Always nice to see Republicans take a break from voting against veterans funding to criticize the VA There’s no doubt that reports that veterans are dying while waiting for adequate care from VA hospitals is a genuine scandal. But it’s a complex scandal that’s decades in the making. It’s a scandal in which Republican rhetoric doesn’t match their voting record. […]

This family is brought to you by Loving v. Virginia, Windsor v. United States & now Whitewood v. Wood #DecisionDayPA pic.twitter.com/bIgQ8TJYUo — Sarah A. Newman (@westenismydog) May 20, 2014 In their decisions striking down same-sex marriage bans, judges have been trying to outdo each other with definitive statements calling the injustice that has been done LGBT couples, and America’s sense […]

The only thing less popular than a Republican is a Tea Partier Pundits want to remind you again and again that Democrats should get pounded this year. That’s what tends to happen in a president’s party after six years of holding the White House. President Obama’s approval is below 50 percent and Republicans have a chance to pick up seven […]

A willingness to confront reality is on the ballot Rep. Gary Peters has become the first U.S. candidate in a close race to call out his Republican opponent’s stand on global warming. “This is something elected officials should be talking about — we have to be concerned about it,” Peters told The Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent. “Certainly the voters would […]

Rand Paul continues to fling any turd he can find at the Clintons for pretty obvious reasons. The first-term senator from Kentucky has to do something to show the GOP establishment he can be competitive in a general election, and he’s trying to keep the former president out of his home state’s Senate race so Rand didn’t sell out to […]

Or possibly ever The Associated Press reports on a little-known benefit of the Affordable Care Act for low-income pregnant women: Lower-income women who signed up for a private policy in the new insurance exchanges will have access to additional coverage from their state’s Medicaid program if they get pregnant. Some women could save hundreds of dollars on their share of […]

Without Obamacare to demonize, their agenda is to find an agenda Likely Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, Terri Lynn Land’s debuted two new ads on Friday. Both were about the Keystone pipeline. This sudden shift of focus is reminiscent of Republican Gabriel Gomez’s failed attempt to win the Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry […]

And Obamacare is having its best week since it became law Despite predictions that the Affordable Care Act would slow the economy, job creation has spiked to a five-year high, with an estimated 288,000 jobs created in April. Despite predictions that it would bankrupt the country, the deficit is at a five-year low. Despite predictions that cancellations would dull the […]

Republicans can’t decide: Is inequality actually a problem — or is it all Obama’s fault? Late last year, the Census Bureau reported that Americans who live below the poverty level own stuff! Cool stuff! With USB jacks and stuff! “In fact, 80.9 percent of households below the poverty level have cell phones, and a healthy majority—58.2 percent—have computers,” reported right-wing […]

President Obama launched a clean energy revolution and Republicans are still whining about Solyndra At the NRA convention this weekend, you didn’t hear one mention of the issue that’s most threatening to gun owners: the 19,000 suicides by firearms in America each year. But you did hear about waterboarding as a religious rite, #Benghazi and Solyndra. Solyndra became the synecdoche […]

The one simple sentence that can change everything The political momentum continued to shift away from Republicans this week as conservatives took shrapnel from the Bundy implosion, polls continued to show Obamacare is far more popular than repeal even in red states and Democrats have found ways to embrace the law as Republicans continue to fail to win “the big argument.” […]