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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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Rand Paul Makes A Fool Of Himself Trying to Blame Obama For the Government Shutdown
On CNN State of the Union, Sen. Rand Paul made a fool of himself by repeating the same blame Obama talking points that he admitted on video were his strategy for winning the shutdown.
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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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The Big Lie Behind Rand Paul’s Pack of GOP Shutdown Lies
The shutdown Republicans initiated claiming Obamacare is costing Americans too much money, costs more money than Obamacare.
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Blinders On: How The Tea Party Led Republicans Straight To Political Suicide
With no end goal in mind, the Tea Party blindly led Republicans over a political cliff that will ultimately undermine a key Republican stance.
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An Open Mic Catches Rand Paul’s Loose Lips Sinking The Republican Shutdown Ship
An open mic and camera caught Rand Paul discussing shutdown strategy with Mitch McConnell. Paul admitted that Republicans don’t want to be there, and their only hope is to look reasonable.
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Tea Party – Pee on America and Call this Experiment in Democracy Over
Who, precisely, we must ask ourselves, are Cruz and Paul and others fighting for if it is not the American people?
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Hearings on Syria Offer Questions, Answers, and more Questions
The hearings on Syria did not answer every reasonable question about a possible U.S. punitive strike, but they exposed some questions as unreasonable.
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Obama’s Smart Syria Decision Has Fractured The Republican Party
Republicans have weighed in on the President’s request for authorization to launch a limited strike, but they have splintered off into separate groups and resolution will not be coming anytime soon.
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John Kerry Exposes Rand Paul as a Fraud While Obliterating Him During Syria Hearing
Sec. of State John Kerry completely obliterated Rand Paul and showed the world that he is a foreign policy fraud during the Senate hearing on Syria.
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The Reality Challenged Libertarian Loving Far Left Looks to Sabotage Democrats in 2014
It is the anti-Obama agenda that unites the far left with their Libertarian friends and they cannot see the inherent danger in aligning with Rand Paul because he is united with their faux heroes.
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Village Idiot Rand Paul Screws Up The Separation of Powers While Criticizing Obama
While criticizing President Obama for not understanding the separation of powers, Sen. Rand Paul demonstrated on Fox News Sunday a screwed up and irresponsible understanding of our constitution.
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Rand Paul Face Plants On Fox News By Not Knowing What The President Actually Does
Sen. Rand Paul tried to convince America that Obama is committing a crime, but instead he fell flat on his face and showed the world that he doesn’t know what the president actually does.
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Sarah Palin and the Banality of Republican Evil
On behalf of those who are trampling their rights, Palin convinces people that somebody else is is responsible. She pronounces evil with a smile
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The Confederacy Rises Again and Assumes The Identity of Republican Racism
The rampant racism borne of white supremacy is nearly exclusive to Republican supporters and sadly, many politicians aligned with the GOP.
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Rand Paul Wants To Bail Out Detroit With Union Busting and Tax Cuts for The Wealthy
Rand Paul is designing a plan to bail out Detroit Republican style, which means tax cuts for the rich and union busting for everyone else.
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Republicans Go On a Nationwide Rampage Of Eliminating Laws That Protect Americans
Republicans are on a tear to disable the federal government’s ability to serve the people much like Republican-controlled states like Michigan and Florida.
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Chris Christie Hammers Rand Paul As He Defends President Obama
Chris Christie went after Paul’s libertarianism while defending Obama, igniting a war between the two sides of the Republican Party.
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Ted Cruz Warns Marriage Equality Means Pastors Will Be Imprisoned
Ted Cruz (R-TX) believes that pastors will be in jail for speaking up in defense of what extremists like himself pretend is ‘traditional’ marriage.
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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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Christian Nationalism Defines the Rhetoric of Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio
The tenets of Christian nationalism – control of the government for Jesus – is behind the political aspirations of Rand Paul and others
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Rick Perry Takes A Very Personal Cheap Shot at Wendy Davis
Rick Perry takes it very personally what choices Wendy Davis and her mother have made and demands that all women make the same choices.
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The Religious Right’s Lunatic Response to the DOMA Ruling
The Supreme Court’s DOMA decision, as can be imagined, has really sent them off the deep-edge.
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Republican Congressman Crushes CNN’s Attempt to Blame Obama for Snowden’s Escape
Republican Rep. Peter King turned the tables on CNN attempt to blame Obama for Edward Snowden’s escape from Hong Kong, and instead defended the president while lashing out at Rand Paul.
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Marco Rubio’s Epic Fail as the Aspiring Hero of 2016
Making Rubio the face of immigration reform has backfired and he has become a target of ridicule, all of it due to his having no discernible ability to articulate his politics and beliefs.
How Christian Myth Overinflates the Religious Right’s Sense of Self Importance
The Fundamentalist Christian sense of self-importance paradoxically makes them essential to civilization, which existed long before the Bible
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Rand Paul Claims Liberal Elites Want to Exterminate Christians
“There is a war on Christianity,” he said, well ahead of the Christmas season. “Not just from liberal elites here at home, but worldwide.”
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Rand Paul Represents the GOP Vision of an America That Was Never Meant to Be
Paul’s vision of America has nothing to do with the United States Constitution and democracy and everything to do with the Bible and theocracy
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Bearded Muslims and the Incredible Mental Midgetry of the Tea Party
Cathie Adams’ stunning conclusion that Grover Norquist is a Muslim because he has a beard, left me speechless despite five years of Tea Party stupidity
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Republicans Move Closer to Impeachment With Claim that Obama Is Losing Moral Authority
Rand Paul’s claim that Obama is losing the moral authority to lead is similar to what Republicans said about Bill Clinton in 1998, and another sign that Republicans are eyeing up impeachment.
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Rand Paul Continues to Use Disproved Talking Points to Attack the President
Rand Paul has gone to staggering lengths to ignore the facts and manufacture others to “prove” Obama is guilty of things that never
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Rand Paul Says Hilary Clinton Should Never Hold High Office Again
Paul hopes to bolster his own chances in 2016 while using his political office to pre-emptively destroy his opponent
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Rand Paul’s Threatened Gun Control Senate Filibuster Completely Flops
Rand Paul’s promised filibuster of expanded background checks flopped today, as Harry Reid’s bill sailed through the cloture vote 68-31.
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Rand Paul Lies To African Americans By Claiming He Never Opposed the Civil Rights Act
Sending Rand Paul to speak at Howard University was a disaster waiting to happen. First Paul tried (again) to deny that he ever opposed the Civil Rights Act.
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Nancy Pelosi Is Now More Pro-Marijuana Than Rand Paul
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has more pro-marijuana position than the Libertarian-Republican Sen. Rand Paul.
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Rand Paul Claims Marijuana Takes Away Your Incentive To Work
Sen. Rand Paul went on Fox News Sunday and told a pretty big lie about marijuana. He claimed, with zero evidence, that marijuana takes away your incentive to work.
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From Hero to Zero: The Right Trashes Rand Paul for Supporting Immigration Reform
In less than a week Sen. Rand Paul has gone from the filibuster hero/CPAC straw poll winner to total zero with the right for vaguely, kind of supporting some form of immigration reform.
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Republicans Can’t Hide Their Racist Obama Hate
At CPAC, conservatives lambasted Obama for all manner of fallacious sleights, but in one panel the underlying reason for all Republican extremism and hate was laid bare; sheer racial animus.
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Rand Paul Proves That a Meth Addicted Monkey Is Smarter than He Is At CPAC
Rand Paul mocked wasteful federal spending on meth addicted monkeys, but a meth addicted monkey could have given a more lucid and truthful speech at CPAC.
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The Republican Party Won’t Rest Until Children Starve and Seniors Perish
Between Ryan’s budget and the CPAC lineup, it should be painfully apparent that the new extremist Republicans will not rest until poverty is rampant, children starve, and seniors perish.
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The Biggest Fools of All Are the Progressives Who Cheered on Rand Paul
What is curious is the support many on the left have given Rand Paul despite his well-known, and well-publicized, stance on issues that are repulsive to progressives and even right-leaning centrists.
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It Turns Out Rand Paul’s Filibuster Was a Pre-Planned Scam for Cash
It turns out Rand Paul’s filibuster was big scam. Sen. Paul has wasted little time implementing the second part of his planned filibuster. He is now trying to cash in with a fundraising letter.
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All Hell Is Breaking Loose on the Right After McCain Slams Rand Paul’s Filibuster
John McCain’s criticism of Rand Paul’s filibuster has set off a chain reaction of chaos within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
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Rand Paul Declares Victory After Holder Humiliates His Filibuster Lie
After Megyn Kelly read Holder’s letter answering Rand Paul’s drone question in the simplest terms possible, the Republican senator declared victory for finally realizing what everyone else already knew.
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Deconstructing Hypocrite Rand Paul’s Dog and Pony Filibuster Sideshow
It would be great if Rand Paul was truly against the harming of innocent Americans, but his track record against women and the civil rights movement suggests otherwise.
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A Tea Party Texas Congressman wants to take a six-shooter to Sharia law
Texas Republican Representative, Louie Gohmert is convinced Sharia law is trying to take over the U.S. legal system. So, he’s packing.
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Rachel Maddow Annihilates the Paranoid Delusions of Rand Paul
Rachel Maddow completely annihilated the paranoid delusions of Rand Paul and highlighted the dangerous fact that he gets a say on major policy issues.
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Rand Paul Shows Off His Tea Party Book Learnin’ and Still Comes Off Better than Rubio
As the Tea Party’s 2nd choice, Rand Paul out performed Marco Rubio and his magic gulp.
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One Thing is For Sure Republicans Will Be Petulant Little Children at the SOTU
Because Republicans cannot abide Americans tuning in to hear a popular President with a clear vision, they will do what petulant little children do and draw attention to themselves with distractions.
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Rand Paul Says Ashley Judd is Attractive, Articulate and Doesn’t Represent Kentucky
Asked about the negative ads running against Ashley Judd in Kentucky, Rand Paul told CNN said she was attractive, articulate and and doesn’t represent Kentucky.
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The Tea Party Deploys Rand Paul to Sabotage the Republican SOTU Makeover
Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) Tea Party State of the Union response will follow Sen. Marco Rubio’s Republican SOTU response. This isn’t going to help the GOP with their rebranding effort.
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America Moves Forward with Obama as Republicans Double Their Attacks on Gays and Women
Although the right wing bible crowd is solidly behind any politician promising to impose the bible’s sanctions on women and gays, the rest of America is moving forward and supporting Obama’s agenda.
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GOP: Refusing to do What We Want You to Do is a Violation of the Constitution
The Republican Party seems to think if Obama doesn’t do what they want him to do, he is violating the Constitution
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Senate Republican Compares Raising Taxes to Drowning the Rich
Rand Paul (R-KY) brought the shrillness to new heights today on the Senate floor, likening taxing rich people to ‘drowning’ them.
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Will the Media Call Out McCain for Missing the Benghazi Briefing?
John McCain missed a classified briefing on Benghazi because he was giving TV interviews about his alleged questions about Benghazi.
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Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago
John Kerry exposed the Romney-Ryan foreign policy as the neocon shell game that it is, contrasting it with the steady hand of Barack Obama
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Another GOP Convention Night of Lies and Distortions
The speakers are all plugged into the same outlet. Obama as job-killing monster; the end is near and the ongoing distortion of the President’s you didn’t build that statement.
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Exposing the Inherent Racism in the Republican Myth of Voter Fraud
While there are some Republicans holding on to the myth about voter fraud, others are more candid about their intent, not to mention the inherent racism that goes with it.
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The Unlikeables: GOP Convention to Feature America’s Most Disliked Politicians
The 2012 GOP convention will be headlined by the least popular nominee in 28 years, but the RNC is also filling their speaking slots with many more unpopular Republicans.
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The Republicans’ Bad Day and What it Means for America
Yesterday was a bad day for the GOP but we should remember they’ve had many bad days recently and that its fun to watch their heads explode
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Sen. Rand Paul Says He Didn’t Know Obama’s Views on Marriage Could “Get any gayer”
Sarah Jones says Republicans must evolve or die. Rand Paul chose a third option: third grade: “[he] wasn’t sure [Obama’s] views on marriage could get any gayer”
Big Money is Rolling in for State Candidates
While political attention is riveted on Washington, millions of dollars are flowing into state campaign coffers in preparation for a rebirth of the Articles of Confederation where states will function as their own bosses and to hell with Washington..
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Right Wing Denial and the Legacy of Slavery
Conservatives can’t handle the truth about the aftermath of slavery or neo-slavery and how it still affects African Americans lives today.
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Rush Limbaugh Compares Ron Paul To An Islamic Terrorist
While talking about Rand Paul, Rush Limbaugh claimed that the TSA would be justified in detaining Ron Paul because he sounds like an Islamic terrorist.
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A Lesson for Americans: Reaping the Consequences of Hate
Words and actions have consequences, sometimes to the person who speaks, sometimes to the people spoken of. In an environment of hate and xenophobia, the consequences can be deadly and widespread.
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Under Siege The Tea Party’s Quiet War On the American Woman
You might not know it, but there’s a quiet war going on this election season. It’s being waged in state law and through Tea Party candidates and Republicans. It’s a war against American women.
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5 Weeks Out Polls Reveal a Surge of Support for Democrats
New polls released in Kentucky, Nevada, and California show that Democrats are making a big comeback in each state, and the tide may be turning against the GOP. In Kentucky Rand Paul has blown a 15 point lead in less than a month. In Nevada, Harry Reid is up by 5 points on Sharron Angle, and in California the Democrats in both the gubernatorial and the Senate races now lead.
The Looming Threat of Republican Destruction of This Economy
As the fall election nears, the buzz is that if the economy doesn’t recover, the Democrats will take a hard hit. Apparently the American people are too ignorant and lazy to remember exactly how we got into this mess in the first place, and will cast their reactionary votes of anger this fall against the “party in power†as if that makes any sense at all; thereby reelecting the clowns who not only are voting no on their own ideas in order to keep this economy a mess and help themselves politically, but also the very clowns who put their clown shoes on the gas pedal of recklessness that got us here.
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With Her Press Boycott Sarah Palin Continues Her Attack on Democracy
Since 2009 when Sarah Palin boycotted all, non conservative political media, her behavior has been picked up on by Republican Tea Party candidates like Sharron Angle and Rand Paul with the result being that voters are now expected to make a decision on these candidates without much information, which can only lead to disastrous consequences for our democracy.
Sarah Palin Believes the Media Attacked Rand Paul to get to her
On the debut of the Fox Business program Freedom Watch today, Rand Paul emerged from hiding today long enough to hear Sarah Palin tell him, “Yeah, it’s a double edged sword isn’t it, if my name gets attached to your candidacy, and here you are being misconstrued by the lamestream media, and they take things out of context.”
Sarah Palin Attacks Rachel Maddow for Rand Paul’s Civil Rights Comments
Sarah Palin was on Fox News Sunday today and when asked about Rand Paul’s comments on the Civil Rights Act, she blamed the media, specifically Rachel Maddow. Palin said, “Being able to engage in a discussion with a TV character media a media personality who perhaps had an agenda in answering the question and interpreting his answer as she did.”
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The Palinization of Rand Paul
After a humiliating stint on the Rachel Maddow show wherein Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul demonstrated a special talent in the art of the duck and dodge, Paul continued to Palinize himself the next day — wrapping himself in indignation, in order to mask his own deep inadequacy and lack of preparation for the important office he seeks.
Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the RNC Throw Rand Paul under the Bus
By any standard Republican Kentucky Senate nominee Rand Paul has had a terrible week. He followed up winning the GOP nomination on Tuesday with a disastrous appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show, which he followed up with an even worse appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America where he defended BP and the oil spill. Most telling is the way that his Tea Party backers, including Sarah Palin have remained silent on his comments.
Fox News Echoes Rand Paul’s Claim that Racism and Discrimination Are Rights
FNC contributor John Stossel was on Fox News’ America Live today where he voiced his agreement with Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul that part of the civil rights ought to be repealed so that businesses can discriminate based on race. Stossel said, “It’s time now to repeal that part of the law because private businesses ought to get to discriminate… it should be their right to be racist.”
