Tag: republicans
Republicans take control of the Senate
Let the deregulaton begin!
(click the piggy for Washington Post animation)
Ebola, ISIS, and the border
The Republicans are using the three issues to gain Senate seats in the upcoming November elections- and the Democrats are letting them.
24 billion dollars later…
The Senate and House finally passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling and re-open the government late last night. What an worthless waste of time and money these past two weeks have been.
A collection of animations about Congress and the government shutdown (click on each image):
Speaker Boehner chasing after his fig leaf
The Speaker and the nutty conservatives who lead him continue to drag the rest of America further into the hole they’ve been digging. Last night the House again failed to come up with a plan to lift the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown- so they basically threw the mess into the Senate’s lap and went home. 
Government shutdown: Day 15
Ted Cruz held a secret meeting at Tortilla Coast, a Capitol Hill restaurant last night.
GOP proposes to open parts of the government
We’re in day 2 of the Government Shutdown. The Republicans are trying to change the narrative from the fact they caused the shutdown over the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), so they’re proposing to open parts of the governments to appeal to certain groups of voters. 
When the clock strikes twelve
So we’re back at a government shutdown, the first in 17 years. At midnight tonight 800,000 workers will be furloughed, basically because the Tea Party Republicans refuse to accept that Obamacare is law and have turned Speaker Boehner into just a mouthpiece for their cause.
Understanding the Fiscal Cliff (in 2m 30s)
Former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains (and draws)
from YouTube
The flat-earth candidate
Looks like Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) is already starting his 2016 campaign. Not only is he pandering to the Christian Right, he’s also hinting at the “trickle-down government” narrative Mitt Romney pushed during the 2012 campaign. 
Senator Graham criticizes GOP immigration policy
During Sunday’s Face the Nation, the senator from South Carolina talks about how “tone and rhetoric” have caused the Hispanic community to turn against the Republican Party. He’s forgetting how tone and rhetoric is a problem with even a bigger voting bloc.
GOP tries to figure out what went wrong
The Washington Post has a story about top GOP officials planning “an exhaustive review to figure out what went so wrong and how to fix it”. I don’t think the Republicans need to spend all that money on focus groups; try joining the 21st century.