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A very insightful piece by former GWB staffer David Frum about how the Tea Party is driving the GOP bus right over the 2012 cliff.  ...

Representative Steve King from Iowa and Representative Eric Cantor were on the tube a while back talking about the jobs bill. Both of them said they didn't want to do go forward with the bill. After spending much of time vomiting the drivel they usually do, King made a temporary moment of honesty when he told the world that they didn't want to do anything until after the November election.The commentator asked the next obvious...

I've been watching the Occupy Wall Street movement since it started in New York on September 17th.  In the early days, coverage outside of Occupy Wall Street's own website was virtually non-existent, dismissed by the media.  The major networks were no where to be found, and even local coverage was sparse.  It wasn't until a video of a police supervisor pepper spraying peaceful protestors went viral did the media finally wake up.  Read more here......

Republicans want you to believe that Social Security is "broke" and "a fraud."  Nothing could be farther from the truth....

Mike Murphy, Republican Strategist:Listening to Perry try to a put a complicated policy sentence together is like watching a chimp play with a locked suitcase......

I'm already so sick the constant Perry Watch, and it's only August 2011. We may have to get through MONTHS of this.  If you do even a modicum of research, you'll find an interesting article about "Brain Biases & News" and see that people who are deemed attractive by our shallow US standards generally are considered Teflon-coated and given a "pass" on many things. (http://www.brainbiases.com/2008/11/beautiful-people-bias.html) That's one reason Sarah Palin won't go away, and why we're going...

It was another 'Say what?' moment as some New York City TPers protested the Super Congress:"For tea party activists, the super committee smacks of everything they railed against in the last election cycle: Concentrated power in the hands of a few lawmakers who might be inclined to make closed door deals involving trillions of dollars.In the New Dorp section of Staten Island in New York City, roughly 15 tea party activists gathered in the rain...

If Speaker Boehner's attempt to get his debt ceiling plan passed by the House last night was a referendum on his leadership, the results are in and they are clear--Boehner is not in charge, the inmates are truly running the asylum, and fully intent on running the economy over the cliff. As Ron Beasley at The Moderate Voice put it, Boehner's " not trying to herd cats, but lemmings."Despite all the arm-twisting, coercing, and cajoling...

Congressman Joe Walsh, (R-IL) released a video earlier this month in which he called on President Obama to "quit lying" and asked the president "Have you no shame, sir?" He also spoke of the need for a balanced budget amendment, and re-iterated his refusal to raise the debt ceiling because he "won't place one more dollar of debt on my kids."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Here's the Honorable Congressman Walsh's stance on lying, how he balances his own...