Feb 29, 2012: Refilling The Swamp? 10 GOP Reps. Caught Up In Ethics Scandals
Zero Tolerance? Not So Much. After a well-publicized series of ethics scandals helped lead to Republicans losing the House of Representatives in 2006, newly-minted Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously promised to “drain the swamp” and then Democrats instituted a series of ethics reforms to clean up Congress. When Republicans regained control of the House in the [...]
Feb 28, 2012: Your Boss In Your Bedroom?
The Conservative War on Birth Control Marches On You might like your boss or you might hate your boss, but either way there’s probably one place you don’t want your boss hanging around: in your bedroom. But that’s exactly where Republicans want to put your boss — in your bedroom and in between you and [...]
Feb 27, 2012: The TOP TWELVE House GOP Votes Against the 99%
Voting Against the 99 Percent, Early & Often From ending Medicare to protecting tax giveaways to Big Oil to redefining rape and letting women die on the floors of hospitals, the Republican House of Representatives has taken up some pretty radical proposals. A new Center for American Progress Action Fund study found that the GOP House voted against the [...]
Feb 24, 2012: We Didn’t Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
Saving the Auto Industry, By the Numbers Top: A moving billboard from Progress Michigan outside Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, where Mitt Romney gave “a major speech” earlier this afternoon. Bottom: United Auto Workers members lined up American-made cars spelling out “Romney: Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” outside of Ford Field. 0.018…the number of Ford Fields [...]
Feb 23, 2012: Republicans Don’t Want You To See This
The Woman Republicans Tried to Silence Last Week Speaks Out Remember this? Well, today, Democrats held their own hearing on women’s health care — and they actually let a woman who believes in access to birth control testify. ThinkProgress Health Editor Igor Volsky has the details: The committee invited just one witness, Sandra Fluke, the third year Georgetown [...]
Feb 22, 2012: New Romney Plan: Even More Tax Cuts For The Rich
Mitt Romney Doubles Down on Broken Economy Rigged for the Wealthy Few In an effort to revive his floundering campaign, Mitt Romney today unveiled an updated tax plan that includes even more budget-busting, inequality-increasing, non-job-creating tax cuts for the very wealthiest Americans. This updated tax plan panders to a right-wing base that is divorced from economic [...]
Feb 21, 2012: FIVE Facts About Gas Prices
As Gas Prices Rise, GOP Wants Even More Handouts to Big Oil Though oil demand is at its lowest since 1997, oil prices (and gas prices along with them) are once again on the rise. Analysts are projecting gas prices will top $4 a gallon nationally and perhaps reach record highs later this year. Despite relatively low [...]
Feb 17, 2012: VICTORY: MSNBC Dumps Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan’s TEN Most Outrageous Statements Sometimes victory comes quickly and sometimes it takes longer. In the case of Pat Buchanan, there’s been literally years of organizing by progressives — including like Color of Change, Credo, and Media Matters – to draw attention to and hold him accountable for his racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic statements. Here’s the rundown on his [...]
Feb 16, 2012: No Women Allowed
Sorry, ‘Gals’ This morning, Republicans held a hearing on women’s health care. Here’s the panel they brought in to discuss birth control: And then Foster Friess, Rick Santorum’s money man, went on MSNBC this afternoon and gave some unsolicited advice on contraception to “the gals.” Check out his shocking comments: Foster Friess: I get such a chuckle [...]
Feb 15, 2012: The GOP Candidates’ War On Women’s Health Care
Going After Birth Control is Just the Beginning Conservatives have launched an all-out assault on affordable access to birth control, but their war on women’s health care doesn’t stop at contraception. We’ve compiled a chart showing the extreme positions on women’s health care issues that the four remaining GOP presidential contenders have taken. To a [...]
