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Sarah Palin Accuses Obama of Prematurely Interjecting Himself as the Cool Savior
Palin let loose on the media and on President Obama in an incoherent mess of a rant over Ahmed Mohamed’s clock and her kids’ pencil boxes
Tagged Barack Obama
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Hillary Clinton Slams Republicans for Plan to Shut Down Government Over Planned Parenthood
Clinton called out the Republican “race to the bottom,” their hateful rhetoric and lies used as an excuse to shut down the government
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John Boehner Wants to Keep Our Forests From Burning Up By Cutting Them Down
The so-called Resilient Federal Forests Act helps the logging industry and hurts the public. It does nothing at all for our national forests
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Barack Obama Faces Down Vladimir Putin in a Cold War Redux in Syria
Putin says Assad is best placed to defeat the Islamic State, but Assad is more interested in helping IS defeat his moderate enemies
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Meet The 25 House Democrats Who Betrayed Peace By Joining Republicans In Opposing Iran Deal
While 162 Democrats stood with the president, 25 Democrats defected and sided with the Republicans in the House.
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Boehner Says Obama’s Unwillingness to Attack Iran Shows a Lack of Commitment to Democracy
There is no low Republicans will not sink to when they are deprived of the opportunity to launch another baseless attack an innocent nation
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Republicans Engage in More Treason to Undermine the President on Climate Change
Mitch McConnell and his gaggle of traitors warn foreign governments not to trust Obama when negotiating with Obama in Paris this December
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440 Rabbis Now Urge Congress to Support Iran Nuclear Deal
The pressure on Congress continues to mount as 340 Rabbis have become 440, and only the gang who gave us the Iraq War support an Iran War.
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Trump’s Popularity Explained: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Is A Foreign Muslim
Trump’s support comes from voters who believe Obama is a foreign-born Muslim. In the Republican Party, that is enough to put him in front.
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Bernie Sanders Embraces Limited Use of Drones as One Tool of Foreign Policy
Bernie Sanders has not ruled out the limited use of drones, and that might provide some hints about his foreign policy platform
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Ohio Republicans Blow A Gasket After Obama Renames Mt. McKinley ‘Denali’
President Obama restores Denali’s rightful name and Ohio Republicans go ballistic in their defense of keeping it named after Pres. McKinley
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Ted Cruz Blames Obama For Ambush Murder Of Harris County Texas Deputy
While campaigning in New Hampshire, Ted Cruz accused Barack Obama of inciting the ambush murder of Harris County Deputy Darren Gofourth.
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Thanks To President Obama The US Leads The World in Economic Growth
The U.S. economy surged forward with 3.7 percent growth in the 2nd quarter of 2015, well outpacing other developed nations.
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Bobby Jindal Urges President Obama Not To Mention Climate Change On Katrina Anniversary
Bobby Jindal sent a letter to President Obama, requesting that the president not talk about climate change on Katrina’s 10th anniversary.
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Bush National Security Adviser Backs Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal
Former national security adviser Brent Snowcroft says rejecting the Iran deal “is an abdication of America’s unique role and responsibility”
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President Obama Writes A Powerful Letter Defending Voting Rights Act
In a letter to the editor, President Obama made a powerful case for restoring the protections contained in the Voting Rights Act.
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Congress Pits its 14 Percent Approval Against Obama’s 46 Percent
Our GOP Congress says people just don’t like or approve of Obama, but he’s the guy near 50 percent, while they’re down to 14 percent approval
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House Republicans Introduce a Resolution of Disapproval of Iran Nuclear Agreement
House Republicans will be voting on a resolution of disapproval of the Iran deal, and Senate Republicans are talking about a resolution too
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President Obama Says He Could Win A Third Term If The Constitution Didn’t Prevent It
In an off the cuff remark, during his visit to Africa, Barack Obama proclaimed that he could win a third term as president.
John Kerry Tells Republicans To Stop Believing In Unicorns And Join The Real World On Iran
John Kerry dismissed Senator Bob Corker’s fantasies about a world where Iran’s nuclear knowledge can be made to magically disappear.
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Weekly House Address Claims Over-Regulation Caused Crash of 2008
House Republicans want us to believe that by gutting Wall Street reform, we can somehow end bailouts and have a healthier economy
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Mike Huckabee Vows To Resist Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling With Executive Orders
Huckabee declared that he would sign executive orders protecting businesses and churches who oppose gay marriage.
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Fast Track Stuck At The Station As Pelosi Leads Charge To Kill Controversial Trade Bill
The U.S. House derailed President Obama’s trade bill on Friday. The chamber rejected an amendment designed to save the trade bill 302-126. That measure would have granted financial aid to workers displaced as a result of the trade agreement. However, skeptical members of both parties struck down that amendment, leaving Obama’s controversial trade bill “stuck at the station”, according…
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Koch-Republicans In Senate Vote To Nullify the Clean Water Act
Republicans, and their wealthy owners in the oil, coal, and chemical industry, particularly do not believe that any American warrants clean, non-toxic drinking water, and on Thursday Republicans in the Senate took an important step to make sure at least a third of the American population will lose access to what decent human beings believe is one of the most basic human rights; clean water.
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GOP Has Reason To Fret As Clinton Leads Bush 47-40 In North Carolina
A PPP poll found Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoying a modest 47-40 lead over Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush in North Carolina.
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Right Wing Media Loses it Over Idea of Obama as Jewish President
A bunch of white gentiles are maybe not the best people to be talking about who is and who isn’t Jewish, in blood or in thought
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Even President Obama Is Laughing At Mitch McConnell’s Failure
Six years and some change later, the man who set out a detailed plan to derail the Obama presidency before he even took office is in the hot seat.
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Jerusalem Post Deputy Managing Editor: Obama May Love Jews, But he is an Anti-Semite
We’re back to President Obama being accused of anti-Semitism because he won’t let Israel dictate America’s foreign policy
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Former Bush Adviser Claims Democrats Moved Further Left than Republicans Moved Right
Peter Wehner says the liberal claim that Republicans are the ones who have become more extreme over the years is a “self-flatting but false narrative.”
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Despite Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Pledge, Koch-Republicans Will Block Infrastructure Spending
It is likely that Senator Sanders was sending a message to the Koch brothers that regardless they currently control government spending, he intends on appealing to the people for support to invest in America. Something Republicans oppose regardless Americans’ lives have been lost and are increasingly in danger due to America’s substandard transportation infrastructure.
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Democrats Land A Top Candidate To Take On John McCain In 2016
Arizona 1st District Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick plans to challenge Senator John in 2016, giving the Democrats a top tier candidate.
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Koch-Republicans Remember Soldiers’ Sacrifice With A Veterans Healthcare Coupon Scam
The privatization scam amounts to a yearly-issued, and set amount, coupon to purchase healthcare services at a private hospital or doctor’s office, or use as a discount card to purchase a private insurance policy.
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Republicans Push the Benghazi Video Lie to Discredit Hillary Clinton
But there really was an offensive video, and it did actually offend Muslims, and it did actually play a role in the attack that left four Americans dead
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Lindsey Graham Blames President Obama For The Mess That He Helped Cause In Iraq
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham insisted on Monday that the Iraq War was not a mistake.
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President Obama Lowers The Boom On Republicans By Threatening To Veto Anti-Science Bill
President Obama issued a veto threat to yet another Republican attempt to starve and deny science and science-based programs.
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Republicans Forced To Admit That Obama Approved Raid On ISIS Was Successful
Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) have been forced to admit on the Sunday shows that the Obama approved raid on ISIS in Syria has been successful.
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Bluegrass Poll Reveals Kentucky Would Be A Tossup Between Hillary And Rand Paul
Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul are tied at 45 percent each in a recent poll of Kentucky voters.
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Fox News Claims Hillary Less Ethical, But Public Gives Her High Ratings on Every Issue
Fox News seems to want to wish away Hillary Clinton, but even their numbers cannot disguise that the public still approves of Hillary Clinton
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Democratic Led Minnesota Senate Approves Expanding Early Voting And Voting Rights
On a 39-28 party-line vote, the Democratic-controlled Minnesota Senate approved a bill expanding voting rights on Monday.
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Republican Presidential Wannabes Gather In South Carolina To Renounce Democrats
A bunch of Republican real and presumed presidential primary candidates descended on Greenville, South Carolina, Saturday. The event was the “South Carolina Freedom Summit.”
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President Obama Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results?
If there is one thing Republicans and the Obama Administration love more than pandering to Wall Street, it is the abject 20-year failure of the charter school industry
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Jeb Bush Calls President Obama Intolerant On Religious Freedom
Speaking at Liberty University, Jeb Bush accused President Obama of being small-minded and intolerant on issues of “religious freedom.”
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Republican Map Shrinking As Hillary Clinton Puts Red State Arizona In Play
A Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey released on May 6th finds Hillary Clinton is competitive in the traditional red state of Arizona.
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Friday Fox Follies – Fissures In The Facade?
Friday Fox Follies shares something with Fox “News” this week. Many battles to fight, not enough time.
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Ben Carson Won’t Stop Comparing President Obama To A Psychopath
On Friday, Ben Carson doubled down by repeating his theme that President Barack Obama reminded him of a psychopath.
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Louie Gohmert: It’s Obama’s Fault We’re all Idiots
I paraphrase, but not by much. Gohmert uses nuns, the Posse Comitatus Act, and Waco 1993 to prove Obama is to blame
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Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert Latches Onto Loopy Jade Helm Conspiracy Theory
Texas GOP Congressman Louie Gohmert issued a statement on May 5, 2015, that gives voice to the bizarre Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theory.
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Obama Quotes FDR Saying We Are All Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists
President Obama quoted FDR on Cinco de Mayo as he made the case for immigration reform, the President quoted FDR, “As one of my predecessors, Franklin Roosevelt once said, ‘Remember, always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.’ “
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Religious Right Leader Rick Wiles is Fascinated by Obama’s Privates
You know the Religious Right, and maybe some of its male leaders, have got nothing when they start worrying about Obama’s presidential package
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Muslim-Hating Pamela Geller Exploits Texas Shooting To Spread Her Toxic Ideology
The shooting just became a great recruiting tool for expanding Geller’s intolerant army of Muslim-hating Americans.
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Bill Maher Takes Republicans To School By Pointing Out Everything That Obama Got Right
Bill Maher schooled Republicans on their foreign policy failures while delivering a lesson on President Obama’s successes.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott Orders State Militia To Monitor the U.S. Military
Instead of ignoring the paranoid Texans, or telling them to grow up, Texas Governor Greg Abbott incited more distrust by ordering a Texas militia to keep the real U.S. military under a watchful eye to prevent any violations of the Constitution and Texans’ liberties.
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John Boehner Says We Finally Have a Senate That is Actually Working
Boehner’s reaction to Senate dysfunction is to claim a change of leadership in the Senate has given us a Senate that is actually working.
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Obama Plans To Stress Fighting Climate Change During Earth Day Visit To Florida Everglades
President Barack Obama plans to visit the Florida Everglades on Wednesday to highlight the urgency of tackling climate change.
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While Israelis Terrorize Christians, Evangelicals Accuse Obama Of Persecuting Christ
What the evangelical right never, never ever, talks about is the persecution, barbarism, and hatred targeting Christians at the hands of Israeli Jews in the Holy Land and it leads one to wonder if America’s neo-Christians are using President Obama as a surrogate for the Israelis targeting Christians for persecution.
For Corporate Profits Republicans Want President Obama To Skirt Congress’ Authority
What is duplicitous and very telling about how Republicans operate, and where their only loyalties and priorities lie, is that they are pushing the President to seek unilateral authority to negotiate and sign an international trade deal; something that requires congressional approval. And yet they have done everything in their power and all but forbid him from exercising his rightful executive authority where Congress has no say according to the Constitution; like on immigration enforcement and negotiating with foreign governments.
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Chris Christie Stabs Obama in the Back While Trying To Revive His Dead White House Dream
Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) stabbed President Obama in the back over the weekend, claiming that after six years, we still “don’t know” whether Obama cares about the United States.
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Scott Walker Talks Up GOP Common Sense While Proving He Has None in NH Speech
Walker throws facts and history to the wind as he talks up a fantasy GOP with common sense that nowhere exists and has no chance of existing
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Up Close And Personal: Why Democrats Keep Losing The South
Southern Republican candidates have nothing to fear from the Southern Democratic electorate if my recent, highly distasteful experience, is a harbinger of things to come.
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For The First Time Since 2009 More Americans Approve Of Obama’s Handling Of The Economy
A Bloomberg Politics poll finds more Americans now approve of President Obama’s handling of the economy than disapprove.
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Obama Relents and Gives Congress Veto Power Over Iran Nuclear Deal
The current President, Barack Obama, will go down in history for providing tens-of-millions of Americans with access to affordable health care, restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, an historic climate change deal with China, and with the stroke of his pen, ceding executive branch authority over foreign policy to a Congress loyal to a foreign national.
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New Progressive Pope Embraces Old Conservative Vatican Bigotry
What the so-called more “Christ-like” Pope has not done is rescind any of the Church’s archaic moral policies his predecessors kept in place and apparently Francis has no intention of changing them anytime soon; regardless of his Fox-created “friendlier pope” public relations image.
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Obama Turns The Tables On The GOP With Foreign Policy Endorsement Of Hillary Clinton
On the eve of Hillary Clinton’s anticipated announcement that she is running for President, President Obama used his bully pulpit to give her a huge boost.
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Obama Makes History By Becoming The First President Since 1958 To Formally Meet With Cuba
President Obama’s meeting with Raul Castro made history because it was the first time that a U.S. president formally met with the leader of Cuba since 1958.
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Koch Brothers Astroturf Director Fails Again With “Millions Of Montanans” Tweet
Montanans may not be fans of President Obama, but they also are suspicious of organizations funded by out of state billionaires.
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Sean Hannity Helps Rand Paul Find Excuses For the Things He Used to Believe
Ah, the comforting embrace of Sean Hannity, where “that was then” is answer enough to questions about issues that affect millions
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Tom Delay’s GOP Crusade to Establish Theocracy Is Doomed To Fail
The latest indication that Republicans will enjoin the Catholic bishops’ and religious right’s war against the Constitution, was disgraced former speaker of the house Tom Delay who said unapologetically that, “gays undermine his religious liberty.”
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Marching Backwards: Voters In Missouri Decide To Strip Civil Rights From LGBT Residents
Springfield voters repealed a non-discrimination ordinance on Tuesday, but the vote was very close in the Bible Belt community.
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Religious Right: GOP Will Never Win Presidency if They Soften Gay Rights Stance
The Religious Right thinks, despite all the evidence, that doubling down on anti-gay bigotry will have better results than Indiana
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President Obama Says Scott Walker Needs To Bone Up On Foreign Policy
In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, President Obama took a jab at Scott Walker’s lack of foreign policy experience.
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The Newest “Joe the Plumber” Washes Up On The Shore
I could be wrong, but I suspect Louis Jordan will be sailing into murky political waters very soon.
Michele Bachmann Is Still Bonkers, Compares Obama To Deranged Germanwings Co-Pilot
Former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R) compared President Obama to Andreas Lubitz, the deranged German co-pilot who crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, on her Facebook page Tuesday. Bachmann posted: With his Iran deal, Barack Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls on the German Wings…
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President Obama Surprises Retiring Sen. Harry Reid On Nevada Radio Show
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) got a surprise caller as he was taking questions KNPR. President Obama called in and shocked Reid by glowingly paying tribute to retiring senator.
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Jeb Bush Uses Op-Ed To Belittle Obama’s Foreign Policy As “Schoolyard Antics”
Bush is right about one thing. This is no time for schoolyard antics. Bush and his fellow Republicans ought to stop engaging in them.
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Humiliating Home State Poll Numbers For Jeb Bush As He Trails Hillary Clinton in Florida
Even if they put Jeb Bush at the top of the ticket, Republicans are in obvious danger of losing Florida once again.
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Israel Spied On America And Passed Classified Secrets To Anti-American Republicans
f Americans failed to believe that America did not need to re-evaluate its unconditional support for Israel before, this deliberate and concerted effort between Israel and Republicans to subvert American foreign policy cannot be ignored.
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Another Blue State Outperforms A Typical Koch Fueled Red State Failure
Republicans claim businesses love and demand the conservative economic agenda, but according to states like California and Minnesota that is a blatant lie.
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Does Ted Cruz Actually Think He Can Win in 2016?
“I am running for president and I hope to earn your support,” Ted Cruz tweeted last night. Does he really think he can get it?
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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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Congressional Republicans Are Still Angry They Are Not The President
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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.
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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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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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Obama Recovery In Full Swing As Unemployment Fell In Every One Of The 50 States Last Year
Every U.S. state and the District of Columbia, saw their unemployment rate drop from 2013 to 2014.
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Mitch McConnell Urges Governors To Disobey Federal Law For the Kochs
Speaker John A. Boehner boasted that Republicans primary duty was not to make laws, but eliminate them for their wealthy donors’ benefit. Now, the sitting Senate Majority Leader has went a step farther and issued a call to governors to become ‘law breakers’ to benefit the fossil fuel industry that bought control of Congress for Republicans.
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Kansas Secretary Of State Says Blacks Might Not Be Prosecuted For Crimes Because Of Obama
Kris Kobach agreed with a caller that under Obama, eventually “any black person accused of a crime… is not going to be prosecuted.”
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Netanyahu and the GOP See Peace as an Existential Threat
What Netanyahu and Republicans fear is peace, which would interrupt their cycle of fear, leaving Iran more reasonable than the GOP
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Former CIA Director David Petraeus Pleads Guilty To Mishandling Classified Documents
David H. Petraeus plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified materials on Tuesday morning.
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Speaker John Boehner Caves And Plans To Allow Clean Funding Bill For Homeland Security
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that he would allow for a clean funding bill for Homeland Security on Tuesday.
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Republicans, Not President Obama, Are Anti-Semitic and Un-American
Conservatives claim Obama is an anti-Semite. This is a stunning claim, particularly because Republicans, tea partiers, and so-called Christians are raging anti-Semites of the highest order.
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Conservative Radio Host Wants Democrats Skipping Netanyahu Speech Hanged
Apparently, having integrity is a hanging offense according to Andrea Shea King, who fails to explain how bombing Iran will save us from ISIL
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Right Wing Media Explodes at Rumor Obama Would Shoot Down Israeli Jets Attacking Iran
A third-hand rumor justifies every lie the Right Wing media tells itself about President Obama
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Rudy Giuliani, The Crazy Uncle Face Of The New Republican Party
Seems like every time you turn around these days there’s another crazy Republican uncle doing and saying the kind of things crazy Republican uncles do.
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Republican Congressman Peter King Slams Self-Righteous Delusional Wing Of His Party
Appearing on Luke Russert’s online MSNBC TV program, Shift, New York Congressman Peter King (R) slammed fellow House Republicans for not simply banding together to pass a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. King made it clear that he was fed up with Tea Party Republicans playing politics with Homeland Security funding….
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5 Big Whoppers from Speaker Boehner
Unwilling to do anything to help Americans, John Boehner concocts some more self-serving lies to blame Obama for his own failings
