TagsTagsThe first Republican candidate to sign the list of demands issued by Iowa's influential radical religious right group "The Family Leader" is, of course, Michele Bachmann: Update: Bachmann is first to sign Family Leader’s pro-marriage pledge. The pledge is entitled, “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Fundamentalism, Family Leader
It's been a third rail of US politics to accuse Republicans of deliberately sabotaging the economy to advance their political agenda, but Sen. Jim DeMint made this intention absolutely explicit today. “We're at the point where there would have to be some, you know, some serious disruptions in order not ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Debt Ceiling, Economy, Jim DeMint, Dominionism
Related: Anti-Abortion Ohio Rep. Busted for DWI, with Viagra and a 26-Year Old Woman
Video, Women's Rights, Misogyny, War on Women, Abortion, Religious Right, Republican Party
This just in: Michele Bachmann has received some more messages from God. God will come and heal the land and bring "a new day to the country," presidential candidate Michele Bachmann told an audience at an evangelical Christian church in Waukee on Sunday. ... She noted that the church members had ...
Women's Rights, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Right Wing, Republican Party, Michele Bachmann
Pseudo-libertarian kook Rand Paul has announced that he's planning a filibuster over the debt ceiling. On Newsmakers, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said he will hold up the Senate’s business next week to force a debate on the debt limit. The Senate canceled its Fourth of July break to ensure discussions ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Debt Ceiling, Economy, Rand Paul
Today the Republican Party of Minnesota actually shut down the state government rather than compromise on tax increases for the wealthiest. The governor said his last offer would have raised income taxes only on those earning more than $1 million a year -- an estimated 7,700 Minnesotans, or 0.3 percent ...
Minnesota, Republican Party, Social Conservatives, Abortion, Class War
Katrina Leskanich, former lead singer of Katrina & The Waves, has issued a statement objecting to GOP presidential loon Michele Bachmann's use of their music: Katrina and the Waves Join Tom Petty's Fight Against Michele Bachmann. Katrina & The Waves – whose 1985 song "Walking On Sunshine" was played by ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Music, Tom Petty, Katrina and The Waves
The Republican Party is deliberately lying to the American public about the dangers of climate change, and presidential contender Tim Pawlenty proved it when he appeared on Fox News and claimed that "science indicates" that global warming is due to natural causes. "I denounced it for a number of reasons, ...
Tim Pawlenty, Election 2012, Creationism, Anti-Gay, Climate Change Denial, Republican Party
Despite the much-publicized demand from Tom Petty to stop using his music as part of her campaign, Michele Bachmann played Tom Petty's 'American Girl' again last night after a speech in South Carolina. The singer was reportedly nonplussed that Michele Bachmann played his “American Girl” classic when she officially kicked ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Music, Tom Petty
Tom Petty is sending Michele Bachmann a cease-and-desist letter, to stop her from using his songs in her campaign. Tom Petty may be taking legal action to make sure Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann stops using his songs at her campaign events. “NBC News: @TomPetty unhappy with Michele Bachmann’s use of ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Music, Tom Petty
Right Wing Watch has a post about the source of Michele Bachmann's odd views of American history: religious right theocrat and pseudo-historian David Barton. For decades the religious right has been indoctrinating an entire generation with a fantasy version of US history, and Barton is one of the main proponents ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Loon, Founding Fathers, Revisionism, David Barton
This is absolutely bizarre. Why won't Michele Bachmann simply say she misspoke, when she claimed the founding fathers "worked tirelessly" to end slavery? Instead Bachmann is doubling down on her false statement and refusing to admit she was wrong -- and not only that, now she's claiming that John Quincy Adams, ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Loon, Founding Fathers, Revisionism
Speaking in Waterloo, Iowa, Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) announced her presidential campaign by saying, "John Wayne was from Waterloo." Oops. Film star John Wayne was actually born in Winterset, Iowa, but Waterloo did have its own John Wayne: depraved serial killer John Wayne Gacy, executed in 1994 for 33 counts of murder. ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Loon, John Wayne, Clowns
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Republican Party, Anti-Science, Climate Change, Evolution, Creationism, War on Science, Magical Thinking, Michele Bachmann
Here's Michele Bachmann explaining that God talks to her all the time, and told her to run for President of the United States. God also apparently told her to shamelessly dodge Bob Schieffer's questions about whether she'd refuse to nominate judges who support same-sex marriage, or whether she believes homosexuality is ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Loon, Extremism, Theocracy, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, Anti-Gay
Most of the GOP presidential contenders appeared at the annual National Right to Life convention today, to assure the religious fundamentalist base that the best way to create jobs is to make sure women don't have the right to choose an abortion. Magical thinking writ large, hyped by the highest ...
Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Republican Party, GOP, National Right to Life, NRL
The Republican Party doesn't just use fear as a manipulative tactic on voters -- it's also the tool they use to keep fellow GOP politicians in line: Senator Jim DeMint Warns Republicans on Debt Ceiling Vote: They Will Be 'Gone'. Conservative firebrand Sen. Jim DeMint has a message to fellow ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Debt Ceiling, Economy, Jim DeMint
Somehow, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell let the truth slip out yesterday: McConnell: GOP Would Not Voice Opposition To Libya Campaign If Obama Was A Republican. MCCONNELL: The only thing I can tell you at this point is that there are differences. I’m not sure that these kind of ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Libya, President Obama, Mitch McConnell
In Indiana, one of the nation's most restrictive and backward anti-abortion laws has just been signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels, and a provision of the law that took effect this week also blocks Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. Note that Planned Parenthood is already prohibited from using federal funds for ...
Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Republican Party, GOP, Indiana, Planned Parenthood
Remember Rep. Louie Gohmert and His Terror Babies From the Future? Well, the most aptly named member of Congress is back, doing that Gohmert thing, accusing President Obama of being a sekrit Muslim sympathizer. GOHMERT: And I know the president made the mistake one day of saying he had visited ...
Louie Gohmert, Texas, Republican Party, GOP, Fear, Anti-Muslim, President Obama, Bad Craziness
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has hit on a creative way to use Twitter for political purposes -- by posting fake retweets pretending to be from Democrats, along with a link to a website called "demsplanforamerica.com" that is nothing but a blank page. Get it? The GOP: always finding new ways ...
National Republican Senatorial Committee, Republican Party, Twitter, Impersonation, Idiocy
In a new low for right wing rhetoric, here's the chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, Tea Party loon Jack Kimball, saying that if Americans reelect Barack Obama, all the sacrifices made by our military will be "completely in vain."
New Hampshire, GOP, Republican Party, Jack Kimball, Hate Speech, Obama Derangement Syndrome
Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), rising star of the 2012 GOP presidential contest, absolutely epitomizes the anti-science, theocratic wing of today's Republican Party. Not only does she totally reject the voluminous scientific evidence for climate change, she's also an open, unapologetic creationist. And she doesn't just want to teach creationism to her Quiverfull ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Michele Bachmann
Today the Republican governor of Alabama, Robert Bentley, signed a law outlawing abortion after 20 weeks -- the fifth red state this year to do so. Apparently this is the Republican plan to create jobs and get the economy back on track -- by forcing women into back alley coat hanger ...
Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Republican Party, GOP, Alabama
It's been frustrating to watch the media suddenly falling all over themselves to proclaim Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) a "serious candidate," because I've been keeping track of her sheer lunacy for years, and Bachmann is so extreme she makes even Rick Santorum look sane. Michelle Goldberg has a very good piece in ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Loon, Extremism, Theocracy, Bad Craziness