Wisconsin GOP Governor Scott Walker thought he was talking to billionaire Tea Party puppet master David Koch. He wasn’t. He was talking to a journalist named Ian Murphy who recorded the conversation. Hear it for yourself:

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 [...]

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:

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” [...]

Demonization of the government is a corporate interest trick to get average people to unwittingly fight their battles for them. When you hear right wingers talk about “freedom” they aren’t talking about freedom for regular people. They are talking about freedom for corporations and the super rich which conversely usually leads to less freedom for [...]

New DNC Web Ad: This is a brilliant ad because it showcases what the “Republican Tea Party” is really all about which is taking this country on a far right turn. Taking the worst of the policies of George W. Bush and somehow making them even worse. The Republican Tea Party Contract 1. Repeal the [...]

A quick look at the upper left side of FiveThirtyEight.com gives the impression that the Democratic Party is likely to lose quite a few seats in the Senate this fall, but the polls numbers that Nate Silver has been using for his projections are becoming outdated as the Republicans (with a huge assist from the [...]

Watch this video. These people are absolutely bananas (and of course, ridiculously willfully uninformed.) Listen to them praise Fox News at about 9:30 in. It’s truly disturbing. Teabaggers are nothing but the pawns of Rupert Murdoch.

Yes. The Coffee Party is now bigger than The Tea Party. Well, at least it is on Facebook where the Coffee Party Movement currently has 109,606 fans while the Tea Party Patriots have 108,658 fans. Considering the Tea Party Patriots page has been up for almost a year longer, that seems quite meaningful. What it [...]