[from Fred Wickham’s Bullseye Rooster] The new Republican congress has unveiled its alternative Health Care Plan. Ersatzomine™, a new, fast-acting placebo from Pfizer. While ObamaCare has resolutley ignored free-market solutions to the nation’s health problems, Pfizer buckled down to the challenge: produce an alternative to government mandated procedures in an attractive pill form. “For less […]
Paul Waldman at The American Prospect makes an excellent point about what passes for political discourse in this country recently: The rhetoric of violence is not the only kind of rhetoric that encourages violence. The apocalyptic rhetoric we’ve seen from some on the right, most notably Glenn Beck, should be part of this discussion too. […]
© Adam Zyglis As the minority party, the Republicans were able to get away with being the Party of No, but now that they have a majority in the House, and an improved ability to filibuster the Senate, how long can they keep up being the party that is just opposed to everything the Democrats […]
Forbes magazine has a new article that points out that — despite what Republicans are saying about the health care reform bill killing jobs — that Obamacare is helping small businesses offer health care to their employees. This is great news. I have started a number of small businesses, and I have long said that […]
Jon Stewart covers the debate to see who will be the next chairman of the Republican National Committee: My favorite question at the debate: “Aside from President Reagan, who is your political hero?” And speaking of litmus tests, how about the “how many guns do you own” question? Stewart is on a roll this week. […]
This political cartoon was published in 1921 — 90 years ago: © Art Young [Hat tip to Lloyd Dangle.]
The incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives has a new rule. They must offset the cost of any legislation that would increase federal spending. Sounds good, yes? And yet, they are attempting to repeal Obama’s health care reform bill, a bill that the Congressional Budget Office says will reduce the federal deficit by […]
According to a new poll, 61% of Americans say that the first step toward balancing the budget should be raising taxes on the richest Americans. Only 20% thought that the first step should be to cut defense spending, while 4% wanted to start by cutting Medicare, and 3% wanted to cut Social Security (the third […]
… before he hits the ground. © Tom Toles The new session of Congress doesn’t start until Wednesday, but Republicans have already scheduled a vote on January 12th to repeal Obama’s health care reform bill. Of course, this is a complete waste of time and money, since Democrats still control the Senate, and even if […]
Cenk Uygur does a good job of pointing out the utter hypocrisy of the Republicans pretending to care about the middle class.
Are Republicans shaking their heads and wondering what happened? Did their midterm election victories make them get too cocky? © Tom Toles UPDATE: A Republican introduces a bill to eliminate lame duck sessions.
© Joel Pett Luckily, the START treaty was ratified after all — on the very last day of the 111th Congress.
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