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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
Monthly Archives: October 2013
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The Threat of the Religious Right is as Old as Christianity
Pagan Romans feared not a violent revolution but something far more sinister, a political coup exactly like we are seeing today
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There Can be a Real Danger in Not Being Represented By a Union
Union membership in the private sector is now under 7%. That means nobody is in your corner when it comes to workplace grievances
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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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Sen. Ted Cruz Holds Wheeler Appointment Hostage to Protect Koch Money
The Kochs’ lead hostage taker in the Senate is blocking Tom Wheeler’s nomination to be chairman of the FCC.
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Republicans Who Refused to Do Their Jobs Are Complaining About Getting Nothing Out of Shutdown
Republican members of Congress and their conservative talking heads are angrily complaining that they did not get anything for shutting down the government shutdown
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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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The Senate has the Constitutional Power to Expel Ted Cruz
The Senate theoretically has the Constitutonal power to expel Ted Cruz by a two-thirds vote immediately and with no recourse.
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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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Sen. Ted Cruz Is Raising More Money for Democrats Than He Is For Himself
Ted Cruz is turning into the best fundraiser that the Democrats have got. Cruz’s fake filibuster and government shutdown raised more money for congressional Democrats than Cruz raised for himself.
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Paul Ryan’s Worst Nightmare Comes True as Bernie Sanders Is On The Budget Committee
Majority Leader Harry Reid has shattered Paul Ryan’s dreams of killing Social Security and Medicare by putting Sen. Bernie Sanders on the budget conference committee.
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Sarah Palin Says Obama Caused the Government Shutdown By Not Bombing Syria
Sarah Palin is trying to dodge all responsibility for nearly destroying the economy by claiming that President Obama caused the government shutdown by not bombing Syria.
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Tea Party Insult Generator From Actual Insults Posted on John Boehner’s Facebook wall
Wondering what to do with yourself post shutdown? Try the random insult generator from actual Tea Party insults left on John Boehner’s Facebook wall.
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House Republicans Say They Are Punishing Obama By Refusing To Vote on Immigration Reform
House Republicans are refusing to vote on immigration reform this year as a punishment for the way President Obama treated them during the government shutdown.
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Ted Cruz Anoints Himself the Conservative Chosen One to Destroy America
A piously persecuted Cruz intoned to the GOP water carrier that he would rather be reviled in Washington, DC and appreciated in Texas than reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington.
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Vitter Amendment – A Pill Too Vitter To Swallow
The Republican “solution” to the non-existent government exemption from the ACA actually creates a government exemption from the ACA.
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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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Democrats Have a Chance To Win The House as Shutdown Has Put 12 More GOP Seats In Play
The Cook Political Report has moved 12 more Republican held seats into toss up category, which makes 18 Republican seats up for grabs. This gives Democrats a chance to retake the House.
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John McCain Says Louie Gohmert has no Intelligence
You heard it right. John McCain, responding to an attack by Louie Gohmert (R-TX), said Gohmert is not what you call an intelligent man. This is not news to liberals but McCain himself is known, from time to time, to be a little slow on the uptake. I wrote the other day about the brewing…
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Alan Grayson, ‘John Boehner has got to go.’
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) spoke for the nation when he declared that John Boehner is useless, and he has got to go.
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A New Poll Shows The Republican Party Has Completely Collapsed in Virginia
These numbers are astounding. Seventy-one percent of Independents in Virginia now view the Republican Party negatively. Just 23% don’t.
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Republican Pundit Says GOP is ‘Crazy’ and ‘Awful’ and ‘Shouldn’t Be Trusted with Power’
Josh Barro is not impressed with the current state of the Republican party. He calls them “crazy” and “awful”.
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Meet One of Ted Cruz’s House Cheerleading Squad
Renee Ellmers, was one of the 144 House Republicans who voted to make the economy scream while keeping her paycheck because she “needed it.”
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GOP Government Shutdown Powers Alison Grimes to a 2 Point Lead Over Mitch McConnell
Due to the Republican party’s shutdown of government, Mitch McConnell now trails his Democratic opponent Alison Grimes by 45/43.
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Republicans Owe Us 24 Billion Dollars Plus for the Government Shutdown
As the GOP fear mongers about the deficit in spite of reality, Republicans owe this country at least $24 billion for the government shutdown.
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Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and House Republicans Are Plotting Another Government Shutdown
Sens. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and House Republicans are already plotting another government shutdown/default crisis in an attempt to stop the ACA.
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It’s a BFD: A Smiling Joe Biden Welcomes Federal Workers Back with Muffins
Vice President Joe Biden welcomes thousands of federal workers back with muffins and his BFD grin.
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Obama Movingly Tells House Republicans That Disagreement Can’t Degenerate Into Hatred
President Obama schooled House Republicans on why they can’t let their disagreement with him turn into hatred that breaks the government, and offered three areas where he thinks both sides can agree.
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Son of Slain WI Sikh Temple President Plans to Run Against Paul Ryan
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Democrat Amar Kaleka, cites failed GOP leadership and a need for stricter gun laws, in his bid to unseat Paul Ryan.
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John Hagee Says We are a Pagan Nation Without Shame
According to Hagee, “America is becoming a pagan society; we are in a moral free-fall.”
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Country Last: 144 House Republicans Voted To Destroy The US Economy With a Default
Now we know how many House Republicans want to destroy the US economy. 144 House Republicans voted for default, and against raising the debt limit.
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Cory Booker Wins in a Landslide as New Jersey Voters Reject Tea Party Madness
Democratic Mayor of Newark Cory Booker is projected to win the October 16th New Jersey special election against Republican Steve Lonegan. The vote stands right now at 55-44.
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Al Franken Calls Out The GOP, Saying We Shouldn’t Be Lurching from Crisis to Crisis
Senator Al Franken, “I hope those Members of Congress who caused this shutdown learn that the American people don’t want us to govern by lurching from crisis to crisis.”
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Meet The 18 Senate Republicans Voted to Crash The Economy By Causing a Default
When the given the choice of voting for raising the debt ceiling or a default, 18 Senate Republicans chose to vote in favor of destroying the US economy.
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Judge Denounces His Own Ruling on the Constitutionality of Voter ID Laws
Judge Richard Posner says he got it Voter ID ruling wrong, acknowledges that the result of it is vote suppression.
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Petition Demands that John Boehner and Ted Cruz Be Tried for Seditious Conspiracy
With the closing of the government, costing us millions if not billions of dollars, there may be a little caveat that even Boehner and Cruz cannot ignore or face prison – Seditious conspiracy.
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Boehner Claims GOP Fought for Bipartisanship With Totally Partisan ObamaCare Hate
John Boehner is still spinning big lies and blaming Obama for his failures, or as he calls it, being ‘bipartisan’.
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Bernie Sanders, ‘Extremists Like Cruz Have Already Done This Country Irreparable Harm.’
Sen. Bernie Sanders is warning that Sen. Ted Cruz has already harmed the country. Sanders said, ‘The right wing extremists like Cruz have already done this country irreparable harm.’
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Things Are So Bad for GOP That Conservatives Are Rooting for Dems To Take Back the House
Rob Dreher from the American Conservative writes, ‘I hope the House flips to the Democrats in 2014, so we can be rid of these nuts.’
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Republicans Have Been Crushed and Humiliated Because President Obama Said No
The fact of the matter is that it wasn’t Ted Cruz or John Boehner who caused the latest Republican crushing defeat. It was President Obama steadfastly flexing his presidential power by saying no.
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Southern Democrats Outraise Republicans in Nearly Every Competitive Senate Contest
Southern Democrats outraised their Republican counterparts this quarter in nearly every competitive Senate contest.
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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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If Democrats Were An Equal Part of the ‘Problem’ in DC, You Would Know It
Democrats haven’t asked for anything in order to refund the government or avoid default. Democrats have been willing to sign both a clean CR and DL.
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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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Alex Castellanos Accuses Democrats of Being the Extremists
Republican strategist Alex Castellanos took to a CNN op-ed to accuse the Democrats of extremism, asking “Are Democrats more extreme than the GOP?” The answer seems obvious. No. But Castellanos seems to think refusing to bow to the demands of extortionists and economic terrorists makes you an extremist. That’s funny, because when the U.S. stands…
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South Dakota Conservatives Abandon the Tea Party Government Shutdown
When the Tea Party’s base starts sound like liberals, you know the Tea Party is in trouble.
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House Republicans Implode as Tea Partiers Force Boehner to Kill His Own Debt Ceiling Bill
Not only did John Boehner have to pull his own debt ceiling bill due to tea party rebellion, but word is that the bill itself is dead.
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Obama Promises to Veto House Republican Debt Ceiling Bill If It Contains Vitter Amendment
President Obama isn’t budging an inch on the ACA, as the White House has threatened to veto any House Republican debt ceiling bill that contains the Vitter Amendment.
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The Republican Shutdown and Default Is Designed to Destroy the Legacy of Obama
Republicans have a unique and undisguised strategy to freeze the 113th Congress. It’s a one-card deck. And that card is the race card played incessantly 24/7.
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Tea Party Terrorist Republicans Are on an Economic Suicide Mission to Harm Obama
Tea party Republicans who are willing to commit political suicide to punish the people for electing an African American man as President are in the same league as any extremist terrorist.
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Republican Texas Lt. Governor Calls For President Obama to Be Impeached
As the government is shutdown and the nation is inching towards default, Texas Republican Lt. Governor David Dewhurst is calling for the impeachment of the president over the ACA and Benghazi.
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Nancy Pelosi Busts John Boehner for Trying to Sabotage the Senate Debt Ceiling Deal
Nancy Pelosi busted John Boehner for trying sabotaging the Senate deal for no reason other than to appease the Tea Party.
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President Obama Immediately Rejects House Republican Debt Ceiling Bill as Ransom
President Obama and the White House have immediately rejected the House own proposed debt ceiling bill, and labeled their attempt “ransom.”
House GOP Load Their Debt Ceiling Bill with Poison Pills That Democrats Won’t Take
The House bill is clearly meant to appease conservatives, but in the doing, it’s so bad that it seems like it’s not a serious effort to avoid default.
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Default and Run: House Republicans May Ignore Senate Debt Ceiling Bill Then Leave Town
It is being reported that House Republicans are considering ignoring the Senate debt ceiling deal, passing their own unpopular debt ceiling legislation, then leaving town.
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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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Detroit’s Kwame Kilpatrick Ruined Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years for essentially running the city as his own personal piggy bank and playpen.
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If He Were Here Today, President Lincoln Would Make the Tea Party Cry
If he were here today, Lincoln would have a lot to say that would have the Tea Party crying because he would sound a lot like Obama.
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Anonymous Puts a Missouri Town On Notice After It Denies Justice to Two Young Rape Victims
Anonymous is not impressed that Maryville, Missouri let the grandson of a GOP state official go free after a 14-year-old girl named Daisy was allegedly raped.
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Panic In the GOP: Disapproval of the Republican Party Hits A New Record High of 74%
A new ABC News/Washington Post is putting more pressure on Republicans to surrender. The poll found that disapproval of the Republican handing of the crisis has reached a record high of 74%.
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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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Proposed Senate Debt Ceiling Deal Is a Complete Crushing of the Republican Party
Do you want to know what Republicans get out of the proposed Senate debt ceiling deal? Nothing, but a crushing surrender.
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Republicans To Big Business: Guess What? We Don’t Care What You Want
The business community has finally gotten hip: you were pawns. Pawns with a lot of money. The Tea Party intends to bring you down along with the rest of us.
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House Republicans Want To Use Default As a Reason to Impeach President Obama
With their backs against the wall, House Republicans are threatening to impeach President Obama if the nation falls victim to the default that they caused.
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During the Obama Presidency Republicans Have Not Made a Single Concession to Help People
It can hardly be disputed that throughout Barack Obama’s tenure as President, Republicans have not made one concession or presented one piece of legislation to benefit the people.
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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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The Religious Right Attempts to Circumvent the Constitution By Claiming Academic Freedom
The latest attempt by the religious right to circumvent the Constitution involves claiming that prohibiting teachers from teaching the bible as science infringes on their academic freedom.
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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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Sarah Palin Decries The Use of Vets as Props While Using Vets as Props at Million Vet March
While using veterans as props, Sarah Palin decried the use of vets as political props at the heavily politicized million vet march.
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China Calls For a ‘De-Americanised’ World Thanks to GOP Shutdown & Default Threat
China’s official news agency wonders why America is in charge when it’s creating mayhem in the financial markets. They called for a ‘de-Americanised’ world.
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Paul Krugman Demolishes the Republican Fantasy that 2014 Will Be About Obamacare
On ABC’s This Week, Paul Krugman opened up a can of whoop-facts on desperate Republicans who are desperately hanging on to the belief that the 2014 election will be about Obamacare.
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Republicans Impress the Kochs By Harming The Nation With Their Government Shutdown
The offers that Republicans have made to raise the debt ceiling are pure snake oil with the a Koch brothers seal of approval.
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John McCain Threatens Revenge on Democrats if They Humiliate Republicans on Govt Shutdown
John McCain tried to sound scary from beneath the pin of GOP defeat, “Democrats better understand something, what goes around comes around!”
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Rand Paul Makes A Fool Of Himself Trying to Blame Obama For the Government Shutdown
On CNN State of the Union, Sen. Rand Paul made a fool of himself by repeating the same blame Obama talking points that he admitted on video were his strategy for winning the shutdown.
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Democrats Are Onto Republicans’ Dirty Bombs and Need to Hold Firm for the Country
Democrats are not ‘giving in’ to Republican hostage taking – that is, they are not allowing the country to be held up. They need to beware the short term funding bait.
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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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Castro Wannabe Ted Cruz Wins Valueless Voters Straw Poll
Ted Cruz was the winner of the yearly “theogasm,” being nominated the man best equipped to destroy America’s experiment in democracy
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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 Koch Brothers Seditious Shutdown Conspiracy Should Get Them 20 Years in Prison
The DOJ will have an easy time prosecuting and convicting the Kochs because there are money trails leading directly to PACs whose primary purpose was inciting opposition to the established law.
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Republican Rep. Morgan Griffith Compares a Default to the American Revolution
Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) suggested today that defaulting on our debt would be as patriotic as the American Revolution.
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House Democrats Pull an End Around To Try To Overthrow Boehner and Reopen Government
186 Democrats signed a petition to demand a vote as soon as October 14th to reopen government, using the Republicans own bill against them.
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Reid Schools Republicans, ‘The government should open because it never should have been closed.’
Sen. Harry Reid didn’t fall for the GOP dirty bomb. He said, “The government should open because it should never have closed in the first place.”
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Senate Republicans Block Harry Reid’s Bill To Raise The Debt Ceiling Through 2014
Even though Senate Republicans blocked the bill, Harry Reid set the bar high today with the vote to extend the debt ceiling through 2014.
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Obama Gives Republicans Nothing By Rejecting Boehner’s 6 Week Debt Ceiling Offer
Obama is giving Republicans nothing. The president has rejected John Boehner’s offer to keep his hostages by raising the debt ceiling and opening the government for six weeks.
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Cartoon of the Day – Oct. 12th, 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. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing us to see how stupid some politically driven motives really are.
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The Valueless Voters Summit Recap
Trending at the Values Voters Summit: when “a president praises a promiscuous co-ed,” it is “the definition of civilization decline”
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Republicans Need to Offer Democrats Something Real, Like Passage of Obama’s Jobs Bills
Republicans have not offered one single thing that Democrats have on their agenda. Republicans offer to end their sequestration, their hostage taking of the government and their debt ceiling ransom.
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Obama Smacks Down a Disrespectful Ted Cruz During White House Meeting
Things didn’t go well for Ted Cruz when he tried to confront President Obama at the White House today, as the president shot down his demand for changes to the ACA.
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Pelosi Slams House GOP: I think they think everybody has a trust fund
Pelosi, ‘They make noise about helping veterans, while a large number of people who are hurt are veterans, disabled veterans, veterans who are government workers who are not getting paid.’
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House Republican Tells Furloughed Federal Workers To Take Out Loans to Pay Their Bills
House Republican Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) told federal workers who have been furloughed by the government shutdown that they should go into debt by taking out loans to pay their bills.
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Government Shutdown Backfires on Republicans and Makes Obamacare More Popular
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reveals that the government shutdown has backfired on the Republicans. The government shutdown has made the ACA more popular with the American people.
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CA Governor Jerry Brown Signs Law Making Abortions More Accessible to CA Women
In a year where other states have put up hurdles to make it more difficult for a woman to exercise her reproductive choice, California is bucking the trend.
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Eric Cantor Has Rigged The Rules of the House So That The Government Stays Shut Down
Majority Leader Eric Cantor changed House procedural rules to guarantee Republicans could keep the government closed even if a bipartisan majority found a way to re-open it.
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Cartoons of the Day – Oct. 11th, 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. It’s our hope these “Cartoon of the Day” posts can help people understand exactly how childishly adults can behave by forcing us to see how stupid some politically driven motives really are.
Hate Spewing Family Research Council Asks, Why So Angry, Bro?
After years of conservatives demonizing liberalism and progressivism, atheists, Muslims, environmentalists, Pagans, moderate Christians, and, especially, members of the LGBT community, the Family Research Council is acting like they don’t understand why people are so angry. Senior Vice President Rob Schwarzwalder seems to be asking, “Why so angry, bro?” when he writes: So, the Left…
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Bernie Sanders Blasts Boehner, ‘He Is Trying to Hoodwink The American People.’
Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted John Boehner’s debt ceiling proposal, and warned that, ‘He is trying to hoodwink the American people.’
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Heads Up GOP: Rasmussen Has President Obama’s Approval Ratings Rising to 51%
As Republicans look for new ways to cave and call it winning, Rasmussen has President Obama’s approval rating on the rise at levels not seen since last spring.
