Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is not shy about flouting Senate rules and traditions to put his party before his country and constitutional obligations. He was perfectly willing to obstruct President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nomination for the better part of the year in order to steal the seat for the Republican Party. And when he […]

With the monumental distraction of Donald Trump’s bombshell-a-day FBI obstruction scandal, it is easy to lose focus on the life-or-death struggle by many Americans against the Republican attack on health care. Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer found that out during a town hall meeting in Marshall County recently, when a constituent actually showed him, and the […]

The consensus, even in the corporate media, is that CBO report on the Republican’s Obamacare repeal plan is abysmal. The report shows that the plan, backed by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Donald Trump, will result in 24 million fewer Americans having health coverage over the next ten years. And amazingly, the White House’s own internal estimates for […]

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released the estimates for the effects that the GOP’s proposed plan to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) would have on health insurance coverage across America. The results are genuinely terrifying. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price recently said, “We don’t believe that individuals […]

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) made a shockingly callous statement earlier this week, in defense of the Republicans’ latest plan to repeal health care, insisting that “people who lead good lives” deserve to pay less for health care insurance. As the story of Brooks’ lack of compassion made the rounds of media outlets, Chelsea Clinton tweeted in response: […]

In an interview with the AM Tampa Bay radio show, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) pointed out that the horrific gas attack ordered by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad — in which dozens of children died, and the use of a nerve agent or other banned chemicals is suspected — took place after Secretary of State Rex […]

Vice President Mike Pence went to Capitol Hill to try to shore up Republican support for the latest Obamacare repeal bill, but at least one House member was unpersuaded. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) walked out of the meeting before it even ended, telling reporters that Pence had not changed his mind. “He knows where I am and what […]

In the age of the Donald Trump administration, outrageous attacks on immigrants have become par for the course. But Representative Steve King (R-IA) managed to sink to a new low, with a baldly racist and xenophobic tweet about the need to “restore our civilization,” which he said cannot be done with “somebody else’s babies”: Wilders […]

House Republicans are trying to rush through the Orwellian named “Financial CHOICE Act of 2017,” a bill that would gut financial protections and, among other things, allow banks and credit card companies to charge higher per-transaction fees. During the House Financial Services Committee’s markup session for the bill, also known as House Bill 10, the committee’s ranking […]

While shopping in an Apple Store, an American woman took advantage of a chance meeting with Donald Trump’s Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, to ask him some questions about his and the Trump administration’s actions: Asking @PressSec questions in Apple Store since he doesn't like the press. https://t.co/l493z2gG4x — Shree ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸 (@shreec) March 11, 2017 Notably, […]

Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) issued a stern rebuke of Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who defended the practice of denying health insurance to people with pre-existing conditions, saying that “people who lead good lives” and have “done the things to keep their bodies healthy” should not have to pay into a system covering others with serious conditions. […]

Democrat Jon Ossoff is the young, unlikely challenger — endorsed by his former boss and civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) — who is surging in the polls, raising piles of money, and making Georgia’s 6th Congressional District competitive. And that has Republicans increasingly desperate and terrified of losing this reliably safe seat. Just look at […]

In the health care debate, the only thing that is arguably worse than the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare are the ways in which Republicans are attempting to sell the plan to the American people. They began by ignoring the fact that millions will lose insurance, then moved on to asserting that insurance “is not really the end […]

Republican lawmakers may find it easy to make glib suggestions to cancer patients about health care on cable news, but it is quite another thing to face those same constituents in person. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) found that out over the weekend when he was confronted by a cancer patient, who told him that she […]

Conservatives in America never fail to outdo themselves when it comes to heartless arguments against the very notion of giving all citizens affordable and accessible health care. The latest iteration comes from Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who seemed indignant at the very notion of how insurance works — namely, that everyone pays into the pool […]

It just recently dawned on Donald Trump that health insurance is complicated, which may explain why the roll-out of the Republicans’ Obamacare repeal plan has been greeted with such confusion and opposition. Corporate media coverage of the repeal plan has been intensely negative — and much more positive toward Obamacare than when the Affordable Care Act was actually […]

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich’s Inequality Media produces a regular video segment on Facebook called The Resistance Report. In his most recent dispatch, Reich deconstructs the Republican effort to discredit the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is set to analyze the GOP’s attempt to dismantle Obamacare under the guise of the “American Health Care […]

In an interview with right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) added to the list of increasingly mean-spirited and shortsighted comments made by Republicans over concerns about their Obamacare repeal plan. Ryan dismissed the fears expressed by millions about having the rug pulled out from under them, as the Republican “American Health […]

Nothing about the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare indicates that they have any idea what Americans want from their health care system, or that Americans really do want to keep the health care reform act that has extended care to millions. And Rep. Steve King (R-IA) made that ignorance crystal clear — on live television. King got a measure […]

There is no shortage of problems with the House Republicans’ bill to repeal Obamacare, currently being rammed through committee with no input from Democrats or the Congressional Budget Office: It raises premiums. It kicks up to 10 million people off their plans. It cuts nearly $600 billion in taxes for the wealthy. It bans Medicaid patients from using Planned Parenthood. […]

Shareblue has been covering the many aspects of the poorly received Republican Obamacare repeal plan. But as bad as that plan has already proven to be, there are many Republicans who want to do much worse. One of those Republicans is Florida Representative Ron DeSantis, who is a member of the House Freedom Caucus, which […]

Donald Trump started his day by tweeting someone else claiming that he is not divisive: "It wasn't Donald Trump that divided this country, this country has been divided for a long time!" Stated today by Reverend Franklin Graham. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2017 In an expected irony, the man he quoted, Franklin […]

Donald Trump and the Republicans have sparked a resistance that has changed American politics, led by everyday Americans speaking out at town hall meetings across the country. Shareblue readers have seen a good bit of that resistance covered here, but what we have published only scratches the surface of the long hours of town hall video […]

At the relatively late hour of 7:30 pm Monday, the White House announced several bills that Donald Trump signed into law, away from the prying eyes of the press. Among them was a resolution repealing an Obama-era rule against the selling of Americans’ private information by internet service providers without their consent (via email from […]

In light of revelations that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with Russia’s ambassador to the United States last year — contrary to testimony he provided under oath during his confirmation hearing — Democrats and Republicans in Congress are calling for him to recuse himself from investigating Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. As Attorney General, Sessions oversees the […]

After months of impeachment-worthy scandals, just two Republicans in Congress have found the courage and patriotism to even consider the possibility of impeaching Donald Trump. Even the bombshell revelation that fired FBI Director James Comey composed memos detailing Trump’s attempts to quash the investigation of disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has thus far […]

While many corporate media figures bear great responsibility for the ascension of Donald Trump, his nascent presidency has also caused some journalists to up their game. One of them has been NBC News’ Katy Tur, who doggedly covered Trump on the campaign trail, despite being directly targeted for harassment by Trump, and has been consistently […]

Despite Republicans holding a decisive majority around the country, Democrats remain in control of a number of important offices, including many which are essential checks on corruption and abuse of power by GOP majorities in state governments. One such Democrat is Andy Beshear of Kentucky. The son of a a popular and successful former governor, Beshear was elected […]

The news for the Republicans’ attempt to repeal and “replace” Obamacare gets bleaker every day, and will undoubtedly get worse once the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scores the bill sometime next week. Thus it was no surprise when White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer attacked the CBO repeatedly at a televised briefing, calling their […]

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) could not be bothered to address the concerns of a mother with a heroin-addicted son at a recent town hall meeting. The woman explained to Zeldin that her son is addicted to heroin, and that she is pleading with him to oppose any possible changes to the health care system that […]