Mad Wombat

A moderately liberal Democraticly-themed blog

Category Archives: House of Representatives

GOP Balanced Budget Amendment is Pro-Authoritarianism

It’s somewhat amazing how much the so-called Freedom™ Loving Tea Partiers in the GOP embrace so many things that are in line with authoritarianism, and their current Balanced Budget Amendment is just the latest. Now, you might be asking, how can a balanced budget amendment be authoritarianism in nature? The problem is that their proposed [...]

Senator McConnell Joins House in Fighting Biggest Scourge of History

Yes…that evil of evil…that program that everyone is rioting on the streets about.  The program that democrats and republicans are united in gnashing teeth over!  The one! The only!… Presidential Election Campaign Fund: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell introduced legislation Wednesday to save taxpayers $617 million over 10 years by ending taxpayer funding of the [...]

Boehner: We Want Them All and We Want Them Now

The GOP’s favorite song is still Queen’s “We Want it All” and they aren’t backing down: House Republican leader John Boehner signaled Wednesday that he was unwilling to compromise on a permanent extension of the so-called Bush tax cuts, saying preserving current rates is “the most important thing we can do to create jobs.”… “I’ve [...]

A New Day

So yesterday saw the bliggest flip of seats in the US House of Representatives by any party in over 60 years, the largest flip of seats toward the GOP in over 70 years, and the biggest Republican majority in the House in 80 years, and the most seats flipped by the GOP in an election [...]

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