Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), a member of the Trump transition team, on Monday accused Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) of acting like a “spoiled child” after the civil rights icon suggested that Russia’s interference in the U.S. election undermined the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency. During a Martin Luther King Jr. Day discussion on Fox Business, network contributor Dagen McDowell took issue with…
“He got creative and figured getting himself beaten by state troopers would get him the pity he needed in order to become a politician. And you want to know what the saddest part is? It actually worked”
“There’s more of them coming. So, when the next one happens, I’m directly going after Obama for carelessness on the job and dereliction of duty. Because, he was many things as president, but a patriot was not one of them”
CNN host Carol Costello on Wednesday hammered former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), who now works at the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. During an interview DeMint accused Obamacare of being “unworkable and unaffordable,” with a chance of destabilizing the market. He said he was encouraged by the GOP’s efforts to repeal the law and ensure health care was “available to every…
“The reason why we’re today overrun by degenerates like gays and lesbians is because they were not spanked as children. And the only way to remedy that is to re-introduce spanking for the sake of normality as a staple of raising children the American way”
Incoming Trump administration Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Thursday urged the media to stop blaming Russia for stealing campaign emails and instead place the “responsibility” on the Democratic National Committee. Spicer told CNN’s Jake Taper that Democrats were focusing on the so-called Russian hacking of DNC emails in an effort to undermine Trump’s election. And he said that intelligence officials should stop…
President-elect Donald Trump will hold his last “Thank You” tour rally of 2016 in Mobile, Alabama at the Ladd-Peebles Stadium. The rally is expected to begin at 4PM ET. During the campaign, Trump held a rally at the same location that drew an estimated 30,000 gawkers. While this is the last rally for this year, there have been rumblings from the Trump…
“I’ll tell you of another benefit of having a billionaire businessman as president: he won’t have to order the banks to bail out the economy when the next recession hits; he’ll single-handedly save America with his own money”
The man who President-elect Donald Trump has named as his pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services is a right-wing true believer with a track record of virulent antigay and anti-women’s rights views. According to MSNBC’s Steve Benen, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) is about as toxic a choice as the former reality TV star could name to the post, which was…
In a statement posted to Medium on Saturday morning, the general counsel for Hillary for America announced the campaign would get behind recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan should Green Party candidate Jill Stein make good on her promise to look into voting totals in those states. According to attorney Marc Erik Elias, the campaign has been reviewing their options since the loss…
Ben Carson is reportedly considering an offer to serve as Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary in President-elect Donald Trump’s forthcoming administration. Carson said Wednesday night in an interview with Fox News that “the offer is on the table” and said a decision could be expected “in the next few days.” “We did in fact have a discussion of what things…
A Texas Republican is taking heat for referring to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as the “C-word” in a post on Twitter that was quickly removed – but only after screenshots were already taken. In a tweet posted Tuesday afternoon, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, a Republican statewide office holder, noted a recent poll showing GOP nominee Donald Trump leading. Miller wrote,…
The last remaining question about the recent presidential debate was whether former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would post a factually challenged defense of Donald Trump refusing to say whether he would accept the results of the November election. And indeed, in a Facebook rant about the debate, Palin attacked the media for criticizing Trump for saying he will keep the country “in…
“This is too well organized to be an accident. And the entire Democratic Party is behind it, with the addition of their latest recruit, the soon-to-be ex-first lady Michelle Obama”
“With all the incest and zoophilia that are raging among these younger generations, I think the last thing we need is child molestation”
California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock recently cited $1/hour jobs and the “opportunity to negotiate” as reasons that women are better off without the protection of equal pay laws. At a debate last week between McClintock and Dr. Bob Derlet, a Sonora Democrat, one voter brought up the topic of equal pay for women, and asked the Republican incumbent why his daughter should…
A GOP Congressman wants to “ensure lives are protected” – by expanding the death penalty. Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) has introduced the Help Ensure Lives Are Protected Act of 2016, which would subject drug dealers who sell heroin laced with fentanyl to death or life imprisonment if “death or serious bodily injury results from the use of such substance.” In a way,…
An Arizona Republican compared slavery to abortion as he blamed “the left” for slavery and the Civil War. Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) appeared Friday as a guest host of the Family Research Council’s “Washington Watch” program, reported Right Wing Watch. “There were a group of people, they called them Republicans, they began to coalesce as a new party, that said, no, these…
Donald Trump got himself in trouble on Wednesday when he went to a church in Flint, Mich. and started bashing Hillary Clinton – and now he’s hitting back at the pastor who shamed him. The pastor at the church, the Rev. Green Faith Timmons, confronted Trump as he started to bash his rival by telling him that she didn’t want him using…
Ted Cruz has left a meeting with Mike Pence without saying whether he will endorse or even vote for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The Texas Republican senator and onetime rival of Trump’s has refused to endorse the billionaire. Cruz met privately with Pence in Washington and attended a lunch with the Indiana governor and a number of other Republican senators. Cruz…
Recently on “Breitbart News Daily,” Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said that Democratic Party under President Obama “is not that much different from the Democratic Party fifty years ago that was out to manipulate African-Americans.” “They’re still manipulating them,” Gohmert said. The Republican congressman also criticized Sen. John McCain, who is facing a GOP primary challenge from the right, claiming that the…
Last Saturday, Michelle Bachmann appeared on “Understanding the Times with Jan Markell,” where she declared that Hillary Clinton “has innocent blood on her hands” because of her handling of the 2012 Benghazi attack. “She’s a dangerous woman with bad ideas,” she said. Bachmann also took issue with the release of another congressional report clearing Clinton of wrongdoing in the incident, blaming the…
Pastor Ronnie Floyd of Cross Church in Arkansas, also known as the family pastor of the Duggar family from the cancelled TV reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” offered tips on what people should do whenever their faith is being put to the test. “The secularization of America has done so much to disrupt American Christianity,” Floyd said, according to the Christian…
U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) explained recently that he and other Republicans had voted against a bill to promote the recruitment of women scientists because it discriminated “based on gender.” Gohmert acknowledged that the bill was “well intentioned,” but said that “this program is designed to discriminate against that young, poverty-stricken boy and to encourage the girl. Forget the boy. Encourage the…
