SHARE        Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Does Ted Cruz Believe His Critics Will be Condemned by God? Speaking to the North Texas Tea Party last year on behalf of his son, the elder Cruz called President Barack Obama an "outright Marxist" who "seeks to destroy all concept of God." At that event, Rafael Cruz also urged the crowd to send Obama "back to Kenya." Or ship him "back to Indonesia."

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 31, 2013
WATCH: Ted Cruz's Dad Calls US a "Christian Nation," Says Obama Should Go "Back to Kenya" Rafael Cruz, speaking to the North Texas Tea Party on behalf of his son, who was then running for Senate, called President Barack Obama an "outright Marxist" who "seeks to destroy all concept of God," and he urged the crowd to send Obama "back to Kenya."

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 19, 2013
Ted Cruz vs. Twitter: Does Obamacare Hurt Americans? Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the fellow who led the GOP further into a PR abyss, hailed the political crisis that was ending (at least for now) as "a remarkable thing" and claimed that it showed that "millions upon millions" had risen up against Obamacare.

SHARE        Tuesday, October 15, 2013
In Shutdown and Debt Ceiling Showdown, GOPers Ignore Their Party's Own Advice The party's recent excursion into the government shutdown/debt ceiling quagmire shows that few members of its national wing absorbed the lessons the party's coroners had assembled. The GOP's morgue brigade asserted that the party's "messaging," was hurting it.

SHARE        Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Economist Mark Zandi on Default: "We Will Be Dooming Our Economy and the Entire Global Economy" for Years The government's debt is not created by the extension of borrowing authority; it is created when Congress establishes entitlements or passes spending bills that require government borrowing. Put another way, raising the debt ceiling does not change the amount of money the US government owes.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 10, 2013
How the GOP's Kamikaze Club Hijacked John Boehner Boehner has chosen to lead by being led. He may have been carjacked by a well-organized gang that stuck to a well-designed and well-financed plan, but he is not blameless. After all, he gave up the keys to this car without much of a fight.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 4, 2013
Can Obama Disrupt the Shutdown Narrative? National parks are closed. Food safety inspections have been curtailed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be halting its flu program--just as the flu season is arriving. Of course, hundreds of thousands of American families will have to go without paychecks because a breadwinner employed by the federal government has been furloughed.

SHARE        Wednesday, October 2, 2013
The GOP's Obamacare Suicide With Sen. Ted Cruz wagging the party, the GOPers pushing for the government shutdown--aided and abetted by Rush Limbaugh, the Heritage Foundation, and other influentials of the far right--have focused exclusively on Obamacare. So if the Republican party stands for anything today, it is obstructing Obamacare.