2012 GOP presidential nomination polling has assumed that Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and Tim Pawlenty are all running for President but there’s no guarantee that they will all run. As of right now only Gingrich and Pawlenty have taken serious official steps towards doing so. Romney and Huckabee are the only [...]

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An ethics commission fined Huckabee $1,000 for failing to report that he paid himself $14,000 from his 1992 U.S. Senate campaign and $43,000 from his 1994 lieutenant governor’s campaign. Huckabee accepted more than 300 gifts worth at least $130,000, ranging from $3,700 cowboy boots to a $600 chainsaw. Huckabee’s substantial tax hikes as Governor far [...]

For the first time a reputable national poll shows majority support among Americans for equal marriage rights for gay couples. The new Washington Post/ABC News poll 53% of Americans support gay marriage. This is up significantly from the same poll five years ago when only 36% of Americans said they supported gay marriage. Meanwhile the [...]

There’s been no shortage of trivial attacks on President Obama by ridiculous Republicans since he took office in 2009 but lately clowns like Newt Gingrich have taken the ridiculousness to whole new levels. Gingrich is actually attacking the President for taking five minutes to fill out a March Madness bracket! Seriously. How in the hell [...]

Check out this list of how much money each state gets back in federal spending for each dollar they spend in federal taxes. The first 14 states (getting the least money back for their tax dollar) all voted for Barack Obama in 2008: New Jersey, Nevada, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Illinois, Delaware, California, New York, [...]

Anthony Weiner (D-NY) on the floor of the House sarcastically congratulating the ridiculous Republican majority in the House for calling an “emergency session” to defund NPR: Yes; instead of doing anything (anything at all) to help improve the economy or decrease unemployment the Republican majority is busy with silly stunts like trying to defund NPR [...]

Barack Obama’s chances at winning a second term in November 2012 seem pretty strong with the President sitting at 50% approval, congressional Republicans becoming less popular by the day, and the principle Republican contenders for the GOP nomination all being extremely unpopular. A new PPP poll on the favorable ratings of the principle GOP candidates [...]

As the new Republican majority in the House has done absolutely nothing positive for the economy thus far it’s not surprising that the public’s trust in the Republican Party is dropping, although I am a bit surprised (and heartened) that it’s dropping so quickly. Source.

Yesterday an enormous crowd of approximately 100,000 people protested the dastardly deeds of Governor Scott Walker and the Republican State Senators in Wisconsin. The next step in Wisconsin is to recall the Republican State Senators who took away the freedom of Wisconsin workers (unfortunately Governor Walker cannot be recalled until January 2012.) Donate money to [...]