Month: March 2015

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Ben Carson Knows Nothing About Foreign Policy, Unaware Baltic States Part Of NATO

America needs a diplomat on the world stage, not a myopic neurosurgeon whose eyes glaze over when you show him a map of Europe.

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Massive School Layoffs, Healthcare, Food Stamp Cuts Populate Scott Walker’s Koch Budget

Scott Walker’s budget epitomizes the Koch-Republican “vision for America” and not at all unique among states ruled by Koch-governors with Republican legislatures. In Wisconsin, because Walker has driven the state’s deficit over the $2 billion mark with tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, he intends on slashing yet another $300 million from the University of Wisconsin system over two years, and for fun will make seriously Draconian cuts to health care and food stamps.

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Payback Time: Obama Puts Netanyahu In His Place During Tough Phone Call

In a tense phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Obama delivered the message that he is going forward with trying to negotiate a deal with Iran on their nuclear program, reassessing U.S. options, and reaffirmed his support for the two-state solution. In other words, it’s payback time.

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MSNBC Ignores Their Viewers By Vowing To Keep Morning Joe And Move Or Cancel Liberal Shows

A major shakeup is coming to MSNBC. It is being reported that every show on the network with the exceptions of Rachel Maddow and Morning Joe is at risk of being canceled or moved.

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Editorial Cartoon: Rubio the Rube

Not only did he sign the letter, he hopes to ride the anti-Obama, anti-Iranian nuclear agreement into the White House.

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Scott Walker’s Romneyesque Pandering Demonstrates His Lack Of Leadership Qualities

Walker has morphed into a candidate so feckless, that the 2012 version of Mitt Romney looks like a profile in courage by comparison.

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Obama Strikes Terror Into The Hearts Of Republicans By Supporting Mandatory Voting

President Obama has sent a wave of terror through the Republican Party by suggesting that the most direct way to get rid of Citizens United is to require mandatory voting by every eligible citizen.

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Jon Stewart Compares Netanyahu To GOP For Ginning Up Racist Fears To Win Election

During Wednesday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart mocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for ginning up “racist fears of minority turnout for short-term political gain” in order to push his Likud Party to electoral victory on Tuesday.

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Obama’s Cleveland Appearance Leaves Boehner No Other Option but to Lie – Again

Eviscerated by President Obama in Cleveland, Speaker Boehner had no option but to try to bury Obama’s budget in well-tried but obvious lies

22

President Obama Smacks Down Republicans With The Reality Of His Economic Success

President Obama smacked down Republicans today by contrasting his record of economic success with the reality of their trickle down failures.

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Donald Trump Quits TV Show, Forms Exploratory Committee To Kick Off Presidential Campaign

Billionaire Donald Trump has formed an exploratory committee and hired staff for a 2016 presidential run.

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Bernie Sanders Storms The Senate and Rips The Republican Rich Get Richer Budget

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) showed why he was named to the top Democratic post on the Senate Budget Committee by shredding the Republican budget proposals/

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Senate Democrats Own Mitch McConnell By Blocking Human Trafficking Bill For Second Time

Senate Democrats are not caving to Mitch McConnell’s pressure tactics. Democrats have blocked a human trafficking bill that contains controversial abortion language for a second straight day.

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Email “Scandal” Falls Flat, As Hillary Still Holds Double Digit Lead Over Every Republican

Republicans have good reason to be nervous, because right now, Hillary Clinton is crushing every one of them in the polls.

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Republicans Unveil Their Plan To Take Health Care Away From 14-20 Million Americans

A centerpiece of the House and Senate Republican budgets is a plan to take away health care from 14.3-20.5 million Americans.

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New York Times Editorial Board Slams Netanyahu For Using Racism To Win Israeli Election

Shortly after it became apparent that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party had survived a close election and would retain power over the nation’s government, the New York Times released a scathing editorial criticizing Netanyahu for going ugly and utilizing racism and anti-Palestine sentiment to energize far-right Israeli voters.

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Countering GOP Obstruction Obama Initiative Creates 500,000 High-Paying Jobs

The President launched an initiative last week to train 500,000 Americans for high-paying jobs in high-technology services.

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John Boehner’s Defense of the GOP Budget is Pure Fiction, if Lies Can be Called Pure

John Boehner wants you to believe the demands of ideology over demonstrable facts, the same recipe that led us to the crash of 2008

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Racist Vendors Booted From South Dakota Gun Show For Selling “Runnin’ N***** Targets”

Two unnamed racist vendors were kicked out of a South Dakota gun show after they were caught selling racist targets over the weekend.

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The White House Drops A Fact Bomb On The House Republican Budget

A new White House fact sheet has blown the House Republican budget to bits.

23

No Schock Here: Scandal Plagued Republican Congressman Resigns in Ignominy

The most unfortunate (current) blight on Illinois politics this side of one-percent Republican Governor Bruce Rauner has finally come to an end. Multiple sources have confirmed that scandal-ridden Prairie State Representative Aaron Schock of the 18th District had finally shown himself the door.

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President Obama Amazingly Obliterates The Republican Budget In Less Than 60 Seconds

It took President Obama less than a minute to destroy the Republican budget proposal by pointing out the many failures of the conservative financial fantasy blueprint.

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House GOP Budget: More Money For War, Repeal Obamacare, Cut Food Stamps and Medicaid

House Republicans have once again shown that they have little regard for the average American family or the typical American worker.

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Pay Us Back: John Boehner Has Wasted $2.1 Million On New Benghazi Investigation

John Boehner’s House Benghazi Select Committee has wasted $2.1 million in taxpayer money investigating the already disproven Republican Benghazi conspiracy theory, and it is time for taxpayers to demand a refund.

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Senate Democrats Hand Mitch McConnell Another Defeat By Blocking Human Trafficking Bill

Senate Democrats have handed Mitch McConnell another defeat, as they refused to yield to his threats by blocking a human trafficking bill that contains poison bill abortion language.

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Republican Failure Goes Global As Boehner Being Blamed For Netanyahu’s Potential Defeat

Fingers are already being pointed at Speaker of the House John Boehner for the potential defeat of Netanyahu in Israel. Some argue that Boehner’s partisan handling of the Netanyahu invitation created an unnecessary distraction for the Israeli Prime Minister.

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Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski Tears Into Ted Cruz For Leading America “Down The Road To War”

During an extended interview segment on Tuesday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski tangled with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over the letter 47 Republican Senators sent to Iran.

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Netanyahu’s Iran Speech A Distraction From Israel’s GOP-Style Economic Failure

Although warmonger Netanyahu does want America to wage war against Iran on Israel’s behalf, he had a different motivation to save his job as Israel’s leader.

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PolitiFact: Scott Walker Lied About Unsealing his College Records

Habitual liar Scott Walker has said he released his college records, but as PolitiFact has shown, this is just another lie

33

GOP Email Scandal Backfires As Popularity Of Potential Hillary Clinton Presidency Grows

A new CNN/ORC poll found that the number of Americans who say that they would be proud to have Hillary Clinton as president has increased in the wake of the media/Republican created email scandal.

27

Catholics Claim Religious Liberty To Refuse Compensating Sex Abuse Victims

In an ironic twist, as a result of Catholic Justices on the nation’s highest court, for the second time in six months high-ranking Catholics are exercising religious supremacy over the nation’s judicial system.

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Obama’s Biggest Victory: 16.4 Million Uninsured Americans Have Gained Health Coverage Via ACA

Millions of Americans have gained health insurance coverage, since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed into law on March 23, 2010.

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Obama White House Hammers Mitch McConnell For Lying About Loretta Lynch Vote

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for lying about why he is delaying the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the next Attorney General.

37

Ted Cruz Strikes A Match To His 2016 Hopes By Frightening Children In New Hampshire

While Senator Cruz’s fiery talk may have won over hardcore conservatives, he just struck a match to his 2016 presidential aspirations.

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Even Joe Scarborough Believes Republicans Went Too Far With “Stupid” Iran Letter

During Monday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough finally relented and said that the “one-two punch” of House Republicans inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak and the sending of a letter to Iran by 47 GOP Senators was a step too far for the party.

38

Republicans Reeling As President Obama Is Dominating Their Congressional Majority

By using a strategy of going on offense with a clear and strong agenda, President Obama has been dominating John Boehner and Mitch McConnell’s Republican majority in Congress.

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GOP Cries Appeasement. But Up Until Now, We’ve Been Appeasing the Wrong People

Republicans accuse President Obama of appeasement – and he has appeased Israel before Netanyahu’s attempted coup – but those days should be past

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Koch-Congress Preparing To Starve the Poor With Drastic Food Stamp Cuts

The big plan the new Koch Senate is due to propose this week is cutting food stamps substantially and giving the reduced amounts directly to states in the form of “block grants.”

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General Accuses Tom Cotton and 46 Other Republican Senators Of Mutiny

Major Gen. Paul D. Eaton stopped short of calling Cotton and 46 Republicans traitors. As a career military man Eaton used the appropriate label for Cotton’s lack of ethics and knowledge of his place as a congressional representative.

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Cotton Collapse: Iran Letter Author Gets Constitution And Geography Wrong In Same Interview

Sen. Tom Cotton wasn’t satisfied with mangling the Constitution on CBS’s Face The Nation. Cotton revealed how little he knows by also not appearing to be aware that Tehran is the capital of Iran.

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John Boehner Set To Waste Of Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars Investigating Clinton Emails

Speaker of the House John Boehner will announce this week that he is going to waste millions of taxpayer dollars on a House investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

36

President Obama Guts Republican Scandal With One Hillary Clinton Email Joke

President Obama made a joke at the Gridiron Dinner that gutted the Republican dreams of a Hillary Clinton email scandal.

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Sec. of State John Kerry Slams Republicans For Violating The Constitution With Iran Letter

Sec. of State John Kerry ripped Senate Republicans for spreading false information via their unconstitutional letter to Iran.

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Mitch McConnell Acts Like A Criminal By Offering Lie Filled Alibi For Iran Letter On CNN

Mitch McConnell offered up a lie filled defense of the act of sabotage that he committed against President Obama, but no amount of lies can quell the growing rage of millions of Americans.

29

Clinton Emails Have Provided GOP Yet Another Excuse to Cry “Benghazi”

The GOP is determined to ignore every relevant fact about Benghazi on their mission to crucify Hillary Clinton

13

Debunking A Union-Hating, Walker-Loving Columnist

Another syndicated scribe has taken to slashing and burning unions. He’s a Tribune News Service columnist. Just another highly paid, right-wing propagandist.

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Frantic Bibi Goes Bonkers, Blames International Leftist Plot For His Sagging Poll Numbers

Bibi is pulling out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to stave off the possibility of an embarrassing result at the polls on Tuesday.

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University Of Oklahoma Incident Proves The More Things Change…

I suppose I should have felt more outraged or ready to protest or whatever but, quite frankly? Empty. And what worries me about my own reaction is that I’m thinking it’s worse than outrage.

37

Chris Christie’s New Campaign Strategy? Run On Slashing Social Security and Medicare

On Friday, Robert Costa at The Washington Post reported that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie disclosed his 2016 platform to a group of Republican policy analysts on Monday.

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Scott Walker Humiliates Himself In New Hampshire By Comparing ISIS To A Computer Virus

Scott Walker’s new foreign policy embarrassment occurred in New Hampshire today where he compared combating terrorists like ISIS to a computer virus.

20

Legal Scholars Explain Deep Flaws in The Texas Ruling to Block Immigration Action

In a legally sound and blistering statement made public on Friday, 104 legal scholars and instructors of immigration law described Texas Judge Andrew Hanen’s decision to block President Obama’s immigration executive action as “deeply flawed.”

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Even Republicans Are Calling Their Sabotage Of Obama With Iran Letter A Disaster

Republicans are admitting anonymously that the Senate GOP attempt to sabotage President Obama with a letter to Iran has turned into a disaster.

22

A Religious Right Heretic Says Interfaith Dialog is Heretical

It is hardly a surprise the Religious Right does not want to talk to those of other religions. After all, it’s harder to hate those you get to know

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Friday Fox Follies – Ferguson Fails

There’s nothing Fox “News” likes better than to Whitesplain race relations, especially when telling Black folk about the Black experience. The dog whistles go from barely discernible to loud and clear.

19

Racist Frat Booted From OU Campus Hires Oklahoma City Bomber’s Lawyer To Represent Them

The board for the Oklahoma University chapter of SAE voted on Thursday to hire Attorney Stephen Jones to represent them.

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Republican Hypocrites Who Want To Subpoena Hillary Clinton Don’t Have To Save Their Own Emails

The same House Republicans who want to subpoena Hillary Clinton’s emails have made sure that they aren’t required to save their own emails.

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Rules for saving, providing emails? Not for Congress

Members of Congress who are demanding Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails are largely exempt from such scrutiny themselves.

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Feeling The Heat, Republican Senator Ron Johnson Backpedals On Iran Letter (Sort Of)

On Friday morning, Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson backpedaled a little on his support for signing the Iran letter.

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Bernie Sanders Shows The Media That No One Cares About Hillary Clinton’s Emails

During an interview, Sen. Bernie Sanders demonstrated to the media that their obsession with Hillary Clinton’s emails is not shared with the American people.

23

Police Union Rep Doubles Down On Comment That Ferguson Protesters “Want Dead Cops”

During Friday morning’s broadcast of Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski tried with all of her might to give Jeff Roorda, the business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association, every opportunity to walk back comments he made to Fox News the previous day about Ferguson protesters wanting “dead cops.”

37

Lindsey Graham Proves Ayatollah Right – America Is Disintegrating in Madness

Republicans have actively worked for the collapse of the political system (government) entirely. Now, the machinations of the Republicans have been exposed on the global stage and finally a foreign leader said what the world and an increasing number of Americans already know.

33

President Obama Tears Apart Senate Republicans For Sending Treasonous Iran Letter

President Obama had strong words for the Republicans who signed the letter Iran. The president said in the trailer for his interview with Vice that Republicans embarrassed themselves by sending the letter to a government that they consider to be their “mortal enemy.”

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No, Nancy Pelosi’s Trip to Syria Was Nothing Like “Tehran Tom’s” Iran Letter

Attempts to link Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria with Cotton’s Iran letter, fail, as Pelosi was even briefed by the White House before she went

20

Anti-ACA Lawyers “Winning” Strategy: Compare Justice Kennedy To Slave Owners

The legal battle to destroy the ACA (Obamacare) has taken a bizarre turn.

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Arkansas GOP Lawmaker Who Gave Girls To Rapist Thought They Were Possessed By Demons

Arkansas Rep. Justin Harris (R), allegedly thought his two adopted girls were possessed by demons.

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GOP’s Bad Week Gets Worse As Rudy Giuliani Tells President Obama To Be More Like Bill Cosby

Rudy Giuliani put to rest any doubts about his racism by telling President Obama to be more like Bill Cosby while blaming the president for the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson.

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Democrat Russ Feingold Leads Sen. Ron Johnson 50-41 In Potential Wisconsin Senate Rematch

Early polling suggests that if Democrat Russ Feingold decides to mount a comeback Senate bid, Wisconsin will back him all the way.

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Over 230,000 Americans Demand That The 47 Iran Letter Republicans Face Criminal Charges

The White House petition demanding that the forty-seven Republicans who signed the letter to Iran has surpassed 230,000 signatures in less than three days as the outrage over the overt act of Republican sabotage is showing no signs of slowing.

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John McCain Blames A Snowstorm For His Treasonous Decision To Sign Iran Letter

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) offered up the lamest Republican excuse possible for the GOP’s treasonous letter to Iran. McCain admitted that he didn’t read the letter carefully because he was in a hurry to leave Washington before a snowstorm arrived.

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Congressional Republicans Are Still Angry They Are Not The President

The latest outrage, the open letter signed by 47 Republican senators, is the greatest sign to date that the spoiled little children are throwing a fit and are furious they are not allowed to be president and control foreign policy.

14

Ferguson Protesters Denounce Violence After Two Police Officers Shot And Wounded

Instead of the story being about Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson finally resigning, Thursday morning’s headlines are filled with reports that two police officers were shot and wounded during protests in front of the Ferguson Police Department.

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“Tehran Tom” Cotton’s Iran Blunder Has Made Him the New Hanoi Jane

As the saying goes, stupidity is its own reward, and Republican Senator Tom Cotton has certainly proven the truth of that anonymous proverb

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Editorial Cartoon: The White House

The White House, old and new, in the minds of the GOP Congress.

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Wild West “Blood Atonement” Mentality Triumphs: Utah Senate Says Bring Back Firing Squads

The Utah State Senate voted 18-10, to reinstate the firing squad as a form of execution for criminals convicted of a capital offense.

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Bibi’s Speech To Congress Backfires As Netanyahu’s Popularity Crashes In US And Israel

Polls in the U.S. and Israel show Netanyahu’s popularity has declined after his speech addressing the U.S. Congress.

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National Outrage Grows As 22 Newspaper Editorials Blast Senate Republican Letter To Iran

Newspapers all across the country are ripping the 47 Senate Republicans who attempted to sabotage President Obama by writing a letter to Iran. Here is a sampling of the criticism from no less than 22 newspaper editorial boards.

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GOP Anti-Abortion Language Threatens to Kill Human Trafficking Bill

The Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking Act creates a fund for victims and provides grants to help local governments create programs that will benefit victims and prosecute human traffickers.

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Senate Historian Can’t Find Anything In History That Matches GOP Iran Sabotage Letter

Republicans who are already reeling from the letter that 47 of their senators sent to Iran were dealt another blow as the U.S. Senate Historian’s Office can’t find another example of this type of behavior anywhere in Senate history.

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Morning Joe Says Black Rappers Are To Blame For White SAE Frat Boys’ Racist Chants

During a panel discussion on Morning Joe Wednesday morning, co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, along with guest panelist Bill Kristol, came to the defense of the white University of Oklahoma fraternity members who were caught on video singing a racist song.

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GOP Iran Letter Was A Push For A Regime Change War And Defense Industry Profits

The truth, and true purpose of the letter, has really never been in question; specifically because the filthy little neo-con who originated it has broadcast the purpose for the world to hear for months.

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Senate Subcommittee Invites Hate Group Leader to Testify about Religious Freedom

Inviting hate group leader Tony Perkins to speak about religious freedom is just more evidence of the GOP’s farcical approach to governance

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Bernie Sanders Explains How 47 Treasonous GOP Senators Tried To Sabotage World Peace

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) explained that the treasonous behavior of the forty-seven Iran letter senators is a danger to world peace.

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A Song Of Hate On An SAE Party Bus

I’m ashamed of America. Not because I hate America, but because I love America. By now you’ve probably seen the YouTube video by some members of the Unversity of Oklahoma chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon singing hateful, racist lyrics on a party bus that would embarrass the KKK.

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Republican Presidential Hopefuls Scramble To Support Seditious Iran Letter

Several prominent GOP presidential hopefuls rushed to support the ill-considered Republican Senate letter, addressed to Iran’s leaders.

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Michigan Republicans Re-Introduce Plan To Rig State’s Electoral Votes To Favor GOP

GOP lawmakers in the Michigan Legislature, have re-hatched a plan to divvy up the state’s electoral votes to help the Republicans in 2016.

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Hillary Clinton Uses Email Press Conference To Annihilate Republicans Over Iran Letter

Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton turned the tables on Republicans by using the press conference about her emails to obliterate the 47 Republican senators who tried to undermine President Obama with their letter to Iran.

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Republicans Are Worried That Treasonous Tom Cotton’s Iran Letter Is Backfiring

Republicans are starting to realize that trying to sabotage the President Of The United States might not have been such a good idea. Republicans are openly worrying that Sen. Tom Cotton’s letter to Iran may end up backfiring by uniting Democrats around their president.

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Democrats Short Circuit Bogus GOP Scandal By Demanding State Dept. Release Clinton Emails

House Democrats who sit on the Benghazi Select Committee has taken the air out of the Republican attempt to turn Benghazi into something by demanding that the State Department make public all Clinton emails related to Benghazi.

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GOP Senators Who Signed Treasonous Iran Letter Called “Traitors” By New York Daily News

On the cover of its Tuesday edition, the New York Daily News featured a picture of four Republican Senators with the caption “Traitors” in huge bold letters underneath in response to the letter 47 GOP Senators sent to Iran undermining President Obama’s negotiations with the country.

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