Lucas --Watch out! It's been one bad week for Republicans.
Republicans aren't wasting any time chucking their campaign pledges out the window.
We've collected some of the biggest whoppers from the GOP's trash heap of broken promises for this week's edition of @Stake. Outrageous! Rush Limbaugh Calls Speaker Pelosi a "Terrorist"
Rush Limbaugh continues to hit new lows even for him and spew his own unique brand of hatred this week calling Speaker Pelosi a "terrorist!" Rush Limbaugh: "It could well be, ladies and gentlemen, that we're fighting the wrong enemy in the Middle East. Maybe the real terrorists that we face are on Capitol Hill. I mean, really, who's doing as good a job to undermine what this country stands for as the terrorists? 'Dingy' Harry, Nancy Pelosi."
We are collecting signatures to demand an apology. Help us collect 10,000 signatures by Tuesday.
Sign our petition to demand Rush apologize immediately and try to get him off the air>> Big Bank Bachus: Congress should "serve the banks" When Republicans chose Rep. Spencer Bachus to chair the committee in charge of regulating the banks, it sounded like a classic case of the fox guarding the hen-house. After all, Rep. Bachus has taken over $1 million from Wall Street. But Rep. Bachus left no doubt who he'll be serving when he said this to his local paper:
"In Washington, the view is that the banks are to be regulated, and my view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks."
Rep. Bachus' outrageous kowtowing to the Big Banks earned him a spot as the "Worst Person in the World" on MSNBC's Countdown. Check out the clip >> Hypocrite of the Week: Michele Bachmann, Earmark Flip-Flopper
You may remember Rep. Michele Bachmann from such classic rants as questioning whether President Obama is "anti-America" or repeating Sarah Palin's lies about "death panels." Now, Bachmann can't even keep her stories straight.
Bachmann, the founding member of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus, protested her own party's push for an earmark ban after realizing she wouldn't be able to bring home government funding for her own pet projects.
Read more about Rep. Bachmann's flip-flop >> House Republicans: Leave No Lobbyist Behind It's now clear that House Republicans have launched an ambitious new effort, "Leave No Lobbyist Behind," where they hire special interest lobbyists to key positions that will develop the Republican agenda. So far, Republicans have hired:
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Robby Mook
DCCC Executive Director