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Stand Up and Shut Down the GOP Obstruction Machine by Demanding Filibuster Reform
Americans continue to support the use of the filibuster, but are demanding that Republican abuse of the procedure must stop.
Monthly Archives: November 2012
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The Republican Obsession With Obstructing Obama is Endangering the Country
The GOP’s insane obsession with obstructing the President is a danger to economic recovery and 98% of the population.
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Rush Limbaugh Demands to be Named Time Person of the Year Because He Made Sandra Fluke Famous
After Sandra Fluke made Time’s short list for Person of the Year, Rush Limbaugh demanded that he be named person of the year, because he made Fluke famous.
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Obama’s Gets Payback For 2010 Bush Tax Cut by Using Christmas to Pressure the GOP
Remember in 2010 when House Republicans used the threat of throwing millions into poverty at Christmas in order to get the Bush tax cuts extended? President Obama does. In 2012, he is getting payback.
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Bo Obama Steals America’s Heart While Inspecting the White House Holiday Decorations
After a bruising partisan presidential election, the White House has posted a video that everybody can enjoy. Watch Bo Obama amp up the First Dog cuteness factor as he inspects the holiday decorations.
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An Explanation of the Fiscal Cliff that’s so Simple Even Republicans Can Get It
Sixth grader Noah Williams-Morrill has earned himself a meeting with President Obama today with a video explanation of the fiscal cliff that’s so simple even Republicans can get it.
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Fox News Has a Holiday Wish List but Governor Chafee Can’t Have a Holiday Tree
“All I want for Christmas is to kill it,” seems to be the song conservatives think liberals sing each and every holiday season. Fox News has made a lucrative living pushing a nonexistent war on Christmas, seizing on every example of religious pluralism in this country – that is, the right of people to believe…
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The Sons and Daughters of Liberty: Anonymous
So who are these people that they call Anonymous? Who are these new patriots who don’t carry a rifle and scream the British are coming? To all intents and purposes they are our safety mechanisms.
40
Rush Limbaugh Claims the Fiscal Cliff is an Obama Plot to Wipe Out the GOP
The Democratic position of strength is bringing out some serious crazy on the right, as Rush Limbaugh is claiming that Obama is using fiscal cliff as a tool to achieve his goal of wiping out the GOP.
10
Jon Stewart Outs John McCain as a Bitter Old F**k Who Can’t Let 2008 Go
Jon Stewart went to the root of John McCain’s opposition to Susan Rice, and concluded that McCain a crotchety old f**k who is completely unable to get over his loss to Obama in 2008.
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The Republican hyperbole about the ‘fiscal cliff’ is deafening and misleading
The ongoing debate about the fiscal cliff continues as the U.S. approaches the current debt ceiling. Republicans are responsible for problem
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Man Who Killed Florida Teen Over Loud Music Alters His Story to Fit Stand Your Ground
The Florida man who shot a teenager because he felt threatened by the teen’s play of loud music is changing his story so that it will fit a stand your ground defense.
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Why Conservatives are Wrong When They Say Liberalism Will Fail
Conservatives have convinced themselves of libearlism’s illigitimacy; now they have convinced themselves liberalism will fail
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Bill O’Reilly Mocks His Own Guest for Suggesting Paul Ryan for Person of the Year
When GOP strategist Kristen Soltis suggested that Paul Ryan be named person of the year, Bill O’Reilly responded by mocking her and saying Ryan couldn’t even carry his own state.
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The handwriting is on the wall; cursive is no longer welcome in elementary schools
With schools hotbeds of electronic teaching devices, cursive writing instruction is being phased out, no longer considered necessary
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Attention Obama Haters: What If The Bible Is True?
Over the holiday season we will be examining some holiday gift ideas for the progressive or conservative on your list. First up, Annette Boyd Lee’s Attention Obama Haters: What If The Bible Is True?
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Bernie Sanders Blows the Lid Off the ‘Bipartisan’ Plan To Cut Taxes for Corporations and the Wealthy
In a letter to his Senate colleagues today, Bernie Sanders exposed the bipartisan Simpson/Bowles plan as a scheme to lower taxes on the wealthy and corporations while passing the burden on to us .
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Obama turns up the heat, ‘(The fiscal cliff) is too important to let Washington screw this up.’
President Obama turned up the heat on House Republicans today by laying out a stark choice on the fiscal cliff. He made it clear that he is willing to compromise, but any deal will be on his terms.
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Jon Stewart Rips Fox News for Pushing Wal-Mart’s Propaganda
Jon Stewart ripped into Fox News for spreading Wal-Mart’s propaganda against striking workers, and for defending the company after a garment factory fire in Bangladesh killed 129 people.
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Obama’s Support for Israel’s Iron Dome Gives GOP Fits of Cognitive Dissonance
Facts crash into belief where Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system is concerned. How could Obama have paid for it when he hates Israel?
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WalMart earns record profits while supporting Republicans who want to slash their employees’ food stamps
At a time when Republicans are proposing deep cuts to programs like SNAP (food stamps), WalMart heavily supported Republican candidates in the recent election.
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It Gets Worse for Mitt Romney as He is Named the Least Influential Person of 2012
Mitt Romney hasn’t hit rock bottom yet. Since losing the election, Romney has gone from being one of two men vying to be president to being named the least influential person of 2012.
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Trinkets From Romney’s Doomed Candidacy End Up in a Bargain Bin Near You
It’s the little things during the holiday season that bring such simple joy. Like seeing Mitt Romney’s campaign merchandise littering up bargain bins across America.
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Bernie Sanders Applauds Obama for Taking Social Security Off the Fiscal Cliff Table
After the White House took Social Security off the fiscal cliff negotiating table, Sen. Bernie Sanders applauded the move and called it a step in the right direction.
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Tea Partiers Refuse to Give Up Their Electoral College Scheme to Elect Romney
Even after Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips’ scheme to elect Mitt Romney president through the electoral college was debunked, the idea continues to gain traction with some tea partiers.
23
You Lost Republicans, so Stop Pretending Like Obamacare is On the Table
The latest joke from Republicans was offered up by Eric Cantor who called for Obama to put Obamacare on the table for elimination in order for Republicans to compromise on revenue increases.
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Grover Norquist Faces a Full-Out Republican Revenue Insurrection
Apparently, to Grover Norquist an agreement with him is as legally binding as a mortgage, at least in his own self-important, inflated head.
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Obama’s Margin of Victory is Now Bigger than Both of George W. Bush’s Wins
As of now, President Obama’s popular margin of victory is bigger than both of George W. Bush’s election wins in 2000 and 2004.
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Fox News Guest Slams Their Benghazi Coverage as GOP Propaganda
Fox News hosted Foreign Policy’s Tom Ricks with the hope of furthering their Benghazi conspiracy. He said that Fox’s coverage of the story was due to their status as a wing of the Republican Party.
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Several Florida Republicans Admit Voter Fraud was Subterfuge for GOP Victory
Republicans say the Florida law that cut early voting was an intentional tactic to hand Florida to the GOP by inhibiting Democratic turnout.
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Move Over Star Wars: A Trilogy of GOP Cognitive Dissonance: 2008, 2012, 2016
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
10
Fox News Militarizes The War on Christmas by Mixing Santa and Guns
What happens when you mix Santa, guns, and Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson? You get an armed Santa defending Christmas while Fox News redefines the Second Amendment as you can do anything that you want.
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Republicans Refuse to Admit that Keystone XL will Bring Oil Through America, Not to It
The President and Democrats could protect the environment and Americans’ health if they informed the people that Canadian tar sand is not coming to America, but through it to China.
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Millions of jobs lost as corporations continue to set up overseas call centers
In calling in a missing paper report I was surprised to learn that my small newspaper used an overseas call center to respond to my concerns
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It’s Traditional America! President Obama Shops Locally with His Daughters
A father takes his two daughters shopping at a mom and pop bookstore. He also just so happens to be the President, celebrating “small business Saturday.”
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John McCain Completely Humiliates Himself Defending his Benghazi Obama Witch Hunt
John McCain went on the friendly airwaves of Fox News Sunday, and proceeded to completely embarrass himself with a factually inaccurate and desperate attempt to further his Benghazi witch hunt.
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Fox News Uses Racist Code Words To Attack Obama and Susan Rice
Fox News put their racist dog whistle on high today as they claimed that it would be arrogant for President Obama to nominate Susan Rice to be secretary of state.
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Beware of the ‘Expert’ on Helping Liberals/Conservatives Get Along
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has been selling the notion that he understands liberals & conservatives, while basically badmouthing liberals
19
Republicans Turn Charter School Officials Into the New Robber Barons
School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools are the the Republican hammer to be used to prise it out of our hands.
39
America Must Prosecute Grover Norquist and His GOP Acolytes for Treason
Regardless one’s definition of treason, Norquist and his Republican acolytes are guilty of acting against the government with the goal of destroying it.
27
Obama’s Culture of Life: Abortion Rate Drops by Largest Percentage Since 2000
In a newly released study, the CDC found that 2009 had the ‘largest single year decrease’ in abortions for the entire period from 2000 to 2009.
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The Dark Side of Black Friday: Walmart Refuses Customers’ Petition Supporting Workers
I joined 10 other worker sympathizers in protest Walmart’s treatment of their Part-time workforce. Inside the store our petition was refused
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3 Lies Republicans Tell to Defend Not Raising Taxes on the Wealthy
The political consensus may be shifting on raising taxes on the wealthy, but many Republicans keep sticking to these falsehoods in order to oppose a tax hike for the rich.
16
How Clear Channel Helped Keep the Romney Campaign Alive While Being Gutted by Bain
Clear Channel assisted Romney’s ‘business experience’ propaganda campaign while they are being quietly gutted to pay back debt run up by Bain.
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Hardcore Conservative Saxby Chambliss Repudiates Norquist Tax Pledge
Cracks begin to appear in the no new taxes wall as Saxby Chambliss signals a willingness to rethink the question of revenue
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What do Kim Kardashian, Milkshakes and the Middle East have in common?
Kim Kardashian is heading for the mid-east to open 2 new Milk Bars. She’ll also learn move about the region after a twitter controversy.
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Contrary to Walmart’s Spin, the Black Friday Strike Rages On
Walmart is trying to minimize the strikes and claiming they have had the best Black Friday ‘ever’. That may be true, but they are missing the point.
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Bizarre GOP Thanksgiving Pics Make America Ask, ‘What’s wrong with these people?’
Thanksgiving brought us John McCain’s Old Man in the Tree and a leaning into Ann, uncombed Mitt in the sterile white kitchen.
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What Do GOP Targets Rice, Sherrod, Holder, and Van Jones Have in Common?
All four have all been targeted by Republicans with non-stop false allegations and yet the media continues to assist in the character assassination.
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Meet the Man Who Has Been Battling Romney and Bain’s Bankruptcy Fraud for 12 Years
For nearly 12 years, one man with unwavering faith in the judicial system has taken on a modern day giant based on a belief that justice is due diligence and that in America, right overcomes might.
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Just in time for Black Friday conservatives revive the War on Christmas
It is that season again – and no, I am not talking about Christmas. I am talking about the War on Christmas, which is a far more important season to religious conservatives.
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2012 is a special Thanksgiving thanks to key Congressional races
The 2012 election was especially satisfying for the Presidency and the new faces that will show up in Congress, especially the Senate.
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Things I am Grateful for in 2012
Even in troubled times, there are a great many things to be grateful for. Here are a few of mine.
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President Obama Commends the American Spirit of Helping Our Brothers and Sisters in Need
President Obama used his weekly address to remind us that Thanksgiving is a time to put aside our differences after a hard fought campaign.
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Why Conservatives Should Be Thankful That the Rest of Us Elected President Obama
Conservatives should be thankful the rest of the population elected a President not inclined to deliberately cause suffering for 98% of the American people, including them.
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Walmart Can Bully Their Workers, but They Can’t Bully You Into Shopping There
The Black Friday Walmart strike is ostensibly the largest organized action against the world’s biggest retail store. There’s a lot at stake.
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America is a Christian Nation. If We Don’t Like it, We Should Get Out
Another one of the 24 percent tells the 76 percent to get out because America is THEIR country: white and Evangelical
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Fox News Celebrates Thanksgiving by Mocking the Poor
How else would you expect Fox News to celebrate Thanksgiving than to mock those who receive food stamps?
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Giving Thanks for the Recent John Doe Bombshell that Implicates Scott Walker
Governor Scott Walker has been implicated as not only knowing about but participating in illegal campaigning activity on the taxpayer dime.
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From an ‘Iconic’ ‘Reagan’ to Trash: Romney Adviser Laments the Fall of Mitt
A Romney campaign adviser was on Morning Joe lamenting how Republicans were saying Romney was like Reagan but now they won’t stop trashing him.
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No Jive Turkeys Here: The Odd and Funny History of the Presidential Turkey Pardon
The presidential turkey pardon has had its share of odd and funny moments, and here is a look at a few of the best.
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Studies Reveal that Conservatism is Promoted When People Rely on ‘Low-Effort’ Thinking
Rather than necessarily being pathological, political conservatism is promoted when people rely on low-effort thinking.
7
The Time is Now for Obama to Educate in Order to End the GOP Assault on Social Security
There has never been a better time for President Obama to educate the people about Social Security and its non-effect on the deficit and its financial health.
9
How the Pax Americana is to Blame for Israel’s Attacks on Gaza
Israel could not have attacked Gaza without the tacit consent of the American government, which persists in seeing Israel as the victim
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Republicans Change Their Talk, but Still Walk Their Hateful Walk
The sad fact is regardless the GOP’s words that they heeded the voters’ message, they are plotting the same course with the same players the voters rejected two weeks ago.
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After Election Defeat, Mitt Romney Caught Slumming It with the 47%
With pomp and circumstance gone, sans security details and motorcades, Mitt Romney actually spoke to a member of the human race, and has even been seen associating with the 47%.
14
Fox News Suggests Torture Is the Perfect Way To Investigate Benghazi
The guy who withheld information from both Powell and Condi Rice is now the front man for the attacks on the Obama administration over Benghazi.
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Rise of the Left: Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnnell Beat Fox for an Entire Week
Changing demographics aren’t just winning elections, they are reshaping cable news. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell beat their Fox News competition every day last week in the 25-54 demo.
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Rachel Maddow Smacks Down John McCain, ‘You need to know what you’re talking about’
Rachel Maddow sees Republicans as allowing McCain to be their voice for foreign policy. This is a problem since he is often wrong on the subject.
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Pushing Back against George Will’s Half Truths and Lies About Elizabeth Warren
George Will writes about an agency founded and briefly run by newly-elected Senator Elizabeth Warren. Will tells many half-truths and lies.
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Fundamentalists Admit They Prayed for Obama’s Defeat and God Said No
James Dobson determined that Obama’s defeat means we are living in a time of judgment and that God can make use of Obama
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Fake Rich Guy Donald Trump Embraces Socialism and Supports Taxing the Wealthy
After previously claiming that raising taxes on the rich would destroy America, Donald Trump went on Fox News today and supported increasing taxes on the wealthy.
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Tell John Boehner to Remove National Security Threat Michele Bachmann from the Intelligence Committee
The nation cannot afford to have person of low intelligence and vindictive nature on the Intelligence Committee. John Boehner must stop jeopardizing national security and remove Michele Bachmann.
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Republicans have changed little, so there is no reason to trust them
The crazy has bubbled to the surface, and Republican loonies are running amok in post-Obama reelection America.
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Sorry GOP: We Do Not Need Churches in order to Prosper Economically
Conservatives insist that economic prosperity is impossible without their God but America wil prosper just as well with 20 gods or no gods
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Liberals Who Celebrate GOP Distancing From Romney Are Biting Into the Poison Apple
Republicans like Newt Gingrich and the gang of repentant Romney apologizers do not see any light except that they can no longer afford to be seen as defending the rich and hating everyone else.
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Rupert Murdoch Spews More Fox Style Evil In Tweets about Jewish Owned Press
Rupert Murdoch’s tweets about the ‘Jewish owned press’ explain a lot.
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Twinkie Gate: Republicans Admit Hostess Closing was About Killing Unions
While the right has been blaming unions for the closing of Hostess, Newt Gingrich and George Will admitted that they expect the company to return without union workers in a right to work state.
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Pelosi and Reid Have Obama’s Back: No Social Security Cuts and Taxes Must be Raised on the Rich
Both Democratic leaders in the Senate have Obama’s back on the fiscal cliff. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are emphatic about the wealthy paying more taxes, and no cuts being made to Social Security.
12
A Revealing Look at Racism’s Role in Which Party White People Support
Ever since Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act and championed policies supporting minorities, whites have been defecting from the party.
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After Campaigning from the Pulpit, Right Wing Churches Must Lose their Tax Exempt Status
Regardless if religious organizations abuse their agreement with the IRS or not, it is long past the time to end their government-sanctioned and taxpayer-funded entitlements once and for all.
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Let’s Not Give Right Wing Religious Idiots and Hypocrites the Last Laugh
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power – or influence on American politics
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It was Romney Vulture Capitalist Style Management that Killed Hostess, Not Unions
Much of the responsibility for Hostess shutting down lies with the company’s management and the private equity firm behind them, and yet union workers are the ones bearing the blame.
48
The McCain Backpedal on Benghazi Begins
From lies and calling for a Watergate-esque investigation to ‘We’re not trying to quote ‘take on anyone,” McCain is backpedaling.
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Obama Tells House GOP America Will Blame Them if Middle Class Taxes Go Up
The President pointedly laid out only two scenarios: Taxes go up for everyone or Congress lets the Bush tax cuts for the 2% expire.
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Obama Poised to Win as GOP Signals A Complete Cave In on Tax Cuts for the Rich
The ground is shaking and the rumblings are getting louder as top congressional Republicans are signaling that they are about to give President Obama what he wants and cave on tax cuts for the rich.
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Bill Maher: Now that Obama’s won he must become, ‘An angry black man pushing a liberal agenda.’
Bill Maher urged the president to get back at the right wing hacks who called him an angry black man pushing a liberal agenda by becoming, ‘An angry black man pushing a liberal agenda.’
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Reid to McCain: ‘I refuse to allow the Senate to be used as a venue for baseless partisan attacks’
Harry Reid delivered a brutal smackdown to John McCain and the Republicans regarding their blatant, dangerous politicization of the attacks in Benghazi
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GOP ReBiblicans Swept Congressional Races Virtually Unnoticed
This image gives you the dramatic story of ReBiblican wins in 2012 Congressional races.
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Will the True Patriots Please Step Forward
I’m beginning to think it’s time for an entirely new definition of patriotism
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The Mystery that is Hillary Clinton: To be, or not to be a 2016 Candidate
There are 2 prominent women who could assume their party’s mantle as Presidential candidates in 2016. They are Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.
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Instead of Impeaching Obama, Let’s Expel Unhinged House Republicans
There are already over a hundred reasons in the public record to begin impeachment proceedings, and if Democrats were empowered, they could impeach every Republican in Congress.
27
Benghazi Gate Deflates as Republicans Abandon Fox and Grasp Reality
After General Petraeus very slowly explained to confused, befuddled Republicans what everyone in the world already knew, they saw the light.
28
Civics Fail: Alabama Secessionist Petition Originator Blames Obama for State Law
Belcher started an Alabama secession petition over his anger at federal regulations he thinks shut down his topless car wash.
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Rush Limbaugh Goes Psycho and Blames Obama for Killing Twinkies
Rush Limbaugh is blaming President Obama for the fact that Hostess decided lay off 18,500 employees by closing their plant. In Limbaugh’s mind, Obama has Twinkie blood on his hands.
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John Boehner Hates the World Until President Obama Mentions His Birthday
While meeting in front of the press to discuss the fiscal cliff Speaker John Boeher looked like he hated the world, but he lit up when President Obama mentioned his upcoming birthday.
50
Red State Secession Would Be a Dream Come True for the Rest of America
Don’t tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another Southern state of your choice, ‘Fine. Go. We admit it. 1861 was a mistake and we are undoing it now.’
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Republican Desperation Grows as Benghazi Backfires and Scandal Talk Fizzles
Benghazi gate is not going as Republicans planned, and in fact, the failure to gain traction on their narrative is further compelling Republicans to hysterics.
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Democrat to GOP in Benghazi Hearing ‘If you want to know who is responsible in this town, buy yourself a mirror!’
A House Foreign Affairs hearing went wild today, resulting in Rep. Gary Ackerman calling the GOP out on their hypocrisy and cutting funding to the embassy security.
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Mitt Romney Puts the Republican Spin about Sandy in Bill Clinton’s Mouth
Mitt Romney is now claiming that Bill Clinton told him that he might have won, were it not for Hurricane Sandy.
