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The Sexist Roots of the "Nancy Pelosi Problem"
When Conor Lamb won his special election in Pennsylvania last week, he distanced himself from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, calling for new leadership if the Democrats retake Congress in November. Since Lamb won by only a handful of votes, this may have been shrewd ...read more
Republicans Invite Hate Group "Scholar" To Tesify On The Federal Reserve
The Keystone Kongress hasn't been in charge for very long, and yet they're already scraping the barrel on people they invite to testify. The ranking Democrat on a House panel overseeing the Federal Reserve on Wednesday accused a witness invited by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) of being ...read more
Keystone Kongress Strikes Again
The Boehner led GOP is continuing to show us how not to run the House of Representatives. “The House yesterday failed to extend the life of three surveillance tools that are key to the nation’s post-Sept. 11 antiterror law, a slipup for the new Republican leadership that ...read more
Michelle Bachmann Has Released Her Own Budget
Somebody has had a sniff of fame and she wants it all. Rep. Michele Bachmann released her own spending plan for the country on Monday, as she gears up for her unofficial rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union address. The Minnesota Republican's proposal calls for ...read more
About That Giant Mandate To Repeal Health Care Reform...
According to Gallup, 46% favor repeal, while 40% oppose repeal and 14% have no opinion. This is a clear mandate for Speaker Boehner to reintroduce the pre-existing condition. ...read more
Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack In Breast Licking Photo Scandal
Republicans have the best damn scandals. Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack has been caught on camera in a lurid scandal where another woman is apparently licking her breast. RadarOnline.com has exclusively obtained the photo which shows the powerful politician in a playful, but ...read more
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VIDEO: Keystone Kongress Defaults On $100 Billion Budget Cut Promise
I expected ridiculous from the new House GOP. Just not this early. ...read more
Keystone Kongress: House Rules Broken By Missing Members
This just gets better: Two House Republican members, Reps. Mike Fitzpatrick and Pete Sessions, missed their swearing in on Wednesday as they attended a fundraiser in Fitzpatrick's honor at the U.S. Capitol. These two not-quite-yet Congressmen then voted on legislation and ...read more
House GOP Flub: 2 New Members Vote Before They're Sworn In
Dave Weigel gets the details on two new House members who voted on the House rules package but they hadn't been sworn in yet. Their votes should be removed from the record. The GOP made a show of reading the Constitution, yet failed to uphold it on an actual vote. Genius. ...read more
Birther Busted During House Constitution Reading
Ironically, it wasn't one of the new House members. A woman was arrested in the House gallery Thursday after interrupting a reading of the Constitution by yelling out her belief that President Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States. When Frank Rep. ...read more
CBO: GOP Health Care Repeal (H.R. 2) Would Strip 32 Million Of Health Insurance, Increase Costs
More from the CBO's analysis of the House GOP Health Care repeal bill (H.R. 2): Under H.R. 2, about 32 million fewer nonelderly people would have health insurance in 2019, leaving a total of about 54 million nonelderly people uninsured. The share of legal nonelderly residents ...read more
House Republicans Already Breaking The New Rules They Put In
Calling the House GOP the Keystone Kops is kind an insult to the Keystone Kops. After calling for bills to go through a regular committee process, the bill that would repeal the health care law will not go through a single committee. Despite promising a more open amendment ...read more
Boehner Flashback: Handing Out PAC Checks On The Floor Of The House
In case, in the middle of the media whitewash, you forgot the sort of person incoming speaker John Boehner is: A member of the House Republican leadership team admitted Friday he distributed a tobacco PAC's campaign checks on the House floor, but said he'll never do it again. ...read more
House Republicans Do A $50 Billion (At Least) Cut Duck
The Republicans are already admitting their campaign rhetoric to cut $100 billion dollars from domestic spending was a fraud. They've now cut that number in half, and expect it to creep down to nothing as they redefine Orwell-style what exactly constitutes deficit spending. ...read more
Eric Cantor Accuses CBO Of Being Dishonest, Previously Cited CBO
Eric Cantor just accused the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) of producing dishonest data, despite the office's long track record of running the numbers. Numbers, in fact, that were apparently just fine and dandy for one Eric Cantor to cite a while back in order to try and ...read more
Is Peter King Creating An Anti-Muslim HUAC?
This whole committee focused on beating up on American Muslims seems to be the new hobbyhorse of the bigoted New York Rep. Peter King. He certainly has the track record rhetorically as a McCarthyite, and now he actually has some power in the U.S. House. This won't end well. ...read more
The Emily Litella Congress Gets Ready To "Deem And Pass"
Do you remember how Republicans and conservatives howled and moaned about "deem and pass"? They called it "demon pass" and swore up and down that it was unconstitutional, etc., etc. Of course, what is the new GOP House getting ready to do? Welcome back to the so-called "Demon ...read more
Darrell Issa Asks Big Business For Hit List Vs. Obama Administration
Our partisan witch hunt czar is back in the headlines. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants the oil industry, drug manufacturers and other trade groups and companies to tell him which Obama administration regulations to target this year. The incoming chairman of the House ...read more
Republicans Set Date For "Bring Back The Preexisting Condition" Vote
This is also the same date Republicans will be voting to strip children of health care. Majority Leader-elect Eric Cantor announced the timeline for considering the repeal legislation Monday: the bill will post on the Rules Committee website Monday night, the Rules Committee will ...read more
Cut Duck: Rep. Mike Kelly
Per HuffPo's Amanda Terkel, Rep. Mike Kelly is playing the GOP game of not actually naming spending cuts but rather just mumbling about them. ...read more
GOP Fundraiser Headlined By Adulterous Country Crooner
LeAnn Rimes will be the headliner at an upcoming Republican congressional fundraising event. Rimes has most recently been in the news as "the other woman" who had an affair with actor Eddie Cibrian. I don't actually care about who's sleeping with who in Hollywood, but it's worth ...read more