GOP congressman reportedly complains about being “stuck” in Congress making only $172,000 a year.
Yesterday the news was that Ted Cruz had essentially rolled the GOP House leadership and gotten them to get behind his quixotic and colonic effort to shutdown the government over Obamacare. But that was yesterday. They say revolutions eat their children. But this is more the children eating the children. Or something. DC Republicans are in some sort of infinite regression or feedback loop in which no Big Cheese can ascend the hill without people turning on him as not a real conservative and deserving of destruction. Now House Tea Partiers have decided that Cruz himself may not really be gung-ho enough to kill Obamacare. Read More
Pope Francis “obsessed” Church’s focus on abortion, gays and contraception at the expense of deeper message and role in world.
Pope Francis “obsessed” Church’s focus on abortion, gays and contraception at the expense of deeper message and role in world.
Here’s a new Koch-funded anti-Obamacare video campaign which has a pretty creepy (and kinda rapey?) Uncle Sam sneaking into your gynecologist’s office to give you a surprise vaginal exam.
After his conviction was overturned today, Tom DeLay’s wife tells TPM “he was being punished by the liberals.”
Two motorists with concealed carry permits shoot each other to death in road rage incident.
It’s easy to lose track of the sheer level of ridiculousness of the battle now breaking out between House Republican leaders and the Ted Cruz posse in the Senate. They’re attacking each other over who’s hardcore enough to fight to the end in their completely phony battle to defund Obamacare. (For Boehner there must be some element of ‘You got us into this mess by ginning up your yahoos. So back atcha, douche!’) It’s not quite the People’s Front of Judea versus the Judean People’s Front or Kabuki theater. Or maybe it’s both of them in the same Potemkin Village. But we’re now in a high-octane ‘man up’ fight between Boehner and Cruz over the dingbat manuever has got all his followers ginned up about but which everyone knows is destined to fail.
McCain: To think we can repeal Obamacare “is not rational.” Watch.