Republicans in Washington, who have been after Attorney General Eric Holder’s head for years, bashed him on the Sunday morning talk shows yesterday, with one Republican suggested that his handling of the investigation into a Fox News reporter has so destroyed the trust of the American people that it will take an entire generation to repair. [...]
House Republicans Launch Probe Into Attorney General’s Testimony to Congress
June 3, 2013 | Posted by
Dems, GOP Proposed Budgets Reveal Vast Differences
March 13, 2013 | Posted by
House Republicans and Senate Democrats unveiled budget proposals that display their radically different outlooks on the American economy and what steps need to be taken to bring the country to fiscal stability. While neither plan has any chance of passing into law because they require the approval of the other side and President Barack Obama, [...]
$85B in Sequester Cuts go Into Effect
March 2, 2013 | Posted by
Now that Washington lawmakers have finally proven just how dysfunctional they are by allowing the brutal sequester cuts to be enacted at midnight, they will now sit back and wait to see how federal agencies will slash $85 billion from their budgets. President Obama yesterday signed the order authorizing the government to begin cutting. Though [...]
In Surprise, GOP Finally Decides to Support Violence Against Women Act
March 2, 2013 | Posted by
After fighting the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act for more than a year, House Republican leaders threw in the towel Thursday and 87 GOP congressmen voted with Democrats to pass the bill 286-138. The passage sent to President Barack Obama a renewal of the 1994 law that has been described as the standard [...]
Mitt Romney Slams Obama Over Failure to Reach a Sequester Deal with GOP
March 1, 2013 | Posted by
As President Obama and congressional Republicans faced the world today with the news that they were unable to reach an agreement to avoid $85 billion in brutal across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester, Obama had to contend with an old nemesis, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, point the finger of blame at him. In [...]
GOP Caves on Debt Ceiling Fight, Giving Obama Big Victory
January 19, 2013 | Posted by
In a major victory for President Obama, House Republicans decided to agree to his demands to raise the debt ceiling without corresponding budget cuts, a signal that House members are realizing how little public support they have for their insistence on bringing the government to the brink of default to get what they want. The [...]
Unable to Compromise, Congress on Verge of Plunging over Fiscal Cliff
December 27, 2012 | Posted by
As Americans have long suspected, Washington lawmakers no longer have the ability to compromise on even the most crucial pieces of legislation, even when the viability of the American economy and the pocketbooks of every American taxpayer are at stake. With just days to go before the country plunges over the so-called fiscal cliff, the [...]
John Boehner Faces a Career-Defining Moment with Fiscal Cliff
December 21, 2012 | Posted by
House Speaker John Boehner has now stepped into perhaps the defining moment of his career. After he and President Obama had failed to close the deal to avert the fiscal cliff with a little more than a week to go before the ax falls, Boehner thought he could be cute and make an end-run around [...]
Republican-led House to Vote to Repeal Obamacare. Again.
July 11, 2012 | Posted by
The Republican-led House of Representatives will do something today that it has already done an estimated 30 times in the last three years: It will vote to repeal Obamacare. And just like with every other time, the vote will be meaningless. As before, it will pass the House and not even come up for a [...]
Defeated by Supreme Court, GOP Will Try July Vote to Repeal Obamacare
June 29, 2012 | Posted by
One thing you can say for the GOP, its members certainly have stamina. Kind of like the stamina Jason had in the movie Friday the 13th. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Affordable Care Act was constitutional, the House Republican leadership got together to schedule a vote—a second attempt—to overturn the health [...]
