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Rachel Maddow Calls Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, ‘A Troll’
On The Daily Show, Rachel Maddow had a classic line when she labeled Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, “a troll.”
Monthly Archives: February 2013
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Eric Cantor Admits That He and Paul Ryan Were the Driving Force Behind the Sequester
Eric Cantor has confirmed that he and Paul Ryan talked John Boehner out of accepting a “Grand Bargain” with Obama in 2011. It was this rejection that led to the sequester.
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Rush Limbaugh Thinks Obama Is Going To Kill Bob Woodward With a Death Panel
Never one to let facts or reality get in the way, Rush Limbaugh is claiming that Obama is going to kill Bob Woodward with a death panel.
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The VAWA Finally Passes and Reveals A New Truth For the Republican House
The Republican majority in the House is split. This was revealed today in a painfully obvious way when moderate Republicans joined the Democratic minority to pass the Violence Against Women Act.
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Paul Ryan Looked America In The Eye Today, and Completely Lied About the Sequester
Rep. Paul Ryan went on CNBC today, looked straight into the camera, and completely lied about the sequester to the American people.
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Racism Reaches the Levels of Government via Scalia’s Voting Rights Comments
One never imagined Scalia would openly declare his racism and disdain for the most basic of rights in an open and free democracy, but then again it is Antonin Scalia.
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The Future of the Voting Rights Act Depends on One Supreme Court Justice
In reality the future of the Voting Rights Act depends on whether Justice Kennedy places a higher priority on states’ rights, or the rights of millions of Americans to vote.
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No Harm, No Foul as Rich Folks Have No Reason To Fear Sequestration
On March 1st a decision will be made that could impact millions for at least 9 years. Jobs will be lost and people will go hungry, but not the rich.
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80 Republicans Sign Supreme Court Brief in Support of Marriage Equality
More than 80 Republicans have signed a brief which will be submitted to the Supreme Court in support of Marriage Equality
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Fox News Could Be Facing Extinction as 29% of Their Younger Viewers Drop Fox
Younger television viewers continue to abandon Fox News in droves. In February, Fox is down another 29% with viewers age 25-54 in primetime.
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Rep. Keith Ellison Goes on Fox News and Absolutely Destroys Sean Hannity
Rep. Keith Ellison completely turned the tables on Sean Hannity. Instead of letting Hannity talk through and roll over him, Ellison destroyed Hannity with his own tactics.
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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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Sick House Tea Partiers Celebrate the Sequester’s Human Carnage
House tea partiers are preparing to celebrate the damage to the people and economy that the sequestration cuts will cause when they begin in two days.
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John Boehner Refuses to Allow the House to Vote on Sequester Replacement Bill
On the same day that John Boehner told the Senate to get off its ass, he refused to allow the House to vote on a sequester replacement bill.
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Republicans Confront the Reality That America Just Isn’t That Into Them
Former Romney top strategist, Stuart Stevens has joined a growing chorus of GOP leaders who seem to be waking up the simple unpopularity of the party platform.
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Harry Reid Fires Back and Calls John Boehner a Do Nothing Speaker
Harry Reid fired back at John Boehner’s attempt to blame the Senate for the sequester by saying, “The speaker’s doing nothing to try to pass anything.”
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President Obama Tells House Republicans to Clean Up Their Own Sequester Mess
President Obama told House Republicans that they need to compromise, and he will not be cleaning up their sequester mess for them.
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Defeat of Republican Efforts to Steal Elections Hinges on SCOTUS Voting Right Act Case
The SCOTUS will hear arguments Shelby County Alabama v. Holder on Wednesday. The facts of 2012 alone should make this an easy ruling in favor of upholding the VRA including Article 5.
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Democrats Must Call Out The Absurd Canard That Spending Cuts Make The Economy Grow
It is time for Democrats to call out the absurd canard that taking money out of the economy helps the economy grow. There is a time to address debt, but it is not during an economic downturn.
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Top Senate Republican Throws National Security Under the Bus as He Flees the Sequester
The Senate Republican Minority Whip, who accused Obama of threatening national security by nominating Chuck Hagel, claimed that sequester cuts to defense won’t jeopardize national security.
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Boehner Says Obama Is Using the Troops as Props But His Sequester Will Leave Vets Homeless
Speaker Boehner claimed today that President Obama is using the troops as props, but his House passed sequester would leave thousands of veterans homeless.
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Are Wal-Mart’s Financials A Light Bulb Moment?
There was a little glimmer of light in the Southern skies last week. It wasn’t exactly a light bulb flashing on over Wal-Mart corporate, but it did look as though someone was fumbling with the switch.
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Democracy Thief Rick Snyder is Struggling to Find an Emergency Manager for Detroit
It seems Gov. Rick Snyder is having a bit of difficulty finding anyone who wants the job of becoming the emergency manager for Detroit.
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Clueless House Republican Says We Need Sequester to Get Economy Rolling Again
The ever clueless Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia thinks the sequester is necessary to “get this economy rolling again.”
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Sequester Squeals: Republicans Get Their First Taste of the Recession and They Don’t Like It
Republican staffers are complaining about GOP leadership, while leadership is complaining that without being able to pay their staff a decent wage, they can’t attract the best workers.
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President Obama Has Had Enough of John Boehner’s Sequester Lies
While speaking to the nation’s governors today, President Obama took aim at John Boehner for his hypocrisy on his own tax plan, and the lie that Obama won’t work with him on spending cuts.
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SCOTUS Refuses Appeal That Would Have Allowed Corporations to Buy Candidates Directly
Today the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal claiming that the ban of direct contributions violates corporations’ free-speech rights.
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Harry Reid Needs to Get Both a Spine and a Clue and Confront Republican Obstruction
After suffering their obstruction in the 111th and 112th Congress, one would think Reid would get a clue, and a spine, and do his job as Majority Leader and end Republican abuse of the filibuster.
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The Real Reason the Sequester Will Hit is that Some House Republicans Want It
These House Republicans are the real reason Speaker John Boehner is not proposing a sequester solution. He doesn’t have the votes.
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A Tea Party Texas Congressman wants to take a six-shooter to Sharia law
Texas Republican Representative, Louie Gohmert is convinced Sharia law is trying to take over the U.S. legal system. So, he’s packing.
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Republicans Are Ready to Traumatize Poor Children
No matter how much they try to blame sequestration on Obama and the Democrats, Republicans set it up, and the victims will be the poor.
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America’s Capitalism Has Embraced White Slaves as Well as Black
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
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Bobby Jindal Wages War on Reality by Accusing Obama of Using Scare Tactics
Gov Jindal (R-LA) accused Obama of using scare tactics while in real life, Jindal is gutting his state in order to run for President in 2016.
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House Republicans Are Now Begging Obama to Save Them From Their Sequester
House Republicans are so desperate to avoid being held accountable for their sequester that they are asking President Obama to save them.
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Hagel Accuser Ted Cruz Wants Everyone To Stop Asking Questions About His Past
Ted Cruz’s spokesperson thinks it’s ‘curious’ that the New Yorker would cover a speech he gave two years ago when he McCarthyed his way into the arms of the Koch brothers.
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Republicans Have Created Racist Frenzy With Baseless Obama Gun Confiscation Talk
the NRA, Republicans, and so-called patriots are driving gun fanatics and racists into frenzy by asserting President Obama is on a mission to confiscate guns, and invalidate the 2nd Amendment.
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Paul Ryan Championed Sequester Since 2004, Now Calls His Own Idea Not Good Government
Paul Ryan has been pushing for sequestration since 2004. He bragged about getting it in 2011. Now that it’s here, Ryan thinks it’s not good government.
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The GOP’s version of VAWA Should be called the Defense of Violence Against Women Act
The House GOP’s watered down version of the VAWA is more about preserving their bigotry than anything about protecting women from violence.
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Republicans Fake Obama Corruption but PA’s 3 Sisters Conviction Shows How Corrupt the GOP Is
In the fantasy world of Republicans President Obama is corrupt, but the story of the three Republican Orie sisters reminds of us which party has the corruption problem.
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The Tragic Shooting of Reeva Steenkamp Proves that Some People Can’t Handle Guns
Olympic star Oscar Pistorius’s shooting of his girlfriend, whether it was an accidental infliction of a mortal wound or premeditated murder, explodes gun nut myths.
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The GOP’s version of VAWA Should be called the Defense of Violence Against Women Act
Rather than voting up or down on the Senate’s Violence Against Women Act, House Republicans counter offered a watered down version, which can be read here. The House version, predictably, excludes Native women and members of the LGBT Community. Yes, this is a sort of dejavu moment. The last time Republicans also objected to protecting…
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The Media Missed Model Cameron Russell’s Point in Her TEDx Talk
In Victoria Secret model Cameron Russell’s TedX talk, she discussed winning the ‘genetic lottery’ and the privileges afforded to her purely because of her looks, including white privilege.
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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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Coward Glenn Beck Leaves the Tea Party for Dead by Refusing to Get in the Ring With WWE
Glenn Beck was one of the tea party’s biggest defenders, but he turned down an opportunity to defend the group on WWE’s Monday Night Raw by claiming that he has better things to do.
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Attention Republicans: Obama’s Been Proposing a Sequester Plan Since December
Lost in the maze of blame Obama for the sequester Republican talking points is the fact that the White House has had a sequester replacement proposal on the table since December 2012.
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Unhinged Republicans Completely Abandon Reality With Latest Sequester Lies
Republicans and their punditry have finally gone so far off the rails to avoid any responsibility for the sequester that they are blatantly lying and revising the historical record of the past four years.
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Whistleblowing Cop Fired for Exposing Alleged Plot to Kill the President
A Richmond Police Officer was fired for telling the media about an alleged plot to kill the President by fellow law enforcement officers.
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World Net Daily to PoliticusUSA: Facts are anti-Semitic
Reality-challenged Joseph Farah of World Net Daily feels that inconvenient and uncongenial facts about ancient Israel are anti-Semitic.
Rush Limbaugh Can’t Be As Ashamed of America As We Are Of Him
Rush Limbaugh said that he is still embarrassed and ashamed of America, but Rush can’t be nearly as ashamed of America as we are of him.
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Glenn Beck Hits Rock Bottom and Gets Offered an Appearance By the WWE
Glenn Beck may be this close to finally fulfilling his sideshow clown destiny as he has been offered a chance to appear on World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night to defend the Tea Party.
20
Women, Not Right Wing Evangelicals, Have Lost Their Freedom To Tyranny
It turns out there is a segment of the population who have lost their freedom due to tyranny, but it originates with Republicans at the behest of Catholic and evangelical personhood advocates.
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A Hilarious Fox Fail Ensues When They Try to Blame Democrats for Detroit’s Problems
Steve Doocy desperately tried to get reporter/author Charlie LeDuff to blame Democrats for Detroit’s problems only to watch LeDuff list the corrupt Republicans in the city’s history.
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Republicans Love to Regulate When it Benefits Their Wealthy Friends
A long-time and oft-repeated Republican criticism of Democrats is the tendency to regulation. But, so do Republicans, especially for friends.
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When Republicans Govern, Government is the Problem
North Carolina’s Governor, Pat McCrory is a classic example of why when Republicans govern, government is the problem.
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Show Me State Republicans Need Somebody to Show them Reality on Gun Control
If any facet of the GOP’s war on America has grown to lunatic proportions, it is gun control. The more people die from gun violence, the more the GOP sinks into denial.
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Rush Limbaugh Insanely Claims Sarah Palin Wasn’t Wrong About Anything
Rush Limbaugh went way, way, way off the deep end today by claiming that Sarah Palin wasn’t ever wrong about anything.
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By Snubbing Chris Christie at CPAC, the GOP Proves They’ve Gone Fringe
CPAC claims they snubbed Chris Christie this year, while the rest of the clowns are piling into the shrinking GOP tent.
Obama Blasts Republicans: Protecting the Rich is What ‘Binds Their Party Together.’
On Al Sharpton’s radio show President Obama said that protecting the wealthy from higher taxes is, “The thing that binds their party together at this point.”
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Jerk Meet Jerk: McCain Refuses to Apologize for Calling Constituent a Jerk
Asked if he regretted calling a constituent a “jerk” during a Tuesday town hall, Senator McCain (R-AZ) scoffed, “Of course not. I call people jerks all the time, and they call me jerks.”
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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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Obama Routs Republicans on Sequester as 56% of GOP Support His Balanced Approach
Republicans have lost the sequester battle so comprehensively that according to the new USA Today/Pew Research poll, 56% of Republicans support Obama’s balanced approach to reducing the deficit.
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John Boehner Whips Up a Batch of Desperate Lies After Getting Busted on the Sequester
John Boehner is trying to lie his way out of trouble after being caught red-handed on the sequester, and if the subject were not so serious, one might pity his peculiar attempt at logic
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Dems Fight Back: Missouri Rep Proposes to Make it a Felony to Restrict Collective Bargaining
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Missouri Democrats responded to a Republican proposal to make gun control a felony with their own bill that would make proposing limits to collective bargaining a felony.
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Republican Fiscal Concerns are a Canard to Cover Their Inhumanity
The GOP has made it their goal to inflict harm on the least fortunate among us under cover of being fiscally responsible, but their fiscal concerns are a canard to cover their inhumanity.
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Worried Too Many Minorities Are Voting Republicans Try To Rollback the Constitution to 1913
A group of Republican state representatives in Georgia want to ask Congress to begin the process of repealing the 17th Amendment, which provides for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
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Conservatives Convince Themselves Obama Would be in Jail if He Wasn’t President
Conservatives have convinced themselves that though Obama SHOULD be in jail even as president, he would certainly BE in jail if he were not.
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When Faced With New Evidence That the Sequester Was His Idea, Boehner Blames Obama
Despite the fact that a PowerPoint presentation from 2011 surfaced today with his name on it, John Boehner continues to blame Obama for the sequester.
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John McCain Faces the Consequences of His Party’s Fear-Mongering at Town Halls
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) faced the consequences of his party’s targeting of undocumented workers in Arizona as he held a town hall to discuss immigration reform yesterday.
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Speaking of Hubris, This is the Reason Why Republicans Hate Chuck Hagel
The real reason why Republicans hate Chuck Hagel is that he was one of the few elected officials on either side of the aisle who had the courage and conviction to speak his mind on the Iraq invasion.
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Why Fashion Designers are the Last Line of Defense Against the Gun Obsessed
It’s clear that there will be no effective gun legislation passed as long as the House remains in Republican hands, but fashion has the answer.
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John Boehner Calls Eliminating Food for 1.7 Million Americans ‘Common Sense Cuts’
John Boehner won’t tell you this, but the “common sense cuts” he referred to that would avoid the sequester, will eliminate food for 1.7 million Americans.
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Joseph Farah Says America Needs Ten Commandments – Wants Money
Joseph Farah is putting up 10 Commandment billboards in “Sin City” – Las Vegas – and he wants your dollars to do it
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Nate Silver Says Marco Rubio is as Unelectable as Mitt Romney Was
A Republican candidate of any color may still have to adopt the 2012 losing strategy in Mitt Romney.
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The Sequester Cuts are the Latest Crime in the Republican War on America
Republicans have revealed that the harm their sequester cuts were intended to cause is part of their plan that defines them as criminals, enemies of the state and the American people.
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House Democrats Crush Republicans With Their Best Fundraising Month Ever
House Republicans should be getting worried about 2014. Despite being the minority party, House Democrats had their best fundraising month ever in January.
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Mark Sanford Once Offered the Unemployed Only Prayer, But Now He’s Begging for a Job
Sanford (R-SC) offered nothing but prayers when his desperate constituents begged him for help, and now he is begging them for a job and thinks he deserves a second chance.
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Hubris: Rachel Maddow Shocks America Into Remembering Bush’s War Crimes
Rachel Maddow’s latest documentary Hubris provides a shocking reminder of the consequences of misused presidential power, and the deceptions that led America into war.
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Rush Limbaugh Smears President Obama by Suggesting He is Cheating on His Wife
Rush Limbaugh smeared President Obama today by suggesting that the president was cheating on his wife while playing golf with Tiger Woods.
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While Republicans Focus on Public Debt, the Real Issue is Private Debt
Could the answer to the ongoing economic woes of the country be a forgiveness of household debt? At least one economist thinks so.
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Contrary to Republican Myth, Obama is a Better President for Business than Reagan
On President’s Day, I thought we should pit Reagan against Obama and ask whose presidency was better for corporate profits?
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Paul Ryan Calls Eliminating Food and Healthcare for 600,000 Kids ‘Smarter Cuts’
While trying to blame Obama for the sequester, Paul Ryan referenced the smart cuts that the House has passed. Those ‘smarter cuts’ would take away food and healthcare for 600,000 kids.
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Barack Obama May Go Down As the Only President Who Excelled In the Face of Racism
Barack Obama, may go down as the only president in the nation’s history who excelled in spite of hostility borne of racism, and an opposition party intent on sabotaging his presidency.
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Unlike Republicans, Obama Talks To Regular Americans About Transparency on Drones
Barack Obama discussed drones during a Google Chat. Can anyone imagine a Republican President reaching out to people on social media, let alone discuss policy?
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Buster Wilson Claims Obama Wants to Declare Christians to be Mentally Ill and Lock Them Up
Buster Wilson lets go of his meat long enough to claim Obama thinks he’s crazy and wants to lock him up.
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Sunday Smack Down: The Mainstream Media Finally Challenges Republican Lies
The mainstream finally stepped up today,and on separate Sunday shows, challenged the lies and talking points of Republicans Paul Ryan and John McCain.
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John McCain Cracks Up After David Gregory Calls Out His Benghazi Conspiracy
John McCain peddled his Benghazi cover up conspiracy theory on Meet The Press, but cracked up when old friend David Gregory no longer stood confidently on the rickety timber of his bitterness.
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Republicans Want to Take Away Healthcare from 30 Million to Pay for More Military Spending
Sen. Lindsey Graham spoke for many of his Republican colleagues today when he proposed avoiding the military cuts in the sequester by taking healthcare away from 30 million Americans.
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Wall Street’s Badge of Honor to Elizabeth Warren
Being called extreme by Wall Street is Elizabeth Warren’s badge of honor. It means she’s effective and they know it.
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The Most Religious Red States Also Consume the Most Antidepressants
Well over 50% of the population in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Oklahoma consider themselves to be very religious, and they are very depressed.
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The Gathering Danger of Marco (Polo!) Rubio
Marco Rubio is clearly picking up the mantle of the “NEW” Republican’t Party by putting a new, watery-smooth face on their same dehydrated ideas.
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The Hagel Filibuster Shows Republicans Hate America Almost as Much as They Hate Obama
Republicans are sticking to their obstructionist ways over Israel, and Americans have come to learn that Republicans hate this country nearly as much as they hate the President.
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CPAC: White Supremacists and Wayne LaPierre are Welcome, but GOProud is Banned
CPAC invited Wayne La Pierre this year and last year, they had white supremacist John Derbyshire, but GOProud is banned.
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Rachel Maddow Annihilates the Paranoid Delusions of Rand Paul
Rachel Maddow completely annihilated the paranoid delusions of Rand Paul and highlighted the dangerous fact that he gets a say on major policy issues.
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Rebranding? Republicans Host Friends Of Hamas Conspiracy Theorist at State Convention
The rebranding isn’t going so well for the GOP. The conspiracy theorist behind the right wing Hagel smears will be speaking at the California Republican Party convention.
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Bill Maher:’Show Me Any Culture That’s Hostile to Women I will Show You a Culture that’s Screwed Up.’
Bill Maher made a point that also applies to the Catholic church and the Republican Party, “Show me any culture that is hostile to women, and I will show you a culture that’s screwed up.”
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Calling all Right Wing ‘Patriots’ Please Identify All the Freedoms You’ve Lost
Right wing “patriots” are constantly complaining of losing their freedoms and liberty. I would ask what these freedoms and liberties are.
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What Scares Republicans More Than Paying Workers a Living Wage? Voting Rights
There’s one thing that scared Republicans more than the President’s SOTU remarks on the economy – his comments on voting rights.
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Virginia GOP Destroys the Conservative Argument Against the Voting Rights Act
As conservatives prepare to make their argument against the Voting Rights Act to the Supreme Court, Virginia GOP passed a new voter ID law that disenfranchises minority voters.
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Rush Limbaugh Insanely Claims Environmentalists Are Coming to Steal Your Electricity
Rush Limbaugh took his insanity to a new level today by claiming that environmentalists are out to take away the freedom to use electricity because they oppose the generation of electric power.
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McCain Admits Republicans Put Grudges Ahead of National Security in Hagel Filibuster
If Republicans are as petty as McCain said they are, then that would mean that the Republican Party put their grudges about Bush ahead of national security.
