Everything the Republicans say about health care reform is a lie. Including the ridiculous lie about how health care form is a “job killer.”

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll released today has President Obama gaining significant public support from their last poll. Their last poll, released in mid December, had the President at 49% approval (vs. 47% disapproval.) The new poll has the President at 54% approval (vs. 43% disapproval.) The new numbers are even more impressive if [...]

For a long time American conservatives have been calling anything they don’t like “communism” (or “socialism” when they’re a bit soft.) Check out this photo (from the late ’50s or early ’60s I believe) where a bunch of racist white people (oops, I mean “conservatives”) hold signs saying that “race mixing is communism.” Just like [...]

At around 3 minutes into this video there’s a great rant where Bill Maher talks about how the Founding Fathers would have hated the Tea Party (and visa versa.) It’s right on target. Check it out for yourself:

To celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. on what would have been his 82nd birthday I’m going to share some of his most thought provoking quotes with you: 01. “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” 02. “Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured [...]

Tonight the President gave a stunningly beautiful inspirational speech on the Arizona shooting. In the speech the President mourned the six people who were killed and also celebrated the lives of the many heroes who prevented Saturday’s tragedy from being even worse than it was. I don’t think simply reading about it can fully convey [...]

A new PPP poll of potential 2012 general election match-ups has President Obama up against all GOP challengers in Iowa. Obama 53% Sarah Palin 37% Obama 51% Newt Gingrich 38% Obama 47% Mitt Romney 41% Obama 47% Mike Huckabee 43% As you can see the President has huge 16% and 13% leads against Palin and [...]

Good news for President Obama from this new AP/GfK poll. The President is at 53% approval in this new poll (vs. 46% disapproval.) This is a significant 7% point improvement from the last time this poll came out (early November) when Obama was at 46% approval. It matches his best number in the poll since [...]

New polling from PPP has President Obama up big against all potential 2012 GOP challengers in New Jersey. Obama 59% Sarah Palin 29% Obama 54% Newt Gingrich 37% Obama 53% Mike Huckabee 36% Obama 52% Mitt Romney 37% Obama 55% Chris Christie 38% These numbers are similar to 2008 when President Obama won New Jersey [...]

No one yet knows the exact motive for the senseless shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords yesterday but regardless of why this crazy man did this I hope that we can all agree there is no place in the United States for the kind of hateful rhetoric that has been coming from the “Tea Party” [...]