Sequestration and the Right-Wing Conspiracy to End Equality
The cruel reality is that those who can least afford it will bear the brunt of the impending social experiment, Imara Jones writes at Colorlines. The chaos set to be unleashed over the next month through the implementation of sequestration budget cuts beginning today is not an accident. For a large part of the [...]
Obama’s Big Immigration Opportunity
Republicans are strongly signaling they will back an immigration plan along the outlines of what President Barack Obama proposed Tuesday, creating the potential for an almost unprecedented occurrence: Obama signing a major bill without an extended fight with the GOP. The core ideas touted in his speech in Las Vegas — creating a pathway [...]
Colin Powell Blasts Fellow Republicans: They ‘Still Look Down on Minorities’
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has been very critical of the G.O.P. since leaving public life, and he leveled a bit more criticism at the GOP during his appearance on ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday. “The Republican party needs to take a very hard look at itself and understand that the country has changed” [...]
Obama: ‘If I Had Set the Same Policies Back in the 1980s, I Would be Considered a Moderate Republican’
by Yvette Carnell Whenever anyone dares to say that President Obama is a right of center politician, he or she is usually maligned as a “hater”, or someone who clearly doesn’t understand politics. (That sort of thing usually involves a trite chess vs. checkers reference as well.) But in an all but unnoticed comment on [...]
Gov Chris Christie Says Boehner Wouldn’t Return His Calls After Rejecting Him for Sandy Relief
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is livid with Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) after Boehner led the effort to keep people in New Jersey and New York from getting much-needed relief funding for Hurricane Sandy. The anger is showing publicly and leading to a divide that has many supporters of the Republican Party worried that the [...]
Rev. C.L. Bryant Won’t Stop Saying Things That Don’t Makes Sense
The last person to take Rev. C.L. Bryant to task was CNN’s Roland Martin, and after Martin’s smackdown of Bryant, we thought we’d seen the last of Bryant. That was wishful thinking. The good reverend is at it again, this time dismissing whole swaths of African Americans and Latinos for reelecting President Obama. Rev. C.L. [...]
Obama Aide to MSNBC Reporter: “With These Republicans, There’d Still be Slavery” Today
Congressional Republicans are currently under fire for supporting the rich at the expense of everyone else, and some in the Obama administration have reportedly become frustrated with the GOP. The result of the previous debt ceiling negotiations left many believing that President Obama capitulated to Republicans, and some at the White House believe that the [...]
Obama’s All Like “I’m Sticking to My Principles” and Republicans are All Like “Where’s the Old Obama?”
The White House has issued its first bid on the fiscal cliff, and Republicans are shocked that the bid is structured along the lines of what President Obama outlined during his campaign. Republicans are apparently upset that Obama hasn’t offered them as much as expected in his opening bid, but they would do well to [...]
President Obama to Republicans: ‘Go After Me’
President Obama was criticized by many on the Left for not being tough enough with the GOP during his first term. Well, it seems that Obama heard the criticism loud and clear, and is now responding. During Wednesday’s press conference, Obama did not commit to Susan Rice being his nominee for Secretary of State, but [...]
Hey, GOP: Diversify Your Platform!
If the GOP wants to change its image, the Rev. Al Sharpton writes at the Huffington Post that members need to start by diversifying their platform, which means getting on the right side of civil right, progress and history. It’s difficult for some to process the fact that my parents were Republicans. But they were, [...]
March 21, 2013No CommentRead More