If you live in the New York City metropolitan area, you may have heard that a massive nor'easter is scheduled to arrive in town early tomorrow evening. It promises to be a cranky houseguest. Some forecasts have predicted up to THIRTY inches of snow between Thursday night and Sunday morning, which is when things will supposedly calm down.
It's at times like this that a hearty, filling and restorative soup is just the thing you need, the better to cozy up to while there's a raging bitter wind outside.
Our TV ad holding Senate Republican LeaderMitch McConnell accountable for opposing strong gun reform is making HUGE waves — with over 20 national and local news reports about our ad.
Mitch McConnell even released a frantic statement accusing us of being a big-money outside group.
A local paper corrected the record: “They actually have raised over 2,000 contributions from their 7,000 members in Kentucky, averaging less than $15 per donation.”
82% of Kentuckians support criminal background checks for gun purchases, but McConnell is siding with the gun interests that spent $198,615 to elect him.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
– Adam Green, Stephanie Taylor, Amanda Johnson, Karissa Gerhke, Matt Wall, and the PCCC team
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But tomorrow, Republicans in Congress could again refuse to reauthorize funding for the Violence Against Women Act. If we don’t stand up to them, battered women across the country could be turned out on the streets without protection.
We can’t turn our backs on battered women in this country. If we lose the Violence Against Women Act, we will lose lives. That’s why VAWA has been passed unanimously for eighteen years.
Washington Post: President Obama on Wednesday will nominate Recreational Equipment (REI) chief executive Sally Jewell to head the Interior Department….
The choice of Jewell, who began her career as an engineer for Mobil Oil and worked as a commercial banker before heading a nearly $2 billion outdoors equipment company, represents an unconventional choice for a post usually reserved for career politicians from the West.
But while she boasts less public policy experience than other candidates who had been under consideration, Jewell, who will have to be confirmed by the Senate, has earned national recognition for her management skills and support for outdoor recreation and habitat conservation.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) speaks during a Tea Party Town Hall meeting February 8, 2011 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The town hall meeting was held by the Tea Party Express and Tea Party HD to address issues Tea Party members were concerned over. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Moderate Republicans are worried about the race, and even Karl Rove is warning Republicans that King would lose badly in a general election. What was likely going to be a competitive race to replace Harkin, now seems like an new opportunity for Democrats to not only hold on to a Senate seat, but also frame the debate and peg Republicans as extremist and outside of the mainstream.
Steve King is the poster boy for over the top, racially tinged rhetoric in his attacks on President Barack Obama.
Not only has King compared the president to Saddam Hussein, and called the president “very, very urban,” on the House floor, he has also said, “The president has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race on the side that favors the black person,” in comments responding to the Skip Gates arrest controversy.
King was also a birther, long after it was cool to be a birther. King was so down with the birthers, he actually went down to the Library of Congress to “inspect” the microfiche to make sure that the two newspaper articles announcing the president’s birth in 1961, weren’t fakes.
RT @thepoliticalcat: @fabucat Sweet Jesus, these people are as crazy as fuck, aren't they? Yeesh. Hate to have to clean out their closets.Still A MilitantNegro 1 hour ago
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