Congress is about to go into the August recess without having passed comprehensive health care reform. The main reason is the insurance industry’s opposition to the public option, which would create a government insurance program to compete with private carriers. Insurance industry lobbyist spokesman Robert Zirkelbach debates consumer activist Jesse...

Another week, another Republican family values scandal. Married, 47-year old Tennessee State Senator Paul Stanley — no, not the guy from KISS — is sure of what you ought to be doing and not doing with your genitals. His own, not so much. According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Sen. Stanley admitted to having a “sexual...

Back in 1986, Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, was rejected by that very body when he was nominated to be a judge. As Ted Kennedy put it at the time, Sessions was a “throwback” to the south’s racist past and not fit for office. Now of course, Sessions is the Republican in charge of vetting Sonya...

This week on Partisan Gridlock…..what is it about Sarah Palin’s ignorance that attracts so many right-wing Republicans? It’s not that her intelligence is a really, really well-kept secret. On the contrary, it’s her stupidity that attracts so many know-nothing, platitude-embracing right-wing zealots. Listen...

Sally Kern, a Republican legislator from Oklahoma has introduced a resolution recognizing that America’s economic woes are due to gay marriage, abortion, divorce, and generally all things her brand of Christianity doesn’t like (including most Christians). Plus, we walk down memory lane with Ms. KKKern and revisit her speech saying that teh gheys are...