MediaMatters: Media figures have falsely suggested that Vice President Joe Biden admitted the stimulus failed when he said, “There’s no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession.” In fact, the administration said all along that the stimulus would mitigate job losses but that government action alone could not restore all of [...]

To Tea-Party Republican, Sharron “obtuse” Angle of Nevada, “rape” is god’s plan, incest is god’s plan, a pregnancy that kills the baby and mother and could have been prevented by an abortion, is also god’s plan! …and House Republican leader John Boehner has now credited the Tea-Party with stirring a political rebellion not seen since [...]

Challenging Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Law: The justice department has exactly one month to file a lawsuit against Arizona and request a stay before its harsh “papers-please” law goes into effect. Arizona’s Republican governor, EVIL Jan Brewer claims the state only took action because the federal government failed to. President Obama wants comprehensive immigration reform and is [...]

Like the Clinton years, no matter how much Obama tries to appease Republicans, he will remain under attack and be held responsible for bizarre crimes and conspiracies because the right has nothing to gain from compromise. In fact, Republican opposition has devolved from the philosophical to the tactical. The right-wing noise machine frames Obama and [...]

Dana Milbank Writes: Kagan may get confirmed, but Thurgood Marshall can forget it! — As Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings opened Monday afternoon, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee took the unusual approach of attacking Kagan because she admired the late justice Thurgood Marshall, for whom she clerked more than two decades ago. “Justice Marshall’s judicial [...]