Pennsylvania became the 27th state to expand Medicaid on Thursday. Though the agreement between the Obama Administration and Republican Governor Tom Corbett is far from perfect, it does mark a milestone worth pointing out. Call it the “270 Mark” or the “276 Mark,” to be exact. A Republican candidate for president can not take the White House without winning a […]

In May of 2008, the Republican nominee for president John McCain broke with George W. Bush to support a cap-and-trade system for limiting greenhouse gases, a position that nearly every major Republican thinking about running for president supported at one time. In 2014, there isn’t one major Republican who supports doing anything to stop the heating of the atmosphere that […]

And higher premiums for everyone else Last year, about a month before the Affordable Care Act exchanges were set to open and Republicans in Washington D.C. were vowing to shut down the government to defund the law, Bill  Clinton gave a speech at his Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. The simple case he made for the law that day […]

Progressive – n. someone who believes the future can be better than the past This giveaway is now closed. The greatest irony of American life — besides the fact that states from the Old Confederacy are among most likely to be dependent on the federal government — is that the progressive movement was born in the Republican party. The far […]

If Republicans ran on what they actually believed, they’d lose — even in red states. We know this for sure because a candidate who voted to privatize Medicare and Social Security is attacking his opponent for wanting to reform Medicare and Social Security. Just as we learned that Obamacare is fading as an issue in the 2014 elections, Republican candidate […]

After what had been the worst night of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri in response the killing of 18-year old Michael Brown by a police officer, a flurry of statements from politicians on Thursday condemned the aggressive action of the local police. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Justin Amash issued nearly identical statements noting that this is America, not a war […]

The Koch brothers’ front group Freedom Partners abruptly canceled $1.1 million in ads in Michigan aimed to help elect Republicans last week, according to Politico. Did the brothers Koch look at the run of polls that show Mark Schauer running neck-and-neck with scandal-ridden Governor Rick Snyder or a stark assessment from the National Journal that illustrates how Senate nominee Terri […]

Next year, an amazing thing will happen. Millions of Americans won’t be paying more for health insurance. Subsidized middle-class consumers — about 85 percent of the those who purchased a plan — currently pay an average of $264 less a month because of the law. And they will likely be paying just about the same amount in premiums in 2015 […]

People don’t love Democrats but they hate the alternative Many the members of the GOP’s House majority have literally have had their districts drawn for them. And if Republicans wanted to draw a map that would give them a chance to take control of the Senate, it would look exactly like what we’re seeing in 2014. The party of Steve […]

Less than eight months after the House GOP Leadership embraced legalization for 11 million undocumented immigrants, the real leadership of the House — Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann and Steve King — have passed a bill that demands maximum deportations. President Obama has already indicated that he will act to reduce the deportations of at least some of the law-abiding undocumented […]

Who knew we could expand coverage while saving trillions on health care? Oh. Only every industrialized country in the world. We know that about 10 million Americans have gained health insurance in the last seven months as America has enjoyed its best year of job creation since 1999. But the best news about Obamacare — besides the more than 12,000 […]