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Texas Democrats Stall, Run Out The Clock On Republican Anti-Gay Marriage Bill
A GOP effort to prohibit issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Texas, failed to come to a vote on Friday.
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Republicans Admit Defeat and Silently Surrender In Their War On Obamacare
While Republicans aren’t waving the white flag publicly, the GOP is becoming quietly aware that they have lost their war against Obamacare.
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Right-wing Congressman Steve King Bashes Jews Who Are “Democrats First And Jewish Second”
During a radio interview, Iowa GOP Congressman Steve King blasted liberal American Jews for being Democrats first, and Jewish second.
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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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Showdown In Wyoming As Anti-Discrimination Republican Boots Anti-Gay Rep From Meeting
Elaine Harvey (R-Lovell) evicted anti-gay Rep. Harlan Edmonds (R-Cheyenne) from a meeting when he refused to remain civil during a debate.
House GOP Doubles Down On Bigotry With Vote To Stop Obama’s Immigration Executive Order
On a 237-190 vote, the Republican controlled U.S. House has voted to undo president Obama’s executive order on immigration.
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President Obama Named The Most Admired Man In The World For The 7th Straight Year
The endless Republican anti-Obama campaign suffered another defeat as for the seventh consecutive year President Obama was named the most admired man in the world by Gallup.
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More Heartache Around the Corner for God’s Own Party in 2016
Where once three-quarters had been Protestants alone, now barely three quarters are even Christian, and the numbers continue to drop
Republicans May Cause Government Shutdown Over Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program
Republicans are going for the full monty of childish behavior. Gone are the real policy complaints. Now they stand naked before the nation demanding cuts to Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunch program.
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Tom Tancredo Says Republicans in Congress Have Stockholm Syndrome
Tancredo says GOP is impotent. Impotent yes. Because they’re ideologically blinkered idiots. Not because they identify with their “captor” Obama.
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Democrats Need to Be Bold In Their Policies and Stand with the Guy In The White House
One thing is obvious: Democrats are still allowing the media to parrot GOP narratives, and Democrats are still running away from their own ideas and into the arms of the tepid enemy of equivalency. Democrats are still afraid to be bold.
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Republicans: Women Problem? What Women Problem?
Nothing wrong with an exclusive and hate-filled Republican message. Just with the people who aren’t sufficiently white, male, and Christian.
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The Democratic Party Is Not Your Abusive Partner, Progressives, It’s Your Problem Child
Calls for the Progressives to “break up” with the Democratic Party as an abusive partner miss the mark. The problems is actually their neglect of the party.
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Gallup: Republicans Better Able to Defend Against Terrorism, Keep America Prosperous
The GOP has been able to destroy this country while getting Americans to willingly participate in their own demise with flag-waving and cheers
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Federal Court Slams Texas TRAP Law Back To the Stone-Age
In a much needed victory for women in Texas, a Federal Court struck down the Lone Star State’s version of a TRAP law.
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Republicans Can’t Run Away From Their Allegiances and Policies Unless We Let Them
Mitch McConnell is a man on the run from a disastrous week for the Republican Party.
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Howard Dean Feels That Eric Cantor’s Loss Can Lead The Way To Big Democratic Gains
In an op-ed piece for Politico published Sunday, former Democratic Governor of Vermont Howard Dean stated that the recent primary loss by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) offers five lessons for Democrats in upcoming elections.
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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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The Body’s Impolitic (Again): Why Is Jesse Ventura Running For President?
Former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura is back in the headlines. He plans to run for President in 2016, if Howard Stern would be his running mate.
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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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Key Republican Defections Mean Missouri Will Not Secede from Union
Republican attempts to nullify federal laws in Missouri are on hold after attempts to override Gov. Nixon’s veto failed in the senate
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Harry Reid Mocks House Republicans for Being Afraid of a Tea Party Revolt
Reid mocked the Republicans, ‘It seems House Republicans don’t want to be seen discussing even the possibility of compromise with Democrats, for fear that there will be a Tea Party revolt.’
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Larry Pratt: Bombing Seen by Liberals as Opportunity to Increase Government Control
Republicans want bombing suspect treated as enemy combatant but it’s liberals who want increased government control?
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Conservatives Threaten to Abandon GOP if Republicans Stop Hating Gays
Social conservatives warned RNC Chair Reince Priebus this week via a letter that he better stop trying to bring the GOP into the 2000s, especially on the issues of gay marriage and abortion.
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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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Mitch McConnell Gets Desperate and Promises to Avoid Losing Battles with Obama
Mitch McConnell is running away from doing battle with President Obama and hoping to focus attention on battles he thinks Republicans can win against Senate Democrats.
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President Obama is More Popular Now than During His First Term
The GOP finds itself in trouble as Obama’s popularity soars and their own plummets, and Obama’s second term only promises more of the same
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‘Beware when this White House is handing you a suicide pistol’
President Obama keeps besting Republicans, but they still believe they have the upper hand, even as they play right into his hands.
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The Republicans Have Quit on America; It’s Time for Americans to Quit on Them
Republicans have quit on America. They’re putting forth no effort, and most importantly at all, they haven’t even bothered to show up for the past two years.
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Progressives and Corporatists Struggle for Control of the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is a big tent. However, the party needs to refocus on its progressive values, not get led in a rightward direction
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Oregon GOP County Chair Gets the Boot for Claiming Democrats Seek Utopian Enslavement
Gary Bray, Republican Party chairman in Washington County, Oregon, called liberalism an ‘atheistic cult’ which seeks ‘utopian enslavement’
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Why Conservatives are Wrong When They Say Liberalism Will Fail
Conservatives have convinced themselves of libearlism’s illigitimacy; now they have convinced themselves liberalism will fail
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Move Over Star Wars: A Trilogy of GOP Cognitive Dissonance: 2008, 2012, 2016
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
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Republicans Declare Defeat and Claim They Have Lost the Culture War
Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics
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Binders of Women Bring Down the GOP’s Pro Rape Senate Candidates
The Republican rape triplets running for the senate took a big hit last night. The War on Women was a bad move for Republicans.
