The money quote: “In 1997 Newt Gingrich purposed the death penalty for marijuana possession.”

With the Senate passing the debt deal, it’s now official: Default has been avoided. This is the President speaking after the deal passed the Senate:

Do you think that the President’s compromise to cut the deficit by $4 trillion with massive spending cuts balanced with modest tax increases on the wealthiest Americans (98% of Americans would see no tax increase) sounds like a reasonable idea? Do you think it sounds a lot better than the Republican plan which cuts the [...]

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 [...]

But George W. Bush certainly does not deserve any credit for finding & killing Osama Bin Laden: It was President Obama who changed US foreign policy to focus on Al Qaeda and Bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan instead of Iraq. It was Bush who said that finding Bin Laden wasn’t a top priority in [...]

Giving even the slightest credit to George W. Bush for the killing of Osama Bin Laden is ridiculous. Bush turned down an offer from the Taliban who wanted to turn Bin Laden over way back in October of 2001. Then in December of 2001 Bin Laden escaped in Tora Bora. Bush said Bin Laden was [...]

Ron Paul is running for President again. Paul joins Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Gary Johnson, and some other assorted nobodies as Republicans who have made official steps towards running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Meanwhile; Haley Barbour (most of America says “who?!”) has announced that he is [...]

Paraphrased from what President Obama said yesterday (in a clip that opens the video embedded below): There is nothing courageous or serious about the GOP plan to give billionaires more tax cuts that are paid for by eliminating Medicare. Did I mention that the GOP plan doesn’t balance the budget for 75 years. I’m not [...]

Video: Transcript: Good afternoon. It’s great to be back at GW. I want you to know that one of the reasons I kept the government open was so I could be here today with all of you. I wanted to make sure you had one more excuse to skip class. You’re welcome. Of course, what [...]