Wednesday night on The Daily Show, Aasif Mandvi made a vote suppressing, racist ass, old southern white man (surprise!) quit his job as a GOP official in the state of North Carolina after making several racist comments in a bizarre interview. Don Yelton is–check that, was–the Republican precinct chairman of Buncombe County, N.C. He also […]
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Will The GOP Finally Stand Up To Tea Party Extremists?
The Republican Party’s future does not look too bright. As the country continues to move forward socially and progressively, they will have to either change with the times or stay behind with the times. This dilemma may very well lead to an increasingly inharmonious political party that may threaten their chances at winning national elections […]
Flip The House In 2014? Not So Fast.
According to a piece in The Huffington Post, Democratic prospects for taking the House in 2014 are looking good. Very good, in fact. The optimism is based on a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling which shows that Democrats could net as many as 49 seats. In other words, a wave election similar to that […]
A Moment of Truth For the GOP
Now that the great government shutdown of 2013 is over, there has been a plethora of pontification from the pundits on who won and who lost. Let me just cut to the chase here: nobody won and everybody lost. Really, $24 billion sucked out of the economy, hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed, no head […]
SC GOP Official Goes On Transphobic Twitter Rant
Todd Kincannon, the former Executive Director of the South Carolina GOP, posted some amazingly transphobic tweets to his 43,000+ twitter followers this past week, suggesting that it is, essentially, just fine to hate transgender people. The first tweet came on Monday: There are people who respect transgender rights. And there are people who think you […]
Life Expectancy Declining For U.S. Women
Like tantrumming toddlers, our legislators strut around Capitol Hill bickering over politics. It’s easy to get lost in the rhetoric and politics and lose sight of the real victims in these battles. In a distressing reminder of why the Affordable Care Act was enacted and what we stand to lose if we can’t come together […]