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Behind The Moderate Myth Paul Ryan Dreams Of Shutting Down Government Permanently
The only difference between the extremists and Ryan is how soon, and for how long, they are able to shut down the government.
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Religious Leaders Slam Paul Ryan For Distorting Faith To Promote Income Inequality
A leading faith-based group is calling out Paul Ryan for warping the teachings of the Catholic Church to justify his economic agenda that benefits the rich and promotes income inequality.
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A Farewell to Boehner
There is plenty of blame to go around. No small share of it attaches itself to Boehner, who let the crazies take over the House on his watch
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Paul Ryan Spurns Conservatives On Budget Deal But They Still Agree To Make Him Speaker
Paul Ryan, who is likely to become the next House Speaker, announced his support for a two-year debt and budget deal on Wednesday.
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Hypocrite Paul Ryan Demands Family Time, But Opposes Family Leave For American Workers
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is demanding family leave for himself every single weekend, but he has refused to support virtually every bill that would give American workers a few days of family leave.
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Republicans Revolt As Paul Ryan Demands A Part Time Schedule If Elected Speaker
House Republicans are pushing back against Paul Ryan after the boy who would be speaker demanded that he only work a part time schedule that includes no weekends.
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Paul Ryan’s Ego On Overdrive As He Makes Demands Before He’ll Be The New GOP Messiah
With his ego running on overdrive, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) demanded that House Republicans unify behind him or else they will have to look elsewhere for a new messiah.
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Ted Cruz Turns On Paul Ryan As Republicans Rip Each Other Apart
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on the Republican tire fire today by refusing to say that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is a true conservative on Meet The Press.
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Young Gun Shot Down As Conservatives Reject Paul Ryan For Speaker Of The House
Republicans have a real problem. They can’t find anyone for the job of Speaker. The base hates anyone with any pragmatism, no matter how nuts they seem to the rest of the country. Even their budget king, Paul Ryan, is facing steep criticism as a possible speaker, and he doesn’t even seem to want the job.
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The Roof Falls In On Republicans As Conservatives May Sink Paul Ryan Next
House Republicans are frantically trying to convince Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to run for Speaker of the House, but there is a problem, the same Republicans who sunk John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy may target Ryan next.
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Paul Ryan Crushes GOP Hopes By Saying “No” To The Speaker Job That Nobody Wants
A spokesperson for Ryan reiterated that the Congressmen was still not interested in becoming the next Speaker of the House.
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Republicans Self-Destruct: Paul Ryan Refuses To Run For Speaker As Boehner Forced To Stay
The story coming out of the House Republican caucus is only getting crazier. Rep. Paul Ryan is refusing to run for Speaker while John Boehner is being forced to stick around until a new leader can be found.
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Paul Ryan Falls Flat On His Face When Asked What Republicans Can Do To Stop Obamacare
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered a new moment of Republican failure when he was asked on CBS’s Face The Nation what Republicans can do realistically to stop Obamacare.
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Paul Ryan Gets Smacked Down While Grandstanding About Obamacare During House Hearing
Paul Ryan got stopped dead in his tracks by Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) while he was trying to grandstand and trash Obama during an unrelated House hearing.
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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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Study: Thirty-five Years of Conservative Policies Contributed to Violence In Baltimore
The problem with the Republicans’ argument and lies, and there are many, is that statistics continue to prove that conservative anti-government policies over the past thirty-five years have driven income inequality and degraded society and are every bit as responsible for the events in Baltimore as out-of-control police violence against African Americans.
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Paul Ryan Tries To Use Baltimore Riots As An Excuse To Take Food Away From Poor People
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is trying to use the Baltimore riots as an excuse to take away food and housing from poor adults and children.
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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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GOP Sociopaths, Not God, Don’t Want Americans To Have Medical Care
Since 2009 it has been painfully obvious that Republicans or their supporters do not want Americans to have access to healthcare whatsoever, and it is particularly curious because they claim to be devout followers of Christ.
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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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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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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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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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Republicans’ Rule A Death Sentence For 9 Million Disabled Americans
Republicans have shifted their focus slightly away from just killing Americans’ jobs to killing disabled Americans; nearly nine million disabled Americans.
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Paul Ryan Proposes Massive Tax Cut For the Rich That Adds $100 Billion To Deficit
In his first proposed tax reform legislation as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, deficit hawk Paul Ryan’s tax plan benefitting big business and the wealthy will increase the deficit by $100 billion over ten years.
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GOP Trickle Down Has 70% of Americans Near Financial Calamity
Instead of changing course and helping the majority of the population, Republicans still propose heaping wealth on the rich and increasing taxes on the bottom 90% of the population to complete the utter destruction of middle income earners. According to yet another report they are succeeding beyond their wildest dreams.
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Chuck Todd Lets Paul Ryan Lie About President Obama’s Economic Record On Meet The Press
Chuck Todd allowed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to lie and distort the president’s economic record without even the slightest push back on Meet The Press.
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Anti-Tax Republican Governors Are Raising Taxes On The Poor and Middle Class
Even though most Republican governors are wary of going all-in on tax cuts for the rich and corporations like trickle-down failure Kansas governor Sam Brownback, they are going all in to raise taxes on their poor and middle class residents to avoid putting any “financial strain” on their wealthiest donors and their corporations.
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The Lame Duck President’s Not So Lame State Of The Union Speech
I was privileged to watch a chamber full of sullen, petulant, mostly far-right and white, wealthy Koch puppets, largely sitting on their hands as second term President Barack Obama, gave them a not so subtle dressing down.
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Obama’s Tax Plan Forces Republicans To Choose Main Street Or Wall Street
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President Obama’s proposal to give middle class and working class Americans a tax break has the GOP on the defensive.
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Paul Ryan Responds To Obama Tax Cut With Lies And Calls For Tax Hikes On The Middle Class
Rep. Paul Ryan responded to President Obama’s plan to cut taxes for the middle class by lying about the president’s plan and calling for a tax increase on the middle class.
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Democrats Found Their Identity Too Late To Help President Obama’s Agenda
If Democrats had proposed any of their current populist plans last year, Republicans would have went into the midterm elections defending their religious allegiance to the richest one-percent of income earners and their highly-profitable corporations.
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Thieving Republicans Robbed Americans In Their First Week Controlling Congress
It is amazing that Republicans who could not pass any legislation last year, spent the first four days of the 114th Congress stealing from women, retired and disabled Americas, large corporations’ employees, and various government departments and the Executive Branch.
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GOP’s First Step To Inflict Kansas Economic Woes On America
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There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous to other human beings and should be prevented at all costs, and yet wishes they could do the same thing. Last year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, like all Republicans, witnessed the complete economic devastation…
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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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Bernie Sanders Blasts Paul Ryan and House Republicans For Trying To Cook The Books
Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted an idea from Paul Ryan and other House Republicans that would justify their tax cuts for the wealthy by cooking the books and rigging how costs are counted in legislation.
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GOP House Leader Was Honored Guest Speaker At White Supremacist Conference
This week it was revealed that the third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives is guilty of pandering to a white supremacist extremist organization founded by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
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Pope Plans To Go All In On Addressing Climate Change
Pope Francis plans to issue an edict on climate change in 2015.
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Bernie Sanders Pushes Back Hard Against The GOP Plan To Cut Social Security and Medicare
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is pushing back hard against a Paul Ryan inspired Republican idea to cut both Social Security and Medicare next year.
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Republican Rebranding Fails As Mitt Romney And Jeb Bush Lead GOP Field
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that Mitt Romney leads the pack of GOP hopefuls for 2016, with Jeb Bush running in second place.
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Rick Perry Quotes Jesus To Justify Income Inequality and Poverty
Perry’s message is clear; there is no reason to address poverty, income inequality, or make any effort to help those suffering, and people in Texas are suffering, but not because it is written in scripture.
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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.
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Paul Ryan Plans A CBO Rubber Stamp For Trickle Down Disaster
Paul Ryan is quietly working behind the scenes to make sure the next head of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Congress’s objective eye in all matters concerning fiscal policy, is an ardent proponent of the Koch’s Americans for Prosperity economic agenda.
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Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan Are So Scared Of Jon Stewart That They Won’t Go On The Daily Show
In a new interview, Jon Stewart said that conservative movement heroes Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan have repeatedly refused to be interviewed on The Daily Show.
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Election Day Reality: The Republicans Have Got Nothing, and They Know It
Not a lot of voters will fit in that tiny little GOP tent set up deep in the heart of Dixie, surrounded by Confederate flags and guarded by white supremacist militias
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With Clinton and Obama Inbound, Scott Walker is on the Ropes in Wisconsin
Gov. Scott Walker is reeling in Wisconsin. Will Tea Party extremism trump Clinton and Obama support for Mary Burke?
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Scott Walker Joins the Republican Crusade Denigrating Americans’ Work Ethic
During a debate with his Democratic gubernatorial opponent last week, Koch loyalist Scott Walker took the time to insult Wisconsin workers he claimed are responsible for being stuck earning poverty wages.
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The Congressional Budget Office Vs. Paul Ryan: Will the Nonpartisan Entity Stand Its Ground?
There are very few nonpartisan, unbiased institutions left to us. But we always have the Congressional Budget Office. Or do we?
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Kansas Is a Portent of Republican Medicare Privatization Disaster
Democrats have a living, breathing example of privatizing Medicare, and frankly everything in the Path to Prosperity budget, that has done nothing Republicans promise and everything Democrats warned will come to pass. If he has accomplished nothing else, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has given Democrats and all of America a preview of precisely what a Republican Congress will do to America.
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Sam Brownback Insults Kansas Voters By Treating Them Like They Are Gullible and Stupid
It is beyond dispute that Republicans take advantage of their supporters’ stupidity, and Brownback must believe Kansas voters are the stupidest people in the nation
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Lazy Republicans Need To Learn the Culture and Value of Work
It is unfair and hypocritical for a person who has a job but refuses work to attribute laziness to a person who wants to work but cannot find employment, but that has been a defining characteristic of Republicans in Congress over the past four years.
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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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Paul Ryan Goes Full Koch Head With His Cowardly Support of Government Shutdowns
Paul Ryan had the nerve to say that he didn’t speak out against the government shutdown because it was more important that Republicans were unified. Ryan’s support of government shutdowns is straight out of the Koch playbook.
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David Gregory Wakes Up and Busts Paul Ryan On His Lies About The Poor
In a rare moment of lucidity, Meet The Press host David Gregory called out Rep. Paul Ryan’s uncompassionate lies about the poor.
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Paul Ryan and House Republicans Hyperventilate Over Imaginary Lost IRS Emails
Republicans have been attacking the IRS Commissioner, accusing him of lying to the American people over lost Nicole Flax emails but it turns out that there is no evidence the emails were lost.
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American Voters Need To Realize The Terrible Urgency Of 2014
Every time I hear a pundit or a pollster discuss the certainty that Republicans will hold the House or the high probability they will gain control of the Senate I suspect I am having an out-of-body experience.
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Extremist On the Horizon: Dave Brat Fits In With Government Destroying House Republicans
Even though Brat appears to be an extremist outlier in the conservative movement, his outrage that Cantor voted to raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown is not outside the mindset of the majority of Republicans in Congress and it is down to Brat’s economic ideology.
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Liberal States Outperform Conservative Ones as Republicans Push More Trickle Down
It is beyond question that after over thirty years, the Republican “trickle down” economic experiment continues providing the same empirical data and living results of starving government of revenue, depressing economic growth, increasing debt and deficit, and retarding job creation.
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Jeb Bush Tells Poor People To Stop Mooching and Get Married
Buried under his sweet talk about immigration reform and the importance of education, Jeb Bush revealed the same old trickle down lie, couching it under the guise that traditional marriage solves poverty. Or something.
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Bernie Sanders Speaks Truth They Don’t Want You To Hear: The GOP Is an Extremist Party
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is ripping the mask of the Republican Party, and speaking the truth. On MSNBC today, Sanders said, ‘The Republican Party has become a right wing extremist party.’
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Hillary Clinton Way Ahead Of Every GOP Candidate In Battleground State Of Ohio
Quinnipiac University released a new poll on Thursday showing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds double-digit leads on nearly every potential GOP candidate.
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Sarah Palin Gets Dose Of Reality As Hillary Clinton Leads By 27 Points In 2016 Matchup
A poll released by McClatchy-Marist on Wednesday shows that former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over pretty much every GOP candidate for the 2016 Presidential election.
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Work Ethic Challenged Republicans Now Claim the ACA Threatens America’s Work Ethic
Now that their Obamacare kills jobs lie was discredited by the CBO’s report and again in testimony to Congress, Republicans in the House of Representatives are seeking another way to call “you people” lazy freeloaders.
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Republicans Are Making Sure That An Immigration Bill Will Not Pass Until After 2014
Republicans want a permanent immigrant sub-class of mostly non-voters to do the laundry, mow the yard and have no say whatsoever in how the country is run.
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Paul Ryan Crumbles and Falls Apart When Asked About Impeaching President Obama
When George Stephanopoulos pressed Paul Ryan on impeaching President Obama, the Wisconsin Republican crumbled, fell apart, and admitted that he only has a difference of opinion with the president.
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Paul Ryan Lays The Groundwork For Impeaching President Obama Over Executive Orders
During an interview on CNN, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) laid the groundwork for impeaching President Obama by claiming that the president is abusing his powers and violating the Constitution with executive orders.
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Cathy McMorris Rodgers Completely Bombs Delivering The GOP’s SOTU Response
Tuesday evening, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) was tabbed by the Republican Party to deliver their official response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.
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After Killing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs By Blocking UI Republicans To Go On Vacation
Republicans on pace to kill hundreds and hundreds-of-thousands of jobs, send millions of Americans and their children into poverty, and lay waste to the economy; then they are going on vacation.
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Republicans Devastate The Lives of 1.3 Million Americans as the Media Stays Silent
The media is not about to damage Republicans’ electoral chances by telling Americans the real reason why they are in poverty, not finding good jobs, and losing their unemployment benefits.
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Republicans Go Mad As Pope Francis and President Obama Deliver The Same Economic Message
Republican evangelicals have gone mad with rage as Pope Francis and President Obama are delivering the same rejection of their selfish economic ideology.
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When Boehner and Cantor Say What The American People Want They Mean ALEC and the Kochs
In Republican parlance, when they say “what the people want,” they mean their wealthy benefactors the Koch brothers, ALEC, and Wall Street who are the “American people” to Republicans.
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Bill O’Reilly Asks Fox News Viewers to Pray for Every Wealthy Person In America
Bill O’Reilly has asked his viewers to pray for people he feels are in imminent danger; every affluent person in America.
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Paul Ryan Threatens To Blow Up The Economy Unless Obama Approves Keystone XL
Paul Ryan is threatening to crash the economy by not raising the debt limit, if President Obama doesn’t approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Economists Agree With Democrats: GOP Hurting the Economy by Promoting Income Inequality
A panel of economists has joined President Obama, and struggling Americans to assert categorically that income inequality is crushing the life out of the population, and holding back the economy.
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SHAME: Millions of Americans Are Going Hungry and Republicans Plan to Make Even Worse
While the wealthiest 1% of Americans’ fortunes increase dramatically, millions of Americans are going hungry and Republicans plan to make the hunger crisis much worse.
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Senate Dems Compelled to Embrace the Suck On Budget To Avoid Disaster
The budget deal that was forged by Sen Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) looks to be one step closer to final passage as the Senate voted 67-33 Tuesday morning to end debate on the measure.
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A Lot of Politically Surprising Things Happened Last Week…But Has Anything Changed?
As we barreled toward the New Year last week, it seemed that each morning brought with it some genuinely surprising political news.
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Democrats Gave Paul Ryan an Inch and Now He Is Trying to Take a Mile
Democrats allowed Republicans to behave badly and Ryan just said they will behave very badly and hold the debt limit hostage until his Path to Prosperity ransom is paid.
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Republicans Insult America by Making Paul Ryan the Face of Compassionate Conservatism
To put Ryan’s face on the new compassionate conservatism is an affront to any American familiar with his contempt for suffering Americans.
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It’s Obvious That Democrats Did All the Compromising on The Budget Agreement
it was fairly clear by the giddy-ass grin on Paul Ryan’s face that Senator Murray likely did all the compromising to agree that an austerity budget defying sane economic comprehension.
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McDonalds Tells Underpaid Starving Employees To Break Their Food Into Pieces
Because McDonalds’ “sample budget” only left $27 a month for food, the company advised hungry employees to “break food into pieces” to feel full, and better fill the void in their empty stomachs.
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It’s Time to Kill the Absurd Notion That Cutting Taxes on the Rich Grows The Economy
Ronald Reagan has been dead for over nine years and it is time to kill his absurd notion that cutting taxes on the rich and corporations produces a balanced budget, create jobs and economic growth.
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What the Media Won’t Tell You: Millions are Hurting as Red States Reject Medicaid Expansion
A number of right-wing states are leaving needy citizens without Medicaid coverage because their legislatures are rejecting expansion.
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Natural Born Job Killers: Republicans Are Set to Kill 1 Million More Jobs in 2014
Republicans will be killing 1 million more jobs in 2014, and a new report found that their austerity madness is doing immense long term damage to the US economy.
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Paul Ryan’s Ayn Rand Fantasy Is to Double Food Stamp Cuts and Starve Millions
As devastating as the food stamp cuts that took effect may be, they are just a preview of increased hunger 48 million Americans are going to face when Republicans led by Paul Ryan decimate SNAP.
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The Republican War on the ACA Is An Attack On Women
The ongoing war against the ACA by Republican messiah Ted Cruz is an attack on women that he enlisted ALEC’s assistance to continue.
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Republicans Go On a Scorched Earth Crusade In Case They Lose In 2014
Republicans realize that their recent shutdown laid waste to their brand and are intent on a scorched Earth crusade in case the 2014 midterms do not give them two more years to eviscerate America.
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Republicans Celebrate as 49 Million Americans Will Soon Have Less Food to Eat
This coming Friday Republicans will experience exhilarating satisfaction because millions of low-income seniors, working families, children, veterans, and disabled Americans will have less food to eat
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Fiscal Scolds Demand ‘Reforms’ to Social Security and Medicare Based on a Myth
The fiscal scolds at Fix The Debt are again demanding ‘reforms’ to Social Security and Medicare. Their entire argument is based on a myth.
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The Tea Party Adds the GOP to its List of Enemies to be Destroyed
The Heritage Foundation’s Tim Chapman says, “We have an opportunity to take over the party and it will be in the next election.”
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During the Obama Presidency Republicans Have Not Made a Single Concession to Help People
It can hardly be disputed that throughout Barack Obama’s tenure as President, Republicans have not made one concession or presented one piece of legislation to benefit the people.
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Castro Wannabe Ted Cruz Wins Valueless Voters Straw Poll
Ted Cruz was the winner of the yearly “theogasm,” being nominated the man best equipped to destroy America’s experiment in democracy
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Bernie Sanders Has a Message for Paul Ryan, ‘You lost.’
On Ed Schultz’s radio show, Sen. Bernie Sanders responded to Paul Ryan’s Wall Street Journal editorial with a simple message, ‘Ryan lost by 5 million votes’ in 2012.
President Obama Went Where The Media Won’t By Calling Out the GOP Threat to America
President Obama did what the mainstream media has failed to do throughout the government funding crisis and said, “They’ve shut down the government over an ideological crusade.”
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Before He Was Against It, Paul Ryan Agreed with Obama on Syria
Paul Ryan said on October 11, 2012, ‘We agree with the same red line, actually, they (Obama/Biden) do on chemical weapons.’
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Millionaires Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan Plan To Cut Off Food for 4 Million Americans
In September a bill pushed by Reps.Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor will if passed cut off food assistance to 2-4 million of America’s poorest citizens.
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Paul Ryan Tells Poor People to Blame Obama For Their Poverty
Rep. Paul Ryan claimed that Obama’s policies are the reason why people in poverty are poor. Ryan tried to convince the poor to blame Obama, not Republicans for their struggles.
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The GOP’s Peter King Leads the 2016 Charge as He Trashes His Fellow Republicans
What King is looking for in a 2016 Republican is a Muslim-hating hawk who can get behind some truly Bushian and ruinous, economy-destroying defense spending
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Stupid Linings Playbook: Boehner & Ryan Cook Up A Plan That Hands Dems the 2014 Election
John Boehner and Paul Ryan have cooked up a debt ceiling plan that is so unpopular that it hands the Democrats the 2014 election. It is truly one of the most transparently stupid strategies ever.
