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A new wave of Republican lawmakers barged into office after the 2010 elections on promises of fiscal responsibility and a reigning in of government spending. Jobs. The economy. Econo-jobs. While everyone was Tea Partying their pants off and puking star spangled vomit into the potted plants, eager for the tax breaks that never came, newly-elected conservatives wasted no time to get to what they were really after: women's reproductive rights.
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Access to free birth control leads to lower rates of abortions and teen births, according to a new and extensive study from Washington University in St. Louis. (Well, the study is new, but the information is older than Antonin Scali... Read Post

The Tea Party rose up in anger over profligate Washington spending, and a new government intrusion into health care in the form of Obamacare. And in the first Republican presidential election since the Tea Party sprang into existenc... Read Post

In 2010, 87 Republicans rode a wave of "tea party" momentum into Congress for the first time. They were elected on a populist mandate to cut government spending, cut taxes and reduce the national debt. Still in 2012, with Republican... Read Post