Yes -- I repeat -- congress is going on vacation for another two months, but before they leave Senate Republicans managed to block passage of the Veterans Job Corps Bill. Republicans on Wednesday...
If it's a day than ends with Y, that means it's time for another lesson in bad optics from Team Romney. Remember the Ohio coal miners employed by Murray Energy who lost a day's pay because Mitt...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took no prisoners while speaking on the floor of the Senate today. Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. So whose taxes would Mitt Romney raise? We...
While congress goes on vacation for another two months on the orders of House Majority Shitkicker Eric Cantor, 400 people at Siemens, a company that produces blades for wind turbines, will lose their...
Let them eat shit? Artist - John Darkow In other news, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court ruled today that the lower court must ensure "liberal access" to voter ID before it can rule in favor of...
Time for a quick sanity break. Observers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced yesterday that they've discovered "dry ice" snow on Mars. A spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected carbon dioxide...
As Clint Eastwood proves in this video, anyone "dumb enough to ask [him] to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get." Jump to the 2:15 minute mark...
You can have my both sides meme when you pry it from my Slate-pitching hands. This is gross false equivalence. The recording of Mitt Romney is completely unobstructed and features him alone speaking...
Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic makes a very good point on the flip side of Mitt Romney's "47 percent" comments as they pertain to the expiration of the Southern Strategy's effectiveness. More to...
Artist - Dave Granlund In other news, a new study from the Congressional Research Service finds that there is no link between tax cuts for the rich and economic growth. Shocker! Here's another Mitt...
I'm not sure I'd call this candidacy-ending, but this video is absolutely brutal. This is going to go viral. The transcript is embedded if you can't listen, but I recommend listening for the full...
Why isn't Team Romney naming specific tax loopholes they would close? According to Ryan himself, they aren't naming any because it's up to Congress to figure out it, but what he really means to say...
This is Newsweek's cover story today. In addition to the provocative cover and the correspondingly bad story, Newsweek is also encouraging readers and fans to tweet #MuslimRage. And as of this time...
Artist - John Cole According to Rick Santorum, the GOP will never have "smart people" on their side. Ya' don't say?
Artist - John Darkow In other news, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted's request for a stay on the order to resume early voting was denied. Husted requested the stay after backing down from his order...
Congress just returned from vacation last week after a month off, but apparently they're planning to go on vacation again for another two months. House Republican Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced...
Did you hear President Obama wants to give you welfare for nothing? Apparently the Republicans do too! House Republicans passed a bill in the Education & Workforce committee in June that would...
Artist - RJ Matson In other news, a Dane County, Wisconsin judge struck down Governor Scott Walker's anti-collective bargaining law today, ruling that the law is unconstitutional. Also -- according...
According to Mitt Romney, you can't accuse him of wanting to raise taxes on middle income people because "middle income" includes people who make between $200,000 and $250,000 per year. "No one can...
Congress, and more specifically the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, brings use today's Moment of Derp. via The Hill The House passed legislation Friday afternoon that would curtail a...
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