Poisonous Tea-Party goon Joe Walsh wants to strip the federal government of its ability to take care of the poor; Walsh has not been supporting his own 3 “poor” kids for eight years! The Chicago Sun-Times Reports: Freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, a tax-bashing Tea Party champion who sharply lectures President Barack Obama and other [...]

After a few hours of wrangling for support in vain, House Speaker John Boehner pulled the plug on a planned vote on his debt-ceiling plan. He simply didn’t have enough support from his caucus, it appears. Boehner’s plan would shave about $1 trillion off U.S. deficits over 10 years, and raise the debt ceiling for six months. In the Senate, Democratic leader Harry Reid has promised to kill it upon arrival, and is pushing his own plan to cut more than $2 trillion from deficits while raising the debt cap through 2013.

On Tuesday, a gathering of GOP hyena congressmen were treated to a clip of Ben Afleck’s movie “The Town (See all Mystery Movies & TV)” — by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — the party’s vote counter. McCarthy began his talk by showing the clip [ SEE CLIP BELOW ] — in an attempt [...]

“A lesbian couple was refused entry to the Dollywood theme park because one of the women was wearing a T-shirt that read, ‘marriage is so gay.’ Olivier Odom and Jennifer Tipton said what really rankled them was the explanation from the gatekeeper. ‘He said it was a family park’ said Tipton.” The lesbian couple was [...]

Political satirist Bill Maher yesterday challenged Republicans to quit taking pledges (vows) — like the recent Bob Vander Plaats’ — slavery/marriage vow or Grover Norquist‘s Taxpayer Protection Pledge a.k.a. vow to “destroy Obama no matter what” — using the debt-ceiling and taxes as weapons. Maher also introduced his own ridiculous pledge: “The American Eagle Liberty [...]