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Democrats Must Go on the Offensive and Topple Trump’s Rotten, Treasonous Regime
Michael Flynn led the chants of “Lock her up!” Well, we know who should be locked up, and Flynn is only the first. He should be far from the last.
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Opinion: Trump’s Rhetoric Implies the U.S. Constitution is Disgraceful
Trump is really calling the checks and balances and separation of powers in the Constitution “disgraceful” because he refuses to accept they apply to him.
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Opinion: One Politician Shows How To Handle The Threats Of Blowhard Bully Trump
Trump blithely talked about destroying the career of a man who disagreed with Trump on a policy issue and Senator Leach is mad as hell about it.
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Trump’s Presidency Is Officially A Dumpster Fire As Voters Trust SNL More Than Trump
A new Public Policy Polling poll revealed that American voters have so little trust Trump that they find Saturday Night Live to be more credible than the President.
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Opinion: Trump Is Attempting to Delegitimize Barriers To His Tyranny
Trump spends no small amount of time casting aspersion on the judiciary, the press, and the intelligence community; because they do their jobs.
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Trump Disingenuously Takes The Credit For Jobs That Were Created Under Obama
At a meeting with his economic advisory council on Friday, President Trump took credit for a January 2017 jobs report that he had nothing to do with as for nearly two-thirds of the month Obama was president.
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Paul Krugman Warns Either Trump or the Republic Will Be Gone Within a Year
“Either he or the republic, in any meaningful sense, will be gone quite soon. I have a hard time seeing one year, let alone four”
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Malia Obama Takes a Stand Against Trump and for Standing Rock at #NoDAPL Protest
“It was amazing to see Malia…to witness…a woman coming into her own outside of her family and outside of the attachments that this country has on her”
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The Resistance Won’t Be Denied, Activists Detained for Disrupting Trump Inaugural
“Today we disrupted President Trump’s swearing-in ceremony to show the world, and our fellow Americans, that the resistance starts now,†said one of the activists, Claire Sandberg with AllofUs.
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One Exchange Shows Why Trump’s Russia Scandal Will Also Take Down Mike Pence
One exchange between VP-elect Mike Pence and Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday showed why Pence would not survive Trump’s Russia scandal.
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Friday Fox Follies – Trump Comedy Gold
In a week when Der Googalizer taught ‘Merka about golden showers, another sexual harassment suit against Bill O’Reilly almost disappears.
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Disaster For Trump As Senate Intelligence Committee To Investigate Trump/Russia Connection
As Donald Trump prepares to take office, the Senate Intelligence Committee has announced a bipartisan investigation into Russian election hacking and any connections between Russia and any members of campaigns.
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Donald Trump Has A Meltdown And Jeopardizes Free Press With Attack On CNN
President-elect Donald Trump is still full on histrionic about CNN running the bombshell Trump Russia Compromise story and he just can’t get over it, even though he spent eight years doing much worse to President Obama, based on much less.
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Trump Refuses To Answer Whether Or Not He Had Contact With Russia During Campaign
Donald Trump was asked point blank if he had any contact with Russia during the campaign, and the president-elect refused to answer the question.
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Friday Fox Follies – Why Fox’s Santa Is White
Once again the top rated basic cable channel proves that if it weren’t for White Privilege, Fox “News” would have no privilege at all.
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Senate Democrats Hit Trump With Bill Requiring Him To Disclose and Divest Conflicts Of Interest
Senate Democrats are using the day when Donald Trump was supposed to hold his press conference explaining how is going to separate himself from his business conflicts of interest to announce legislation that would require the president and vice-president election to publicly disclose and divest all conflicts of interest.
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Trump Will Be In Violation Of The Constitution On Day One According To White House Ethics Lawyer
Former Obama White House ethics lawyer Norm Eisen is warning that Donald Trump will be in violation of the Constitution on day one of his administration if his does not divest himself of his business interests. Video: .@NormEisen: Trump "must divest from all business interests, or he will be in violation of the Constitution from…
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Calls Grow For A New Presidential Election To Be Held After Russia Meddled To Help Trump
It is finally being said out loud, in public, on national television. America may need to hold a new presidential election after Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump.
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Ethics Lawyers Urge Trump To Be As Ethical As Bill Clinton On Conflicts Of Interest
Why won’t Donald Trump do as much as Bill Clinton did to separate himself from his business interests? For all of Donald Trump’s smearing of Hillary and Bill Clinton and their foundation, it’s telling that when it comes down to it, once again Donald Trump doesn’t even try to uphold the most basic of standards.
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Friday Fox Follies – Happy Trumpsgiving!
This week Friday Fox Follies exposes the 2 biggest lies told on Fox, interesting internal internecine insurgencies, and the usual hypocrisy.
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In a shift, Trump assails U.S. protesters, then praises their ‘passion’
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump denounced Americans who protested against his election and hours later praised them on Friday, underscoring contradictions that have raised questions about his leadership style.
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Friday Fox Follies – The Politics of Political Correctness
With the election over and the Politically Incorrect President Elect choosing his cabinet, Fox “News” now calls for Political Correctness.
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Fox News Calls for Special Prosecutor to Investigate Hillary Clinton
“If she gets elected on November 8th, this isn’t going away. So what needs to happen, special prosecutor? She can’t investigate herself as the president-elect”
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Delusional Trump Thinks He Can Still Surprise Us With His Nastiness
No amount of nasty words will prove to the world, or to American voters, that Donald Trump is qualified to be President of the United States
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Real Email Scandal Exposed: Tim Kaine Busts Donald Trump for Asking Russia to Hack Clinton
Donald Trump is a danger to national security because he actually encouraged Russia to hack Clinton’s emails, Kaine explained patiently on ABC’s “This Week,” as the media focused on the FBI report “raising new questions” about Hillary Clinton’s emails.
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Trump’s Assassination Suggestion Is Typical For Republicans
Trump’s comment about violence against Hillary Clinton proves he is an NRA Republican and that guns are the solution to political rivals.
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Trump is Responsible for What Unstable People with Guns People Hear
“You get to a certain point in this business, you’re not just responsible for what you say, you are responsible for what people hear. “
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Chaos In Cleveland As Newt Gingrich Attacks the Bush Family for Refusing to Back Trump
Newt Gingrich accused the Bush family of behaving “childishly†simply because they had the prescience to avoid the Trump clownshow, aka the Republican National Convention.
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Republican Disaster In The Making As Newt Gingrich Emerges As Trump VP Front Runner
The ever fresh family-values hypocrite and attempted Clinton-destroyer Newt Gingrich has emerged as a frontrunner on Donald Trump’s VP list.
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As Healthcare Firm Flees Kansas, CEO Says Gov. Sam Brownback Should Resign in Shame
It is far past the time that Sam Brownback and his cronies admit the damage…to the people of Kansas and resign in the shame they deserve.
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3 Million Muslims, 5 Million Assault Rifles – Muslims Are Not the Problem
How can Islam be the problem when there are just over 3 million Muslims in the United States, but over 5 million assault rifles?
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The South is Still Fighting for Its ‘Peculiar Institution’ – Slavery
The unfortunate fact is that even were we rid at last of the symbols of the Confederacy, we would not be free of the hate that inspired them in the first place.
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Obama Blasts Senate Republicans: I’ve Done My Job, Now Do Yours
President Obama has unleashed a powerful election-year message by calling out Senate Republicans for their historic obstruction.
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Kansas Republicans Starting to Rebel Against ‘Trickle-Down’ Brownback
‘If Governor Brownback won’t reconsider any of the tax cuts, he will have to figure out for himself how to balance the budget.”
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Dennis Hastert Abuse Exposes Hypocrisy of Republican Family Values
There is a sort of aura of festering evil surrounding Hastert that permeates the GOP. We’ve seen how little Family Values really mean
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Democrats Are Carrying Republican Water with Personal Character Attacks
The following is an editorial by PoliticusUSA’s co-publisher Sarah Jones. Demoralized Democrats are depressed today because they’ve had an entire primary of issue indulgence, with excellent presidential candidates focused on policy and issues that matter deeply to the base. The Democratic primary has truly been a cornucopia of issues, a fact that made a sharp…
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GOP Tyranny As Brownback’s GOP On the Verge Of Nullifying Kansas’ Judiciary
Brownback’s new ploy would make it possible for the Republican legislature to impeach any judge who goes against Republican dogma
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Trump Gets Booed By Debate Audience For Saying Bush Lied About WMDs
Donald Trump was booed at the CBS Republican debate for stating that George W. Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq, and that he is responsible for 9/11.
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Did Netanyahu Just Promise Vengeance for Obama’s Iran Nuclear Accord?
Benjamin Netanyahu did not like Barack Obama’s refusal to grant him control of U.S. foreign policy and a Kuwaiti paper says he wants revenge
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Constitutional Dunce Scalia Needs To Be In An Asylum, Not SCOTUS
Scalia may have surpassed charlatans like David Barton in an attempt to “establish Christianity” as the nation’s state religion
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Pathological Liar Paul Ryan Shows He Knows Nothing About ISIS and Refugees
Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) press conference about ISIS and the Syrian refugees was riddled with inaccuracies, misunderstandings, and claimed ignorance.
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Conservatives Use Paris Attack To Demand That President Obama Resign From Office
Just days after the world learned once again that Bush ignored warnings that Americans would be killed on home soil, conservatives have decided that the attacks that took place across the ocean mean President Obama needs to resign.
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Huckabee Wants to Thank SCOTUS for Their “Thoughts and Opinions” And Ignore Them
Mike Huckabee says he gets to decide what is constitutional or not, not the Supreme Court, which is given that job by the Constitution
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A Tea Party Fascist Will Be Second In Line To the Presidency By Halloween
The two leading candidates for House speaker are mirror images and both will dutifully follow the Ted Cruz shut-down-the-government agenda
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New Mexico Republican Secretary Of State Facing 65 Criminal Charges For Corruption
Dianna Duran faces 65 criminal charges for corruption, ranging from fraud, embezzlement, and money laundering to identity theft.
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Donald Trump Preposterously Claims Syrian Refugees Could Launch Military Coup
Inventing numbers and facts, Trump comes to the conclusion that Syrian refugees are a Trojan Horse who will launch a military coup in the US
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Kim Davis To Get an Award From Family Research Council for Excellence in Bigotry
Based on a fantasy version of the US Constitution, the Religious Right hails Kim Davis as a Savior and Gives her a Medal for Bigotry
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Various Ways Kim Davis Clones Are Throwing Tantrums Over Marriage Equality
There are other Kim Davis’ around the country. Some of them are County Clerks. Others are Judges and the once impeached Chief Justice of a State Supreme Court.
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Oklahoma Supreme Court Shocker: Earthquake Lawsuit Against Oil Industry Can Proceed
It was encouraging, then, that in a Republican-controlled state virtually owned by the oil industry, a High Court issued a procedural ruling that has the potential to hold the oil industry liable for injuring Oklahoma residents and damaging their property.
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Those Who Blame Obama For The Nation’s Epidemic Of Gun Violence Are Wrong
So to blame Obama for any failure to change the laws is to lash out at one of the few people willing to take on the NRA. That’s not helping.
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Obama and Science Score A Big Win As Judge Tosses Challenge to Climate Change Rule
Some will call this a win for President Obama or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which it is. But it’s really a win for all of us who are based in reality and thus realize that poisoning our environment is killing people.
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Friday Fox Follies – Fox & Frenzy
Standard weekly operating procedure for Friday Fox Follies is to wake up at the crack of Fox and Friends First (no pun intended) to collate the notes that will make up this week’s laugh riot. As I sort and give it shape, I also sit through Fox & Friends to see what venom is being injected into the body politic today.
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Republicans Push the Benghazi Video Lie to Discredit Hillary Clinton
But there really was an offensive video, and it did actually offend Muslims, and it did actually play a role in the attack that left four Americans dead
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Oklahoma Rep. Says He’d Set Self on Fire Over Abortion – if Only His Beliefs Allowed It
You really have to admire the courage of Religious Right figures who, like Jerry Boykin and the Benham brothers, say they are willing to die for their beliefs, especially when there is absolutely no risk at all of that actually happening. I guess it makes them feel like men (or women) and they get some…
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It’s Getting Hard to Tell Where Sovereign Citizens End and Republicans Begin
Both Republicans and so-called sovereign citizens are citizens and subject to federal authority. If not, we should rethink deportation laws
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Obama Approval Soars: President Is Now More Popular Than Bush and Equal To Reagan
Thanks to a growing economy President Obama’s approval rating has reached its highest level since May of 2013. Obama is now more popular than George W. Bush, and as popular as Ronald Reagan was at the same point in their second terms.
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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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Boehner’s Pathetic House Can Only Pass A One Week Funding Bill For Homeland Security
In a display of failed Republican leadership, John Boehner and House Republicans could only pass a one week funding bill for Homeland Security.
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Bill Maher Calls On President Obama To Right Another Wrong By Legalizing Pot
Barack Obama has been a president who has righted many wrongs in our country. With this in mind, Bill Maher urged the president to legalize pot and pardon all nonviolent drug offenders who are currently incarcerated.
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The Numbers Don’t Lie: Intense Republican Hate Is Skewing Obama Polls
A Pew examination of presidential poll numbers revealed that intense Republican hatred of President Obama weighs down his job approval numbers.
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Even Republicans Know They’re Failing: Call GOP Run Congress A Rickety Ship of Disasters
All those big campaign promises evaporated the minute Republicans took control of both chambers. Once they had to actually do something instead of just pointing fingers, all of the big talk and swagger quickly turned to dust.
The Forces of Nullification Behind Opposition to Boehner
This is really about opposition to Obama, and in violation of the Constitution, forcing him into the role of a compliant puppet of Congress
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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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House Republicans Want To Cancel President Obama’s State Of The Union Address
House Republicans hit a new level of petty as a group of hardcore Obama haters want to cancel the president’s State Of The Union address.
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Archbishop of Chicago Defends Obama’s Immigration Executive Action
Immigration reform is not just something the bishops want, says Cupich, but God himself. How successful will the GOP be saying ‘no’ to God?
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President Obama Single-Handedly Protects Americans’ Health and Combats Climate Change
Now, every Republican and related conservative is under the illusion that providing for the general welfare means providing for the fossil fuel industry, corporations, the wealthy, Christian clergy, and financial sector’s general welfare, but that is not what the Founding Fathers or the first four American presidents believed; neither does President Barack Obama.
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Tom Tancredo Says Republicans in Congress Have Stockholm Syndrome
Tancredo says GOP is impotent. Impotent yes. Because they’re ideologically blinkered idiots. Not because they identify with their “captor” Obama.
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Obama Surging As Second Poll Find Broad National Support For Immigration Executive Action
A poll by Hart Research on behalf of Americans United For Change has found broad popular support among Democrats (91%), Independents (57%), and 41% of Republicans for President Obama’s executive orders on immigration.
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Americans’ World-Leading Ignorance Empowers GOP’s Immigration Opposition
Republicans are well-aware of the overwhelming ignorance plaguing the population, most of whom make up the GOP base, and it is why they claim the President’s immigration action is illegal, unconstitutional, dictatorial, a prelude to ethnic cleansing, and something about internment camps.
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The Noose Tightens As Boehner Walks Into Obama’s Trap By Vowing To Stop Him On Immigration
President Obama has set the Republicans up, and John Boehner walked into the president’s trap today by vowing to stop him on immigration.
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After Immigration Speech Republicans Admit That Obama’s Got Them By The Balls
Behind the scenes, Republicans are not feeling too good about Obama’s executive action on immigration. They say they feel like Obama has them by the balls, according to MSNBC political correspondent Kasie Hunt.
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Pelosi Slams Republican Failure While Praising Obama for Strong Leadership
Pelosi detailed the threats Republicans have been making against President Obama for doing what all modern presidents before him have done, and then urged people not to listen to Republicans on immigration reform, saying we “welcome President Obama’s meaningful, courageous and imminent action.”
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Republican Rep. Mo Brooks Calls For President Obama to Be Sent To Prison for Five Years
Republican Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama thinks they can send President Obama to prison for 5 years for doing what every other modern president has done by taking executive action on immigration reform.
Republicans Can’t Stop Obama: Boehner Told He Can’t Defund Immigration Executive Orders
President Obama has won again as a Republican House committee has notified congressional Republicans that it is impossible to defund Obama’s executive orders on immigration.
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The Meltdown Begins: Boehner Responds To Immigration Action By Calling Obama a Lawless Emperor
The Republican meltdown is off and running. Speaker of the House John Boehner’s office responded to the news that President Obama will announce his executive actions on immigration by calling the president a lawless emperor.
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Latest Obamacare Scandal is Just More Republican Hypocrisy and Lies
Media Matters went to the trouble of exposing the GOP’s latest Obamacare scandal on Thursday, three days before CNN made a big deal bout it
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GOP Lie Debunked: Every President Since Eisenhower Used Executive Authority On Immigration
Every president since and including Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower has taken executive action on immigration without facing threats of lawsuits, government shutdowns, impeachment, or loss of executive authority.
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Obama’s Immigration Taunt Works As Congressional Republicans Descend Into Chaos
President Obama’s taunts of unilateral action on immigration have worked as chaos and disunity are ripping through Republicans before they take the majority in Congress.
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The GOP is Getting Hysterical Over Impending Immigration Executive Action
Republicans are even talking about embarrassing themselves with another lawsuit, like the one that worked so well with healthcare reform
Since Florida Is Too Smart For Him Allen West Flees To Texas To Work At A “Think Tank”
“Think tank” and Allen West are not words you might expect to find in a sentence together. But it has come to this.
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Friday Fox Follies – The Midterm Election Edition
The recent midterm elections has Fox “News” as giddy as Sarah Palin in front of a microphone.
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Bernie Sanders Busts Boehner and Terrifies Republicans By Exposing Who Really Poisoned The Well
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) busted John Boehner’s threats against Obama and did something that Republicans don’t want to hear. Sen. Sanders explained how Republicans have poisoned the well against the American people.
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Democratic Governor Pat Quinn’s Loss The Headline For A Rough Election Night In Illinois
Nine hour voting lines in my hometown city of Chicago wasn’t the only unfortunate news coming out of the Land of Lincoln this morning. For the first time since 1998, with 99 percent of the state’s precincts reporting, Illinois has a Republican Governor.
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Joni Ernst Goes all Palin, Calls Obama an Apathetic Dictator
Whoa there…wait a minute. He is a dictator AND he is apathetic? How can he be both? He’s running amok AND not doing anything?
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Hey Republicans, Hate and Bigotry are not Values, They’re Character Flaws
Rick Santorum claims if he hadn’t been persecuted into silence, he could have convinced millennials to be hateful bigots like he and his buddies
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Michele Bachmann Calls Obama a Dictator Based On Her Fallacies About Immigration Actions
Michele Bachmann is making the most of her exit tour, whipping her constituents up into a frenzy over President Obama’s imaginary legalization of terrorists.
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America, Our Children Are Being Punished for Excluding God from Pledge of Allegiance
One student was told that failing to stand is disrespectful to members of the U.S. military; another was told the law required him to stand
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Right-Wing Justice Scalia is Crusading to Establish Religion by Constitutional Fiat
Koch and Vatican surrogate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a judicial sermon at Colorado Christian University and informed 400 faithful Christians that the separation of church and state “doesn’t mean the government cannot favor religion over non-religion.”
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Former GOP ‘Attack Dog’ Barbara Comstock Flees Reporter’s Simple Question
Barbara Comstock (R-VA) fleeing a debate with Fairfax County supervisor Democrat John Foust after she compared immigrants to FedEx packages.
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Republicans Deploy The Buffoon Squad Of Rick Perry and Sarah Palin To Save Kansas For The GOP
With Republicans losing both the governor and Senate races in Kansas, the GOP is deploying the dream duo of Rick Perry and Sarah Palin to the state to help their sinking candidates.
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John Boehner’s Lawyer Quits Because Lawsuit Against Obama Could Harm His Credibility
Speaker of the House John Boehner had to find a new lawyer to represent him in his lawsuit against President Obama after his attorney quit because he was worried that the suit could harm his credibility.
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GOP Senate Candidate Doubles Down On Michelle Nunn ‘Terrorist’ Claim In New Campaign Ad
David Perdue, the Republican candidate for Georgia’s open US Senate seat, released another ad on Wednesday doubling-down on his debunked claim that Democratic opponent Michelle Nunn funneled money to terrorist organizations through the Points of Light Foundation.
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A Confident Harry Reid Says If the Election Were Held Today, Dems Would Keep the Senate
ABC News Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny tweeted Tuesday afternoon, “Asked if he feels Democratic majority slipping away, @SenatorReid tells me: “No.”
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Sarah Palin Clone Joni Ernst Trailing Democrat Bruce Braley In Iowa Senate Race
Republicans got some bad news on Monday as a poll in a key Senate race revealed that one of their ‘rock stars’ is quickly losing steam and is now trailing against her Democratic opponent.
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Senate Report Confirms That Republicans Lied About The IRS Only Targeting Conservatives
A newly released report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations confirms that both liberal and conservatives groups received the same bad treatment and were targeted by the IRS. In short, Republicans lied about the IRS only targeting conservatives.
Democrats Remind Voters What It Means When Republicans Make Promises: Nothing
As Republicans threaten and promise a government shutdown on one hand and deny it on the other, Democrats are reminding voters of similar broken Republican promises last year.
Tea Party Congressman Threatens Government Shutdown If Obama Issues Executive Orders
On Wednesday morning, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) issued a threat to the country by saying a government shutdown will occur if President Obama follows through on his plans to issue executive orders addressing immigration.
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Mitch McConnell May Have Committed A Felony and Democrats Demand An Investigation
In a letter to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, the Kentucky Democratic Party is calling for an investigation into whether Mitch McConnell used official government resources to solicit contributions to his reelection campaign.
Republican Reaction to Ferguson Shows They Cannot be Trusted to Govern America
America’s conservatives have proved in the wake of the killing of Mike Brown that minorities will have no justice under Republican governance.
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Rick Perry’s Legal Troubles Are Symptomatic Of Other GOP Governors
The recent indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry on two felony counts in connection with alleged abuse of power for using his veto authority to coerce a publicly elected official into leaving office is about corruption.
