Category Archives: Republican Obstruction

What IS Chuck G. Up To? Obstructin’!

Can it only be a year until we can finally say goodbye to Chuck? Once an actual senator, Chuck Grassley has turned into little more than a teabag tool as he uses his seniority and influence to stop anything and … Continue reading →

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Proposed Amendments To The Continuing Resolution

Teabaggers dreams were quashed Wednesday afternoon when the US House passed the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government for another 2 months. The bill was described as a “clean” bill – that is it had no amendments. That was … Continue reading →

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Grassley – Is He For Iowa Anymore?

Iowa’s own version of Sarah Palin – Joni Ernst – introduced a bill in the Senate to take probably the most reliable health care resource for women away from women when she introduced her bill to defund Planned Parenthood of … Continue reading →

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Name One Thing The Republican Party Has Done FOR Americans

Ran across the above video last week and it made me think of Thom Hartmann’s challenge to his audience to name one thing, just one thing that the Republican Party has done FOR the good of the American people in … Continue reading →

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2016 Race Opens – Iowans It’s Time To Cut Your Grassley

Ted Cruz became the first “official” candidate of the 2016 campaign last week with his very uninspiring speech in front of a coerced audience in the very reddest part of red America. Even with all that, Cruz’s speech had the … Continue reading →

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Debt Ceiling To Be Reached Monday

Amazingly, there has been little fanfare on this round of debt ceiling limit. While Republicans claimed we would never go through this again, we are about to go through it again. There has been little fanfare most likely because the … Continue reading →

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CRomnibus: A Hint Of Things To Come

Americans have been conditioned by our news cycles and our lifestyles to get worked up about something today only to have it stroked from our memories tomorrow. For all but a few, stitching today’s thread of news into the fabric … Continue reading →

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Let’s Send Obama Some Help!

Some of you may remember an approaching election day six years ago. Most Americans were in some state of trauma from an economic meltdown that only an elite group of global players had anything to do with. But on the … Continue reading →

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Pulling Up The Ladder

Note: this is an outtake from a column by Charles P. Pierce who writes the Politics blog for Esquire magazine. Mr. Pierce is one of the funniest, yet most insightful commentators around. This week he discusses the hypocrisy of the … Continue reading →

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Buying Furniture, The Economy And The ACA

We moved in the last bit of new furniture that we have been buying over the course of six months. This replaced some very, very old and ratty furniture that we had so desperately wanted to get rid of for … Continue reading →

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