Earlier today, Time magazine reported that Jeb Bush was bringing on Hipster.com co-founder Ethan Czahor as his new Chief Technology Officer, hailing the hire as a savvy move by a party that often struggles with social media. And they weren't wrong—by Monday afternoon Czahor had already made his mark on the web, thanks to his awful, awful tweets about sluts and gay people.
For most people, Sasha and Malia Obama's spiritless appearance at this year's White House turkey pardon was a lesson about humility, showing how even the world's most powerful man is still just "ugh, Dad" to his teenage daughters. But one Republican House staffer saw something else entirely: two girls dishonoring America with their slutty clothes and brazen teen-ery.
For the past two years, the GOP-controlled House Committee on Intelligence has investigated the Obama administration’s role in the security and intelligence failures which preceded the September 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya—a perpetual source of bizarre right-wing conspiracies. Today the results are in: Obama officials did nothing wrong.
Iowa state representative Henry Rayhons, a Republican, was arrested over the weekend for having sex with his mentally incapacitated wife after a judge instructed him not to. Police told the Des Moines Register that Rayhons "abused his wife in May at the nursing home where she lived." Donna Rayhons suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and she died earlier this month.
After two years of recriminations and investigations, the Republican-led House intelligence committee is reportedly set to release the results of a Benghazi investigation that found no wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the lead-up and response to the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.
Kyle Tasker has dedicated his four-year career in the New Hampshire statehouse to channeling Chris Farley, only with more guns, selfies and woman-beating jokes. So maybe it's no surprise he's got one-liners about the state's black caucus.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Richmond, Virginia, ruled today that the IRS has the power to grant subsidies to people who are enrolled in Obamacare through the federal health insurance exchange. This is the opposite of what the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled just hours before. Neither of these decisions is the final say on the issue.
A federal appeals court ruled today that due to the wording of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare subsidies are unauthorized in states that haven't set up their own insurance exchanges. In those states, which are mostly Republican-controlled, the IRS had been granting subsidies to customers who purchased insurance plans on the federal exchange.
Your mission, young GOP staffers: Infiltrate a fundraiser for Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer, wearing a spy camera mounted to your glasses, and record everything you see there. Whatever you do, don't let the footage get into the wrong hands.
In order to prove once and for all that it is totally web-savvy, and not nearly as analog as the critics say—oh, and also to raise money—the Republican Party is selling new web domains ending in .gop starting today. They are much in demand, but not for the reasons Republicans might have hoped.
GOP Rep. Vance McAllister, the married, "family values" guy caught on tape in April making out with his staffer, announced today that he will run for re-election. McAllister once had the coveted Duck Dynasty endorsement, but now one of the DD guys is running against him for the GOP nomination in Louisiana's 5th district.
John Huppenthal, the Republican public schools chief in Arizona, announced yesterday that he will not quit in the face of controversy over his once-anonymous blog comments. Under the usernames Falcon9 and Thucydides, Huppenthal suggested, among other things, that Spanish language should be outlawed in the United States.
