Battle lines are being drawn. Republicans have a bill ready to go called Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act that will be introduced next week. They aren’t talking about fixing things. They are talking about dismantling things. And, screw the deficit. They have even exempted the repeal of health insurance reform from their own requirements that any new laws […]

Maybe the Republicans think we’ll just get numb and desensitized to their rampant GOPocrisy and start pretending it doesn’t exist. Check this out. They aren’t the least bit subtle about it. After spending two years preventing literally hundreds of President Obama’s nominations to key administration and judicial posts from being filled, we get this: Republicans, after two years of criticism […]

Via Think Progress: [D]espite spending the past year and a half railing against government healthcare, just five Republican members of the 112th Congress have been willing to forgo their own government healthcare coverage, which is provided to them as federal employees. Rep.-elect Joe Walsh (R-IL) is one of those Republicans… Asked tonight about Walsh’s suggestion that it’s hypocritical for GOP […]

I probably give these idiots more attention than they deserve but I just HAD to share this latest piece of hilarity from Judson Phillips at the Tea Party Nation. It’s titled “Why Not?” (membership req’d.) At Tea Party Nation, we have made it a goal of the Tea Party movement to take over the Republican Party and return it to […]

Alright, Eclectafolks, pop quiz time! What do “Toot Sweets” and revolving license plates have in common? Answer in the comments. I’m just sayin’…

The Obama administration is moving toward bring disclosure into the sordid business of fracking so that people know what chemicals are being used and which may eventually end up in their water supply. But Republicans are aghast – aghast I say! – that this action may cut into corporate profits. In December, Sec. of the Interior Ken Salazar held public […]

A landmark piece of legislation passed during the lame duck session that puts more regulations in place to guard our country’s food supply than any law in many decades. And the GOP is going to try to make sure the food safety law doesn’t get funded. The legislation would greatly strengthen the regulatory hand of the Food and Drug Administration, […]

Just a quick update to let you know that I have switched over from the old Blogger commenting system to Disqus. You don’t have to but you can sign up for a quick and easy (and FREE!) Disqus account. This will allow you to track your commenting on any Disqus comment-containing blog. I’m currently importing comments from the Blogger system […]

In the flurry of activity of the 111th Congress lame duck session, a nice piece of progressive legislation passed with little notice or fanfare. But it’s a BFD for renewable energy. As part of the tax cut deal negotiated by President Obama with the Republicans, a key section of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Section 1603, was extended. […]

Have you heard about the Obama administration group that ended 2010 $1,600,000,000 UNDER budget? Probably not. It was the United States Census Bureau who completed their Herculean task and came in 22% under budget. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that it is 22 percent under budget for the 2010 Census, largely thanks to the unanticipated cooperation of the American […]

I guess you can say you have “arrived” when you pick up a recurrent troll and we now have a full-fledged Eclectatroll. This person (not sure if it’s a man or a woman) has bravely adopted the very-creative nom de plume of “Anonymous” so we’ll just have to call them Eclectatroll. Here are some of their most recent comments. In […]