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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
Tagged federal government
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Hobby Lobby II Case Could Impose Right Wing Evangelical Tyranny On Health Insurers
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito opened a Pandora’s box that has the potential to give some corporations the right to impose their “deeply held” religious objections to birth control on other corporations.
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Rand Paul Is Trying To Fool The Left Into Thinking That He Is Their Friend
The same people that apparently hate the libertarian Koch brothers are looking on Rand Paul as a decent human being; a monumental error one expects moronic Republicans to make, but not anyone on the left.
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Democrats Fight Back Against Religious Freedom Laws By Pushing For LGBT Federal Protections
In a pointed response to the discrimination brought about by Indiana’s so-called “Religious Freedom” law, House Democrats announced a resolution to protect the civil rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community on the federal level.
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John Boehner To Hold Tax Repeal Vote To Increase Welfare For the Rich
Speaker of the House John Boehner will hold a vote to repeal the “Estate Tax” and give the very richest of the rich another government handout at the expense of the rest of the population.
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Colorado Republicans Are Pushing Koch Legislation To Seize Federal Land
It is unclear how a state can have “joint jurisdiction” over land it does not own and has no claim to, but the Colorado Republicans’ effort is a first step in a much more ambitious scheme; seizing and handing authority over federal land to the billionaire Koch brothers to drill for oil, mine, and log without “interference” from the federal government.
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Republican Secret Love For Obamacare Exposed As Lawmakers Choose ACA Over Private Market
Hypocritical Republican lawmakers like Ted Cruz could have gone for a “private market” solution, but instead they chose to let you subsidize their healthcare via Obamacare.
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A New Report Proves Republican Governed Red States Are Economic Parasites
A new report reveals that those same red state Republican voters who want the federal government cut to shreds are leeching substantially more assets from the federal government they want destroyed at the expense of blue states that are supporting them.
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Real Economist Paul Krugman Calls Republican Budget A Trillion Dollar Con Job
Republicans only know one approach to economic policy; the abject failure and scam known as trickle down with a healthy dose of Draconian austerity. Those features epitomize the most recent budget proposal Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman officially and accurately labeled as a “trillion dollar con job.”
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Using a Convention of States to Destroy the Federal Government for the Kochs
Republicans are supporting using Article V of the Constitution not to propose amendments to the Constitution, but to destroy the government
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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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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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During his Final Days as AG Eric Holder Will Push For Improved Civil Rights Protections
During an interview with Politico on Friday, Holder said he plans to push for a new standard of proof in civil rights offenses.
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It Is Time To Repeal the 10TH Amendment And Unify America
It is true that there was open rebellion and massive bloodshed as one faction that could not countenance a ‘united’ nation sought to rip the country apart, but the sentiment that engendered the Civil War is still alive and well due to one ill-advised amendment to the nation’s founding document; the 10th Amendment.
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The Koch Agenda Brings Pain And Woe To People In Republican Controlled Red States
Because they own most of the Republican state’s governors and legislatures, it is there that the Kochs’ ideology is doing the most damage that their GOP surrogates are unrepentant about.
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Ku Klux Klan Joins Alabama’s Religious War on Equality and the Constitution
Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, has made headlines lately by elevating the bible over the Constitution in what seems to be a widely held opinion in Alabama. Because the bible says gays are an abomination to god, it drove Moore to order other state judges to ignore federal court rulings allowing courts to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Koch Lovers Claim Kochs Are Defenders of the American Dream
Under attack and exposed, the Kochs have gone on the offensive, with their minions singing paeans of praise for our “benevolent” overlords
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The First Act Of The Koch Congress Is A Vicious Attack On Social Security
On the evening before officially taking control of Congress, Republicans launched a Koch-Wall Street attack on Social Security as a first step in another Republican-created crisis; this time to hasten privatizing Social Security for the Kochs and Wall Street.
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In 2014 America Abandoned Its Constitution And Devolved Into a Fascist Theocracy
Republicans in state after state spent the past year hastily passing legislation abolishing other Americans’ 14th Amendment rights
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Thanks, Obama! Economy Surges Forward As GDP Growth Fastest In More Than A Decade
The federal government reported Friday that real GDP growth rose by 5.0% for the third quarter of 2014, marking the fastest growth in any quarter since 2003.
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Boehner And Republicans Plan To Reverse Growth Numbers and Kill Jobs
Now that Republicans will have control of both houses of Congress, they will start, immediately, passing legislation to revert back to Bush-era economics and undo the economic progress of the past six years.
Fact Sheet from the White House on Obama’s Steps to Strengthen Community Policing
“Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country have highlighted the importance of strong, collaborative relationships between local police and the communities they protect.”
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Ted Cruz Has Disqualified Himself from Public Office
A series of episodes of egregious dishonesty this past week have clearly demonstrated Ted Cruz’s unsuitability for public office
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Ted Cruz Says A Functioning Senate Subverts the Will of The People
In fact, there is very little that Ted Cruz even likes about this country, including the United States Constitution, that he would burn to the ground in a hot second if he were able.
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Cliven Bundy Republicans Campaign To Seize and Sell Off Federal Land
Now, there is a serious movement among Republicans who embrace Bundy’s claim the federal government is forbidden from owning land and the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Colorado is actively campaigning on a promise of seizing all federal land.
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Republicans Are Fixated On Using Extortion To Rule America
The truth is that since teabaggers became de facto leaders of the Republican Party, they have contemplated various schemes to shutdown Washington.
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Airman Ordered to Swear a Religious Oath or Get Out of the Air Force
The United States Air Force, itself sworn to “support and defend the Constitution,” cannot abide by, support, or defend either the First Amendment or Article VI and rejected an atheist airman’s attempt to reenlist to serve and defend his country unless he swears a religious oath.
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Mitch McConnell Puts His Foot In His Mouth By Calling The Founding Fathers Radicals
McConnell asserted that belief in, and support for, the government is “an act of true radicalism,” something that makes the Founding Fathers and the great majority of Americans “true radicals.”
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Mitch McConnell Tries To Undo Everything Obama Has Done With Government Shutdown Threat
If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell’s own words encapsulated the entire conservative mindset when he promised that “Obama won’t like it, but that will be done. I guarantee it.”
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Rick Perry Takes a Break from Bullying Texans to Attack Obama
At a Republican gathering in New Hampshire, Perry took time to attack Obama for the economy his party destroyed and has done nothing to fix
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Investigation To Hold Cliven Bundy Accountable For Sedition Picks Up Steam
At least, and it is better late than never, the sheriff is willing to assist federal officials conducting an active investigation to hold the seditionists involved in the Bundy standoff accountable.
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The Reality Is That There Is No Difference Between Republican and Tea Party Candidates
One would be hard-pressed to find any difference whatsoever between Republicans and their teabagger cohort except their willingness to openly state their goals.
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North Carolina’s Lt. Governor Declares War on the U.S. Constitution
Dan Forest told the Faith and Freedom Coalition this weekend, “America is at a great crossroads where it must decide for or against God.”
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Bobby Jindal Signs Latest Blow in War on Women in Louisiana Church
America becomes less America and more Afghanistan with each passing day Republicans remain in control at any level of government.
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New Study Finds 14 of The 15 Biggest ‘Moocher States’ Are Republican Controlled
According to a comprehensive study detailing the disparity between red and blue states regarding the level of federal government assistance as it relates to state tax rates, there are three areas that revealed red states are more dependent on the federal government than blue states.
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Determined to Become a Regional Party, Texas GOP Wants to Dump NASA, the FAA and the FBI
Texas Republicans want to “fix” the economy by getting rid of NASA, the air force, the Federal Aviation Administration and every other government agency established after 1776.
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Ted Cruz Actually Thinks Government Shutdown Will Lead The GOP To Victory In Midterms
During a speech at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated his belief that the 17-day shutdown of the federal government last year will be a positive for the Republican Party this November in the midterm elections.
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The Republican Party Has Become a Haven For All Forms of Right Wing Extremism
The Pew survey should disabuse Americans of the notion that the teabagger or Republican movements are not havens for right wing extremism,.
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Ted Cruz Finds Fellow Constitution Haters on the Religious Right
Ted Cruz whined to Janet Mefferd and David Barton about President Obama’s imaginary attack on “traditional” marriage
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Marco Rubio Embarrasses Himself By Claiming Marriage Is the Solution To Poverty
Rubio, as an anti-poverty crusader, is nearly as hysterical as Reagan, and so was his contention that opposite sex marriage is the solution to poverty.
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As the 2013 Political Year Disappears Into the Night, Little Light Appears on the Horizon
I’ve probably submitted 320 articles or so to this august, informative and objective progressive website. That’s no big whoop since Jason and Sarah seem to write that many in a week. Nonetheless, I feel like at least a 2nd cousin in the PoliticusUSA family. As such, I’m going to pipe up and share some…
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Southern Republicans Drag the Rest of the Nation Down by Doing the Kochs’ Bidding
The real tragedy is that as stupid Southern voters do the Kochs’ bidding by keeping Republicans in power, at least in their states, they are dragging the rest of the nation down to their level
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South Carolina’s Lee Bright Wants to Replace Lindsey Graham – and the United States
Bright says, “If the Tenth Amendment won’t protect the Second, we might have to use the Second to protect the Tenth.”
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North Carolina Will Be America’s National Nightmare if Republicans Control Government
North Carolina is the true predictor and portent of tragedy inherent when Republicans hold the reins of power.
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Steve King Says if You’re not a Capitalist You Don’t Love America
“They don’t like the constitution, they don’t love this country, they don’t appreciate the greatness of America, they don’t think of this country the way I do”
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Treasonous Republicans Warp the Constitution To Justify Nullifying Federal Laws
Republicans persistently claimed they, and only they, adhere to the constitution regardless they routinely disregard or misrepresent the document to fit their extremist vision under Republican rule.
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Tea Party Steals our Money, Wants to Sell National Parks to Subsidize their Greed
The tea party wants to sell what doesn’t belong to them, stealing our heritage to enrich themselves and the corporations that own them
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Of Reasons and Treasons – Why Ted Cruz is the Common Enemy of Humanity
When he says he is going to shut down the government and then shuts down the government and then says he never shut down the government but he will do it again, dammit, you better listen.
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Ted Cruz Has Found Himself a Niche Within a Niche Market
If the tea party is a niche market – a market focused on hate-fueled anarchy – what does that make Ted Cruz? A niche within a niche.
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Republicans Have Resumed Their Koch Funded Seditious Conspiracy To Destroy Government
The seditious conspiracy in the war for America is still ongoing and the next major assault is already in the planning stages and there is little any American can do to stop it.
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Republicans Have Put America in Distress Because They Refuse to Do Their Jobs
Every one of America’s fiscal crises over the past three-and-a-half years is because Republicans refuse to do their jobs of conducting the nation’s business.
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Alex Castellanos Accuses Democrats of Being the Extremists
Republican strategist Alex Castellanos took to a CNN op-ed to accuse the Democrats of extremism, asking “Are Democrats more extreme than the GOP?” The answer seems obvious. No. But Castellanos seems to think refusing to bow to the demands of extortionists and economic terrorists makes you an extremist. That’s funny, because when the U.S. stands…
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How The Tea Party and Republicans Continue to Blow Golden Opportunities
The Tea Party and the Republicans could have led a much-needed national debate about the role and size of the federal government during this shutdown, but they haven’t.
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Eric Cantor Has Rigged The Rules of the House So That The Government Stays Shut Down
Majority Leader Eric Cantor changed House procedural rules to guarantee Republicans could keep the government closed even if a bipartisan majority found a way to re-open it.
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Republicans Have Made America Into a Global Laughingstock With Their Government Shutdown
It is a sad commentary indeed that a group of anti-government terrorists have, in two years brought shame on a global leader like America because they cannot accept the results of an election.
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Republican Traitors Draped in Tea Keep Their Promise to Break the Government
The current Republican government shutdown is what teabaggers came to Washington to do; “break the government of the United States.”
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Family Research Council Says Starving Children is Christian Thing to Do
Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Council (FRC) says there is “nothing more Christian” than cutting food stamps
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Missouri Republicans Set to Arrest Federal Agents and Let Criminals Go Free
Missouri Republicans want to nullify federal gun laws with House Bill 436 and will vote today to override Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto
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Marijuana is Illegal Because It Is a Major Source of Funding For Law Enforcement
Law enforcement officials have been staunch opponents of legalizing the weed for personal or medicinal use because as contraband, it is a major source of funding for law enforcement.
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The Republican Version of a Great Idea: For Profit Natural Disasters
If you want to see what privatized relief would look like, think of Walmart. That’s the face of Republican disaster relief
Republicans Are Behaving Like Unhinged Tyrants Who Realize Their Policies are Failing
Republicans are behaving like evil tyrants who realize their policies are failing and instead of changing course, they have adopted a mindset that they will fail and take the nation down with them.
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Republicans Are Gearing Up To Continue Their Senseless War on America
The Republican goal is clear; either Washington concedes to divest its power and transfer it to the wealthy and their corporations, or they will, one way or the other, destroy the government.
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Detroit Is Beta-Test of the GOP Plan To Sell The Federal Government to Corporations
The first beta-test of selling off a city to corporations began when an emergency manager in Detroit filed for bankruptcy, and it is a harbinger of the Republicans’ plan for the federal government.
Bryan Fischer Says Liberals Hate America and Christianity
Bryan Fischer dishonestly says liberals hate America and Christianity because they want to replace America as it was founded
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Poll: America Wants Congress to Share in the Sacrifice
While Republicans dismiss the President’s decision to voluntarily give back 5% of his pay, Americans would like Congress to follow suit.
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Louisiana Loses Track of $700 Million, GOP Sen Calls for Federal Oversight
Upon hearing that Louisiana lost track of $700 million dollars of federal money, the first thing a Republican Senator does is call for is more oversight.
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The Kochs and Their Corporate Arm ALEC Are Out to Destroy the Healthcare System
There is no doubt the Kochs and their corporate arm ALEC are out to end the healthcare system starting with Medicare and Medicaid.
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Show Me State Republicans Need Somebody to Show them Reality on Gun Control
If any facet of the GOP’s war on America has grown to lunatic proportions, it is gun control. The more people die from gun violence, the more the GOP sinks into denial.
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Republicans Can’t Let Go Ronald Reagan’s Economy Crushing Failed Policies
Republicans are intent on returning to policies that, thirty years later, finally bore fruit and nearly destroyed the nation’s economy.
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The Tea Party’s Intolerable Acts Are a Parting Shot from George III
The Tea Party’s actions in Wisconsin and Michigan show them to owe their inspiration not to the Patriots of 1776 but to King George III
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Soledad O’Brien Calls Out the Hypocrisy of Republicans Refusing Aid to Sandy
Soledad O’Brien challenged Rep Mulvaney (R-SC) by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position, since no one demanded that the costs be offset for disaster relief for his state.
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Impeach Obama for Pagan Gun Safety Laws?
According to GOP gun nut Larry Pratt, gun-control policies are Pagan, thus proving Piers Morgan’s accusation that he is unbelievably stupid
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GOP Tea Party Traitors to the Constitution Must Be Prosecuted to the Fullest Extent of the Law
It is a mystery why the Justice Department, FBI, and law enforcement officials do not summarily round them treasonous congressional tea partiers and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
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Eight Changes We Need to Make to Our System to Fix DC
The actions of Congress during the last couple of weeks make it abundantly clear that our political system is broken. Here are 8 changes worth fighting for.
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Republicans are Devolving and Trying to Drag Society Back With Them
Conservatives have rejected the idea of the country’s progress into the 21st century and by their own admission, Republicans are devolving and attempting to drag the entire society backwards.
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America Must Prosecute Grover Norquist and His GOP Acolytes for Treason
Regardless one’s definition of treason, Norquist and his Republican acolytes are guilty of acting against the government with the goal of destroying it.
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Mrs. Cleaver’s America is Dead – and Thank God For It
Republicans, in appraising the causes for the Republican defeat in 2012, shy away from the real reasons for that defeat: the culture war
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Ryan to Evangelicals: Obama’s Path Compromises Judeo-Christian Values
Paul Ryan says Obama’s path compromises some non-existent values; the real problem is that Obama stands between Ryan and the Constitution
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Election Day 2012 Boils Down Not to Fantasy But to Our Shared Reality
With Hurricane Sandy, Republican fantasy met the facts on the ground and lost; our shared reality is more potent than wishful thinking
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Remember When Mitt Romney Called Disaster Relief Immoral and Wanted to Privatize It?
As Sandy bears down, we flash back to when Mitt Romney called disaster relief ‘immoral’ and wanted to privatize it because it added to the debt.
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A Scared Romney Tries to Drive Wedge Between Obama and Clinton with New Ad
Romney’s new ad accuses Obama of being a big government liberal who is handing welfare checks out willy-nilly, and who has destroyed Bill Clinton’s work reforms to welfare.
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Iowa Case Shows GOP Doesn’t Really Believe in States’ Rights
GOP opposition to big federal government and support of states’ rights is a reaction to loss of control and does not extend to their socially conservative agenda
