Republicans love to talk about activist judges. However whenever a law is passed they are unable to stop in Congress they run to the courts to get it overturned. Senate Republican Candidate Miller runs to court to attempt to disenfranchise the Alaska citizens who voted for Murkowski overwhelmingly. When Republicans found themselves at a populist […]

The hearings held by the Ethics Committee today was despicable. This not a defense of Charlie Rangel. This is a rebuke of the ethics committee. While it was clearly stated that the charges for which Charlie Rangel was admittedly guilty of were not for financial gain or any other gain but for over zealousness to […]

Doesn’t it always feel like we have to accept less coverage for more money every time our health insurance plan renews? The double digit rate hikes are coming fast and furious. Health care costs are going up, but health insurance companies want even higher increases. Why do they need all that extra money? You probably […]

Juan Williams, the NPR and FoxNews “journalist” that was fired when he said the following to Bill O’Reilly when asked about whether the United States was facing a Muslim Dilemma, "I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But […]

single Republican senator including Susan Collins (R-Maine), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), and Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Texas) voted to block an up or down vote against the Paycheck Fairness Act. The purpose of the Paycheck Fairness Act is to ensure that businesses pay women equally as they do men. This should have been an easy vote not […]

The standard main stream media narrative has been that Democrats are placing into leadership the same batch that actually caused them to lose the midterm election in dramatic form. That narrative must be rejected. Firstly, had this loss happened to a man who had accomplished what Nancy Pelosi’s legislative accomplishments were, more than likely the […]

While the $86.2 million dollar spent by the Chamber of Commerce was ultimately unsuccessful in derailing the Healthcare Reform bill it was extremely successful in making it much more friendly to the insurance companies on whose behalf the Chamber was working by making the bill extremely profitable to the insurance companies at the expense of […]

Republican Senator Jon Kyl sudden objection to holding a vote on the US-Russia nuclear weapons treaty is an affront to American national security. The Senate has had this treaty in hands since June and gave all indications of their willingness to support it. Objecting now shows that Republicans are willing to forego a treaty that […]

Reality meets alternate reality. Freshman Republican Andy Harris of Maryland, an anesthesiologist campaigned on repealing “Obamacare”, healthcare reform. He found out that his government provided healthcare does not kick in for twenty eight day. Following he asked if it was possible to purchase gap insurance to cover the 28 days he had to wait for […]