It’s only the first part of March, yet Republicans have launched two unprecedented attacks against President Obama so far this year – placing politics ahead of foreign policy and national security. Republicans won both houses of Congress during the 2014 mid term elections and as Think Progress reported at the time Republicans were careful not […]
Monday night, former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele suggested that Republicans act as if they don’t want black votes during a discussion with MSNBC’s Joy Reid and political strategist Angela Rye The three were discussing remarks made last week by former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who questioned whether President Obama loves America and […]
UPDATE: Amid giggles, House kills Missoula legislator’s ban on ‘provocative’ clothes. Montana Republican lawmaker Rep. David Moore is seeking to ban yoga pants in an effort to strengthen the state’s indecent exposure law. No, I am not kidding. This isn’t the Onion. Moore introduced House Bill 365 on Tuesday. The proposal was inspired […]
Republican legislator Brian Kurcaba of West Virginia thinks that in some cases, rape can be a good thing – because those crazy Republicans NEVER LEARN. EVER! Charleston Gazette reporter David Gutman attended a discussion at the House of Delegates and had the opportunity to hear Delegate Kurcaba say, “Obviously rape is awful,” but “What is beautiful […]
The Washington Post published an interesting op-ed piece on Wednesday asking whether “Is it too early to call the new GOP Congress a failure?” which had a great, albeit partial, checklist of Republican failures so far. Below is our, more inclusive, list of failures of the new GOP Congress in no particular order: 1. […]