The non partisan CBO has shown the proposed 2012 Medicare destroying budget to be a total con job: The Republican Party appears determined to destroy Medicare (Social Security & Medicaid too.) They simply can’t stand to see anyone other than the wealthy get quality health care or be able to retire. So if you care [...]

This is just mind bogglingly stupid: Eric Cantor doesn’t even know the basic facts of how our government works and yet he’s the House Majority Leader? Is this the best the Republicans can do?

The Republicans are in a difficult position when it comes to Libya because they generally love any war they can set their eyes on but at the same time their position on every single policy issue is defined entirely as “the opposite of whatever Obama’s position is.” How can they support the military effort in [...]

The lying Republican Governor Scott Walker has a history of lying: Also worth noting: The Koch brother billionaires (the guys who created the Tea Party in its present form) are pulling the strings in Wisconsin. This is all about destroying the rights of average workers so that billionaires can make even more billions. This is [...]

Latest evidence. The protesters in Wisconsin are standing up for their rights which are being trampled on by a Republican Governor who gave millions of dollars of taxpayer money to his billionaire supporters to create a fake budget crisis in order to have an excuse to attack the public unions in Wisconsin. So what do [...]

This is a really brilliant video by Rachel Maddow that puts the accomplishments of President Obama and the Democratic congress in perspective. Maddow really makes a great case that for the most part they put the future of this country ahead of their own immediate political futures. And that history will judge these two years [...]

According to this report on MSNBC (via NY Times) President Obama has ruled out any compromise on extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich. The President is proposing extending tax cuts for couples making less than $250,000 and single filers making less than $200,000 while letting the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire [...]

In the Republicans are destroying our country category… CommonDreams.org: “Out Long National Nightmare Isn’t Over…. It’s Just Beginning.” In the “remember; Newt Gingrich is a sick bastard who should never get anywhere close to the White House” category… MSNBC: Even while leading the attack on President Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Newt Gingrich [...]

Watch this: McCaskill asks the audience to raise their hands if they have Medicare (many of them do.) She then asks the audience to raise their hand again if they want to get rid of their Medicare (none of them do.) She then makes the point that there are many people at this town hall [...]

I strongly believe that the war on drugs should be ended and that all drugs should be legalized for a multitude of reasons (the most important one being civil liberty but two more great reasons are that evidence suggests that legalization would improve the economy and decrease violent crime rates.) Right now the problem in [...]