking, drilling in N. Dakota
Back in May I wrote, Hey Big Oil "pro-lifers": Fossil fuels may be killing babies! Today's Los Angeles Times has an extensive report about how, in North Dakota, fracking may very well be producing...
View ArticleAmerica's Militant Right Gets a Candidate Up to Bat - Georgia Pastor Jody Hice
This is one of those stories that make you want to say about the entire country, "I know we are smarter than that!" The camo military vehicle being used for Tea Party stumping is just the tip of the...
View ArticleRick Perry, Governor Good Hair, Takes a Great Mug Shot
Rick Perry found his niche. Being indicted -- finally -- at the gubernatorial level. It's going around, not the best year for conservative governors. Still praying that Chris Christie's moment is...
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