Comprehensive immigration reform is all but officially dead, which means it must be time for a new coat of paint for the RNC. RNC chairman and woman’s healthcare product Reince Priebus...
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“Financial Apocalypse”
The staff at Bloomberg aren’t taking any prisoners as they lay out what defaulting on the national debt would mean for the economy here at home and abroad. Failure by the world’s largest...
Supreme Court Says No to Cuccinelli’s Big Bedroom Government
Bad news for Ken Cuccinelli. Good news for people who would like to keep Big Government out of their bedrooms. via ThinkProgress The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it would not hear...
The Right Thing to Do
Artist – David Horsey In other news, House Oversight Chairman Darrell “Witch Hunt” Issa is angry because the government shutdown he and his colleagues precipitated has stayed a...
Boston Dynamics’ Wildcat Will Hunt You Down, Consume You For Fuel
Okay, it won’t consume you for fuel, at least not yet, but unless you’re an Olympic sprinter it’s certainly fast enough to hunt you down. All it needs now is a set of teeth. The...
Rep. Ted Yoho: GOP Are “Fred and Barney in the Flintstone-Mobile” Fighting Socialism
In a profile of a congressman who could only be described as a caveman (his words), Representative Ted Yoho (R-FL) shares his delusions of grandeur and reminds us why America is doomed. (Washington...
King Cruz
Artist – Rob Rogers In other news, the woman who was killed outside the capital building yesterday was reportedly suffering from depression and believed that President Obama was electronically...
“Paralysis”
Here’s another quick roundup of reaction from around the world. via ThinkProgress “Paralysis” A Le Monde article on Friday wondered if American democracy even works, calling out the...
GOP Says Get a Job, GOP Shutdown Cuts Off Job Training
It’s the tired mantra of Conservatives Against Feeding People. Want to eat? Get a job. The good news for them is that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) includes a job...
The Bottom Line, Part 2
Who else is adamant about keeping their paycheck? Representative Lee Terry (R-NE). When asked if he would keep his paycheck, he said “dang straight.” And that’s not all. What about...
State Department: Shutdown Risks Extra Security House GOP Demanded
If the Republicans want to insert Benghazi into the debate concerning their government shutdown, perhaps we should discuss how their shutdown is jeopardizing the security improvements which they...
The Playoffs
Artist – Rob Rogers In other news, an Iowa state senator has resigned because he was exposed for accepting money from Michele Bachmann’s 2012 campaign and then laundering the money...
Colbert on the Government Slimdown
Here’s your daily dose of Colbert to preserve your sanity. Fox News is calling it a slimdown, which is a great name ’cause you know who’s really going to slim down? The 9 million...
The Bottom Line
As hundreds of thousands of federal employees go without paychecks this week, Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) is adamant about keeping her paycheck. I need my paycheck. That’s the bottom line. Maybe...
Meanwhile, This is Happening
Capital police aren’t the only ones putting their lives on the line without pay today. Hurricane Hunters, the men and women whose duty is to fly planes directly into tropical storms, are flying...
Worst Person in the World
Watch Representative Randy Neugebauer (R-MotherFucker) scold a park ranger for the government shutdown that Randy Neugebauer had a hand in precipitating. Neugebauer: How do you look at them and deny...
You Have to Be Proud
How is the media in the rest of the world reacting to the GOP Government Shutdown of 2013? For the most part they’re telling the truth. The brutal truth. Something most of our media here at...
For a Good Time Dial 1-800-DERP
This was Drudges’s top headline as of 1 p.m. this afternoon. This Drudge siren takes you to this story in the Daily Caller. Because who else will spin fart jokes into news stories? I would say...
You’re Welcome
Artist – John Darkow The GOP Government Shutdown of 2013 has claimed another victim. via AP Commissaries in the U.S. where military families can buy inexpensive groceries tax-free are shutting...
Mr. Bell’s Demon Box
And now for a sanity break. Here’s Colbert. Despite the total failure of our government to perform it’s most basic function, there’s also some bad news. Could be a mouse. Could be a...