Tag: Tea Party

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Beware the Bitter Bumpkins of North Colorado

If the story of five Colorado counties located on the northern edge of the state that actually voted to secede from Colorado wasn’t so pathetic it might actually qualify as perversely amusing.

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Taking Back the House, Vol. 13: Steve Womack and Arkansas’s 3rd District

This is the thirteenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’

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Democrats Win a Few Big Races at the Expense of the Tea Party

Tuesday’s election results included two big-city mayors and a Democrat displacing a wacky Republican in the Virginia governor’s office.

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Taking Back the House, Vol. 12: Tim Griffin and Arkansas’s 2nd District

This is the twelfth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’

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Taking Back the House, Vol. 11: Rick Crawford and Arkansas’s 1st District

This is the eleventh edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’

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Don’t Forget to Respect Your Elders; Unless Their Names are Charles and David Koch

The two most destructive influences on this country are the filthy rich Koch brothers, Charles and David. They have nothing to offer; period

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Iowa Town Says No to Koch Brothers Influence on Local Elections

But while Team Koch has a virtual stranglehold on Washington Republicans, Americans for Prosperity is finding it a bit harder to ram its agenda down the throats of voters at the local level.

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The New Paranoid Style In American Politics: Have You No Decency, Sir?

Ted and Rafael Cruz are just two more in a long line of American political paranoiacs. The list of conspiracy theories is long and often peculiar

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Taking Back the House, Vol. 9: David Schweikert and Arizona’s 6th District

This is the ninth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’

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Taking Back the House, Vol. 7: Paul Gosar and Arizona’s 4th District

This is the seventh edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’

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Mitch McConnell Declares War on Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, and Tea Party Outside Groups

In an abrupt change in strategy, Sen. Mitch McConnell has decided to go after Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, the Senate Victory Fund and other conservative groups who are backing his primary challenger.

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Taking Back the House, Vol. 6: Don Young and Alaska’s At-Large District

This is the sixth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’

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The FBI Is Investigating Georgia Republican Gov. Nathan Deal’s Ethics Scandal

With the FBI looking into an ethics scandal with close ties to Gov. Nathan Deal (R-GA), the incumbent governor is drawing challengers from both the right and the left.

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Taking Back the House, Vol. 5: Spencer Bachus and Alabama’s 6th District

This is the fifth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. You can check out the previous edition here. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’ To do this, I…

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Republicans Reach Out to Minorities by Celebrating Vote Suppression and Jesse Helms

This week’s Republican attempt to reach out to minorities was the latest lesson in how to become less popular than dog poop.

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Taking Back the House, Vol. 4: Mo Brooks and Alabama’s 5th District

This is the fourth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. You can check out the previous edition here. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’ To do this, I…

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Taking Back the House, Vol. 3: Robert Aderholt and Alabama’s 4th District

This is the third edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. You can check out the previous edition here. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’ To do this, I…

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Grayson’s Firestorm – GOP Says the Truth is Unacceptable and Deplorable

Grayson said, “I’m calling them out for their hate. That’s not wrong. That needs to be done. It’s the only way to end it.”

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Taking Back the House, Vol. 2: Mike Rogers and Alabama’s 3rd District

This is the second edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. You can check out the previous edition here. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’ To do this, I…

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Taking Back the House, Vol. 1: Martha Roby and Alabama’s 2nd District

This is the first edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’ To do this, I will take a look at the overall demographics…

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Ted Cruz: Has the Tea Party ‘Golden Boy’ gone too far this time?

Ted Cruz has had the ear and hearts of the Tea Party and right-wing almost from the day he arrived in the Senate. That could be changing.

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Republicans Are Trying To Delegitimize President Obama By Attacking the ACA

The health law is cover for the real enemy that Republicans will go to any lengths to defeat; President Barack Obama.

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The Reasons Why Ted Cruz Dreams of Economic Armageddon

Ted Cruz wants to default because it will bring about Economic Armageddon and he thinks the President will get blamed for it.

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Ted Cruz Is Just the Figurehead of The Koch/DeMint Destroy Government Conspiracy

Ted Cruz is little more than a figurehead of a much larger conspiracy whose real leaders are teabaggers Charles and David Koch and Jim DeMint

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Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 19th, 2013

Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them.

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Genius: How a 1990s Cartoon Character Perfectly Represents Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz has been compared to a lot of things lately. However, a comparison to a monomaniacal mouse from a 1990s cartoon suits him best.

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Ted Cruz Has Found Himself a Niche Within a Niche Market

If the tea party is a niche market – a market focused on hate-fueled anarchy – what does that make Ted Cruz? A niche within a niche.

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Republicans Have Resumed Their Koch Funded Seditious Conspiracy To Destroy Government

The seditious conspiracy in the war for America is still ongoing and the next major assault is already in the planning stages and there is little any American can do to stop it.

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Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 18th, 2013

Click on image to enlarge Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing…

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Republicans Have Put America in Distress Because They Refuse to Do Their Jobs

Every one of America’s fiscal crises over the past three-and-a-half years is because Republicans refuse to do their jobs of conducting the nation’s business.

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Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 16th, 2013

Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them.

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Virginia and New Jersey Democratic Voters Can’t Let Us Down

The rest of us are looking to Virginia and New Jersey voters to send Republicans the message the rest of us cannot.

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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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Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 14th, 2013

Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them…

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The Zombie Apocalypse is Here and it is Called the Tea Party

Zombies, like tea partiers, exist only to spread their contagion. They serve no useful purpose but are driven by mindless hate

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Million Vet March Organizers Condemn Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, and the Tea Party

The tea party, Sarah Palin, and Ted Cruz tried to hijack the Million Vet March for political and personal gain, and event organizers condemned them for politicizing the march.

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How The Tea Party and Republicans Continue to Blow Golden Opportunities

The Tea Party and the Republicans could have led a much-needed national debate about the role and size of the federal government during this shutdown, but they haven’t.

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Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 13th, 2013

Political humorists, satirists and cartoonists are as old as politics itself. Sometimes a little humor can “illustrate” the seriousness of political hot button issues by making light of them….

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Ender’s Shame: How A Classic Sci-Fi Novel Parallels Today’s Tea Party

Orson Scott Card wrote his 1985 novel about the dangers of manipulating children. He could have easily been writing about the Tea Party.

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The Unusual Suspect: The Surprising Koch Fueled Return of Edwin Meese

Why was Edwin Meese hired by the Koch Brothers to be a Tea Party strategist?

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Tell the Justice Department to Investigate the Koch Brothers’ Seditious Govt Shutdown Plot

It’s time for the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the conservative plot to harm the US government and its financial solvency and they must start with the Koch brothers.

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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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Republican Traitors Draped in Tea Keep Their Promise to Break the Government

The current Republican government shutdown is what teabaggers came to Washington to do; “break the government of the United States.”

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As Obamacare Sign Up Begins Tea Partiers Are Fighting A Battle They’ve Already Lost

Americans can begin signing up to buy affordable healthcare insurance, and it is unlikely that reality will sink in to Republicans in Congress that the next phase of the ACA is underway.

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Republican Traitors Call for a Government Shutdown Even If Obamacare Isn’t Defunded

Over half of Republican voters and Koch-patriots are clamoring for a government shutdown if Republicans fail to kill the ACA.

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Rabid Dog Ted Cruz Urges The GOP to Defund the Military in Order to Stop Obamacare

The depth of Republican madness was revealed when Sen. Ted Cruz suggested shutting down the military if President Obama and Democrats fail to acquiesce and kill the ACA.

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Obamacare Lies Dealt a Death Blow By Study that Finds Full Time Job Growth Expected

Instead of killing jobs, employers expect to increase the number of full-time employees by nearly 2% over the next year as key parts of the ACA go into effect.

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A New Low: How the Tea Party Trolled Tim Scott Into Selling Himself Out

South Carolina senator Tim Scott declined an invitation to the March on Washington. Knowing his constituency, you can understand why.

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Republicans Claim that America Can No Longer Afford Compromise and Bipartisanship

There are myriad examples of the neo-conservatives’ opposition to compromise and bipartisanship in the House, and to a lesser degree in the Senate, and it is why governance is impossible. The

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Chris Christie Signs Ban on Gay Conversion Therapy for Minors

By signing ban on gay conversion therapy for minors, Governor Chris Christie moves further from the lunatic Republican base

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A Party Gone Mad – Today’s Republicans are Yesterday’s Fascists

You shouldn’t have to be a liberal to think fascism is a bad thing. Republicans should think so too, and once upon a time, they did. But those Republicans aren’t in power anymore.

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Joe Miller is Back – Says Obama is Establishing a Religious Apartheid

While Republicans work to impose a religious apartheid on America, Alaska’s Joe Miller points the finger at Barack Obama

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Jim DeMint Says GOP Will Destroy America To Stop Obamacare

DeMint’s remedy for Obamacare is like burning down your house to stop a leaky pipe from flooding your bathroom.

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The GOP’s Tea Party Astroturf Has Sprouted Roots and Grown Into Fringe Crazy

When the Tea Party emerged four summers ago, many of us dismissed them as a corporate-seeded astroturf movement. We were wrong. The GOP’s grassroots are the fringe.

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Limbaugh Says GOP Wants New Base and that Obama Likes Scandals

Rush Limbaugh told Greta Van Susteren that the GOP hates the Tea Party and the Tea Party, feeling rejected, stayed home and didn’t vote.

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Alabama Commission Prays Away Gay Marriage – at Meeting About Power Rates

The Alabama Public Service Commission started a meeting about power rate structures with a prayer against Marriage Equality.

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Bill Maher Takes Teabagger Mocking to A New High With Tea Party Porn

Bill Maher took the mocking of tea partiers to a whole new, and slightly frightening place, with his reading of tea party erotica.

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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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IRS Investigation Reveals Darrell Issa’s ‘Enemies List’

The Inspector General’s report didn’t mention the IRS targeting progressive groups for enhanced scrutiny, because Darrell Issa used the IG’s office to harass his own ‘Enemies List.’

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Federal Court Rules Shirley Sherrod Can Continue Her Defamation Case Against Breitbart

A federal appeals court upheld a federal district court’s rejection of a request to dismiss Shirley Sherrod’s defamation case against Breitbart, his aide Larry O’Connor and an unnamed defendant.

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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.

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Bill Clinton Brilliantly Eviscerates the Blind Stupidity of The Tea Party

Former President Bill Clinton called out the tea party for discouraging bipartisanship by wanting people to check their brains at the door. Clinton explained why this strategy will fail.

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This Is What Happens When Common Sense Invades the Republican Party

Being found in possession of even a sliver of conscience and an ounce of common sense is proving to be a serious liability for certain Republican leaders.

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Michele Bachmann Warns Immigration Bill Puts Republic at Stake

Bachmann says, ‘We will not successfully pass the torch of liberty if we have perpetual amnesty. It won’t happen.’

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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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Anti-Freedom Tea Party Calls for Senator Susan Collins’ Assassination

A participant in a Tea Party sponsored conference call thought the best way to persuade Senator Susan Collins to change her mind about immigration reform is to assassinate her.

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Free Speech Is an Unclear Concept to the Tea Party

Like most things including the second amendment, the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party has a special way of understanding those other provisions – especially the first amendment.

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Michele Bachmann Says She Will Not Seek A Fifth Term

Michele Bachmann announced she would not run again for Congress – and oh, by the way, she’s innocent

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Meet Roan Garcia-Quintana, South Carolina’s non-Native Tea Party Nativist

Havana-born Roan Garcia-Quintana doesn’t want America to be for others what it has been for him

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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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Instead of Attacking The IRS, Republicans Should be Praising Them for Doing Their Jobs

The real scandal is not that the IRS did its job, it is that groups like Rove’s GPS Crossroads and Koch brother’s Americans for Prosperity want tax exempt status for their partisan political fronts.

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Republican Rep. Tom Price Says Obama No Longer has Consent of the Governed

What Price means by “the governed” is “angry white people” like himself who have sold their souls to the ravenous corporations seeking to replace the federal government

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The NRA Is More Interested In Selling Assault Weapons Than Protecting the 2nd Amendment

Instead of protecting the Second Amendment, the NRA has actively promoted assault-style weapon ownership and spent no small sum of money paying congressional representatives for their votes.

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Tea Partiers Are Desperately Trying to Get Sarah Palin to Run for Senate

Showing a level of cluelessness that is surprising even for them, a Tea Party PAC is trying to recruit Sarah Palin to run for the U.S. Senate in Alaska.

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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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The Tea Party Speaks From The Gutter and Tells the GOP to Forget Hispanic Voters

Tea Party Republicans like Rep. Tim Huelskamp are spewing more hate and intolerance by decrying Republican outreach to “so-called” Hispanic voters.

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Meet The Puppet Master Who’s Turning North Carolina into a Tea Party Utopia

Under the watchful eye of Koch brother friend, Art Pope, North Carolina’s Governor, Pat McCrory, is turning NC into a Tea Party Utopia.

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Even the GOP Doesn’t Care What Rick Santorum Has to Say Anymore

Santorum predicts the collapse of the GOP if it does repent of its recent moves toward the social center, most notably on gay marriage. No one cares.

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Unaware He Was a Christian Activist, the Right Freaks Over Chavez Easter Google Doodle

Cesar Chavez was a Christian activist, basing his civil rights rallies upon Jesus’ example of achieving social justice through non-violence, and is an iconic hero to Mexican Americans.

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The GOP’s Cure For its Messaging Problem (Humor)

Republicans blame the media for their messaging problem, but they have a plan to fix that.

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Black and White Armed Protesters Swarm the Capitol — Can You Spot the Difference?

Imagine if the press described second amendment protesters ‘violent’ and ‘angry’ today, just because they were armed. Then imagine if the ‘second amendment’ defenders were black and armed.

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Freedom Works Finally Manages to Do Something Right by Trying to Destroy the GOP

Unhappy with their losses and inability to impact policy enough, Freedom Works is deploying Tea Party missiles of mass destruction against the Republican Party.

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Confused Republican ‘Wacko Bird’ Amash Pecks Back at John McCain

After John McCain called GOP Rep Amash a ‘wacko bird’, Amash accused McCain of coming up with that while having dinner with the President, as if having doing his job was a bad thing.

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Behind the GOP’s Debt and Deficit Talk Is a Scam To Make the Super Rich Even Richer

A group of Americans are being scammed by immoral operatives, and as is usually the case, the scammers are motivated by sheer greed for power and control of America and its wealth.

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Republican Rep. Jack Kingston Introduced Sequestration as a GOP Reform in 2010

Contrary to what Republicans are saying now, the sequester is a largely Republican idea. In fact, Jack Kingston (R-GA) proposed sequestration in December of 2010.

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Jumping the Commie Shark: Ted Cruz’s McCarthyism is Indicative of a Lost Party

It seems everyone is calling Republican Senator Ted Cruz the new McCarthy. But there’s not one “new McCarthy” in the GOP, but rather a party of new McCarthys.

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DEMomentum: Democrats Target 27 House Tea Partiers with New Ads

The DCCC is launching online ads to hold 27 Tea Party House Republicans accountable for the thousands of layoffs and other costs to the middle class in the upcoming sequester.

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Republicans Again Go the Palin Route With Marco Rubio’s State of the Union Response

Sen. Rubio has a long way to go with the Hispanic community before he can deliver what the Republican Party thinks his skin color will automatically garner them.

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Worst Speaker Ever: John Boehner Uses Pathetic Twitter Campaign to Blame Obama for Sequester

Speaker John Boehner is pushing the hashtag “#obamaquester” in hopes of forcing the President to carry the weight of the Republicans’ failure.

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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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Sarah Palin Hits Rock Bottom, Would Lose Alaska to Her ‘Rival’ Hillary Clinton

A new poll by Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows that not only are Alaskans done with Palin, but Clinton could win the state by 16 points were she to run in 2016.

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#UniteBlue: Liberals Fight Back Against Conservative Attacks on Twitter

More dirty tricks by a desperate minority: Conservatives have been trying to silence speech they don’t agree with by spam blocking en masse to get progressives suspended on Twitter.

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One Video Destroys the Republican Myth that Their Opposition to Obama Isn’t Racial

In this video evangelical, Koch backed, tea party Arkansas state senator Jason Rapert explains why minorities like President Obama don’t represent his America.

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Guns are Just the Latest Symptom of the Right’s Anti-Obama Delusion

The current outrage from gun-fanatics that President Obama is sending federal forces to confiscate their precious firearms is a microcosm of the past four years of teabagger claims.

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The Right Calls Obama a Dictator, but Sarah Palin Disarmed the Alaska Civil Militia

The same people who love Sarah Palin call Obama a dictator. But in 2008, then Gov. Palin stripped the militia of their guns and many powers.

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The Tea Party’s Intolerable Acts Are a Parting Shot from George III

The Tea Party’s actions in Wisconsin and Michigan show them to owe their inspiration not to the Patriots of 1776 but to King George III

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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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GOP Tea Party Traitors to the Constitution Must Be Prosecuted to the Fullest Extent of the Law

It is a mystery why the Justice Department, FBI, and law enforcement officials do not summarily round them treasonous congressional tea partiers and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.