Articles tagged with: Republican
Boehner Makes Ugly Threats on Debt Limit Increases
It looks like Speaker of the House John Boehner is up to his old tricks again, threatening to block an increase in the federal debt limit ceiling without obtaining significant new cuts in spending. There is little doubt that the last two years, which resulted in over $1.0 trillion per year in deficit spending, will bring the country close to …
GOP Extremists Oust Lugar in Indiana
Last Tuesday’s Republican primary in the State of Indiana represented a sad day for America, and yet another step forward for the ultra-conservative Tea Party movement. Richard Lugar, a thirty-six year veteran of Congress, known as being one of the last remaining moderate Republicans in the Senate, was soundly defeated by Tea-Party backed candidate Richard Mourdock. Ironically, the political virtues …
Walker Recall Will Give Tea Party a Black Eye
In a few more weeks the people of the State of Wisconsin will be voting to decide whether or not to throw conservative Governor Scott Walker out of office. The recall vote will be a major test of Walker and the the ultra-conservative “Tea Party‘s” ability to strip public worker unions of their collective bargaining rights, and to balance their …
Speaker Boehner: Incompetence on Steroids
With the possible exception of Newt Gingrich, John Boehner just may be the most ineffective Speaker of the House that America has ever seen. Not only has Boehner failed miserably in bringing the various elements of his own Republican Party together, but has become a pariah to the Democrats for his refusal to even consider many of President Obama’s legislative …
Rep. Allen West : “Congress Infiltrated With Commies”
In this year of great political turmoil within the Republican Party, it would be difficult to come up any additional characters that could possibly be more derisive, or further out of touch with middle class Americans, than the presidential wanna-bees of Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann and Cain. Over the course of the last year, all of these Republicans have …
The Time Has Come to End U.S. Deficits
A whole lot of middle class Americans, who have been watching the value of their 401K retirement plans go up and down like yo-yo’s over the last four years, are beginning to look fearfully toward Europe for a sign of what might be in store for the U.S. Unfortunately, the picture isn’t very pretty. Much like the U.S., European countries …
Gingrich Calls America Dysfunctional
On Wednesday Newt Gingrich spoke at a press conference at Georgetown University. During his first public appearance since announcing he had dramatically cut back on his presidential campaign, Newt hammered away at the usual themes of how Obama is ruining the country, how the news media is out to get him, and how his Republican opponents have corrupted his “big …
The Reverend Santorum’s Truth Impairment
It seems as if Rick Santorum‘s reputation for being autocratic and humorless is really starting to show itself on the campaign trail. In fact, the Reverend Rick has even begun using salty language toward the mainstream media, whom he perceives as liberal, self-serving and controlled by evil, lying pundits. These days, Santorum is pushing forward with a one-man crusade to …
Paul Ryan’s “Path to Poverty” for the Middle Class
The House Republicans released this week a budget plan for the United States called “The Path to Prosperity“. According to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, the new budget initiative contains all of the policies that Republicans believe are needed to move America forward. It is, in fact, a revealing blueprint of how Mr. Ryan and his fellow conservatives view …
Tea Party Bravado Results in Mitt Romney
Many Americans who have watched the drama of the Republican presidential primaries unfold have been astounded by the total lack of enthusiasm among the electorate. Simply stated, the prospect of Mitt Romney becoming the inevitable nominee has left the majority of Republicans disgusted and disenfranchised. Many of the GOP faithful feel that Romney has been foisted on them by the …
