During last year’s government shutdown, Washington D.C. politicians weren’t busy, but they were getting busy, if you know what I mean. Last night, NBC News anchor Brian Williams delivered a story correlating the uptick in DC births with the Congressional stalemate in fall 2013. Williams made fun of the political… » 7/11/14 1:20pm 7/11/14 1:20pm

Rachel Maddow gave another one of her sprawling, brilliant and entertaining rants on her show last night when she broke down what exactly the Republicans accomplished by shutting down the government for the past 16 days. Spoiler alert: It's a big fat nothing. » 10/17/13 12:30pm 10/17/13 12:30pm

The ridiculous, disheartening, and embarrassing government shutdown is basically dead, and Obamacare is alive. As we expected, the Senate just voted 81 to 18 to reopen the federal government and raise the nation's borrowing limit, hours before the Treasury Department faced the possibility of being unable to pay all of… » 10/16/13 8:30pm 10/16/13 8:30pm

Despite the best efforts of Ted Cruz and Tea Party fun bunch, the government shutdown will likely end this evening. Leaders in the Senate will soon vote on a deal that, if passed and put on the desk of President Obama by midnight tonight, will both end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling by its October 17th… » 10/16/13 5:40pm 10/16/13 5:40pm

Now that the government shutdown is in what feels like it elevendieth week, everything seems too stupid to be real, and here's a perfect example of why: the GOP's continued insistence that the United States government remain in stinky, stale deadlock until liberals agree to allow business owners to bar the sluts who… » 10/15/13 7:20pm 10/15/13 7:20pm

This is incredibly fucked. » 10/12/13 4:00pm 10/12/13 4:00pm

Thanks to the furlough, all routine inspections of domestic food production (except for meat and poultry products) have stopped — and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is operating with a skeleton staff, was ill-equipped to deal with a recent salmonella outbreak that made hundreds of people sick… » 10/10/13 11:50am 10/10/13 11:50am

SO, uh, his high school girlfriend was a completely reasonable person who just wanted to work together amicably to solve some shit and I do mean SHIT? Cool, cool. » 10/09/13 10:00pm 10/09/13 10:00pm

Vibrators.com is offering an Affordable Care Act for your lady parts — they're giving away 200 vibrators a day to federal employees affected by the government shutdown. It's becoming more and more obvious that this is what the sluts wanted all along. » 10/07/13 9:30am 10/07/13 9:30am

No, Miley Cyrus didn’t use the vaunted stage at NBC to douse her social media feud with Sinéad O’Connor with gasoline. She did, however, manage to participate in a “We Can’t Stop” parody that was just as topical. » 10/06/13 12:30pm 10/06/13 12:30pm

What do you do when you're a young public sector go-getter who suddenly finds herself bored, homebound, and sans paycheck thanks to the government shutdown? Something cheap, something stress relieving, something easy — why not post an ad to Craigslist's casual encounters section for "shutdown sex"? You certainly… » 10/04/13 3:50pm 10/04/13 3:50pm

We've seen the damage the government shutdown is doing to the lives of many Americans this week, whether you're a woman or a worker (or both!). Now the Wall Street Journal confirms that the shutdown has resulted in thousands of low-income kids being prevented from going to preschool because of closed Head Start… » 10/03/13 11:50am 10/03/13 11:50am

Best rethink any glimmer of hope you might have had about Republicans in Congress and the Senate paying for the government shutdown come election season. As Daily Show correspondent John Oliver points out, Congress maintains a 90% incumbency rate despite only having a 10% approval rating. Basically, people loathe… » 10/03/13 10:50am 10/03/13 10:50am

Conservatives can't seem to be able to get their story straight on the government shutdown — some are claiming it's No Big Deal, while others are wringing their hands and wailing that it's the Obamapocalypse and that soon we'll all be personally bludgeoned to a pulp by bureaucrats wielding death panels. Both groups… » 10/02/13 4:30pm 10/02/13 4:30pm

Hero senator Elizabeth Warren had some choice words for the GOP the day before they effectively shut down the government. » 10/02/13 12:50pm 10/02/13 12:50pm

As we end our first day of the Federal government shutdown, Jon Stewart captures the GOP mentality in a nutshell: Your kid didn't get breakfast? That's your problem. My kid didn't get to tour the White House? That's everyone's problem. » 10/02/13 12:15am 10/02/13 12:15am

Mind-blowing theory alert: Susan Miller, astrologist to the stars, knew today's government shutdown was imminent. » 10/01/13 3:30pm 10/01/13 3:30pm

You know the "Cool" scene in West Side Story? The one where the Jets are all about to pop off in anger, but Ice advises them to "keep it cooly cool, boy?" I've been feeling like I am in that scene ALL DAY, mostly because this government shutdown is so crazy and infuriating, but also because I channel my anger through… » 10/01/13 1:40pm 10/01/13 1:40pm