Judgment Day looms for Obama over healthcare and Fast and Furious

White House braces itself for a humiliating double blow
Obamacare has failed to secure a single Republican vote in Congress
Pressure on Attorney-General Eric Holder over botched Mexican gun sting

Brewing Democrat rebellion as 11 refuse to attend national convention

Barack Obama faces Judgment Day as the Supreme Court is set to announce today whether his healthcare reform will be struck down and Attorney General Eric Holder faces being held in contempt of Congress.

Having spent his first 14 [...]

RUBIO RIPS TEAM GINGRICH

Sen. Marco Rubio scolded Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign over a Spanish-language radio ad that accuses rival Mitt Romney of being “anti-immigrant”

“This kind of language is more than just unfortunate. It’s inaccurate, inflammatory, and doesn’t belong in this campaign,” Rubio told The Miami Herald when asked about the ad.

“The truth is that neither of these two men is anti-immigrant,” Rubio said. “Both are pro-legal immigration and both have positive messages that [...]

[LIVE THREAD] Watch Tonight’s GOP Primary Debate Live

Because it beats a Saturday night lobotomy…. Right? Also, Bachmann is gone.

whole thing after the jump

Some details for those who care from BostInno:

Tonight’s GOP debate is the first since the Iowa caucuses and is set to take place just an hour from Boston at St. Anselm’s College in Manchester, New Hampshire. The debate will feature Iowa winner and former Massachusetts’ governor Mitt Romney pitted against Rick Santorum, who was a very [...]

CANTOR: ‘Not one Republican vote’ to borrow more without cuts

(CNSNews.com) – House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said not one Republican will vote for an increase to the debt limit without any spending cuts.

“I can tell you as a Whip there’s not one Republican vote for a negative debt limit vote where no cuts are proposed,” McCarthy told reporters at the Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters on Wednesday.

“We have staked out very early [...]

It’s a perfect storm; I’m talking about the dangers facing our democracy

by Seriously

First, income in America is now more concentrated in fewer hands than it’s been in 80 years. Almost a quarter of total income generated in the United States is going to the top 1 percent of Americans.

The top one-tenth of one percent of Americans now earn as much as the bottom 120 million of us.

Who are these people? With the exception of a few entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, they’re [...]

Obama has misrepresented himself to me. I voted for Mr. Change and I have come to regret it.

by MichaelG

Obama’s first moves selecting Geitner (Tax cheat, Mr. AIG, Breakfast with Bankers at the NY FED), Summers (never met a regulation I liked or a women who was good in math) and Bernanke (we have no subprime problem and let prudent people suffer the most with his policies) I knew we were screwed. I mean who else would select the same enablers who got us here. When Mr. Change [...]