. TERM "REPUBLICAN" IS NO LONGER IN USE 150-YEAR-OLD PARTY LABEL CHANGED FOR THE FIRST TIME Webster Editor Says "It's A Sign Of The Times" In recognition of the increasing use of the term "assholes" to describe members of the G.O.P., the world's most popular dictionary has dropped the definition of ...

Rachel talks to Frank Rich about the Republicans political strategy of obstructing everything and whether it's time to blow up the filibuster. While I agree with Rachel that blowing up the filibuster is a bad thing for minority rights in the Senate, I think that at least the threat of if is somethin...

In case you didn't notice, the Idiots are clamoring - big time - over the Stimulus Package. Last week, it was IDOTW Brad Blakeman , complaining that Obama wasn't speaking "Presidential", that rather then telling us how fucked we are, he should have sugar-coated it, been more optimistic . And this we...

. GOPPERS VOTE AGAINST HOME-STATE WORKERS "CONSERVATIVES" REFUSE WORK FOR WORKING AMERICAN FAMILIES These Are The Jobs Your Republican Senators & Congressmen & Women Voted Down Sorry, no jobs for you! Maybe you haven't lost your job or business or home yet, but the Right hopes you do. In fac...

I guess if one is a well-paid member of Congress with full benefits and a good retirement package -- and a staff that caters to your every whim, it's hard to grasp that people back home are suffering. But, the Republicans are very proud of voting against the economic recovery package. They've made R...

You don't get a much better takedown of the DC media elite and Republicans than this. It's a double whammy from Jane Hamsher and Markos. Jane deconstructs the DC media's love of the "GOP obstructionists" and Markos has the research that shows those DC media types are just wrong. This a great way to ...

The republicans are showing why voters are electing democrats now. This party of whiners and sore losers is placing politics above rescue, and letting thousands of jobs end with no safety net for workers. We need a boost to our economy to stop the bleeding but instead of participating in helping the...

First, the news that the Majority Leader says they've got the votes to bust a GOP filibuster of the economic rescue package:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Thursday that he has enough votes to pass a more than $900 billion stimulus bill out of the Senate. Reid said he belie...

. SUPER-PARTISAN "CONSERVATIVES" OBSTRUCT RECOVERY RIGHT-WING "POLITICS AS USUAL" & RAW IDEOLOGY MEANS MORE THAN AMERICAN LIVES Corporate Media Plays Along With The Right's Deliberate Sabotage Jobs are going, going, gone. Businesses are dying. Do the Republicans care? HELL NO! Mortgage foreclosu...

(Ed. Note: Rough Day, and trying to fight my way off the DL) Stand, they did ... All the dittoheads ... All the dwarfs, finks, phonies and frauds ... In other words, the Republican Caucus of the U.S. Congress . Christ, could you imagine if they were staffing the Titanic? I certainly wouldn't want pa...