by Leo Gerard | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
The grandest and most majestic first act of 2016 by the Republican majority in Congress was to take a meat clever and sever 17 million Americans from their Affordable Care Act health insurance. No chemo for you, cancer patients, the GOP declared. No plaster or slings...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
When President Obama introduced his executive actions on gun control, he wept as he talked about Sandy Hook Elementary. Wingnuts couldn’t understand why he would still cry over 20 dead first graders. It took a long time. It took over 20 mass shootings since Barack...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 8, 2016 | Conservatism, Economy, Election 2016
Republican leaders, including six of the GOP presidential candidates, on Saturday will engage in one of their occasional displays of "compassionate conservatism," in which they seek to convince voters that they actually do care about people struggling to climb out of...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 7, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
The Supreme Court has once again decided to reconsider "settled law." This time it is a case involving the rights of public-employee unions to charge employees a fee for the services the unions are required by law to provide to all employees – even those who are not...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 5, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
The right-wing lawlessness on display in the armed standoff in Oregon must not stand. The federal government needs to get it right this time, or risk emboldening homegrown extremists. On Saturday, Ammon and Ryan Bundy — sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy — led more...
by Digby | Jan 4, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Reihan Salam made a belated but useful observation this morning on a very lively Face the Nation after Trump went on an extended tirade about well ... everything: SALAM: Well, the genius of -- the genius of Ted Cruz is also the fact that if you look at the Republican...
