VICTORY FOR MEDICARE: Democrat Wins Huge Upset
Long-shot Democratic candidate Kathy Hochul won a special election last night that largely turned on voters’ disgust at the Ryan plan to abolish Medicare.
Long-shot Democratic candidate Kathy Hochul won a special election last night that largely turned on voters’ disgust at the Ryan plan to abolish Medicare.
If you saw Janet Mock walking down the street in her hometown of New York, you’d never guess that she was born as Charles.
Editor’s note: This originally ran in May of 2011, when Newt first struck out as a candidate. He wrote an epic speech then that the media absolutely skewered. Here is that original campaign-ending speech, courtesy of The Colbert Report and performed in grandiose fashion by the great John Lithgow.
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In case you missed it last week, here’s John Lithgow on ‘The Colbert Report,’ performing a hysterical reading of Newt’s ‘my first week was a disaster but I’m not quitting yet’ press release. And yes, this is completely verbatim.
What’s funny about malaria? Lots.
State Sen. Lena Taylor’s fiery defense of the right to vote in Wisconsin, which would be severely undercut by the Voter I.D. Bill, AKA “Voter Suppression Bill.”
The omission of these four very large slices of pie chart.
In one minute, this scene from “The West Wing” explains some of why D.C. gets crazy about the debt ceiling:
Wanda dishes out 30 seconds of sock-it-to-ya truthiness. Are you ready for this?
Less for everyone else means more for them.
Dwindling for decades and missing since approximately 2008, it was last seen in a trickle-down fantasy spun for the middle class by the GOP.