I really don't think these House Republicans understand at all the struggles and needs of most Americans. Before ACA, they never introduced any effective legislation, and preferred to pretend that health care was a non-issue. Finally, there was a bill trying to deal with pre-existing conditions, find affordable solutions for millions of uninsured ( Read more... )

While fences, walls and barbed wire are being raised all across Europe in response to the refugee crisis, the US is also undergoing an internal division of their own on the issue.

First, president Obama announced that the US would provide asylum for 10 thousand Syrian refugees. But then the House voted on a bill that is meant to tighten the ( Read more... )

At long last. Two years after Edward Snowden's revelations about illicit wiretapping by the NSA, it would appear that Congress may have drawn a lesson or two from the whole affair. After a vigorous debate, a surprisingly large majority has voted for reforming the agency.

Granted, the changes in the law, now known as the Freedom Act, are far from ( Read more... )

...Even if it comes from a relatively obscure mouthpiece in a semi-official situation, or if it just comes out as a genuine slip-up on their part. But still, ultimately, at least one guy is telling things as they really are:

"It’s an election year. A lot of Democrats don’t know how it would play in their party, and Republicans don’t want to change ( Read more... )

Yep, I'm speaking of a whole chunk of the political establishment, and beyond.

GOP Tells Obama to Ignore Congress One Day After Suing Him for Ignoring Congress
"On Wednesday, House Republicans sued President Obama for acting on his own without approval from Congress. On Thursday, House Republicans told President Obama he should act on his own to ( Read more... )

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The sheer silliness of even casting a shadow of a glimmer of a sliver of blame on the Democratic Party members in Congress regarding this shutdown thing is laughable enough. There is more than enough evidence that the Tea Party has run with this ball all the way. I won't bother recounting it here ( Read more... )

A new twist in the mutual bony finger( Read more... )

Uh, red team, wtf? You've allowed these tea party freaks drive to the car into a ditch. That's the plan? “We’re very excited,” said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). “It’s exactly what we wanted, and we got it.”
Well, yay for hurting people IRL?

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So, I am here to complain. (what else is new, right?)
But really, it's my congressman's fault.

Here's the backstory: back when round two of CISPA was happening, that is, NOT when the huge google/wikipedia backlack occured, but a short while after, when congress tried to pass the same bills, just with less fanfare ( Read more... )