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In Unprecedented Act Of Disrespect, Republicans Refuse To Even Look At Obama’s New Budget

President Obama has finally unveiled his last budget as the leader of our nation – and it’s chock full of progressive goals and desperately needed spending that sends a clear message to the American people about which party truly cares about their well-being. The $4.1 trillion budget proposal has already been met with howls of…

February 9, 2016
Republican Misogynists Dealt Huge Defeat As 20-Week Abortion Ban Fails

Thankfully, even if any of these archaic, misogynist measures make it to President Obama’s desk, he will veto them.

September 22, 2015
WSJ: Forget China, REPUBLICANS Are The Biggest Threat to America's Economy

The Republican Party has spent decades attempting to paint themselves as the party of “fiscal responsibility,” despite having driven our nation into a recession through rampant deregulation and crippling the middle class with their empirically ineffective fantasies of “trickle down economics“. President Obama has done an incredible job bailing out the ship, but the GOP refuses…

August 25, 2015
Watch: Pres. Obama Drops Truth Bomb On Republican Budget

President Obama tore into Republicans for their disingenuous attempt to cut the deficit by handing out billions in tax cuts to the super wealthy. Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd at a community college in Birmingham, Alabama, the president went after the Republican budget. “It represents the opposite of middle class economics” Pres. Obama said, “because…

March 26, 2015
Watch: Bernie Sanders Blasts the Media for Complacency in GOP's War on Middle Class

In this video, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes the media to task for failing to accurately report on the austerity of the Republican budget proposal. “One of the problems I always have with this is when we tell the American people what’s actually in the budget, they say naw, you’re being partisan! This can’t be…

March 26, 2015
Watch: Sen. Warren Slams Republicans for Setting Up Another Financial Crisis

In this passionate speech, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D- Mass) angrily rips the 2016 Republican budget for gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and all the hard-won regulations enacted to keep a financial crisis from happening again. “A budget is a statement of values” remarks Sen. Warren, and it’s clear from the Republican proposal where their…

March 26, 2015