'Embarrassing,' 'stupid': Republicans blast national party as if it bears no relation to them

Senate Republicans have finally located their problem, and it’s the Republican National Committee. After the RNC last week endorsed the Jan. 6 insurrection as “legitimate political …

House Republicans found a voting right they want to protect: Voting while unvaccinated!

It is impossible to come up with any satiric take on Republican lawmaker priorities that would not soon be overtaken by priorities even more ridiculous than what you came up with. Now that the party …

Chip Roy demands we deport the Canadian leader, who is in Canada, based on a conspiracy post

The collapse of the modern Republican Party can be broken into three Fox News eras. In the first, Fox News executives sought to boost the party by framing news stories with a partisan bent that …

The 14th Amendment bars insurrection plotters from government. It's about to be tested

The House Republican caucus is at this point comprised almost exclusively of terrible people, but somehow North Carolina’s Rep. Madison Cawthorn is forever among the worst. It could be the weird …

Fascism: House Republican extremists look to support candidates as devoted to Trump as they are

There’s a lot to take in on this Washington Post story about House Republican extremists recruiting like-minded conspiracy freaks in order to move their party even farther to the right than it …

Kevin McCarthy appeases House GOP radicals right into burning him at the stake

GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s dreams of one day becoming speaker of the House are going up in flames as the Republican caucus devolves into a raging inferno of internecine guerrilla …

House Republican comes out and says it: Forcing tax cheats to pay up would 'cost' them billions

Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace, inflicted on us by the state of South Carolina, has been running a bold new online ad condemning Democratic plans to boost funding for the Internal Revenue …

Boebert botches apology to Omar, releases new video yet again attacking her

One House Republican is under investigation for trafficking minors. Another helped cover up the molestation of college athletes. A third partners with neo-Nazis and shows “humorous” …

House Republicans promise revenge over Bannon indictment just as soon as they retake the gavel

House Republicans did everything they could to block a bipartisan investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. seat of government. Now they are promising retribution against Democrats over that …

Rep. Dan Crenshaw fined $5000 for bypassing House security station

One of the perils of our particular brand of democracy is that it tends to attract and put into office Americans whose loose ethics and delusions of entitlement would get them canned as Burger King …

Vast majority of Americans favor mask mandates. Republicans are the screaming minority

What is perfectly obvious by now is the fact that unvaccinated Republicans have been the main driver of the delta variant that is now forcing the rest of the country to overcompensate for the risk …

Pelosi is painting radicalized House Republicans into a corner as Trump's power falters

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a message for reporters intent on asking her about the absurdity of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy: Don’t waste my time.

In fact, that’s exactly what she …

House Republicans plot retaliations as Jan. 6 commission prepares for first witnesses

After six months of Republican attempts to block it from happening, a congressional committee will on Tuesday begin to hear testimony from witnesses on the events of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Four …

Gaetz and Greene's joint fundraising efforts are hemorrhaging money

Neither Matt Gaetz nor Marjorie Taylor Greene should be in Congress. Gaetz is still attempting to scurry out from under a likely federal indictment for sex trafficking due to his involvement with a …

Forced to apologize for past remarks, Marjorie Taylor Greene speedruns the Holocaust Museum

On Monday, Republican conspiracy theorist and friend to congressional sex trafficking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene visited the Holocaust Museum. By “visited the Holocaust Museum,” we mean …

Republican swindlers vexed by failure to profit off Teflon Joe

Republicans are having a lot of trouble finding an attack against President Joe Biden that sticks. That’s not merely a political problem, it’s a financial problem for a party that has …

McCarthy desperately wanted to silence Cheney. He failed

Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had a short-term problem: One member of his leadership team refused to accept the baseless lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. The …

House Republicans make their choice: The Big Lie trumps the Constitution

House Republicans made it official Friday: The former guy rules their world. Rep. Liz Cheney, who voted with Trump on policy nearly 100% of the time, is out of leadership. Rep. Elise Stefanik, who …

Cartoon: Liz Cheney: Now she’s done it!

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Whoever thought a Cheney would be a pillar of principle and democracy? Okay, so she hasn’t always been a pillar, but it is nice that one House Republican is trying to push back against …