It’s a bill that callously allows hospitals to leave pregnant women to die rather than perform an abortion procedure that could save her life. It’s a death sentence for any woman, even a woman who happens to be pro-life like Rick Santorum’s wife, who would be dead right now if her doctor had refused to perform the life-saving abortion that allows her to be with her husband and children today.
During a Thursday morning appearance on Fox News, Michele Bachmann announced her intention to roll back 30 years of tax breaks for the wealthy by going back to the tax rates under Ronald Reagan.
The Republican ‘jobs’ plan is nothing more than a rehash of the same disastrous policies that crashed the economy in the first place. It’s a corporate giveaway that will hurt the American people even more.
2,000 members of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty(CARL), a military affiliated group, have pledged not to perform wedding services for same sex couples, defying the Pentagon directive that gives chaplains the authority to officiate such events.
The National Organization for Marriage is continuing its hatred of the LGBT community and this time it is attacking the transgender son of a House Republican.
A Kentucky Republican has posted a rather disturbing comment on Facebook about the Wall Street protesters. Steve Frank, city commissioner of Covington, Kentucky apparently feels like killing the protesters occupying Wall Street just as the Taliban feels like killing American soldiers in Afghanistan.
The only year Rick Perry needed to remember was 1776. But he couldn’t even do that. Perry was asked about state’s rights by a local ABC affiliate, and apparently he thinks America declared independence from England a full two centuries earlier than the actual date. He made the revolutionary blunder while visiting Dartmouth College after the GOP Debate last night.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has added her powerful voice of support to the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement that is sweeping America. She voiced her support during in an interview with ABC News’ Christiane Amanpour and she even managed to slam Eric Cantor in the process.
Republicans are taking the War on Drugs to a whole new level. Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas managed to get the House Judiciary Committee to pass his bill that would apply US law globally.
In a Sunday interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Rick Santorum found himself in a very uncomfortable position. Chris Wallace asked the GOP Presidential candidate about his intent to reinstate the discriminatory ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy that ended just last month.
Yesterday, on the Laura Ingraham show, New York Rep. Peter King made an effort to delegitimize the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement that has been sweeping across the country. First, he called the protesters a bunch of ‘anarchists’ and a ‘ragtag mob.’ Then he warned Americans not to give the movement any legitimacy because the protests remind him of the liberal protests of the 1960s.
Dorothy Cooper has been voting for a LONG time. In fact, since she started voting, she has only missed doing so in one election. She even voted during the Jim Crow Era. But when she tried to get a new voter ID in Tennessee, she was denied. The 96 year old Cooper brought in a rent receipt, a copy of her lease, her voter registration card and her birth certificate but was still denied a voter ID.
Yep, you read that right. The Country superstar, conservative Democrat, and former Bush supporter says he is fine with gay marriage.
Last week, Marines joined ‘Occupy Wall Street’ to help fight for their country with their fellow countrymen against the greedy banks and corporations that support union busting and corporate personhood. Yesterday, in an interview on ABC, Republican Representative Paul Broun of Georgia dared to call the Wall Street protests ‘an attack upon freedom.’
It’s a movement that is growing by the minute. Millions of Americans across the nation have decided that now is the time to revolt against the greed of Wall Street.
Yesterday, Herman Cain said that the unemployed should blame themselves for being jobless and not rich. Later that day he claimed that the people protesting Wall Street are un-American. Cain made the comment to the Associated Press.
One of the founders of Pam Geller’s anti-Muslim organization, American Freedom Defense Initiative, is calling for the mass extermination of congressmen, liberals, journalists, and Muslims.
After months and months of toying with the hopes and dreams of the Tea Party faithful, Sarah ‘The Alaskan Quitter’ Palin has finally made her decision to not run for President in 2012. Palin made the crushing announcement in a letter published on the ABC website.
Conservatives have made the claim that unemployed Americans only have themselves to blame for not having jobs, and now Herman Cain is joining the fray. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Cain claimed that Occupy Wall Street is a distraction to help President Obama and said that the unemployed only have themselves to blame for being jobless and not rich.
Despite the fact that Iran is an enemy of America and part of the ‘axis of evil’ that supports terrorism, the Koch brothers thinks it’s perfectly fine if they do business with that country.
