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Supreme Court Allows Texas To Enforce The Most Draconian Voter ID Law in The U.S.A.
By a vote of 6-3 The Supreme Court is allowing Texas’ draconian voter ID law to be enforced for this year’s election.
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Surprise! The Supreme Court Intervenes On Behalf Of Women’s Rights
In the latest twist in the legal war on women’s reproductive rights, the Supreme Court “stayed” part of a ruling by the Fifth circuit.
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North Carolina Could Join the Ranks of States That Recognize Marriage Equality
It’s time for the Supreme Court to officially recognize that marriage equality triumphed over homophobia.
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The Supreme Court Allows North Carolina Vote Suppression Law To Stand
Since North Carolina passed its version of a vote suppression law, it has been one long battle in the courts.
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Justice Scalia Could Destroy All Women’s Reproductive Rights in Texas Abortion Case
The legal battle over reproductive rights is back at the Supreme Court.
Nancy Pelosi Celebrates The Latest Victory For Marriage Equality
Today marks an important day for marriage equality in the United States as the Supreme Court refused to review several circuit court rulings that strike down state bans on same sex marriage.
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Conservative SCOTUS Could Gut Fair Housing Protections
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear a case brought by Texas that seeks to limit the use of statistics in housing fairness cases.
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The Conservative Supreme Court Will Decide If Some Votes Are More Equal Than Others
The Supreme Court decided on Thursday that it will hear two election law related cases this term, the potential of redefining the meaning of free and fair elections.
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Koch Wing of SCOTUS Grants OHIO GOP Its Wish To Restrict Early Voting
The Koch brothers controlled branch of the Supreme Court of the United States, granted Jon Husted’s wish to uphold the Republicans restrictions on early voting in Ohio. From a legal perspective, there is room to suggest that since Husted “only” rolled back early voting by a week, it isn’t a big deal. In fact, there…
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Ahead of Utah Same Sex Marriage Ban Case, Conservative Group Tries to Rig The SCOTUS
Although advocates of marriage equality were victorious in two Supreme Court cases, the court avoided giving a direct answer to the central question of marriage equality.
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Did The Supreme Court Rip The Corporate Veil? Does It Even Care?
Ever since the Hobby Lobby decision there have been two words playing in my head but it had taken a week before I heard anyone else say them aloud. Corporate veil.
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In Hobby Lobby Case Supreme Court Replaces First Amendment With Corporate Theocracy
In Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Inc. the Supreme Court ended its flirtation with unanimity and ruled 5-4 in favor of corporate theocracy.
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Hypocrisy Alert: SCOTUS Keeps Its Own Buffer Zone While Telling Women They Don’t Need One
It is impossible to overlook the fact that women’s reproductive rights have been systematically eroded with personhood amendments, TRAP laws and rape insurance mandates.
Supreme Court Endangers Women by Striking Down Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones
Thursday’s ruling may encourage anti-abortion protesters to harass, confront, and intimidate women seeking access to safe, legal abortions.
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SCOTUS Ruling On NLRB Appointments Gives You Another Reason to Vote in November
The SCOTUS’ decision to strike down President Obama’s recess appointments to the NLRB in NLRB v. Noel Canning gave us another reason to vote in November.
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In Unanimous Decision SCOTUS Rules Police Must Get A Warrant to Search Cell Phone Data
In a unanimous ruling the Supreme Court decided, “The police generally may not, without a warrant, search digital information on a cell phone seized from an individual who has been arrested.
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Big Polluters Have Little Reason To Celebrate Based On Monday’s SCOTUS Ruling
The Congressional Romper Room’s day got worse with a very mixed and ultimately narrow SCOTUS ruling that gave a tiny green light to polluting for profit.
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The Koch Brothers Take a Loss As The Supreme Court Rules The EPA Can Regulate Greenhouse Gasses
In a complicated ruling today, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Koch Brothers by not overturning the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gasses.
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Supreme Court Says No to Gun Straw Purchases
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court upheld a federal rule banning “straw purchases” of guns.
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Surprise! SCOTUS Protects the Intellectually Disabled from Death Penalty
On Tuesday, The Supreme Court condemned as unconstitutional a Florida law that effectively weakened protections against imposing the death penalty on people who are intellectually disabled by limiting assessments to a fixed number on an IQ test.
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Fake Christians Tear Up the Constitution in Chesterfield County, Virginia
Wicca is “neo-pagan and invokes polytheistic, pre-Christian deities,” and therefore it does not fall within “the Judeo-Christian tradition.”
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Americans Are Watching and They No Longer Trust The Conservative Supreme Court
The conservatives have been so blatant in their service to special interests that Americans have taken notice, and a new poll reveals the people have lost faith in, and are weary of, this conservative Court’s rulings.
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After SCOTUS Ruling, Sectarian Prayer Quickly Becomes Christian-Only Prayer
Roanoke County Supervisor Al Bedrosian says, “The freedom of religion doesn’t mean that every religion has to be heard.”
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Ted Cruz Champions Nuremberg-Style Laws for Gays and Lesbians
If all this seems disturbingly familiar, it should. The Nazis said, “Don’t Buy from Jews!” The Religious Right is saying, “Don’t Sell to Gays!”
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One Thing GOPer Tom Tancredo Knows about the Negro – They Shouldn’t Be President
“He’s more dangerous than any other threat we face as a nation,” Tancredo said. “Barack Obama, I believe, is dedicated to destroying the America that I love”
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Supreme Court Says Clean Air Trumps State’s Rights in Upholding EPA Rule
In a victory for environmentalists, the Supreme Court today ruled to uphold the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule set by Obama’s EPA in 2011.
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The Supreme Court Continues Its Long-Running War On Black Americans
Less than a year after gutting key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court struck a blow at race-based affirmative action.
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Two Reasons To Vote Out Republicans – Scalia the Seditionist and Thomas the Corrupt
Tea Party Republicans have their eye on the Senate for many reasons – with the power to appoint another Scalia or Thomas chief among them.
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Clarence Thomas Says Race Was Less of an Issue in Jim Crow Georgia
Clarence Thomas claims that the issue of race did not come up much in 1960s Georgia, and that today people are too sensitive about race.
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The Supreme Court Could Rule that Hobby Lobby is More of a Person than You Are
The problem is that if corporations have Freedom of Religion, its employers lose their Freedom of Religion
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Are We Safe From Congress? Senator Orrin Hatch And The Politics Of Vitamins
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The Senior Senator from Utah is endangering lives by putting his personal gain before the public’s health.
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The Unusual Suspect: The Surprising Koch Fueled Return of Edwin Meese
Why was Edwin Meese hired by the Koch Brothers to be a Tea Party strategist?
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Who Died and Made Ted Cruz Speaker of the House?
People for the American Way wants to know why “House Republicans are taking their marching orders from a Texas Senator.”
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Republicans Fear (or Hope) Men will Become Lesbian Love Slaves
David Usher of the Center for Marriage Policy fears innocent heterosexual men will become lesbian love slaves if marriage equality becomes the norm.
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Eric Holder Puts Texas On Notice: Everyone’s Voting Rights Will Be Respected
Republicans see threat to white privilege in Eric Holder’s announced plans to make Texas obtain federal approval for changes to voting laws
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The True Jeffersonian Face of Religious Freedom
For Thomas Jefferson, religious freedom was neither freedom to coerce nor a coerced mind, but rather a free mind
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Justice Kennedy Swats Down Proposition 8 Again
The religious bigots who lacked an argument found out this week they lacked standing as well but like frat boys they couldn’t let no mean no
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Religious Right Says Supreme Court and Constitution Are Irrelevant
Apparently God already decided what constitutes marriage and he wins 1-0. Of course, they can’t show you that part of the Constitution
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‘We Don’t Waste Time Talking about Clarence Thomas. Everybody Knows It’s a Deep Tragedy’
Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia said that Clarence Thomas vote against the VRA was worse than what Snowden did, because Thomas knows what he’s doing to black people.
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SCOTUS Gives Employers a Blueprint to Discriminate
The Court’s more troubling decisions came in a pair of cases on workplace discrimination. Individually, each case might seem benign. But together they offer employers a blueprint for discrimination.
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The Religious Right’s Lunatic Response to the DOMA Ruling
The Supreme Court’s DOMA decision, as can be imagined, has really sent them off the deep-edge.
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Al Franken Urges the Restoration of Federal Benefits to Same-Sex Couples
Senator Al Franken, a long-time supporter of marriage equality, said we are closer toward ensuring marriage equality for every American, but the fight is far from over.
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Forget the GOP, House Republicans Are Rebranding Wombs
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House Republicans want government small enough to fit in your womb. And we need to make sure women remember that in 2014.
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Ralph Nader Attacks the Imperial Presidency but Ignores the Do-Nothing Congress
Ralph Nader is railing against the “imperial presidency” but has nothing to say about our runaway, do-nothing Congress. It makes no sense to rail against the one while ignoring the other.
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Mark Sanford’s Very Republican God Redeems His Career: He Is Forgiven So You Must Forget
Former Congressman and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is about as immoral and unethical as they get, but God is reviving his career.
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When One Receives a Political Email Full of Pure BS, You Know It Came From a Republican
There’s a national email movement to demand the defunding of ACA. It’s spearheaded by Heritage Action for America (HAA), an offshoot of the Heritage Foundation.
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The Republicans Are Now a Step Closer to Shutting Down the Post Office
Get ready to say bye to the Postal Service as we know it and hello to near-monopoly private providers who will charge high prices, pay low wages, hire a majority of their workers on a part-time basis.
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BP Proves Corporations Can Get Away with Almost Anything with No Risk of Prison
As long as they’ve got decent insurance, a few bucks in the till, political contributions to the right people and a Supreme Court majority, corporations will always receive preferential treatment.
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The Republican homage to Sandy Hook – anything goes state gun laws
The Firearms Freedom act legislation is passing in a number of states. It establishes state laws that override the feds; a waste of time
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Unlike most of your public utterances Republicans, Hillary was telling the truth
Unlike most of the words that come out of Republicans like John Bolton’s mouths, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was telling the truth about her concussion and now blood clot.
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America’s stance on guns brings shame on an otherwise civilized nation
While the population still grieves over the loss of young lives at Sandy Hook, the NRA and Congress dig in to prevent meaningful curbs on guns.
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Red states are making a decision that could cost some residents their lives
Many right-wing state governors are opting out of the ACA Medicaid expansion opportunity. Too much money say their governors. That’s a lie!
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Puzzled Republicans; here are the reasons African Americans gave the President 93% of their votes
The Emancipation Proclamation ostensibly freed the slaves back in the midst of the Civil War. Modern day slavery camouflaged as grotesque unemployment numbers and economic status exists today.
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In spite of huge Republican money and relentless attack ads it’s Obama
Incredible amounts of money were spent on the 2012 General Election. And lots of that money was wasted when expensive attack ads didn’t work
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The Lies Used to Portray Obama as an anti-Constitutionalist
Matt Barber calls quotes anti-Constitutionalist Patrick Henry to defend the Constitution and to portray Obama as the anti-Constitutionalist
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If Elected Romney Promises to Borkize the Supreme Court
Mitt Romney gave us ample warning of what he would do to the Supreme Court’s balance when he chose Robert Bork as the head of his judicial advisory team.
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South Carolina Democrats Attack One of Their Own, Defend Republican ‘Spy’
An South Carolina Democratic Luncheon meeting attendee challenging the presence of a Republican spy, triggers a DINO defense of Republicans.
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Another Multiple-Shooting Tragedy: Time for the NRA to Start Lining up Excuses
Let’s treat the NRA like the bloodthirsty, gun-nut dictatorship it really is.
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To Bring America Out of the GOP Darkness Democrats Must Vote
The Republicans are continuing their march toward total destruction of America. Democrats are enablers through not going to the polls.
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Republican Governors Declare Independence from Human Compassion
Unsatisfied with their callous performances as governors, some of the GOP’s cruelest politicians have ratcheted up their psychopath game to the level of endangering the lives of their taxpayers.
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Desperate Corporations Push ALEC Written Legislation to Nullify ObamaCare
Many state legislatures will be asked by corporate interests to nullify the recent Supreme Court health care decision, and ALEC written model legislation is at the ready.
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Justice Roberts’ Health Care Decision: Just Say Yes to the Constitution
So what did happen with Roberts anyway? Was his a vote cast to mitigate the public impression that the SCOTUS is too politically partisan to continue assessing objective questions of law and liberty?
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The Republicans’ Bad Day and What it Means for America
Yesterday was a bad day for the GOP but we should remember they’ve had many bad days recently and that its fun to watch their heads explode
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How Issa’s Committee Lied About Fast & Furious To Lead to Holder Farce
So what we have is a majority republican committee and a republican house holding the Attorney General in Contempt of Congress under false pretenses.
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In the Face of Judicial Tyranny Alan Grayson Outs SCOTUS’s Right Wing Cabal
Alan Grayson warned the Supreme Court that if they strike down Obamacare, the entire country will know that they are nothing more than a right wing cabal.
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Republicans Wrong Again: Over 50% Of Small Businesses Want To Keep ObamaCare
Contrary to what Republicans say, only 30% of small businesses want the healthcare law overturned while 50% want it to stand with minor or no changes.
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Dr. James Dobson: Another Presidential Campaign, Another Chance to Hate Obama
Dr. James Dobson is an Obama-basher of long standing, and his behavior demonstrates why this country can never compromise the separation of church and state.
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Fundamentalist Christian Predators Target School Children
Your children aren’t safe at school; there are spiritual predators prowling our nation’s elementary schools, preying on the innocent.
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Look Out First Amendment – Theocracy Inbound
Theocracy is coming to with a GOP win in 2012: they have made their position clear enough and it becomes more pronounced with each new bill
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By a Wide Margin North Carolina Returns to Its Bigoted Southern Roots
Another state has added its political voice of opposition to gay marriage. North Carolina approved an amendment forbidding same-sex marriage.
Corporate Sugar Daddies Shower Their Kept Candidates with Money
Have you ever wondered why most polls reflect a decidedly liberal issue tilt and yet state and national elections fill seats with Republicans, and rather radical ones at that?
Big Money is Rolling in for State Candidates
While political attention is riveted on Washington, millions of dollars are flowing into state campaign coffers in preparation for a rebirth of the Articles of Confederation where states will function as their own bosses and to hell with Washington..
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Breitbart’s Sordid Legacy: Weiner Photos and a Crooked Supreme Court
While the privileged-paranoia duopoly over American politics is nothing new to us, we find that Breitbart’s twisted career haunts, warps and dysfunctions our democracy to this day in a very direct and troubling manner.
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Through Amicus Curiae Filings ALEC Tells Courts How to Decide Their Cases
The American Legislative Exchange Council has an enormous amount of power in state legislatures. Not as well known is the power it wields within our court system.
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What it Means if Dick Lugar is a Centrist
If Lugar is a centrist than the true centrist position is an extreme left position just as Republicans insist and everything the left of that is beyond the pale
The Best Supreme Court Money Can Buy Will Support Corporate Oligarchs on Health Care
The conservative justices want to kill the ACA. If they do, it will mark the beginning of the end for anything meaningful to emerge as long as Republicans have a majority in any branch of government.
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Do As I Say Not As I Do: The Truth About the Anti-Abortion Crowd
Republican women claim to be against abortions, but statistics don’t support this hypocritical stance. It’s possible that conservative women have just as many abortions as liberal women.
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Why the Tea Party Version of Congress Guarantees the Death of Liberty
One of the worst things that the Tea Party has done is push the championing of an uncompromising legislative branch in the name of liberty. Sadly, all too many politicians have fallen for this dangling carrot of immediate gratification at the eventual expense of democracy. Extremists complain that politicians compromise too much and that nothing…
Supreme Conspiracy: How The Koch Brothers and Clarence Thomas Overthrew Democracy
In developing countries and dictatorships it’s not unusual or unexpected for the judicial system to be corrupt and biased. In America, it used to be a source of pride that our judicial system was fair and followed the letter of the law. Apparently, those days are gone and we are seeing the result of biased court decisions in this election cycle with unprecedented corporate donations to Republican candidates.
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Focus on the Family: Legislating Hate and Subverting the Constitution
The pros and cons of abortion aside, Dobson seems to miss one of the original purposes of the Constitution, which was to protect the American people from “excesses of democracy†of local legislatures, which tended to run roughshod over the rights of the minority.
The GOP’s Revolution is Guillotining the Constitution
The American political system assumes that all parties will behave responsibly and continue to try to govern the nation even through disagreement. For one party to completely withdraw from the process and insist on their status as “a government in exile†is something the Founders never foresaw.
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Democrats Chip Away at 40 Years of Radical Pro-Business Legislation
A Senate committee on Wednesday voted to eliminate limits on liability that oil companies would face for damages stemming from offshore spills like the one in the Gulf of Mexico. The President signaled his support for higher or no caps on liability for oil companies earlier this month. While it may seem like this is just another meaningless vote, a closer examination reveals a huge paradigm shift under way, and it would be wise for voters to pay attention.
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The Bullies on the Right Stoop to Sexism to Oppose Kagan
The Right Wing is revealing both the dearth of their values as well as the utter emptiness in their opposition to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan by focusing on her looks. This is on par with the Republican Party’s oppression of women platform, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise, and yet the fact that they are so graceless as to come out with the hideously appalling criticisms they did is still shocking.
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Kagan’s Anti-Corporate Past is the Real Reason for GOP Opposition
Is the GOP being honest in their critique of Kagan? The round up of Conservative’s arguments against Kagan appears to be baseless, hypocritical and perhaps grounded in her fight against corporate influence on elections.
Right Wing Media Attacks Elena Kagan with Allegations of Socialism and Bad Driving
One of the tell tale signs of how a Supreme Court nominee is going to fare is always the initial criticism of the opposition. So far the right wing has hit President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagen with allegations that she a socialist (Glenn Beck), hates the military (Bill Kristol), and is a bad…
The White House Defends Obama’s Supreme Court Criticism
Senior White House advisor David Axelrod was on Meet the Press today, where defended Obama’s criticism of the recent Supreme Court decision on campaign finance at the State of the Union. Axelrod said, “I certainly think it was appropriate for the president to talk about the threat that this decision brings to our democracy.”
The Political Apocalypse is Coming As the GOP Guns for Palin
Palin’s most powerful nemesis, McCain/Palin campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, will soon return the fire Palin unloaded on him from her book, “Going Rogueâ€. Operation Palin Apocalypse officially commences Sunday night when Schmidt appears on 60 minutes. The only question remaining is how low will they go? This is the GOP after all. The party of Rovian election tactics.
Delusional Michael Steele Promises Victory over Specter in PA
Michael Steele is in full damage control mode after Arlen Specter left the GOP. Steele claimed that Specter is a left winger who the Republicans look forward to beating in 2010. Yeah, Republicans are going to beat Specter the same way that Steele promised they were going to win the House special election in New York.
Pallin’ Around with Monsanto
There’s an email going around spreading fear into the hearts of home gardeners across America…People who love to garden or finally resorted to gardening to avoid food poising from our less-than regulated food supply courtesy of the under-staffed Bush FDA are now terrified that the Food Police are coming to our backyards to dig up our heirloom tomatoes and force us to eat hormone-injected, dyed-red tomatoes that taste like plastic.
Legal Bribes: How Wall Street Bought Washington
A new report released by Essential Information and the Consumer Education Foundation found that Wall S
Stimulate THIS
In regards to President Obama’s new stimulus package, Ohio Republican House Minority Leader John
Your Electronic Medical Records Could Be Up for Sale
The nonpartisan group Consumer Watchdog today called on Google to stop their rumored lobbying effort to in
Rush Limbaugh: Obama is frightened of me
Rush Limbaugh fired back at Barack Obama today, after Obama told Republicans last week that they nee
Backwards Priorities: $20 Billion to Bank of America, Nothing For Food Banks
The House Appropriations Committee released their initial version of the $825 billion stimulus package, and not surprisingly it contains no money for food banks, which have seen a doubling of demand i
House Republicans Invite Obama to Address Them
In a move based in bi-partisan spirit, House Republicans today invited president elect Barack Obama to address their conference. In their letter to Obama the GOP House leadership said that they would like to build a positive relationship with the new president.
Now Is the Time for Lily Ledbetter and Pay Equality
It is unfathomable in the 21st Century that we need to talk about this issue. However it seems that now is the time for legislation that would ensure equal pay for women is passed. Speaker Nancy Pelosi called this a priority of the House.
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Democrats Tell Automakers No Money without a Plan
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid held a joint news conference today where they made it clear that the auto industry has to come up with a viable plan to reorganize or they will not get a dime of federal money.
Obama’s Biggest Challenge: Healthcare Reform
With the return of Sen. Red Kennedy to the Hill today, we are reminded that healthcare reform will be not only a prominent issue, but also it could be the biggest challenge that President Obama will face. Here are some of the pitfalls, and possibilities for healthcare reform.
In Rebuke of McCain’s Leadership, House Rejects $700 Billion Federal Bailout
All eyes were on the House of Representatives today, as the leadership in both parties tried to rally enough votes to pass the $700 billion bailout of the banking sector, but in the end, the bill failed by a vote of 228-205 against, thus possibily dooming both Wall St. and the presidential campaign of John McCain.
Pelosi Slams the GOP on Offshore Drilling
Nancy Pelosi was on ABC’s This Week and she blasted the Republican offshore drilling plan as decoy. Pelosi was asked why she won’t allow a straight up or down vote on offshore drilling. She said that Republicans are misleading the American people.
