Those who depend on the kindness of corporations are the truly dependent As news broke that the United Auto Workers’ effort to organize its first plant run by a foreign automaker in the South failed by 87 votes, conservatives celebrated. They were celebrating how the scare tactics of Senator Bob Corker, who likely violated the Wagner Act, and other local […]

Michigan RNC candidate calls for the ‘purging’ of gays from the GOP First, we had a a Republican National Committee member from Michigan saying that Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay propaganda laws were “common sense.” When Dave Agema paired that insight with an anti-Muslim post, his colleagues stopped cheering him on and realized that he could blow the millions the Kochs are […]

FACT: Obamacare only gives subsidies to families that are WORKING. When the sober, affable E.J. Dionne complains that our health care debate is “stupid,” you know things gotten silly. The right’s fear-mongering of a totalitarian takeover of the 2009-2010 gave way to the theoretical job-killing of 2011-2013. When Obamacare’s open enrollment arrived with the best job growth in half a […]

The GOP defeated Ted Cruz — now will anything good come of it? If you’ve been paying attention to Washington DC lately, you’ve been enjoying how no one is listening to Ted Cruz. — except to laugh at him when he says he didn’t want a government shutdown. Again and again, the Club for Growth and Freedomworks come out against […]

You wouldn’t know it by watching or listening to most pundits, but the Republican Party is more unpopular today than at the lowest points of George W. Bush’s presidency. And they’re far less popular than they were when they won 1.3 million fewer votes than Democratic House candidates. On the day of the president’s State of the Union, the House […]

The RNC committeeman committed the one GOP unforgivable sin: He was alienating donors Renowned anti-gay, anti-Muslim activist, Dave Agema announced Friday night that he will not resign from the Republican National Committee even after nearly everyone in his party had called on him to do so — except Governor Snyder, who is too busy telling Congress how to budget to […]

Allow me to Kochsplain a bit. You’ve probably heard how the Koch brothers plan to win the U.S. Senate this year. In addition to spending millions on television in states like Michigan, they’re also hiring staff to blog, tweet, Facebook, Tumbl and whatever else they imagine the plebes are doing these days. They want to create the appearance dozens of […]

If you’re wondering about the State of the State of Michigan, you were wise to skip Governor Rick Snyder’s speech on Thursday. The governor bragged about the state’s job growth but that’s just a tribute to the national economy when even the state with the third worst unemployment rate in the nation is adding jobs. As far as the real […]

Senate Republicans stopped a bill that would restore emergency unemployment insurance for only three months on Tuesday. Republicans want to end the additional help for those looking for work at a point when the government never has before because they don’t believe in it. But they can’t say that. So they say we can’t afford it. They demanded that the […]

Republicans fear their anti-poverty message could cloud their pro-poverty message The Washington Examiner’s Bryon York wants to know why some high-profile Republicans — Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Mike Lee — have decided to tell people that they care about poverty now. He’s not wondering this because the GOP doesn’t actually have a anti-poverty agenda or because these […]

Republicans can’t let the Tea Party catch them caring about the unemployed. UPDATE: Land came out for the extension right before the Senate’s first procedural vote on the bill, which surprisingly passed with 6 Republican votes. Last weekend, 43,800 Michiganders who have been out of work for more than 5 months lost their unemployment insurance. If Congress doesn’t act 86,500 […]