Obama Now Attempting To Get Each Word Of Jobs Bill Passed Individually | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

WASHINGTON—Following two months of frustrated efforts to push his American Jobs Act through Congress, President Obama announced Monday he was now attempting to have each word of the bill passed individually

Are the GOP willing to tear down the economy in order to tear down the president or are they going to cooperate?

“I think this is something — something different going on right now.

Eric Cantor's breathtaking hypocrisy on Occupy Wall Street

Speaking at the Values Voters Summit in Washington this morning, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) made an assertion that was breathtaking in its hypocrisy.

Gosh, Could Obamacare Be Working?

Need a reason to believe the Affordable Care Act is starting to work? The Census Bureaujust gave you a half million of them. That’s how many young adults had health insurance in 2010, as compared to 2009, according to the official estimates.

Ten Fatal Flaws in the "Regulatory Uncertainty" Argument

 It sounds better to talk about “regulatory uncertainty” than just to say that businesses hate the idea that they’ll have to cut pollution or give more information to consumers.  In any event, there’s so much wrong with the “uncertainty&rdq …

Bill in hand, Obama presses Congress on jobs plan

Reporting from Washington -- Holding up a copy of his jobs bill,President Obama on Monday called on Congress to pass it “immediately’’ and implored the public to put pressure on lawmakers, using a Rose Garden appearance to  build grassroots support for …

Peter Berkowitz: The Myth of Conservative Purity - WSJ.com

Adam Smith, the Founding Fathers, Ronald Reagan—all practiced the art of wise compromise.

Private employers added 91,000 jobs in Aug. - Business - msnbc.com

WASHINGTON — Private employers added 91,000 jobs in August, according to a report from ADP Employer Services issued Wednesday — a modest gain that may soothe some investors’ worries about a recession. Analysts had predicted that the report — whic …

Major tea party group to protest Romney tea party debut – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

Major tea party group to protest Romney tea party debut By: CNN Political Reporter Shannon Travis

Tim Pawlenty ends Republican White House bid - USATODAY.com

Pawlenty told supporters on a conference call Sunday morning that he would announce on ABC's "This Week" that he was ending his campaign after a disappointing finish in the Iowa straw poll on Saturday.

Disapproval rate for Congress at record | The public's opinion of the Tea Party movement has soured

The public's opinion of the Tea Party movement has soured in the wake of the debt-ceiling debate. The Tea Party is now viewed unfavorably by 40 percent of the public and favorably by just 20 percent, according to the poll.

Republican Tea Party leader arrested for computer piracy | TG Daily

A heavyweight for the political Tea Party movement in the south has most likely just crippled his potential political future. 61-year-old Anthony Trinca was arrested for allegedly selling pirated versions of high-end computer software.

Another 74,000 Workers idled thanks to Republicans

Nearly 4,000 FAA employees were temporarily laid off last Friday when Congress couldn't agree on an extension of the agency's operating authority due to underlying partisan disputes over labor rights and subsidies for rural communities.

Forget Anonymous: Evidence Suggests GOP Hacked, Stole 2004 Election | Benzinga.com

Three generations from now, when our great-grandchildren are sitting barefoot in their shanties and wondering how in the hell America turned from the high-point of civilization to a third-world banana republic, they will shake their fists and mutter one name: George Effin' Bush.  …

The Document that Republicans Desperately don't want you to know about

The right-wingers have desperately tried to keep the fact away from the public that Obama put out a framework for debt/deficit reduction seven months ago. This framework was given to all members of Congress and has been posted publicly since April on the White House website.

Vegas hotel to Tea Party Nation: You owe $642,000 - USATODAY.com

Did the Tea Party Nation of Tennesseeskip out on a $642,144 Las Vegas casino-hotel bill last summer? That's what the Venetian hotel alleges in a lawsuit filed last week, according to the Last Vegas Review-Journal. Venetian owner Las Vegas Sands says the group owes the sum because …

McConnell outlines new proposal on debt ceiling - The Washington Post

McConnell was quickly excoriated online by tea party bloggers, with Erick Erickson of the Web site RedState.com blasting the plan as “the Pontius Pilate Pass the Buck Act of 2011.” Still, with less than three weeks left until the default deadline and no viable alterna …

McCaskill: McConnell 'lost his mind'

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has “lost his mind,” Sen.

Chris Hansen 'caught cheating on wife sent explicit photos to mistress Kristyn Caddell' | Mail Online

A week after it emerged that he was allegedly cheating on his wife with a TV reporter, it has now emerged that To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen also sent her explicit pictures of himself. The NBC anchor is said to be terrified that the steamy pictures will be leaked and end  …

Idaho Tea Party tries to boost slow ticket sales for 9/11, LDS conspiracy theorists

Speakers promoting controversial conspiracy theories may be hurting ticket sales, according to Tea Party Boise, which is making a late push to improve attendance.  

Woman banned for life from Wal-mart

BOISE, Idaho -- She was banned from every Walmart in the United States for life, and it was all because of an argument over coupons. April Cuevas says Walmart has started "cracking down" on extreme couponers like herself who want to use coupons from other stores to save …

Idaho State Sen. John McGee arrested for drunken driving, grand theft

Idaho State Sen. John McGee, R-Caldwell, was arrested overnight by Ada County Sheriff's deputies for misdemeanor drunken driving and felony grand theft.    

First Read - Rolling Thunder: Sarah Palin not invited

WASHINGTON — One day after Sarah Palin announced her bus tour, a group sponsoring a Memorial Day weekend event she plans to attend said they never invited her. "She wasn't invited.

Republicans block child nutrition bill

WASHINGTON – House Republicans have temporarily blocked legislation to feed school meals to thousands more hungry children.

Party of Fiscal Responsibility has already blown $636,800 on their 2012 Convention

Republicans are spending freely on their 2012 national convention in Tampa, burning through money at a pace that has alarmed some veterans of past conventions and causing more potential problems for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.

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