"It's clearly hard to imagine anyone having Steve King on purpose." via Dave Krebs
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Where There Is Jelly There Is Santorum
Forgive me for the headline. It practically wrote itself. The presidential campaign of Rick "The Frothy" Santorum, which is struggling to gain traction among primary voters, is bringing out their...
House Majority Shitkicker
After the FAA was shuttered almost two weeks ago, federal ticket taxes, to the tune of $200 million per week, were no longer being collected because the FAA's authority expired. Rather than pass on...
The Brightest Thing To Pass Congress
Artist - J.D. Crowe In other news, RNC chair Reince Priebus really hopes that no one will pay attention to the upcoming recall elections of 6 Republican state senators in Wisconsin, and the Red Wing...
Filibustering While On Vacation
After the withdrawal of Elizabeth Warren's candidacy to head the new Consumer Protection Bureau, President Obama nominated former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray for the position. However, like...
The End Is Nigh!
At least according to Steve King. The conservative freak-out over the Department of Health and Human Services requiring insurers to provide women's healthcare, such as birth control and breast exams...
Core Values
Artist - Steve Greenberg In other news, a new CNN poll finds a 65 percent approval rating of today's debt deal, while 30 percent disapprove. 15 percent think the cuts go too far, and 13 percent think...
Moving On Post Deficit-Hysteria
President Obama spoke to the press at the rose garden today to announce his signing of the Budget Control Act (the debt-ceiling bill) and to offer a glimpse of what he plans to focus on next. So...
Know Who Else Has Free Birth Control? Red China!
As I briefly mentioned last night, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced new regulations that would require health insurance companies to cover women’s health care services, such...
House Goes On Recess. FAA Still Shut Down.
After yesterday's vote on the debt ceiling in the House of Representatives, Majority Leader Eric Cantor advised his caucus that no further legislative action would take place until September 7th...
Tea Party Wisdom
Artist - David Fitzsimmons In other news, the Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Alabama's latest iteration of "papers please" immigration law, and the Department of Health and Human...
Upon Further Examination
While everyone is fixated on how terrible this debt-ceiling deal is for Democrats, If one pauses long enough to really analyze the details and all of their implications, one finds that, in the long...
Nope. Not Racist At All.
Republican Representative Doug Lamborn (R-CO) is easily today's worst person. Here he is speaking on the Caplis and Silverman radio show last Friday “Now I don’t even want to have to be associated...
A Little Teapot
Artist - Monte Wolverton In other news, the EPA has proposed new regulations on the "smog-forming pollutants" released by the gas-drilling procedure known as Fracking. Also -- this happened.
Your Hair Is Not On Fire
According to numerous reports, President Obama, the Democrats, and Republican leadership have reached a tentative framework for what the final debt-ceiling deal will look like. There's so much spin...
No Brains
Artist - RJ Matson In other news, no one has any idea what is going on in Washington right now. John Boehner has left the capitol for the night, and Mitch McConnell is filibustering Harry Reid's bill.
Video of the Day
via ThinkProgress Again -- George Bush raised the debt ceiling seven times while doubling the national debt. Ronald Reagan raised the debt ceiling eighteen times while tripling the national debt. 98...
Crazy Glue
Artist - Adam Zyglis In other news, John Boehner's fantasy debt-ceiling bill, which was re-written twice, has finally passed the House so it can now die in the Senate. Way to go! What's everyone...
Sabotage Continued
Ontop of the news that investors pulled more money out of mutual funds invested in U.S. government securities last week than in any previous week this year, we have this: (Reuters) - Stocks ended the...
Republican Sabotage Is Taking Its Toll
According to Bloomberg, investors pulled more money out of mutual funds invested in U.S. government securities last week than in any previous week this year. Investors last week pulled more money...
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