The new Tea Party Caucus contains no African-Americans, even though there are many African-Americans in the House of Representatives.

In the wake of the passage of health care reform by both houses of Congress in March 2010, Republican legislators rushed for the title of The One who introduced repeal legislation. In the last days of March, representatives Michele Bachmann of Minnesota (H.R. 4903), Steve King of Iowa (H.R. 4972), Jerry Moran of Kansas (H.R. [...]

If a bill passed by majorities in both houses of Congress, and signed into law by a President who won with a strong mandate in most states, does not represent the will of the people, what would? According to Michele Bachmann, the will of the people is better represented by her own bill, H.R. 4903.

The Founding Fathers explicitly defied the first of the Ten Commandments, placing in the Constitution a ban on religious tests for any public office, and further establishing freedom of religion and the separation of

If Michele Bachmann hasn’t had the chance to read Obama’s new health care reform proposal, how can she know that it will result in higher taxes and fewer jobs?

If you’ve been following Rep. Michele Bachmann in the news, you’re not alone; the Minnesota Republican has a way of grabbing media attention by doing things like calling for the revival of the McCarthy Hearings or telling her followers to slit their wrists. But Bachmann is hardly the only active member of Congress out there: [...]

The same inconsistency is there when it comes to the relative power between federal and local governments. Right wing activists say that local governments should have power above the federal government’s power, when local governments want to deny people rights. When local governments seek to protect constitutional rights, however, the same right wing activists show no respect for local decisions.

It is in this spirit that yesterday, the following 39 Republican members of Congress signed their name to a legal brief urging a court to block D.C.’s legalization of same-sex marriage.

You can tell Rep. Michele Bachmann feels pretty strongly about health care reform legislation. Speaking in Colorado recently, she made these remarks about extending health care coverage for Americans: This is slavery. It’s nothing more than slavery…. This cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be [...]

Michele Bachmann won’t work to help America deal with climate change, because she thinks that global warming is a hoax. She’s right on top of the secret plan to use Americorps to force young Americans into re-education camps, though.

Even Michele Bachmann admitted in her outraged press release that Geithner clarified his remarks, so that the American people would know quite clearly that he wasn’t proposing an international currency. So where’s the controversy?