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Smoking Gun: Christie Aides Implicated in Retaliatory Bridge Closure
Documents released today implicate some of Chris Christie’s top aides in the lane closures that created a traffic nightmare last September.
Monthly Archives: January 2014
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The Robert Gates Books Shows Exactly Why Obama Is a Good President
The media has fallen back into one of their favorite narratives about Obama being on the defensive, but they completely missed that Robert Gates’ new book shows why Barack Obama is a good president.
Roger Ailes Claims That Democrats and the Left Want Sarah Palin Dead
Fox News head honcho Roger Ailes claims that Sarah Palin’s life is in danger because Democrats and the left want her dead.
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John Boehner Tells His Biggest Lie Yet By Claiming Obama Obstructed House Jobs Bills
Republicans are riding a three-year job-killing frenzy and still, Boehner has the temerity to claim House Republicans passed several job bills that President Obama stood on the sideline to obstruct.
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Red State Dem Steve Beshear Busts the Media’s Anti-Obamacare BS By Predicting 2014 Win
Red state Democratic governor Steve Beshear believes that ObamaCare is going to be a winner for Democrats in November of 2014, in a red state or not.
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Democratic Candidate For Congress Slams Incumbent For Not Supporting Unemployment Benefits
On Wednesday morning, Tim Sheridan, Democratic candidate for California’s 42nd District, issued a press release. The statement showed both his both his personal support for the extension of unemployment benefits and slammed his opponent, Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
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The Era of Obama Is Driving the GOP Extinct as Republican Identification Plunges
If it seems like you are watching the Republican Party vanish before your eyes, it’s because you are. According Gallup, Republican Party identification has fallen to a 25 year low of 25%.
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Leaked Memo Shows Republicans Being Coached on How to be Compassionate to the Unemployed
House Republican leaders are having to coach the entire GOP conference how to sound empathetic to the unemployed.
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The Supreme Court Disappoints With Utah Decision
Monday’s order by the Supreme Court to “suspend” same sex marriage in Utah is, to put it mildly, disappointing.
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Climate Change Deniers Using Cold Weather as Proof Exposed as Idiots By Jon Stewart
On Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart took aim at conservatives who have taken to the airwaves in the past few days to spout idiotic statements regarding climate change in light of record cold temperatures over much of the United States
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Speaker Boehner Admits That He Won’t Lift a Finger to Help Unemployed Americans
On Tuesday, after the Senate passed a bill to extend unemployment insurance to the long-term unemployed, and President Obama held a press conference requesting the GOP-led House to also pass it, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement.
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Obama Obliterates the GOP Claim that Extending Unemployment Benefits Hurts the Unemployed
President Obama responded to the Senate vote to move forward on extension of unemployment benefits by destroying the Republican argument that extending benefits hurts the unemployed.
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Watch Live as President Obama Puts the Pressure on Boehner to Renew UI
the pressure is on Speaker John Boehner to respond. Here to help the Speaker feel that pressure is your President.
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Democrats Defeat Republican Obstruction and Move Unemployment Extension Forward 60-37
Democrats have shocked the political world by getting several Republicans to join them in defeating GOP obstruction and moving on to a final vote on extending unemployment benefits.
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Mitch McConnell Offers To Extend Unemployment Benefits if Democrats Kill Obamacare
Mitch McConnell pulled a deplorable stunt on the Senate floor today when he offered to extend unemployment benefits, but only if Democrats kill Obamacare.
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Reid Goes There: Brings Up When Bush First Signed Emergency UI Benefits
That awkward moment when Senator Harry Reid reminds Republicans that unemployment is still higher than when former President Bush first signed emergency unemployment benefits into being.
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Republicans Call For An Armed Uprising Over Gay Marriage
Republicans and conservatives gathered in Utah to issue a call for an uprising against same-sex marriage.
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Gay Hating Evander Holyfield May Have Taken One Too Many Punches
In the British version of “Big Brother”, former heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield uses the bible to rip on homosexuals.
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Al Franken Says Janet Yellen Will Help Address Growing Income Inequality
Senator Al Franken praised Janet Yellen’s focus on unemployment and growing income inequality after the Senate confirmed her today.
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History Is Made As Senate Confirms Janet Yellen As the Nation’s First Female Fed Chair
With nearly 20 Senators still stuck in various parts of the country due to weather, Reid knew he had the 51 votes necessary to get her confirmed. The vote was 56-26 with a number of Republicans among the yeas.
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Thanks to Republican Unemployment Benefit Cuts the Economy is Losing $1 Billion a Week
Never satisfied until they’ve left Rome burning, Republicans upped the ante to costing the economy an estimated $1 billion dollars per week.
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Conservatives Claim Rachel Maddow Not Sarah Palin Got Martin Bashir Fired From MSNBC
There is new conservative conspiracy floating around that claims Rachel Maddow is really running MSNBC, and that Maddow got Martin Bashir fired.
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Family Values Republican Congressman Hid His Out-of-Wedlock Child and First Family
Marion Young got a $2,000-a-month lifetime alimony in exchange for her silence, so that Bill Young could play Family Values Patriarch for his Party.
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Do Nothing Congress Looks To Do Even Less In 2014 By Scheduling Only 97 Work Days
House Republican leadership unveiled the new House work calendar and it shows that the House will only be in session for 97 days prior to Election Day and 112 days through the end of the year.
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Looking Like a Sure Loser Liz Cheney Cuts and Runs On Her Hopeless Senate Campaign
Liz Cheney, recently a Fox News contributor and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, decided to dropout of the US Senate race in Wyoming on Monday.
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Darrell Issa Has Sleazy Plan to Restore Veterans’ Pensions By Privatizing the Post Office
Issa’s proposal informs that there is no bad Republican legislation that any Republican, cannot make worse to satisfy their dirty machinations to privatize the government, and kill Americans’ jobs.
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Boeing Machinist Union Members Approve a Lousy Deal to Save Their Jobs
Boeing celebrated the new year by claiming a major victory over the Machinists Union. By a 51% plurality, workers chose to OK a bad deal.
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Things Go Horribly Wrong For Fox News When They Try to Use Mitt Romney to Smear MSNBC
It was a classic Fox fail on Fox News Sunday as Chris Wallace tried everything he could think of to get Mitt Romney to criticize MSNBC, but Romney ruined the whole segment by refusing to play along.
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Harry Reid Drops A Bomb On Republicans By Threatening to Eliminate All Filibusters
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants Republicans to stop the foot dragging and obstruction. If they refuse to behave responsibly, Reid warned that he is open to eliminating all filibusters.
13
NSA Fraud Rand Paul Sells Out Edward Snowden
It appears that Rand Paul realized that since he has presidential ambitions, he needs to temper his uber-libertarian ways a bit. He started this process today by selling out Edward Snowden.
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Conservatives Call For The Lynching of President Obama
A racist conservative Facebook group “America the next generation” created a photo-shopped image of President Barack Obama with a hangman’s noose around his neck.
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Rand Paul Screws Over Republicans By Flip Flopping on Unemployment Benefits Extension
Sen. Rand Paul was leading the charge against extending unemployment benefits until on ABC’s This Week he screwed over his party, and flip flopped on the issue.
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While Lying About Obamacare Mitt Romney Calls President Obama a Dishonest Liar
Mitt Romney resurfaced on Fox News Sunday to call President Obama a dishonest and deceptive liar. The absurdity was compounded by Romney completely lying about the ACA while he attacked the president.
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Despite Bitter Cold Weekend in US, Climate Models Indicate Global Warming is Intensifying
A new study argues that models have underestimated the extent to which the doubling of carbon dioxide will affect global temperatures.
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Melissa Harris-Perry Delivers a Tearful and Completely Unnecessary Apology to Mitt Romney
Melissa Harris-Perry delivered a heartfelt and tearful, but unnecessary apology to Mitt Romney today that demonstrated the hypocrisy of the media’s treatment of the left.
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Why Conservatives Hypocritically Won’t Advocate for Marriage Equality Supporting NFL Player
The First Amendment gives citizens the right to voice their opinion without repercussions, unless that opinion is contrary to Conservative beliefs.
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Fox News and Right Wing Media Attack Journalists For Reporting the Truth About Benghazi
Real journalists’ assessment of criticism of the reporter on the ground proves that Fox News’ hosts do not understand what real journalists do because they are not journalists; they are GOP hacks.
18
American Apartheid 2014
I wrote just the other day that Americans should not expect any major progress on immigration reform in 2014. In that post, I pointed to William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), who is on record for warning that if the Tea Party can’t stop immigrant “invasion” there will be violent revolution….
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Warning! Rand Paul is Coming to a State Near You In His Push for the Presidency
While he hasn’t made it official as yet, Senator Rand Paul is a sure shot to run in the Republican primary for president. Heaven help us!
10
GOP Whines About Charlie Crist Speaking to a Gay Paper and Supporting Same-Sex Marriage
On New Year’s Eve, Watermark, a noted Florida-based LGBT publication, published an interview that the paper’s founder, Tom Dyer, had with former Florida Governor Charlie Crist.
11
Bernie Sanders Demands That The NSA Come Clean About Spying on Congress
In a letter to the NSA, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to if the agency has been spying on members of Congress and other elected officials.
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While Democrats Focus on Real Issues, Republicans Plan Another Attack on Obamacare
What are Congressional Republicans looking to focus on when they enter the chamber on Monday? Obamacare, of course!
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Clay Aiken Considering Running for Congress Against Tea Partier Renee Ellmers
North Carolina Republican Renee Ellmers’ district has been redrawn as heavily Republican, but she may be facing a challenge from a big name.
27
South Carolina Violates the Constitution With Plan For Mandatory Prayer In Public Schools
As the new year is getting underway, there is a renewed push to force prayer into South Carolina public schools.
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Bryan Fischer Rejects Constitution – Says Evolutionists Disqualified from Political Office
Fischer says that an evolutionist “does not share the political worldview that established the United States of America” – except that worldview gave us Article VI banning religious tests
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The Supreme Court Joins The Right Wing Attempt to Replace the Constitution With the Bible
The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment rights if right wing extremists have their way.
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Nervous Republican Millionaires Form SuperPAC to Defeat Coke Snorting GOP Congressman
Wealthy donors have pooled together a million dollars to form a super-PAC to oust Florida GOP Congressman Trey Radel.
Rep. Waxman Catches Republicans in Another ACA Lie and Delivers Truth Bomb With Report
On New Year’s Eve, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, published a report showing that the Republican claim that 5 million people have had their health insurance policies canceled due to the ACA is flat out false.
Young Viewers Avoid Fox News Like the Plague as Ratings Drop 30%
Fox News’ attempt to stop the flood of young viewers from fleeing the network failed as FNC lost the most young viewers of any cable news network in 2013.
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Judge Sticks It to Rick Scott By Ruling Drug Testing of Welfare Recipients Unconstitutional
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven struck down a 2011 Florida law requiring welfare applicants to undergo drug tests.
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CNN Disgraces Journalism With Hit Piece That Tries to Get Melissa Harris-Perry Fired
The “new” CNN revealed their true colors today by running a hit piece on Melissa Harris-Perry that is designed to get her fired.
22
A Trickle Down Republican Assault Is Forcing Americans To Work Themselves to Death
Now that Republicans have most Americans working for poverty wages, they can turn their full attention to those nearing their retirement age, and forcing every American to work until they drop dead.
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Obama Turns Up the Heat and Pressures Boehner to Restore Unemployment Benefits
On New Year’s Day, the White House released a statement saying in no uncertain terms that the President will push for extended benefits to be reinstated for the 1.3 million people who were cutoff last week.
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Don’t Expect 2014 to Bring Any Meaningful Change in Immigration Reform
Ask yourselves this: in what way will allowing more “icky brown people” into the country going to improve election prospects for Republican candidates who preach an America for white Evangelical males?
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Water Fountains: Memories From the Jim Crow South Remain Vivid In a Cartoonist’s Mind
Those of us who were destined to become cartoonists started remembering visual images at a very early age. Those images are often the source of certain cartoons.
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President Obama’s Approval Rating Jumps 5 Points as Millions Sign Up for Obamacare
President Obama is beginning 2014 on the upswing as millions are signing up for the ACA, and his approval rating has increased by 5 points according to Gallup.
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John Boehner Blames President Obama For Three Years of Republican Incompetence
After spending three years killing jobs, sending Americans into poverty, and damaging the economy, Boehner is doing damage control and blaming President Obama for House Republican incompetence.
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Wealthy Americans Prove Pope Francis’ Point by Threatening Economic Blackmail
Home Depot founder Ken Langone complained that the Pope is being mean to rich Americans because unlike rich people in other countries, American rich people are benefactors.
