Tag: Republicans

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Democrats Storm The Senate Floor And Social Media To Save Obamacare From GOP Repeal

“Our message to the Republicans is simple and straightforward: You are not going to get away with it.”

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Republicans Fuming As Rand Paul Votes Against Obamacare Repeal Legislation

“I won’t vote for a terrible budget just to repeal Obamacare,” Paul said on the Senate floor.

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North Carolina GOP Facing Legal Challenges After Failing To Repeal ‘Bathroom Bill’

“The legislature may not be willing to undo their unconstitutional overreach and respect the rights of LGBT people, so we’ll just have to see them in court.”

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Record 6.4 Million Americans Sign Up For Obamacare Plans As Trump Threatens To Repeal

Trump voters, in particular, would be in a world of trouble if the man they supported follows through.

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1 Million More Americans Sign Up For Obamacare As GOP Gleefully Prepares To Take It Away

The Republican strategy on the health care law boils down to this: Repeal it first and figure out what to replace it with later.

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Republicans Show True Colors As GOP Views Putin More Favorably Than Obama

Republican opinions of Putin spiked around the same time Trump called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails.

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Kasich Vetoes Heartbeat Bill While Approving Another Unconstitutional Abortion Measure

Kasich traded one extremist, anti-choice measure for another.

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It Is Time To Seriously Consider Treason Charges Against Republicans

It’s not surprising that anyone close to Trump’s campaign would have knowledge of attacks perpetrated at the hand of a foreign government.

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Moral Failure: Media Madness and Reprehensible Republicans

What lesson is the supposed party of family values teaching our country’s children when its leaders put money and power over the good of the country?

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GOP Plays Dirty With Spending Bill, Threatens Government Shutdown Over Trump Appointee

It’s an irresponsible way to treat a spending bill, particularly since the failure to pass it would result in a government shutdown.

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Elizabeth Warren Battles Big Pharma to Protect American Lives

“The bill has a giveaway to the gun lobby, cuts Medicare, raids the Affordable Care Act, and makes it harder for people with disabilities to get Medicaid.”

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Oklahoma Suffers Earthquake Near Oil Pipeline Hub and Mammoth Oil Storage Facility

There are “several lines of evidence that the earthquakes in the areas are directly related to the disposal of wastewater deep underground”

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GOP Pollster Frank Luntz Says Michigan and Pennsylvania Firmly In Clinton Column

This is the kind of happy talk that one may expect from Democrats – not a prominent Republican pollster.

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It’s Time To Expel Senate Republicans For Violating the Constitution

“If Hillary Clinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court.”

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Conservatives Already Plotting To Block Clinton’s SCOTUS Picks, Let Court ‘Die Out’

Not even an overwhelming victory by Hillary Clinton is likely to convince Republicans that they should do their job.

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Victory For Reproductive Rights As GOP Abortion Restrictions Get Scrapped in Virginia

In an 11 to 4 vote, the board scrapped Virginia’s regulations which would have required abortion clinics to adhere to the same regulations as surgical centers.

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Donald Trump Proposes East German Stasi Tactic That Abolishes the Fourth Amendment

Trump thinks the right of the people to be secure and free of “unreasonable searches” shall not be violated unless they are people of color.

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New FiveThirtyEight Forecast: Democrats Favored To Win Back The Senate

Nate Silver’s newly launched forecast gives Democrats the edge.

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President Obama Slams Republicans In Congress For Being Lazy Freeloaders

“If they still refuse to do their jobs – well, you know what to do in November. Our government only works as well as the people we elect. And that’s entirely up to you.”

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FBI Director Comey Slams Critics, Says Decision Not To Prosecute Clinton Was Easy

“I have no patience for suggestions that we conducted ourselves as anything but what we are – honest, competent, and independent.”

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Watchdog Group Destroys GOP Conspiracy Theories By Giving Clinton Foundation High Marks

Not only is the foundation highly regarded, but it is doing critical work that benefits millions of people all across the globe.

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Maine Gov. LePage Says People of Color Are Enemies That Should Be Shot

“Maine Governor Paul LePage is a manifestation of the people who put him in office. This is an issue of racism being acceptable.”

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Why No GOP Response to Clinton’s Speech on Trump’s Racism Is a Weapon for Dems

Democrats have to tie every national, state, and local Republican candidate to Donald Trump’s seeming extremism as typically Republican.

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Maternal Mortality Rates Fall Drastically Worldwide While America’s Rates Rise

“The rise in pregnancy-related deaths coincide with Republican lawmakers slashing family planning funds.”

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ExxonMobil Lies – They Still Oppose Any Climate Change Remedies

ExxonMobil promotes a carbon tax while contributing to Republicans who block all efforts to combat climate change with a tax on carbon.

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New Ad Shows GOP Leaders Slamming Trump’s Ability To Be Commander-In-Chief

The ad underscores a larger point: Opposition to Trump isn’t a partisan exercise; it’s an act of patriotism.

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Hillary Clinton’s Democratic Nomination Is A Massive Victory Over Republicans

Clinton made history because besides defeating her worthy opponent, she won the nomination despite Republican attacks over the past 23 years.

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Be Very Afraid: Donald Trump Is Officially The Republican Nominee For President

If you’re not terrified, you aren’t paying attention.

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Surprise! W.V. Republican Legislator Calls For Hillary Clinton’s Public Execution

“I’m nowhere near a Hillary Clinton supporter. I’m just not a fan of having a maniac hold office in my great state.”

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In November, Republicans In Congress Must Pay For Their Addiction To NRA Money

The 56 Republican senators who voted against gun violence legislation on Monday have received a combined total of $36 million from the National Rifle Association.

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Clinton Campaign Looks To Woo Disaffected GOP Voters With ‘Republicans Against Trump’ Effort

There are a growing number of Republicans unsatisfied with Trump as their nominee, and the Clinton campaign is wasting no time in targeting them.

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One By One, Republicans Are Lining Up In Opposition To Donald Trump

As Trump’s campaign continues to implode, GOP leaders are lining up to oppose him.

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Texas Governor Who Forced Regulator To Drop Trump Fraud Case Received Hefty Donation

“It had to be political because Donald Trump was treated differently than any other scam artist in the 16 years I was at the consumer protection office.”

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Republican Governor Vetoes Clean Energy Bill Killing Thousands of Jobs and Billions in Growth

“This veto puts thousands of solar jobs at risk, endangers the livelihood of thousands and will stall billions in economic activity.”

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Success GOP Style: America’s National Parks Are Going Corporate

“Relaxing the rules governing ‘corporate partnerships’ will ensure parks become commercialized” and “dependent on corporations to operate.”

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GOP Bill Taking School Lunches From 3.5 Million Kids Is “Pro-Life” Hypocrisy

For many of the poorest children in America, healthy school lunches may be the one dependably nutritious meal they have access to.

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Corporate Media Failed To Report A Major Taxpayer Victory Against Corporate Polluters

This Circuit Court ruling will help ensure that the worst industrial polluters are on the hook for cleaning up their own contamination.

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President Obama Tackles Fracking With New Regulations

Methane emissions from fracking are the ‘most significant near-term threat’ of global warming.

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N.C. Governor Sues Federal Government For Defending and Upholding the Constitution

What North Carolina is doing is “mean-spirited and inconsistent with the Constitution and decades-old federal laws because of religion.

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Hypotheticals And Wishful Thinking Fuel The Myth Of Bernie Sanders’ Electability

“If you were designing the perfect target for Republicans in November, you’d create Bernie Sanders.”

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Women Are Stalked and Accosted For Daring To Use Women’s Bathrooms

“I wanted to make sure she was going to the right place. Because in times like these, you can never be too careful.”

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Pentagon Condemns House Benghazi Committee’s Wasteful “Speculative” Investigation

“Congress has an obligation to use resources and taxpayer dollars effectively and efficiently and respect the men, women, and resources of DoD.

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Rubio Mocks Protesters Being Assaulted and ‘Eggs’ His Supporters On

Rubio joked about his supporters roughing up two men, tearing up their signs, and throwing away a prop, even causing one man to double over

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Iran Claims Republicans Tried To Delay Return Of US Prisoners Until After The Election

Making a claim that sadly seems plausible on the surface, an Iranian official accused Republicans of asking Tehran to delay the recent prisoner exchange until after the presidential election.

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SCOTUS Conservatives Give the Kochs What They Want and Ruled Against Humanity

The fossil fuel industry said no more regulations and the conservative justices obediently complied

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Greedy Republicans Will Take Everything From Americans, Including Their Lives

It is nearly impossible to list everything Republicans have already indicated they will take from Americans given the opportunity

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President Obama On The Verge Of Issuing A “Citizens United Stunner”

Obama is about to issue an executive order requiring companies doing business with the federal government to disclose political contributions

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GOP Admits Gun Action Isn’t Much, But They Will Wage War For The NRA

Paul Ryan promises to take the President to court to put a stop to his violating orders from the National Rifle Association.

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Congressional Republicans Empower Evangelicals To Sue Governments For Enforcing Law

The reality is that the purpose is to punish the federal government for not adhering to Catholic and evangelicals’ religious edicts

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Trump’s Extremist Bigotry Against Muslims Is Now The Republican Moderate Position

Maybe now it is time for sane Americans to stop laughing or shaking their heads in disgust at Trump and follow President Obama and other Democrats in addressing Trump’s open hostility against any non-white and non-Christian for exactly what it is; patently un-American, hate-filled bigotry and genuinely inhumane.

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ExxonMobil Defies Kochs – Warns Governments Must Intervene To Prevent Climate Catastrophe

ExxonMobil is the second leading oil corporation to publicly admit that climate change is real, following Shell Oil’s admission in March

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Time to Stop Blaming the NRA for Gun Violence and Focus on Cowardly Republicans Instead

Although the NRA hands out millions to Republican congressmen, neither the NRA nor its insane leader, Wayne La Pierre, get to cast a vote

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Paul Krugman Get It Mostly Right About Why Republicans Doom Earth’s Population

According to Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, Republicans will go to any length to stop American involvement in a climate deal and will hasten the world population’s demise in the process; left alone the planet will fix itself in a few centuries. Krugman’s assessment is incomplete; there is more motivation behind Republican opposition to saving the Earth’s population than simply rejecting science.

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Conservative Brain Abnormalities Inform That Gun Madness Is Here To Stay

To gun zealots, every mass shooting provides another undeniable and convincing argument that what America needs most is more guns, not less

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Pope Francis Teaches Cowardly Republicans How To Dialogue With Muslims

The Pope, in contrast to cowardly Republicans, chose to make a visit to a mosque in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic

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Paul Krugman Gets It Right: Republicans Are Panicked, Stupid And Cruel

Paul Krugman noted that since Barack Obama was sworn in as President, Republicans and conservatives have done nothing but “warn about imminent catastrophe.”

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Refugee-Hating Mayor Uses Racism to Justify Discrimination

Bowers rejects allowing Syrian refugees into his city and compares them to the non-existent threat of Japanese-Americans interred in WWII

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Where Is The Grief For Republican Terrorism Imposed On Americans?

Only a beheading or a suicide bombing can possibly be as barbaric and cruel as denying medical care to millions of poor Americans

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Republicans Demand America’s 1920s Government Be Put Back In Place

Republicans want a government like that of the 1920s when the rich were given free rein to economically rape the American people

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Whining Kochs Admit They Expect Results After Buying Republicans In Government

The Kochs want to convince Americans that they really love America. They just hate that America has a government they do not yet control

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Obama Refuses TransCanada Request to Suspend Keystone XL Pipeline Approval

TransCanada claims they need more time to work with American officials but the real reason is to avoid a losing battle with President Obama

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Pro-Life Republicans Crusading To Ban Life-Saving Research

The GOP is jumping on the Dark Age bandwagon to stop scientists from finding cures to myriad infirmities and debilitating and deadly diseases

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Republicans Protect and Serve The Industry That Really Harms and Damages the Unborn

A new study finds that expectant mothers living in active fracking areas are 40 percent more likely to give birth prematurely

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Australians Disgusted With America Call To Boycott This Violent and Immature Nation

Some 2.1 million Australians visit the U.S. annually and the call for boycott is likely motivated as much by self-preservation as disgust

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Oregon College Massacre Is a Product of the NRA-Republican’s Structurally Violent America

Gun violence comes courtesy of the tireless effort and machinations of Republicans and the NRA to create a structurally violent country

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Republicans Willing to Take Food From 45 Million People Over Planned Parenthood

All we have to do so 45 million low income Americans can eat, is be willing to deprive millions of poor women of reproductive healthcare

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Republicans Have Spent 2015 Working For Foreigners, the Kochs, and Religious Extremists

Under Republican control, Congress has not laid any taxes to provide for anything, much less for the general welfare of the people,

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Donald Trump Exposes Koch Republicans As Glaring Fascists

Republicans have tapped into the religious and conservative negative reaction to 21st Century modernity, or social progress as it is called

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Convicted Felon Who Killed “Cecil” the Lion Mirrors Republican Cruelty Toward Americans

Republican policies and practices towards wild beasts are not unlike their barbarism and cruelty targeting women, people of color, and others

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It Is Time For Americans To Declare Their Independence From GOP Religious Oligarchy

Americans should take time today to reflect on just how far the nation has drifted from the Founders’ “we the people” sentiment.

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Oklahoma Supreme Court Shocker: Earthquake Lawsuit Against Oil Industry Can Proceed

It was encouraging, then, that in a Republican-controlled state virtually owned by the oil industry, a High Court issued a procedural ruling that has the potential to hold the oil industry liable for injuring Oklahoma residents and damaging their property.

Reaction To SCOTUS “Obamacare” Ruling Reveals Republicans’ Intrinsic Inhumanity

That idea of compassion, or humanity for other human beings has become anathema to Republicans and conservatives over the past six years

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Republicans Join With Democrats In A Rare Bipartisan Senate Effort To Ban Torture

The vote in the Republican-controlled Senate on Monday was an overwhelming bipartisan statement that the President’s 2009 executive order banning torture must be ensconced in permanent law to prevent a Republican administration’s repeat performance in the future.

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According To Polls Most Americans Are Socialists Like Bernie Sanders

It is glaringly obvious that for regardless the reason Senator Sanders self-labels himself as a “democratic socialist,” or whatever negative connotations that label socialist has according to constant harping by Republicans, most Americans support Mr. Sanders’ policies.

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Now Israelis And Republicans Are Very Angry At The Pope

Recently, although Republicans love the Vatican’s support for opposition to equal rights for women and the LGBT community, there has been growing enmity over the Pope’s opposition to income inequality and anthropogenic climate change. The Pope finally went too far this past week when he failed to comply with Israel’s agenda that Palestine will never be a sovereign state.

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Republicans Prove They Can’t Govern As Military Funding Bill Collapses Into Chaos

The ghosts of chaos past are haunting the House as Republicans are desperately trying to navigate around their own sequestration level spending caps in order to appease the war hawks in their party.

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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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GOP Descends Into Madness As Ted Cruz Vaults Into Top Tier Of 2016 GOP Candidates

A PPP poll shows Ted Cruz pulling into contention with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

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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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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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Massive School Layoffs, Healthcare, Food Stamp Cuts Populate Scott Walker’s Koch Budget

Scott Walker’s budget epitomizes the Koch-Republican “vision for America” and not at all unique among states ruled by Koch-governors with Republican legislatures. In Wisconsin, because Walker has driven the state’s deficit over the $2 billion mark with tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, he intends on slashing yet another $300 million from the University of Wisconsin system over two years, and for fun will make seriously Draconian cuts to health care and food stamps.

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Even Joe Scarborough Believes Republicans Went Too Far With “Stupid” Iran Letter

During Monday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough finally relented and said that the “one-two punch” of House Republicans inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak and the sending of a letter to Iran by 47 GOP Senators was a step too far for the party.

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Republicans Reeling As President Obama Is Dominating Their Congressional Majority

By using a strategy of going on offense with a clear and strong agenda, President Obama has been dominating John Boehner and Mitch McConnell’s Republican majority in Congress.

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GOP Lunacy In Criticizing Obama’s ISIS Strategy At CPAC

Now they are lining up at the annual Aryan-sponsored conservative conclave to accuse the President of all manner of malfeasance in cleaning up and dealing with George W. Bush’s religious crusade in Iraq that engendered the rise of Islamic extremists known as the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL).

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Media Intentionally Hides Republicans’ Economic Failures And Democrats’ Success

t is true that Republican policies are why Americans are rapidly losing economic ground to the few wealthy elites, but the media is not only culpable, they are facilitating this country’s slide into oligarchy by perpetually campaigning for the rich and powerful.

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EPA Finding Signals The Death Knell For The KeystoneXL Pipeline

Republicans and the Koch brothers make no secret that next to taxes, there is no part of the federal government they despise more than the EPA, so it is a major slap in their faces that it was the agency they hate above all others that delivered the death knell of their 8 billion-dollar dream project.

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Anti-Semitic Hate Group Funding Republican National Committee Israel Trip

Now, it is apparently official that the Republican National Committee is closely-aligned with an official hate group according reports the RNC is accepting an all-expenses paid trip to Israel despite rightful criticism from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and an Israeli newspaper.

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Delusional Donald Trump Says He Would Have Beaten Obama In 2012

Shameless self-promoter Donald Trump is once again trying to draw attention to himself, claiming he would have beaten Obama in 2012.

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House Republicans Collapse Under The Weight Of Their Own Bickering Over Abortion Bill

House Republican leaders withdrew a controversial anti-abortion bill late Wednesday night, after a contentious dispute over rape reporting.

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Republicans Fooled Americans Again To Eliminate Women’s Reproductive Rights

Instead of introducing legislation to create jobs, or help Americans struggling in an economy created for the benefit of the rich, on the first day of the 114th Congress Republicans introduced five separate bills restricting women’s reproductive rights; something they did not pledge would be at the top of their legislative agenda.

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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

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Blame N.Y. Officers Deaths On Convicted Criminal With A Gun, Not Obama

However, as Americans have witnessed more and more, when police kill citizens, especially unarmed African American citizens, no one is held accountable and failure to praise the killings is an outrage.

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Soon-To-Be Nevada Speaker Said Democrats Are The “Master” Of The “Simple Minded Darkies”

Assemblyman Ira Hansen was selected earlier this month to be Assembly Speaker once the new legislative session begins. He has a long history of making bigoted and offensive statements.

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Fox News Contributor Tells Republicans To Shut Down The Government To Spite Obama

In a column on his website RedState Tuesday, Fox News contributor Erick Erickson told Republicans in Congress that they should shut down the federal government in order to defund Obamacare and block any action on immigration.

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Republicans Announce That They Are Back At Work By Calling Obama Arrogant

Much excitement was to be had at the opening of Representative Brad Wenstrup’s (R-OH) weekly Republican address, as he opened it with promises of getting back to work for the American people.

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GOP Strategist Behind Republican Obstruction Of Obama Now Laughably Calling For Compromise

Republican strategist Frank Luntz said that after winning the Senate majority, Republicans should work with Democrats and President Obama to find “common-sense solutions” to a number of issues. Luntz was behind the plan to create gridlock in Washington to hurt Democrats and Obama.

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