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‘Why Would Anything Change?’ Trump Sees Great Victory, Straight Path to Nomination
Trump thinks the nomination is his and won’t be changing plans:.
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How the Dems’ Two Big Election Bills Could Save Us from a Total Meltdown
Top election reform expert Alex Tausanovitch of the Center for American Progress explained what the biggest threats to American democracy are, and how these bills would fix them.
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GOP is Courting Manchin After He Kills Build Back Better Bill in Attempt to Take Senate Majority
Republicans are currently courting Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) after he rang the death knell for President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill, which would have been the Biden administration’s most substantial public policy victory. GOP senators have told Manchin they would welcome him into their caucus if he switched his political allegiances. Although Manchin has…
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Hillbilly Elegy Author JD Vance is Entering the Ohio Senate Race as a Republican
JD Vance has quite a backstory. Raised in extreme poverty in Middletown, Ohio, he eventually earned a law degree from Yale. His memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which was eventually made into a film, was cited by many to help understand the populist rise of Donald Trump. Vance, now a venture capitalist, was at first a detractor…
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WATCH: Mayor Muriel Bowser Deftly Defeats Ron Johnson in Debate Over Washington DC Statehood
With Democrats now in control of congress, the senate and the White House, there are again calls for Washington DC to become a state. There are, of course, few arguments against DC statehood. Republicans, though, know that the state would be deeply blue, hurting their chances for control. Poor arguments have never stopped Ron Johnson…
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WATCH: Joe Manchin Calls For the Senate to Hold Another Vote on 1/6 Commission
Despite the fact that Democrats are in control of the senate, Joe Manchin has consistently pushed for bills to go through in a bi-partisan fashion. The West Virginia senator seems to be ignoring the fact that Republican leader Mitch McConnell has shown absolutely no interest in working with Democrats. Just last week, McConnell used his…
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The Husband From the Infamous St. Louis Gun Couple is Running for a United States Senate Seat
Last summer a group of Black Lives Matters protesters marched through a tony St. Louis neighborhood. The demonstrators were headed to the house of St. Louis Mayor Lydia Krewson who had recently doxxed citizens who were calling for police reform. As they marched down the street, Mark and Patricia McCloskey went out in front of…
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Mitch McConnell Refuses To Work With Biden Then Whines About Unity
In the 6 years he was in charge of the senate, Mitch McConnell wielded his power with an iron fist. The Kentucky lawmaker showed no interest in anything Democrats had to say. He pushed through 3 Supreme Court and a massive tax break for the richest Americans. Now that he is out of power, though,…
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The GOP Is Pretending to Care About The Deficit Again After Calling Biden’s Infrastructure Plan “A Slush Fund”
Senate Republicans expressed their opposition to President Joe Biden‘s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan in an internal memo, referring to it as a “partisan slush fund” and characterizing it as unnecessary and wasteful, a sign that things are back to normal as Republicans pretend to care about government spending despite the exorbitant price tag during the…
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Lindsey Graham is Daring Joe Biden to Bring an Assault Weapon Bill to Senate Floor
On Monday, the United States suffered yet another mass shooting. The gunman in the Boulder, Colorado incident was armed with a Ruger AR-556. As is the norm when a mass shooting occurs, Democrats called for common sense gun reform. Like the stimulus bill, gun control is not only popular with Democratic voters. Polls regularly show…
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The First Openly Transgender Nominee has Just Been Confirmed by the Senate
Joe Biden made a number of promises while campaigning for President. He told Americans that he would oversee 100 vaccinations in his first 100 days as President. He did it in only 58 days. Biden also promised a stimulus plan that would not only get direct payments out to Americans but also fund small businesses…
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Rep. Mo Brooks, an Important Figure in Trump’s Insurrection, Is Running For a Senate Seat
Donald Trump did plenty to incite an insurrection on the US Capitol on January 6th. But that doesn’t mean that he didn’t have help. The former President’s biggest allies in the Senate were Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley. Trump’s top enabler in the House of Representatives was Alabama congressman Mo Brooks. And Brooks is betting…
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How to Fix the Filibuster Without Breaking Congress‬
The filibuster is a historical accident. Many experts believe that it is ruining Congress and hurting democracy. It allows a small political minority to run roughshod over the majority and stop things that the American people need and want. But Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says that if Democrats get rid of it, Republicans will…
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WATCH: NJ Dem Bob Menendez Eviscerates Ron Johnson During Tuesday Floor Speech
Donald Trump may now be out of office, but Ron Johnson is making sure the stain of Trumpism remains in the Senate chambers. The Wisconsin senator has spent the last few weeks lying about the insurrection, spreading false vaccination info and generally being a massive racist. Johnson’s behavior has not gone unnoticed by his colleagues….
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It’s a Trap! Is Using Reconciliation to Pass the Dem Agenda a Giant Mistake?
The Senate is about to use a trick called “reconciliation†to pass Joe Biden’s Covid relief bill. Many Democrats want to go further and use this arcane rule to pass all kinds of policies that would never otherwise make it through – a rise in the minimum wage, climate policies, infrastructure, etc. But Tori Gorman, a…
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WATCH: Senator Sherrod Brown Shames Steve Mnuchin Right To His Face
While most of the Mid-West swung back to Joe Biden this election season, the state of Ohio stayed red. That make Sherrod Brown’s 7% victory in his 2018 senate race all the more remarkable. The Ohio Democrat has remained in office the last 13 years largely due to the way he appeals to and protects…
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McConnell Says Control of Senate is 50/50, Polls Say Republican Odds Are Much Worse Than That
In 2014, the Republican party took control of the senate. They have used that majority to wield incredible power over Democrats. The GOP led Senate was able to push through a massive tax break for the rich. They were also able to prevent Donald Trump from being impeached in early 2020. But most importantly for…
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Mitch McConnell Hands The Senate To Democrats By Pulling Republicans Off The Campaign Trail
Mitch McConnell is pulling incumbent Republican Senators off of the campaign trail so that they can confirm Trump’s SCOTUS nominee.
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Joe Biden to Talk to Senate Democrats This Week
Joe Biden knows a little something about being in the United States senate. He began his career there at the young age of 31 and stayed there for the next 36 years. The only thing that got him out of the body was being elected to the Vice Presidency. The Democratic challenger will be speaking…
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Lindsey Graham’s Democratic Challenger Has Outraised Him in South Carolina Senate Race
Jamie Harrison, a South Carolina Democrat who is challenging incumbent Republican Senator Lindsey Graham for his Senate seat, has outraised him during the first quarter of 2020. Harrison raised more than $7.3 million in the first quarter of the year. He’d previously raised $3.5 million in the final quarter of 2019. Graham, by contrast, raised…
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Former Presidential Contender Amy Klobuchar’s Husband Tests Positive For Coronavirus
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Democrat from Minnesota, announced on Monday that her husband, law professor John Bessler, has contracted coronavirus. Bessler, 52, teaches law in Baltimore, Maryland. Klobuchar is not presently near her husband at this moment, but said in a statement she’s maintaining contact through digital means. “While I cannot see him and he is…
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Mitch McConnell Criticized For Not Allowing Senate To Vote Remotely During Pandemic
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) faces a volley of criticism after telling reporters that he won’t allow senators to vote remotely to contain the spread of the coronavirus. “We’ll not be doing that. There are a number of different ways to avoid getting too many people together,” McConnell told members of the press. “We…
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Could The Senate Go Blue This Year? Poll Shows 4 GOP Lawmakers Are Underwater Versus Dem Rivals
Even if Democrats win the presidency this year, it would be hard for any Democratic president to get a lot done with policy, given the current make-up within Congress. While Democrats control the House of Representatives, currently Republicans have a majority in the Senate, with 53 senators in the “upper house” part of the GOP…
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U.S. senators to defy Republican leader on Mueller protections
Two U.S. senators, defying opposition from top Republicans, vowed on Wednesday to push for action on a bipartisan measure that would protect a federal investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election.
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Republicans Are Terrified Their Kavanaugh Gamble Will Backfire
As the world of politics waits for word on whether Dr. Christine Ford will testify against Brett Kavanaugh on Monday, Republicans in Washington are terrified that she will. According to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: “They were terrified when the discussions first began, they’re terrified now, and they are praying that Dr. Ford decides to stay away,…
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Senate adjourns till 12:01 a.m. EST without approving budget deal
The U.S. Senate adjourned on Thursday until 12:01 a.m. EST (0500 GMT) without approving a budget deal. The current temporary measure funding the U.S. government expires at midnight.
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Senate committee questions Trump’s nuclear authority
“We are concerned that the president of the United States is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic, that he might order a nuclear weapons strike that is wildly out of step with U.S. national security interests,” Senator Chris Murphy said.
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Senate race in Alabama exposes Republican rift
U.S. President Donald Trump is due to travel to Alabama on Friday to whip up votes in a Senate race that has laid bare the rift between the Republican party’s leadership and its anti-establishment wing.
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Senate Republicans Smack Down Trump’s Attempt To Lift Sanctions On Russia
The move by the Senate comes as the White House has repeatedly suggested they would “look at” lifting sanctions on Russia.
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GOP Panicking As Majority Of Voters In Key 2018 States Are Unhappy With Trump
In record time, most voters are seeing that Trump is just a con artist who cares nothing about making life better for average Americans.
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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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Elizabeth Warren Shames Republicans For Trying to Shield Corporate Criminals
Sen. Elizabeth Warren shamed Republicans on the Senate floor for perpetuating the already problematic rigged legal system that protects corporate lawbreakers and the rich, bringing to light two Republican proposals that protect corporate lawbreakers and make it harder to investigate and prosecute bank fraud.
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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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61 House Democrats Are Taking A Stand Against Corporate America
The 61 House Democrats led by Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairs Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva are demanding a new funding mechanism for the cost of TAA for displaced workers; but they did not call for a corporate tax hike to cover the cost. Why? Because this is America and corporations get a free ride which is precisely why Washington politicians let corporations write the trade agreement in secret.
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Texas-Size GOP Hypocrisy As a Result of Climate Change Deluge
It is true that all Republicans are blatant hypocrites, but now that go-it-alone awesome Texas experienced a little anthropogenic climate change weather, the Lone Star State’s Republicans, both tea party and mainstream Republicans alike, are demanding some of those hated “federal government handouts” they oppose for other Americans whether it is for food, housing, healthcare, or disaster relief.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Busts Republicans for a Dangerous Sneak Attack on Dodd-Frank
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is keeping her eye on the big banks and she knows what they and their Republican friends are up to in Congress.
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Senate No-Show Cruz Criticizes Evangelicals Who Didn’t Show in 2008 and 2012
2016 may be the Year the mainstream media is surprised to discover there are actual Christians out there – and they don’t vote Republican.
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Delusional Lindsey Graham Has No Chance Of Ever Being President
There is no person in America as self-aggrandizing as Senator Lindsey Graham whose self-imposed image as a brilliant foreign policy and international relations genius informs him he can be president.
For Corporate Profits Republicans Want President Obama To Skirt Congress’ Authority
What is duplicitous and very telling about how Republicans operate, and where their only loyalties and priorities lie, is that they are pushing the President to seek unilateral authority to negotiate and sign an international trade deal; something that requires congressional approval. And yet they have done everything in their power and all but forbid him from exercising his rightful executive authority where Congress has no say according to the Constitution; like on immigration enforcement and negotiating with foreign governments.
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Obama Relents and Gives Congress Veto Power Over Iran Nuclear Deal
The current President, Barack Obama, will go down in history for providing tens-of-millions of Americans with access to affordable health care, restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, an historic climate change deal with China, and with the stroke of his pen, ceding executive branch authority over foreign policy to a Congress loyal to a foreign national.
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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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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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Countering GOP Obstruction Obama Initiative Creates 500,000 High-Paying Jobs
The President launched an initiative last week to train 500,000 Americans for high-paying jobs in high-technology services.
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Congressional Republicans Are Still Angry They Are Not The President
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The latest outrage, the open letter signed by 47 Republican senators, is the greatest sign to date that the spoiled little children are throwing a fit and are furious they are not allowed to be president and control foreign policy.
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47 GOP Senators Send Open Letter To Iran, Warning They Can Undo Any Deal Made With Obama
47 GOP Senators signed a letter to Iran, warning them that Republicans were prepared to undermine any nuclear agreement reached with the US.
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9 Of The 10 Senators Who Got Paid By Taxpayers But Missed The Most Votes Are Republicans
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FLA) is the “least likely to show up for work.” Ted Cruz (R-TX) also tops the list of no-shows. T
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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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Rand Paul’s Read the Bills Act Relies on Congress to Tell the Truth
Rand Paul says he wants Congress to read bills before they vote, relying on them to tell us truthfully if they actually read them.
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Republican Senator John McCain Erupts And Calls Anti-War Protesters “Low-Life Scum”
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday, committee chairman Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) flipped out on anti-war protesters from Code Pink and referred to them as “low-life scum.”
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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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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.
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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Bishops Join GOP Drive To Make Women Celibate Or Birth Machines
American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
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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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President Obama Preserved Women’s Reproductive Rights In Passing the CRomnibus
The recent appropriations bill known as the CRomnibus could have been a lot worse for women’s reproductive rights and it is very fortunate for women that Democrats and President Obama succeeded in getting it passed.
To Delete Obama’s Agenda From History Republicans Violated Their Pledge To America
There has been an ongoing Republican crusade to eradicate any legislative accomplish this President supported since the Koch brothers took control of the House after the 2010 midterms.
Al Franken Didn’t Support the Funding Bill Because It Gives the Wealthy Even More Influence
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) issued the following statement condemning the gutting of campaign finance reform and putting taxpayers on the hook for another Wall Street bailout.
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Tea Party Hero Allen West Caught Redhanded Plagiarizing Recent Blog Post
Former Republican Congressman Allen West, the new CEO of the National Center of Policy Analysis, a conservative think-tank, was caught redhanded Friday plagiarizing from a popular internet story for a recent blog post on his personal website.
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McConnell Promises Republicans Will Escalate The Religious War on Women
Now, the Republicans’ first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women’s right to choose when they give birth.
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The Koch Brothers Fund Religious Groups That Are Eliminating Women’s Rights
To accomplish their goal of controlling the government, the Koch brothers have had to climb in bed with fundamentalist Christians intent on using the government to control and subvert women’s rights.
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Harry Reid Threatens To Take Away Vacation and Force Senators To Work During Christmas
Lazy members of the Senate are facing the possibility of having to work on Christmas like millions of their Americans. Majority Leader Harry Reid threatened to cancel the Senate’s Christmas vacation if they don’t get their work done before the holiday.
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Bill Clinton Has Obama’s Back on Executive Action: He’s On ‘Pretty Firm Legal Ground’
President Clinton took up for President Obama, saying he is on “pretty firm legal ground” to take executive action on immigration reform, seeing as every president in the modern era has issued some kind of executive action on the issue.
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Contrary To GOP Promises, Keystone XL Pipeline Will Only Create 35 Permanent Jobs
Krystal Ball helpfully refuted such falsehoods, such as the pipeline will lead to lower gas prices or energy independence, the coup de grace came when she quoted a State Department report regarding the number of jobs that will be created by the project.
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Republicans Are The Ultimate Takers Who Only Want To Give To The Wealthy That They Serve
Even if some Americans do grasp the concept of Republicans as the ultimate takers, they likely fail to comprehend that the GOP are ultimately monumental givers; it is that spirit of generosity that drives their habit of robbing the people.
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The Significant Role That Stupidity Played in Republicans Winning Control of Congress
The sad fact is that the stupidity that drove the results of the midterms is not reserved to the Republican base, or Democratic voters would not have stayed home in a repeat performance of the devastating 2010 midterms.
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Post Dixie Chicks Hypocrisy: Country Singers Are No Longer Traitors For Bashing President
Apparently, openly criticizing and taking shots at a sitting president is now completely OK in the hyper-patriotic country music scene. Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley have now done it two years running.
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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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Democrats Lost Because They Wasted Their Most Valuable Weapon in the Midterms
Barack Obama is still the President, and his administration’s record achievements over the past five-and-a-half years were squandered by Democratic candidates intent on appearing to be more like Republicans than Democrats affiliated with a President with a record of successes.
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Sarah Palin Puts McConnell On Notice And Places Republicans On The Path To Destruction
With an eye on a two year gravy train, Palin put the GOP on notice; she’ll be trolling them for the next two years.
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Rachel Maddow Reveals How Minimum Wage And Pot Ballot Measures May Push Dems To Victory
During Monday night’s episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, host Rachel Maddow discussed popular ballot measures in a number of red or swing states that could help swing the tide in many close gubernatorial or Senate races.
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Women’s Greatest Enemy Is Evangelical Women, Not Republican Men
Even shaky reason dictates that a robust women’s electoral movement would cleanse Republican patriarchs from Congress, governorships, and state legislatures, and bring the Republican war on women to an abrupt and just end. However, that is certainly not the case and it is down to American women’s greatest enemy and it is not Republican men per se, but the evangelical women electing them.
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Republican Georgia Senate Candidate Wants To Prosecute Obama For His Success
According to Georgia Republican Senate candidate David Perdue, his only reason for serving is to prosecute Democrats and President Obama because he does not approve of the “direction of this country.”
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Republican Senate Wave Is Disintegrating As Democrats Again Outraise Republicans
Senate Democrats have outraised Republicans again, with the DSCC taking in $6.5 million to the NRSC’s $6 million in the first two weeks of October.
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Ted Cruz Says A Functioning Senate Subverts the Will of The People
In fact, there is very little that Ted Cruz even likes about this country, including the United States Constitution, that he would burn to the ground in a hot second if he were able.
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Conservative Lawmaker Arrested Twice Over Weekend For Stalking And Threatening Neighbor
It was a busy weekend for Tennessee State Senator Jim Summerville. The outgoing lawmaker, who lost in the Republican primary in August and subsequently quit the party, was arrested twice for harassing and threatening a female neighbor of his.
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Mitch McConnell Admits Republicans Want Kansas’ “Conservative Hell” Enacted Nationally
McConnell is anxious to lead the Senate and join House Republicans in enacting Brownback’s Koch brother model at the national level.
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GOP Senate Candidate Says He’s Losing Because Lazy Single Women Are Dependent On Government
New Jersey Republican Jeff Bell, who is running against incumbent Democrat Cory Booker in New Jersey’s US Senate race, told a New Jersey newspaper Thursday that he is behind Booker because single women are “wed” to the Democratic Party due to their reliance on government benefits.
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The Media Finally Catches On That Democrats Are Running The Better Senate Campaigns
Don’t look now, but even the mainstream corporate controlled media are catching on that Democrats are running more effective Senate campaigns than Republicans.
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The Republican Party Is On the Run and Abandoning the Michigan Senate Race
The national Republican Party is pulling out of the Michigan Senate race, and trying to spin their retreat as a “move of strength.” But anyone who lives in Michigan has been privy to Terri Lynn Land’s (R) rather spectacular fail.
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Joe Scarborough Throws Temper Tantrum After Being Called Out On Ebola Fear-Mongering
During Monday’s episode of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough got into a shoutfest with former White House adviser David Axelrod over Scarborough’s attempts to create a panicked state surrounding the spread of the Ebola virus in the United State.
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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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Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Can’t Escape The Republican Anti-Woman Crusade
For a senatorial candidate from Iowa, the way to show support for a religious principle is voting for a constitutional amendment that effectively eliminates a woman’s constitutional rights, and then claim the amendment really would not do anything at all.
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Conservative Poll Shows Republican Senator Pat Roberts Down By Five Points In Kansas Race
The chest-thumping and boasting that we heard from the GOP earlier in the year about the likelihood of the party taking over the Senate has quieted down dramatically in the last few days as bad news keeps spilling in for Republicans.
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Republicans Faithfully Follow ALEC’s Refusal to Support Democracy
Over the past six years, at least, there has been a steady assault on democracy from state level Republicans with valuable assistance from ALEC that led one to wonder whether the Koch brothers had directed the Republican legislative arm (ALEC) to disavow and destroy American democracy one state at a time.
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Republicans Are Fixated On Using Extortion To Rule America
The truth is that since teabaggers became de facto leaders of the Republican Party, they have contemplated various schemes to shutdown Washington.
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GOP Scuffling In Swing State As Democrat Gary Peters Up 10 Points In Michigan Senate Race
A poll released by the Detroit News on Tuesday gave Republicans some bad news regarding their efforts to overtake the Senate from Democrats in November. Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) currently holds a ten-point lead over Republican Terri Lynn Land, 47% to 37%, in Michigan’s open US Senate race.
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Democrats Are Squandering an Opportunity to Expose The Republican Agenda
One of the primary reasons the GOP is so successful selling a bill-of-goods to voters is that Democrats, while campaigning on issues they fully intend on advancing if elected, are more often than not reluctant to either cite Republicans’ broken promises, or inform voters of the GOP’s true motivation for seeking control of the government.
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Latest Polls Show Colorado Democratic Senator Pulling Away From GOP Opponent
Two separate polls that were released on Sunday show that Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) is ahead of his Republican opponent, Rep. Cory Gardner. Colorado is a state that Republicans feel is vital in their attempt to take over the Senate this November.
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With Midterms Two Months Away, Fox News Catches Benghazi Fever Again And Ramps Up The Crazy
With the 2014 midterm elections fast approaching and Republicans hoping to take over the Senate this November, Fox News has decided to once again focus its attentions on the right-wing’s favorite conspiracy — Benghazi.
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2012’s Biggest Loser Karl Rove Confidently States GOP Will Overtake Senate In Midterms
In an article for the Wall Street Journal, Republican strategist and campaign funder Karl Rove wrote that the Republicans are all but assured of taking over the Senate following November’s midterm elections
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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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Sore Loser! Tea Party Senate Candidate Still Refuses To Concede Two Days After Loss
Two days after losing in Mississippi’s US Senate Republican primary runoff election, State Senator Chris McDaniel is still refusing to concede to the winner, incumbent Senator Thad Cochran.
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Plea To The Mainstream Media — Can You Please Cut Off John McCain’s Mic?
On Friday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on five different cable news shows to discuss the recent flare up of sectarian violence in Iraq and directly blame it all on President Obama and his administration.
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A Fired Up President Obama Calls Out Democrats for Not Voting in Midterms
President Obama said, “Democrats do have one congenital disease, and that is that we don’t vote during midterms…”
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Virginia GOP Bribes Democratic State Senator To Resign So They Can Stop Medicaid Expansion
The Washington Post reported on Sunday evening that State Senator Phillip Puckett, a Democrat, will resign from office Monday. Puckett is resigning so he can take on a new job as deputy director of the state’s tobacco commission, a position with significant benefits.
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That Just Happened! Fox News Columnist Likens Gitmo Prisoner Release To Nazi Germany
On Monday, Fox News columnist J.D. Gordon wrote an article that cranked the hyperbole up to 11, as the former Pentagon spokesman evoked Nazi Germany while describing this recent situation involving Sgt. Bergdahl and the Gitmo prisoner swap.
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Ted Cruz Actually Thinks Government Shutdown Will Lead The GOP To Victory In Midterms
During a speech at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated his belief that the 17-day shutdown of the federal government last year will be a positive for the Republican Party this November in the midterm elections.
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Ted Cruz Lies and Claims Senate Democrats Will Abolish The 1st Amendment
Ted Cruz was introducing his father at the Watchmen on the Wall, sponsored by the extremist Family Research Council and combined the Koch-Republican-Supreme Court definition of money as speech with a very healthy dose of Republican fear mongering to influence evangelical fanatics into believing Senate Democrats were abolishing the 1st Amendment.
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Republican Lindsey Graham Attempts To Steal Women’s Rights Without Even a Vote In The Senate
The latest Republican to introduce legislation attacking women’s right to choose is Senator Lindsey Graham who attempted to bypass a committee and asked for unanimous consent to bring the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” up for a vote.
