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Orange Crushed: John Boehner Melts Down After President Obama Vetoes Keystone XL
Speaker of the House John Boehner could only react with inept rage after President Obama vetoed Keystone XL.
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Boehner Plucks OK Gov. Mary Fallin to Repeat his Keystone XL Lies in Weekly Address
In the final analysis this is government of, by, and for the people, not a group of oil-drenched Koch-whores in Congress
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President Obama Ruptures John Boehner’s Pipeline of Keystone XL Lies
President Obama went on the offensive in a New York Times interview, and appeared to argue against Keystone XL by debunking the Republicans’ pipeline talking points.
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John Boehner Lies And Won’t Tell America About His Personal Investment in Keystone XL
John Boehner continues using his position to lie to the American people to profit himself,and the oil industry that contributes heavily to his campaign. It’s time to treat him like any other criminal.
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Mitch Daniels Joins John Boehner’s Web Of Keystone XL Corruption
Americans will never get a better look at the depth of depravity Republicans sink to for the oil industry than the actions of Boehner and Daniels on Keystone XL.
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John Boehner Admits That Keystone XL Won’t Create 100,000 Jobs
The pressure may be getting to John Boehner, as the Speaker made a subtle change to his story today that served as an admission that Keystone XL won’t create 100,000 jobs.
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Demand That John Boehner Be Expelled Or Resign For Keystone XL Scandal
By pushing a pipeline that only benefits the Canadian companies that he invested in, John Boehner’s behavior is unethical and grounds for expulsion from the House.
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Corrupt John Boehner Invested In Oil Companies Then Pushed Keystone XL
John Boehner’s invested in Canada’s tar sand oil companies and then lied about the number of jobs the Keystone pipeline would create in what could be a criminal case of conflict of interest.
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Keystone XL Dies but TransCanada and Republicans Continue Lying About Pipeline
TransCanada’s Russ Girling accused Obama of “choosing misplaced symbolism over merit and science, and allowed rhetoric to win out over reason”
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Obama Refuses TransCanada Request to Suspend Keystone XL Pipeline Approval
TransCanada claims they need more time to work with American officials but the real reason is to avoid a losing battle with President Obama
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Hillary Clinton Unifies Democrats – Opposes Keystone XL On Climate Change Grounds
There must be ten or twenty immediate reasons a person can give for opposing a foreign corporation, TransCanada’s crusade to build a dangerous tar sand pipeline across America’s heartland, and they are all valid. However, the overriding, and immediate, cause for alarm should be the devastation tar sand development, production, and transport will have on…
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Boehner’s Ten Big Lies About Protecting Jobs and Growing the Economy
There is literally no bill too small for Boehner to lie about and claim it is a jobs bill.
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John Boehner Says We Finally Have a Senate That is Actually Working
Boehner’s reaction to Senate dysfunction is to claim a change of leadership in the Senate has given us a Senate that is actually working.
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Why Isn’t Boehner Touting China Over America On Climate Change?
Boehner and Republicans are also intent on defeating President Obama’s climate change initiatives on myriad fronts such as stripping the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon emissions from coal-fired electricity generating plants, or the air and water pollution related to coal mining. If Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are so intent on comparing America to China, they should embrace the President’s climate change agenda and follow the communist nation’s latest effort.
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Obama’s Cleveland Appearance Leaves Boehner No Other Option but to Lie – Again
Eviscerated by President Obama in Cleveland, Speaker Boehner had no option but to try to bury Obama’s budget in well-tried but obvious lies
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A Petition Has Been Launched To Prosecute and Expel John Boehner From Congress
This week a MoveOn.org petition began circulating for the purpose of prosecuting Speaker of the House John A. Boehner for willfully breaking a federal law when he knowingly violated the 216 year-old Logan Act.
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5 Big Whoppers from Speaker Boehner
Unwilling to do anything to help Americans, John Boehner concocts some more self-serving lies to blame Obama for his own failings
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Boehner Is A National Embarrassment For Comparing America to China and Russia
The problem with Boehner is that he is so accustomed to lying and making a laughingstock of himself, that he is likely unaware that he embarrasses himself, and America, whenever he opens his mouth.
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President Obama Plans To Quickly Veto Keystone XL Bill
The Republican passed Keystone XL will hit the president’s desk Tuesday morning. Obama is expected to quickly and quietly veto the bill in order to keep the heat on Republicans as the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security looms.
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John Boehner Shares his Scott Walker-Like Delusions About Foreign Policy
You might remember how John Boehner went all Stepford-like on Fox News Sunday and screamed that he was going to shutdown Homeland Security, and oh by the way it’s all Obama’s fault? If you didn’t watch the entire interview, you missed a few other Boehner nuggets. This is what Boehner is saying, that his interview…
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John Boehner Falsely Claims House Focused Squarely on Jobs and the Economy
John Boehner continues to pretend he cares about jobs while pushing his Keystone XL get rich quick scheme on the American people
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EPA Finding Signals The Death Knell For The KeystoneXL Pipeline
Republicans and the Koch brothers make no secret that next to taxes, there is no part of the federal government they despise more than the EPA, so it is a major slap in their faces that it was the agency they hate above all others that delivered the death knell of their 8 billion-dollar dream project.
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Boehner’s Latest Attempt to Hoodwink America Fails Like the Rest
Boehner twisted history to claim that “the American people can’t afford a repeat of the same old top-down policies of the past”
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Koch Congress Still Pushing Keystone After Four Pipeline Explosions In A Month
Of all the reasons to not build the Keystone pipeline, one that is often overlooked, and ignored by the corporate media, is the real and present danger of a break in TransCanada’s rupture-prone pipeline the company claims is safe and environmentally friendly.
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Time To Prosecute House Speaker John Boehner For Violating Federal Law
Like every common criminal, or once-convicted felon, who continues to escape punishment for violating the law, Boehner continues his unethical, and now illegal, behavior because he truly believes he IS above the law. It is time to disabuse Boehner of that belief and restore the American people’s faith in the nation’s justice system.
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Boehner’s SOTU Fact-Checking Blames Obama for Income Inequality
The sad fact of Republican fact-checking is that their fact-checking needs to be fact-checked, and this was never more true last night.
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More Bad News For Republicans As 61% Support President Obama On Keystone XL
On the eve of the State Of The Union, Republicans were hit with more bad news as 61% of those surveyed in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll supported President Obama’s position on Keystone XL.
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GOP Civil War: Tea Party Congressman Rips Speaker John Boehner For Poor Leadership
Continuing GOP civil war, Rep. Richard Nugent of Florida vents Tea Party dissatisfaction with John Boehner’s leadership and competence.
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Republican Senator Admits GOP Doesn’t Have The Votes To Override Obama Keystone XL Veto
Republican Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) grudgingly admitted on Fox News Sunday that Senate Republicans don’t have the votes needed to override President Obama’s expected veto of a bill authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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John Boehner Votes to Create 35 Jobs! It’s a Jobgasm!
Keystone XL will create 35 permanent jobs, not even one person from every state in the Union. Maybe we should have a lottery for each state!
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House Republicans Pass Keystone XL Bill But Don’t Have The Votes To Override Obama Veto
House Republicans have passed a bill authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline by a vote of 266-153. President Obama is certain to veto the bill, and House Republicans don’t have the votes needed to override his veto.
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John Boehner Throws A Fit Over President Obama’s Threat To Veto Republican Bills
Speaker of the House John Boehner threw a tantrum during his press conference because President Obama refused to give Republicans any advantage before he issued his veto threats.
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Corrupt John Boehner Conspires With Foreigners Against America’s Best Interests
Boehner has enlisted a foreign corporation (TransCanada), the Canadian Prime Minister, and a foreign energy department to put pressure on America, and particularly its President, to approve construction of a pipeline Canada is well aware is an environmental and ecological disaster.
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The White House Vows That President Obama Will Veto Keystone XL Pipeline
The White House has put Republicans on notice by vowing that the president will veto the Republican backed bill that would authorize the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Drudge Suggests Obama Blackmailed Boehner to Get Funding Bill Passed
Because he can’t admit to the most likely explanation, insanity in his own party, Matt Drudge tweets the least likely explanation, blackmail
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Boehner And Republicans Plan To Reverse Growth Numbers and Kill Jobs
Now that Republicans will have control of both houses of Congress, they will start, immediately, passing legislation to revert back to Bush-era economics and undo the economic progress of the past six years.
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It Is Time To Investigate and Expel Boehner For Ethics and SEC Violations
Boehner needs to be thoroughly investigated by a House Ethics Committee and the Securities and Exchange Commission, thrown out of Congress, and sent straight to prison. There is precedent to expel Boehner from Congress that involves another Ohio representative, James A. Traficant.
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John Boehner Blocks Votes On Popular Bills But Accuses Obama Of Ignoring The American People
John Boehner refuses to hold votes on many bills that are popular, but the Speaker has accused President Obama of ignoring the American people by threatening to veto the Keystone XL pipeline bill.
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Bold Democrat Mary Landrieu Should Be Truthful About KeystoneXL
It may have been Democrat Howard Dean who said not long ago that if given a choice between voting for a Republican, or a Republican-lite, voters of both parties will always opt for the real Republican; because they cannot trust a Democrat pandering for votes as a Republican. It is a lesson Senator Mary Landrieu, and soon-to-be-former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, would do well to heed.
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John Boehner Plans To Help The Middle Class By Taking Away Healthcare and Raising Gas Prices
Speaker John Boehner outlined his plan to “help” the middle class during the Republican weekly address today, and his plan involved taking away health insurance from 1 million people and raising gas prices.
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Orange Turns Yellow: Boehner Readout Of Meeting With Obama Leaves Out Facts
After meeting with President Obama, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released a readout of the meeting that was missing key parts of the conversation, and read like a desperate attempt by the Republican House leader to look tough.
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McConnell and Boehner Announce Plan to Take Health Insurance Away From 1 Million Americans
Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have announced that one of the first things that the new Republican controlled Congress will do it take away health insurance from 1 million Americans.
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John Boehner Rewrites History With An Epic Lie That Blames Obama For Republican Obstruction
John Boehner’s desperation was showing on ABC’s This Week as he repeated the Republican big lie in order to blame President Obama for the fact that House Republicans refuse to do their jobs.
Nancy Pelosi Debunks John Boehner’s 40 Jobs Bills Myth
Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office has been putting out fact sheets on the Boehner jobs bills, and lo and behold, it’s true. They aren’t jobs bills, which is sort of a duh moment because if Republicans wanted jobs they would have passed President Obama’s fully paid for American Jobs Act after making adjustments to it.
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As His Lawsuit Disintegrates Boehner Falls Apart During A Woozy Tirade Against Obama
Republicans thought it would be a super idea to post this little sound bite of Speaker John Boehner looking woozy and ragey at the same time, accusing President Obama of never taking responsibility for anything.
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Boehner’s Blame Game Pivots from ‘This is Too Hard’ to It’s All Obama’s Fault
Speaker John Boehner pivoted on his blame game Tuesday, from mocking his own party with “This is too hard!” last week, to blaming President Obama for Republican failures today.
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Worst Speaker Ever: Republicans Ignore Boehner and Refuse To Pass Clean Debt Limit Hike
A day after John Boehner told them to pass a clean debt ceiling increase, House Republicans ignored him and can’t agree on a bill to avoid economic disaster.
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John Boehner Threatens President Obama With Impeachment Over Use Of Executive Orders
On Tuesday morning, at a breakfast discussing the State of the Union address later in the evening, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) told reporters that President Obama is on dangerous ground on his use of executive orders.
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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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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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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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The Vile Koch Scheme to Make $100 Billion Destroying The Environment With KeystoneXL
The dirty energy fascist Koch Brothers are planning to make tens of billions of dollars off the KeystoneXL pipeline before the tar ever enters American territory.
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Boehner Angry GOP Did Not Get Free Pass on Day of Navy Yard Shooting
Republicans using the cover of the crisis to plot against Obama and the country itself, whine “no fair!” when Obama takes notice
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John Boehner is Under Federal Investigation for Campaign Finance Violations
The FEC has announced that they are investigating Speaker of the House John Boehner for accepting dozens of illegal donations from the coal, energy, and gambling industries.
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Darrell Issa, John Boehner, Clarence Thomas Lead the Republican Culture of Corruption
The level of political corruption in Republican and conservative ranks has gotten so blatant that they are finally being targeted for investigations.
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John Boehner Needs to Do More Than Stand In Front of a Wall with a Hashtag for Jobs
Speaker Boehner accused President Obama of threatening to shut down the government and pretended to care about jobs, as the House prepares to leave for recess.
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President Obama Mocks John Boehner and the Republicans For Having No Jobs Plan
President Obama mocked Republicans today for not having a jobs plan, and said, ’40 meaningless votes to repeal Obamacare isn’t a jobs plan.’
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Republicans Refuse to Investigate the Illegal Activities of the Kochs and John Boehner
If Republicans really want criminal convictions, they can look into Willard Romney, John Boehner, Koch oil associate ERM, and conservative groups’ illegal activities.
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The Media Refuses to Challenge John Boehner’s ‘Obama Scandals’ BS
The media refused to challenge Speaker Boehner on the facts that have come to light over the past week, many of which throw cold water on the Republicans’ various claims.
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John Boehner Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot, and Insults The Troops In Spectacular Fashion
John Boehner opened mouth and inserted foot in a spectacular fashion when he told Bloomberg that paying back China was a higher priority than paying the troops.
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House Republicans Try to Hijack Obama’s Constitutional Authority on Keystone XL
House Republicans have taken another step to relieve President Obama of his constitutional responsibility to approve a permit authorizing construction of Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline.
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Aerial Footage of AR Oil Spill Details What They Don’t Want You to Know About Keystone
This amazing aerial footage of the Arkansas oil spill should make Americans question why Republicans are touting Keystone as a ‘no brainer’.
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Senate Oil Whores Think American Exceptionalism Will Protect Us From a Keystone XL Disaster
It is unfortunate, but Republicans and some Democrats are plodding ahead as if America’s exceptionalism will protect it from catastrophes even as they are occurring right before their eyes.
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14 Senators Decide the Oil Industry, Not Obama, Should Make the Keystone XL Decision
A bipartisan group of Senators decided that the oil industry should makes decisions reserved for the Executive Branch and they introduced a bill giving Congress supremacy over the President.
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Republican Imposed Budget Cuts Led to Keystone XL Being Deemed Environmentally Sound
The long-awaited State Department report on the environmental impact of building the KeystoneXL pipeline was released and its results are a direct effect of spending cuts, and a Republican ploy.
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John Boehner Connected Super PAC Accused of Taking $2.5 Million in Illegal Donations
An FEC complaint was filed today against the John Boehner connected super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund for taking $2.5 million in illegal campaign contributions.
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Oil Money Drenched Congressmen Send Letter to Obama Demanding Keystone XL Approval
After the president mentioned climate change in his inaugural address, 44 Republicans and 9 Democrats responded by sending a letter to Obama demanding immediate approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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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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John Boehner Is Deliberately Killing 3 Million Construction Jobs
Americans should be irate that John Boehner and the House Republicans are deliberately killing 3 million jobs in order to enrich big oil.
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John Boehner Gives Hard Pressed Americans the Raspberry
House Speaker John Boehner spins his tired old talking points, a more than metaphorical raspberry to any real discussion of either problems or possible solutions
Republicans Hide The Fact That Keystone XL Will Raise The Price Of Gas For Americans
Republicans have been hiding a dirty little secret. The Keystone XL pipeline will actually raise gas prices for the American people.
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Obama Uses Unemployment Drop To Take Down Boehner and The GOP
President Obama used the news that the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.3% to warn John Boehner and the GOP against any attempts to wreck the economy.
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The GOP’s Senate Oil Whores Get $22.3 Million From Keystone XL Backers
The oil industry has paid 44 Senate Republicans $22.3 million in campaign contributions and they expect them to deliver on Keystone XL.
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The SEC Mulls An Investigation Calls Grow For John Boehner To Resign
As the SEC considers an investigation,a national petition is calling on John Boehner to resign or face expulsion from Congress for ethics violations.
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Did Obama’s Keystone XL Decision Prevent A Potential Environmental Disaster?
By denying the Keystone XL pipeline permit, President Obama may have prevented a repeat of the BP oil disaster that would have decimated America’s Heartland.
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Republican Job Creation Plan is the Same Old Laughable Laundry List of Lies
When Paul Ryan says “it’s time to take these lessons learned and apply them on a national scale—that’s a Better Way,” he means the same way
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It Is Time To Prosecute Republicans For Violating the U.S. Constitution
Republicans not only have no intent in fulfilling their oath of office, they may have no idea what they are swearing to support and defend.
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Republicans Have Spent 2015 Working For Foreigners, the Kochs, and Religious Extremists
Under Republican control, Congress has not laid any taxes to provide for anything, much less for the general welfare of the people,
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Republicans Have Passed 0 Jobs Bills During Their First 138 Days Running Congress
In their first 138 days in control of Congress, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have passed zero jobs bill. Instead, Republicans passed budgets that would give big tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.
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GOP-Koch Drive To Privatize Rail Service Caused Deadly Amtrak Derailment
The tragic accident was, by all accounts, entirely due to perpetually inadequate funding for the nation’s transportation infrastructure; just one of the hallmarks of Republican governance when they control the nation’s purse-strings and yet another devious means to privatizing all aspects of government for the Koch brothers.
Republicans Reeling As President Obama Is Dominating Their Congressional Majority
By using a strategy of going on offense with a clear and strong agenda, President Obama has been dominating John Boehner and Mitch McConnell’s Republican majority in Congress.
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Clinton Emails Have Provided GOP Yet Another Excuse to Cry “Benghazi”
The GOP is determined to ignore every relevant fact about Benghazi on their mission to crucify Hillary Clinton
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Legislative Paralysis Strikes Capitol Hill Under New Republican Congress
The new Republican-dominated Congress has proven unable to pass significant legislation. So far they have passed just two bills into law.
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President Obama Has Used His Executive Powers To Break The Republican Party
The fact that congressional Republicans have completely self-destructed over President Obama’s immigration executive orders illustrates how the president has used his executive powers to break the Republican Party.
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Republicans’ Rule A Death Sentence For 9 Million Disabled Americans
Republicans have shifted their focus slightly away from just killing Americans’ jobs to killing disabled Americans; nearly nine million disabled Americans.
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It’s Time To Face The Truth That Republicans Are Traitors
It is likely that throughout America’s short history, except for the traitorous Confederacy, no group of individuals has exhibited the characteristic betrayal of a traitor more than conservatives in general, and Republicans in particular.
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President Obama Swats Down Empty Republican Criticisms Of The Economy
President Obama swatted down the meager Republican criticisms of the growing economy by pointing out the big economic achievements of his administration since he took office.
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President Obama Challenges Republicans To Put Up Or Shut Up On The Middle Class
President Obama is putting Republicans on notice. The president told Republicans today that he wanted to see their ideas for helping the middle-class. In other words, it is time for Republicans to put up, or shut up.
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The GOP Wants to Turn America into the Ultimate No-Go Zone
Republicans want to replace the laws of physics and say, “This is how reality works now” but you can’t legislate reality out of existence
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This Week’s Republican Address Promises to Create Jobs and Save the Economy!
Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK) highlights the new Congress’s work to “restore truly representative government that puts the people’s priorities first”
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Democrats Found Their Identity Too Late To Help President Obama’s Agenda
If Democrats had proposed any of their current populist plans last year, Republicans would have went into the midterm elections defending their religious allegiance to the richest one-percent of income earners and their highly-profitable corporations.
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In Secret Meeting With Democrats Obama Vows To Go On Offense Against Republicans
President Obama told congressional Democrats in a closed door meeting that he planned to continue going on offense. The president vowed to defend the Democratic agenda and called on the members of his party to help sustain his vetoes.
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Thieving Republicans Robbed Americans In Their First Week Controlling Congress
It is amazing that Republicans who could not pass any legislation last year, spent the first four days of the 114th Congress stealing from women, retired and disabled Americas, large corporations’ employees, and various government departments and the Executive Branch.
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According to Republicans The 114th Koch Congress Is Focused On Koch Priorities
Republicans are beginning the 114th Congress with the mindset that “nothing is going to get in the way of our team’s focus on the Koch brothers’ priorities” in quickly passing two bills the Koch brothers demand be acted on.
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Payback Time: Obama Plans On Punishing All Of The Republicans Who Obstructed Him
It is being reported that President Obama is planning an active agenda for his final two years in office, and part of his plan is to punish all of the Republicans who have obstructed him during his time in office.
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Bernie Sanders And Congressional Liberals Team Up With Obama To Kill Corporate Tax Cuts
A group of congressional liberals being that include Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) teamed up with President Obama to kill tax cut deal that would have given hundreds of billions of dollars to the wealthy and corporations.
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Liberal Democrats Form A Hell No Caucus To Block Republicans In The Senate
Liberal Democrats flexed their muscles by coming together to block approval of the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Last night’s vote was the first move by a group of Democrats that are set to give Senate Republicans major headaches over the next two years.
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Bernie Sanders Storms CNN and Destroys Their Pro-Republican Talking Points
Sen. Bernie Sanders went on CNN today and knocked down questions that were nothing but thinly disguised Republican talking points by using facts, truth, and the history of Republican obstruction.
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GOP Heads Explode After President Obama Cuts Historic Climate Change Deal With China
On Tuesday evening, it was announced that the United States and China had come to an agreement to reduce carbon emissions and increase sustainable energy consumption.
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Republicans Are The Ultimate Takers Who Only Want To Give To The Wealthy That They Serve
Even if some Americans do grasp the concept of Republicans as the ultimate takers, they likely fail to comprehend that the GOP are ultimately monumental givers; it is that spirit of generosity that drives their habit of robbing the people.
