A Republican lawmaker in Nevada has outraged many on both sides of the aisle after it was revealed yesterday that he told a group of Republican constituents that he would vote to bring back slavery if they wanted him to.

The Buncombe County Republican precinct chairman whose disastrous Daily Show appearance cost him his position fired back at his party leaders yesterday, saying his forced resignation proved the GOP had "no guts."

Having learned what happens when giant babies are elected to govern the United States, Americans are very disgusted with their government. They like the Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security and Obamacare and Prescription Drug Benefits, but they don't like democracy, which is a pretty weird way to run a country.

If the grim news about our slow-cooking world has got you down, you might be an environmentalist. Recycling bins, hiking boots, and that reusable grocery bag you got at the farmer's market are other signs that you may have ecological beliefs and concerns. To the industrial propagandists, even your awareness of the hotter temperatures and horrific storms is proof that your green behavior is actually a religion. So what would happen if 10 million or 50 million religious environmentalists suddenly appeared on the national scene?

Having had his fill of Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) trying to mislead his Monday night viewers with bogus claims about Obamacare and the cooked-up reasons for why Republicans refuse to bring a clean continuing resolution up for a vote, Anderson Cooper to make good on his promise to "keep them honest."

A top Republican member of the House gathered a group of sympathetic reporters last Thursday to tell his party's side of the shutdown story, which involved an anecdote comparing the GOP to Confederate troops at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The most widely circulated anti-shutdown tweet to date got a "dramatic reading" on the House floor late last week, courtesy of Congressman Mike Doyle (D-PA).

Though dozens of her colleagues have decided to either forego receiving a paycheck or else donate their salary to charity while the government is shut down and hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been furloughed, Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) is adamant about making sure her $174k/year plus benefits remain undisturbed.

Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), a member of the House Committee on the Budget, was invited to discuss the government shutdown on this morning's CNN Newsroom, but the congressman seemed far more interested in hitting on the host instead.

He first called them assholes. He then told them to fuck off. And now he's called them "zebra queefs."

Jon Stewart, on fire again Tuesday night, blasted the GOP for their continuing hypocrisy in the shutdown crisis. He eviscerates Republicans who were so worried about the welfare of our nation’s children when White House tours were canceled in March. And yet these same Republicans, according to Stewart, are more than willing to let poor children starve as a result of reduced government services.

The government may have shut down for the first time in 17 years, but Jon Stewart is staying put because his excoriation of House Republicans is essential.

A Democratic congresswoman fed up with the anti-food-stamp rhetoric of her Republican colleagues took those lawmakers to task today using some high quality props.

Washington, D.C. interns — in particular, congressional interns — tend to be embryonic versions of the monsters they serve: rich, white, and drunk on even the tiniest modicum of actual power. How do they get that way? In part by carefully attending to the advice contained in the “2013 Intern Manual” distributed to the unpaid peons of House Speaker John Boehner, the 12-term Republican who superintends the lower chamber’s extreme right wing. Left behind at a recent D.C. house party by a sauced Hill staffer, the manual shows how even the lowest employees lubricate the capital’s gilded political machine.

Gay MSNBC host Thomas Roberts revealed today that a pair of powerful GOP leaders just swooned over his engagement and marriage to Patrick Abner. Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, the chairman and chief spokesman of the Republican National Committee, cheerfully congratulated Roberts in 2011 and 2012, just as the GOP cheerfully touted its aversion to gay people.

A former GOP leader who cracked wise about Anthony Weiner's sexting woes has found himself embroiled in a seedier version of the scandal after being arrested last Friday for allegedly sending sexually explicit material to a teenager over the Internet.

A Republican lawmaker from Arkansas upset both Bostonians and non-Bostonians from both sides of the aisle this morning after he felt the need to tweet a pro-gun message around the time two armed police officers were being shot in their pursuit of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

Having recently completed turning Tennessee into a present-day Xanadu, one local lawmaker finally found the time to focus his attention ob passing a resolution that has been far too long in coming: A resolution honoring himself.

A Missouri State Senator previously known best for appearing in a Tea Party movie about an armed revolt against the government and allegedly assaulting a staffer employed by his political rival is back in the news today after a heated email exchange with a constituent was published by the River Front Times' Daily RFT blog.

A Republican state legislator from New Hampshire is in scaldingly hot water after he used the word "vaginas" as a substitute for the word "women" in an official email sent to a colleague via the New Hampshire House internal email system.