The results from today’s NY-26 special election are in: The Democrats have picked up a House seat from the Republicans in a very red district. With 83% of the vote reporting Kathy Hochul is at 48% and Jane Corwin is at 43%. This district is so red that it went for Republican Chris Lee (who [...]

Transcript: AG: “Listen, only 4 percent of all Americans ever vote in a Republican primary. That’s 4 percent. The other 96 percent are the normal Americans. The 4 percent are people who must never get sick, because they don’t want to have Medicare. Now think about that. Every other industrialized country in the entire world [...]

Read this great article on Forbes.com about ObamaCare. Additional Recent Stories & Editorials Worth Reading: NY Times: Austerity does not work. Mother Jones: Focus on the Family head says “We’ve probably lost” on gay marriage. NYMag.com: The Fox News circus.

This fake outrage from right wingers over President Obama calling for 1967 borders in Israel is the latest example of absolutely ridiculous Republican attacks on President Obama: As President Obama has said (see the video below) the ’67 borders has long been the official American policy towards Israel:

President Obama’s Gallup approval rating is at a solid 50% today and to date the lowest his approval rating has ever been on Gallup is 41%. This compares very favorably to each of the last 8 Presidents all of whom hit a low below 40%: Lyndon Johnson: 35% Richard Nixon: 24% Gerald Ford: 37% Jimmy [...]

According to data from the Congressional Budget Office the Republican Plan to end Medicare as we know it (and replace it with a “Medicare in Name Only“) would double out of pocket health care costs for seniors all over the country. In April of this year the new Republican majority in the House overwhelmingly voted [...]

In April 235 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to end Medicare, drastically cut Medicaid and give the savings to millionaires and billionaires in the form of even more tax cuts for the rich.

In case you missed it; 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has correctly called the Republican plan to end Medicare a “radical change,” “right wing social engineering,” and “too big a jump” among other things. 235 Republicans in the House voted to end Medicare & drastically cut Medicaid in April (and to make it even [...]

Want a coffee mug with President Obama’s birth certificate on it? Of course you do! What better way to make fun of the idiocy of the Tea Party fools who questioned the President’s birthplace? All it takes is a donation of $15 or more to the Obama campaign you can get your very own Obama [...]

This is what President Ronald Reagan said about what would happen if the debt ceiling were not raised in 1983: “The full consequences of a default — or even the serious prospect of default — by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of [...]