Michele Bachmann has finally broken her heavy silence on Miley Cyrus's send up of the Minnesota Congressman on last weekend's SNL. She humblebragged about it. Read… 10/09/13 2:20pm 10/09/13 2:20pm

Minnesota Congresswoman and firebrand head of the Congressional Whackadoodle Caucus went on the radio this weekend to talk about, I don't know, what she normally talks about I guess? Word barf that reads like Tea Party Magnetic poetry in a blender? But what she ended up talking about — in an excited, unsettlingly… Read… 10/08/13 12:40pm 10/08/13 12:40pm

What is the best way to celebrate Independence Day? If you're like most people I know, you probably agree that the optimal way to honor our country is to gorge yourself on beer and meat products and then fall asleep in a hot tub, stewing in your own filth. For the Tea Party, though, it's the ideal time to reflect on … Read… 7/04/13 4:15pm 7/04/13 4:15pm

Have you seen this clip? It's a recruitment video — produced by the batshit cuckoo Tea Party Patriots — that debuted over the weekend during CPAC. And someone's been watching Hunger Games! Read… 3/19/13 2:55pm 3/19/13 2:55pm

Grab some popcorn and get ready to yell at your computer screen, because things got HEATED today at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the proposed assault weapons ban authored by Dianne Feinstein, the senior Senator from California. Read… 3/14/13 10:15pm 3/14/13 10:15pm

Well, this is incredibly fucked. An Asheville chapter of the Tea Party is offering North Carolina residents a chance to win a DPMS Panther Oracle AR-15, a very similar rifle to the one reportedly used in the Sandy Hook shooting. Even scarier, they posted the raffle on Monday, so they were fully aware that there had… Read… 12/18/12 11:00pm 12/18/12 11:00pm

Earlier this year, Susan G. Komen For the Cure did the public relations equivalent of pulling down its pants and taking a giant dump all over its shiny pink reputation by cutting off grants to Planned Parenthood for political reasons, and then lying and saying they were doing it because of new rules. The new-ish,… Read… 11/21/12 7:00pm 11/21/12 7:00pm

Scott DesJarlais, the pro family values anti-abortion rights Tennessee Tea Party Congressman who it turns out was actually only pro-family values and anti-abortion rights for people who aren't Scott DesJarlais, now claims that the tape transcript released last week wherein he pressured his mistress/ex patient to have… Read… 10/15/12 12:10pm 10/15/12 12:10pm

Janis Lane, the lady leader of the Central Mississippi Tea Party thinks that women shouldn't be allowed to cast a ballot this (or any) election. In something that's akin to hamsters eating their young, Lane has turned on her own kind, and is practicing a brand of self-hatred that you just don't see many people… Read… 10/14/12 11:40pm 10/14/12 11:40pm

Right now, you're going to want to dust off your Horrible Hypocritical Human Garbage Bingo cards; I have a feeling this story could finally be your lucky round. Tennessee Tea Party Congressman Scott DesJarlais, who ran for Congress on a FAMILY VALUES PRO LIFE IN GOD WE TRUST JESUS IS HUGGING AMERICA WITH HIS MEATY… Read… 10/10/12 3:50pm 10/10/12 3:50pm

Florida Congressman and Tea Party darling Allen West is no stranger to idiotic crap. His 22-year military career ended when he couldn't resist torturing an Iraqi detainee, and once he was elected to the House, he wasted no time in establishing himself as one of this great nation's foremost asshats. He's a wild-eyed… Read… 10/02/12 3:40pm 10/02/12 3:40pm

Hey, here's a thing that I hope my neighbors aren't doing! Moved by Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan's proud proclamation that his 10-year-old daughter has her very own pony gun, Twitter's most prolific conservative shriekers are showing their support by posting pictures of their own young female children shooting … Read… 9/26/12 3:30pm 9/26/12 3:30pm

Soledad O'Brien has just about broken the on a roll sound barrier over the last couple of weeks. For most TV journalists, getting Romney mouthpiece John Sununu Rumpelstiltskin-level mad and then reducing Tim Pawlenty to asking her if she understood English would be enough to coast on Gabby Douglas interviews for the… Read… 8/20/12 6:50pm 8/20/12 6:50pm

Cliff Stearns, the whackadoodle Florida Republican who led Congress's investigation into Planned Parenthood and Solyndra, just received his Thank You note from voters: a primary loss to a large animal Veterinarian named (I'm not kidding) Dr. Yoho who has never held public office before and spent a fraction of money… Read… 8/15/12 5:20pm 8/15/12 5:20pm

Utah Tea Party activist and prominent fund raiser Greg Peterson owns a beautiful 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom 3,000 square foot cabin in the ruggedly gorgeous area outside of Salt Lake City. Over the years, with the help of his fancy cabin, Peterson has proven himself an adept host — entertaining and gladhanding with the… Read… 7/19/12 6:30pm 7/19/12 6:30pm

Looks like we've got a Republican etiquette concern on our hands, folks. Even after what seems like a centuries-long career of tossing meaningless word salad live on cable news, Alaska governor possible Presidential candidate rural mayor victor in the battle to overturn the Affordable Care Act hockey mom yammering… Read… 7/17/12 1:20pm 7/17/12 1:20pm

Iowa Republican Steve King currently fighting to oppose California's right to regulate eggs from out of state, but he argues against Affordable Care Act on the grounds that the government shouldn't have the right to tell states what to do. He's also against letting states outlaw fois gras, and in favor of letting… Read… 7/16/12 1:10pm 7/16/12 1:10pm

Since the Tea Party made its rocky, socially awkward debut on the national stage by sending elected officials tea bags without knowing that "tea bagging" can also mean "gently resting one's ballsack upon someone's face," they've struggled to convince American voters that they're not comprised of a bunch of uncool oldsters… Read… 6/26/12 2:10pm 6/26/12 2:10pm

In case you haven't noticed, gas prices are higher than brachiosaurus balls right now. They're so high, in fact, that one concerned citizen in freshman New York congresswoman Nan Hayworth's district waded into an oxymoronic "civil multi-partisan discussion" on Facebook, oxymoronic, of course, because nobody "discusses"… Read… 5/31/12 9:20pm 5/31/12 9:20pm

Great news, fans of supergroups. The twenty-four Republican women in the US House of Representatives have joined forces to form the Women's Policy Committee, a group that's supposed to raise the profile of the conservative ladies serving in Congress. Too bad that Team Awesome has spent most of its Girl Power Time in … Read… 5/22/12 9:10pm 5/22/12 9:10pm

Congress's terrible approval ratings have finally been explained — turns out, America's elected representatives are so fucking irritating because they talk at roughly the level of sophomores in high school, which means they can't possibly be legislating at anything higher than a 7th grade level. We've put mental… Read… 5/21/12 10:50am 5/21/12 10:50am

Remember back during the heady days of the 2008 election—before the economy went into full meltdown mode—when all anyone could talk about was how fucked up our health insurance coverage in this country was? The news was all about how the current system was failing so many people, and even the Republicans agreed we… Read… 4/20/12 12:20pm 4/20/12 12:20pm

Thursdays are always a conundrum; not close enough to the weekend to justify going all out, but not close enough to the beginning of the week to feel like hunkering down and nesting. But if you're Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, you solved this week's Thursday Problem by spending the day signing a truly shitty quartet … Read… 4/06/12 7:10pm 4/06/12 7:10pm

A new wave of Republican lawmakers barged into office after the 2010 elections on promises of fiscal responsibility and a reigning in of government spending. Jobs. The economy. Econo-jobs. While everyone was Tea Partying their pants off and puking star spangled vomit into the potted plants, eager for the tax breaks… Read… 4/05/12 12:10pm 4/05/12 12:10pm

Today's dispatch from the Dudes Who Know Nothing About Birth Control Giving Birth Control Advice Ledger: a Wisconsin Senator thinks that if a woman can't afford birth control, she should just Google it. And then, somehow, the women who previously could not afford birth control, not no way, not no how, will be able… Read… 3/28/12 10:00am 3/28/12 10:00am

No one likes hecklers. Read… 11/05/11 6:15pm 11/05/11 6:15pm