The Republican threat to shut down the government unless the budget took away all funding for Planned Parenthood was even weirder and stupider than you can imagine. And even more amazingly, this news was pointed out by Republican Congressman Tom Cole, and even weirder, it was done on Fox News. So what’s the news? There […]
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II In light of closing down of the Government in the USA and thus the inability to govern yourselves, We hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English […]
You know who else closed parks… © Matt Bors Godwin’s Law states that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” But this is an especially interesting and hypocritical example, since Conservatives were attacking Obama for closing parks — especially when war veterans were unable to […]
So a question I’ve been asking myself is why did the Republicans fold on both the shutdown and the debt limit, without getting anything in return? I think the answer, as usual, has to do with following the money. Campaign contributions to Tea Party members of the House of Representatives dropped significantly because of the […]
© Adam Zyglis Ted Cruz seems to think that the government shutdown was “a remarkable victory” and when the shutdown ended, he claimed “The American people rose up and spoke with an overwhelming voice and at least at this stage Washington isn’t listening to them”. But fully 70% of Americans think that Republican politicians put […]
© Matt Wuerker I guess the GOP figured that Obamacare isn’t going to be repealed, so now they have changed their tune back to one of their greatest hits — the deficit. Is it any wonder that the Republican party has now broken the record for the most despised political party since Gallup started polling […]
First the Republicans insisted that they were shutting down the government to save us from Obamacare, which they claim will ruin our wonderful health insurance system. Cough. Then the Republicans changed their minds, and decided that it wasn’t about Obamacare after all, but instead it is about the deficit (even though Obama has been lowering […]
Carl Bernstein slams the media coverage of the shutdown. He also compares the tactics used by some conservatives against Obama to those of Joe McCarthy.
A must-read article in the NY Times explains exactly how the shutdown was planned, financed, and executed. Down to the exact talking points you now hear coming from the mouths of tea-party conservative politicians. Heck, back in February they even published a self-named “Blueprint to Defunding Obamacare“, which was funded by a multitude of groups […]
Apparently the sex business is getting a huge boost from the government shutdown. The site SeekingArrangement.com has seen a 50% boost in signups since the start of the shutdown, which is interesting since usually October is a slow month for them. Other sites are seeing similar growth. But before you think all this growth is […]
© David Horsey David Horsey has written some very good commentary to go with his comic. I just want to pass it on: The government shutdown has revealed the impressive skill of tea party Republicans to say untrue things with sincerity so convincing that they almost sound as if they believe what they are saying. […]
I have to hand it to the Republicans. They definitely know how to repeat something enough times that people start to believe it. Their latest talking point is that the Democrats are refusing to negotiate with them about the shutdown. What’s hypocritical about their claim is that it is only true since the shutdown started. […]
© Tom Tomorrow Yesterday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner gave his first and only interview since the shutdown began. Interviewer George Stephanopoulos actually asked some tough questions, and Boehner got angry and almost lost it: Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. If you think killer robots is an unfair analogy, one of the departments […]
© The Onion A wise man once said that Democracy means that the people get the government they deserve.
The Republicans in Congress keep complaining that the Democrats won’t negotiate with them. But what they don’t mention is that the Democrats did negotiate and already made big compromises, as you can see from this figure: © Center for American Progress But the Republicans waited until the last minute and then tried the extort the […]
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