Despite the Democrats' massive victory in the 2018 midterms, Republicans in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania - the three states that decided the 2016 election - are determined to hold on to power by any means. The GOP's bid to maintain power is so extreme they are willing ...read more
Despite having desperately tried to destroy Obamacare and replace it with, well, nothing, Republicans are now using President Obama's signature policy to try and win elections. NBC outlined today the breathtakingly hypocritical strategies of several Republicans running in close ...read more
Last night Wisconsin held local elections. In a normal year, this wouldn't be such a big deal, but given that nothing is normal under Donald Trump, the results in this state portend the oft-mentioned Blue Wave that will sweep Democrats to victory this fall. For the past eight ...read more
In this week's MEGA edition of Banter M: Scott Walker's Psychopathic War on Poor People - Ben Cohen looks at Governor Scott Walker's latest attempts to drug test food stamp recipients and uncovers the terrible history behind his extraordinary war on the working poor. More than ...read more
Tonight is the night! CNN is hosting the last Republican primary debate of the year, moderated by Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash and Hugh Hewitt at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. As usual, we will have embeddable clips from the main debate, in near real-time. With Donald Trump ...read more
ISIS fighters all over the world can breathe a sigh of relief today, secure in the knowledge that they're safe from having a future President Scott Walker ignore their petitions. On Monday, Walker announced that he was ending the presidential campaign that he only officially ...read more
Now that the Republicans' Sad Trombone Debate is over, it's time for the main event, this time with more Carly Fiorina! All of the candidates in the main debate have telegraphed their desire to take on frontrunner Donald Trump, which means we can expect to see lots of painfully ...read more
As the media shakes off its collective hangover from the political nerd equivalent of a Toga Party, the headlines about Thursday night's GOP debate have followed some predictable trajectories. Donald Trump was the big winner (unless you're a butthurt Republican Party shill), and ...read more
After cramming 7 minutes of entertainment into 80 minutes of kiddie-table debate Thursday afternoon, the main event is finally here: the first official 2016 Republican presidential candidates' debate. Frontrunner Donald Trump faces off against former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, ...read more
In case anyone was still in doubt, entrepreneur and secret key to defeating ISIS Donald Trump's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination is now as serious as a heart attack that doesn't get jokes. Despite a rocket ride to the top of a slew of recent polls (which I ...read more
Yes, Scott Walker actually tweeted this: Perhaps Walker should have paid more attention in high school. American Independence Day is categorically not about celebrating independence from the government. It is about celebrating independence from King George III and the ...read more
Wisconsin Governor and Republican presidential co-frontrunner Scott Walker caused a viral stir this week when comments he made to conservative media star Dana Loesch went viral. Walker was defending the mandatory ultrasound law he signed in 2013 on the basis that ultrasounds are ...read more
Stuffing as many people into a compressed space as possible is a long, storied and stupid American tradition, from the 1950s phone booth cramming craze to the ever-declining size of airline seats. Today's Republicans are already applying the same principle to their ongoing ...read more
Over the weekend, the New Hampshire #FITN Republican Leadership Summit wound down to the tune of reporters asking this season's crop of Republican presidential hopefuls the hive-minded question, "Would you personally attend a gay wedding?" The question was asked of at least ...read more
Both in public and in private, the White House has been reluctant to engage with the 2016 Republican presidential field at this early stage, but that didn't stop President Obama from coolly splattering Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker over his promise to undo an Iran nuclear deal ...read more
Here's the week that was, at Banter. Republican Govs Don’t Give a Shit They’re Blowing Holes In Their States’ Budgets The Republican brain has long since taken its leave on economic policy, but GOP governors like Scott Walker (Wisc.), Sam Brownback (Kan.) and Bobby Jindal ...read more
In yet the latest example of Republican governance giving a big middle finger to America's collective intelligence, Wisconsin governor and terrible person Scott Walker is planning on skipping $108 million in debt payments to cover a $283 million budget shortfall caused by his ...read more
Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) has won three elections in four years, but in just ten seconds, he may have sunk his shot at the presidency. Hot on the heels of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's run-in with Mother England and science, Walker is in London this week on a trade ...read more
Bridgegate, the notorious 2013 incident in which New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and senior administration staffers allegedly caused a three-day traffic nightmare on the George Washington Bridge as revenge against a political opponent, is still unfolding. But Christie's goose ...read more
If you're a politician, the last thing you want to hear is your name and the words "criminal scheme" in the same sentence. Well, welcome to Scott Walker's world right now. Just a little while ago, prosecutors who've been examining potential illegality during the Wisconsin ...read more
Scott Walker wants you to know that he loves him some Jesus. So much so that on March 16 he simply tweeted, “Philippians 4:13,” a New Testament verse which reads, “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.” And why not? Americans love them some Jesus too, with ...read more
Let's review. Yes, if you're a cellphone user subscribed to one the major carriers, NSA probably collected your metadata in its ongoing effort to find out what terrorists are up to. That is, per a FISA court warrant, NSA might have a list of numbers you dialed, along with ...read more
Gawker's mysteriously anonymous 'Mobutu Sese Seko' reminds jubilant Democrats and the liberal media not to proclaim the GOP dead just yet: There's a time for champagne, though, and that's election night. After that, reality sticks its head in the tent, and there's no bigger or ...read more
By Bob Cesca: We've all known a kid who upon losing a board game would freak out, hurl the game across the room and storm off while shouting something like, "This game sucks anyway!" The modern permutation of this unhinged sour grapes tantrum is to chuck a video game controller ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From TPM: Late last week more than a dozen Republican governors declared that they will not build the insurance market exchanges called for by the Affordable Care Act, including prominent names like Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, John Kasich of ...read more
Generally speaking, I respect Salon's Glenn Greenwald - he's a serious journalist and commentator, and has done a great deal of work to expose some of the awful things the US government gets up to. However, I'm starting to find his writing irritating beyond belief. Greenwald's ...read more
By Ben Cohen: So far, Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign is based on not being Barack Obama. The Republican nominee is spending vast sums of money on attacking the President for his liberalness, his perceived weakness and lack of stewardship over the economy. Romney is going ...read more
A heads up to our readers, every Friday we'll be doing a brief roundup of the best stories here at The Daily Banter. This week we profiled arch conservative Grover Norquist's psychopathic view of society, and argued that Scott Walker's win in Wisconsin only proved that money ...read more
Welcome to this week's edition of The Daily Banter Mail Bag!! Today, Bob, Ben and Chez answer reader's questions on Obama's chances of re-election during bad economic times, the recall fiasco in Wisconsin, and whether we'd vote for a third party candidate. The questions: I'm ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's victory over Barret Tom Barrett last night was another sad reflection of the corrupting influence of money in American elections. Organized labor took on Walker over his budget repair bill in 2011 that saw workers rights slashed, their ...read more
Wisconsin's governor Scott Walker survived a bitterly fought recall election on Tuesday after Republican voters mobilised in huge numbers, propelling him to a victory that will boost Mitt Romney's run for the White House. Television networks called it for the incumbent at 11pm ...read more
