Pete Sessions is a a Representative from Texas. Waco. Maybe that explains it. He’s also Chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee. The other day he likened the House resistance to the stimulus plan to Taliban insurgency. I’m thinking there are no lessons one wants to learn...

Everyone knows Hillary Clinton was the most hated politician of the last 20 years, on either side of the aisle, at least most hated by the GOP. Just the mad and insane rumormongering about Hillary Clinton is enough to amaze. They said she killed Vince Foster because of an affair, for God’s sak...

When he lost the nomination for President from his Party, Mitt Romney focused on his PAC, the Free and Strong America PAC. The goal of the PAC was to support Republican candidates, but the Boston Globe reports that only 12% of the funds actually went to support those candidates. Here’s the sco...

There’s an interesting article by Rick Horowitz, reading the tea leaves as to just why John McCain gave us Sarah Palin as his running mate on that dark day in September. The theory he puts forth is that the offering to the religious right in this country was more like a poison pill, that the P...

I honestly didn’t think the Republican approval ratings could be worse than they were before the election. There’s no John McCain out there to drive them down. Sure, we’ve heard from Mitt and Sarah and Huckabee and Bobby Jindal since the election, but could they have caused the Rep...

Oil prices have dropped significantly; over $15 per barrel in just three days. Reports indicate that price slide is expected to continue in the long term. Why does it seem as if the oil price bubble might finally be popping? 1)Demand is way down. At this time of the year in the northern hemisphere, ...

As the New York Times reports, the folks who run the Republican Convention have a tough task. How do they project an image of change and still provide a send-off to their leader, who represents everything from which America wants to change. This decision is set against a backdrop where Bush is again...

Bush and Cheney are just as popular as they always were, scoring a full 23% approval rating in the latest LA Times poll, which is easily as much approval as they deserve. Heck, one could likely those 23% would stay with them if they decided to mount an offensive in Iran. And that’s just what S...

Let’s start with the ridiculous first. A Republican candidate in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, running for office on a pro-life platform, is in trouble. Rather, he got a girl in “trouble.” It seems that woman he was dating several years ago has decided to discuss the a...

The Republican Party has lost its center, its soul. There’s really no doubt of that. They’ve had strong moral and spiritual centers and leaders in the past, though most of us progressives may have argued with whether those leaders were right. Reagan with his Morning in America was one st...