Why the GOP should hope the Supreme Court legalizes equal marriage You know that there isn’t one argument against same-sex marriage that isn’t ridiculous, based on someone’s interpretation of the Bible, or both. Even Republicans — at least the ones with openly gay kids — admit this. Hoping to avoid the demographic tidal wave of young people who support equal […]

Prepare for a messy 2013 I have to admit that I was wrong in two very serious ways. I thought Paul Ryan’s disgrace as a VP candidate — booed by seniors and hidden for the last weeks for the campaign — would  temper the House Republicans a bit. That almost seemed to happen at the beginning for 2013 with the […]

Think of the children — no, not those children! Fox News is in an uproar because of a sequester cut that forces Republicans to have to actually explain to their constituents that the sequester which they voted for, twice now, actually exists. The White House has suspended tours as of Saturday. Thus congressmen will temporarily be barred from handing out […]

What George W. Bush is to governing, Jeb is to campaigning To be honest, I’m not exactly sure what Jeb Bush’s immigration reform plan is. And neither is Jeb. Throughout 2012 and as late as late January of this year, Jeb was saying Republicans shouldn’t oppose a path to citizenship. Then in early March, he promotes a book saying that […]

Republicans are rebranding! 2013 is a whole new ballgame for the GOP. Instead of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock making disgusting comments about rape, a Republican woman has decided to invent biology to justify making all abortion illegal even in cases of rape, a belief that only 9 percent of Americans share. Celeste Creig, president of the volunteer organization California […]

This is why Mitt Romney pays a lower tax rate than you do I’m about to shock you. Read this: “Skewing income toward the upper, upper class hurts our economy because the rich tend to sit on their money — unlike lower- and middle-income people, who spend a large share of their paychecks, and hence stimulate economic activity.” Guess who […]

People tend to not like being lied to, over and over On Tuesday, Politico reported what the House GOP sees as their secret weapon in winning the political battle over the sequester: Their unpopularity. “And, for once, the GOP is buffeted by its unpopularity: House Republicans kept their majority with mid-teen approval ratings after two years of political warfare,” Jake […]

Remind me when letting the states decide civil rights issues has ever worked out, again. When I tell my friends that I support letting the states decide if Republicans can marry, they often ask me to leave their sauna, unfriend them on Facebook and return all of their lent toiletries. In these instances, I’m reminded that the tradition of marriage […]

We don’t have a revenue problem; we have a Republican problem Let’s remind ourselves what happened on January 1, 2013. The Bush tax breaks expired and taxes went up on every American who pays income tax. That was the only reason Republicans were willing to “compromise” and vote to end some of the tax breaks for the richest 1 percent. […]

How the world’s biggest spenders attack the most conservative government spendthrift since Eisenhower Speaking to House Democrats Friday, Bill Clinton reminded his audience how Republicans’ concerns about the deficit depend on who is in the White House. Having eliminated the deficit he inherited from Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and then being forced to watch the work he did […]

Again, the GOP is more interested in punishing women than giving them affordable health care When Michigan’s Republican Party isn’t busy cutting education, driving down workers’ wages or stealing presidential elections, they always have time to wage a little war on women. Because it calls for the use of “most technologically advanced ultrasound equipment available at that location”, HB 4187 […]