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Ted Cruz Auditions to be the Koch’s Paid Whore on Capitol Hill
Ted Cruz is spending this weekend with the Kochs, and what is going on in that ocean-side retreat has nothing to do with family values
Tagged 2016 Elections
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House Republicans Go On Vacation Without Voting On Fast Track
Apparently going nowhere for now in the Nation’s Capital are the three pieces of stinko trade legislation that nobody wants to register a vote for or against before confronting voters.
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While Other Candidates Tap Millionaires, Sanders Campaign Is Fueled By Small Donations
Bernie Sanders’ campaign is a grassroots movement, while most of the other campaigns are backed by millionaires and billionaires.
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Trump Would Be GOP Nominee if Vote Were Held Today
Trump’s play to misery, that “We are really far down” and “We are in big trouble” have found resonance among the Republican base
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Bernie Sanders Gets Major Environmental Endorsement
The campaign of Bernie Sanders scored a major coup Saturday, earning the first endorsement of any candidate by a national environmental group, Friends of the Earth. Granted, the field is limited to Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, given that no living Republican candidate will ever earn the endorsement of any environmental group, local, state, or…
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Donald Trump Becomes The Face Of The GOP As He Surges To Huge Lead In Iowa
Donald Trump’s 16 point lead in the GOP field in Iowa, has made him the de facto face of the Republican Party.
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Ann Coulter Wants to be Donald Trump’s Head of Homeland Security
Ann Coulter sees Homeland Security’s task to hunt criminals (i.e. people who don’t speak English), and impose Anglo-Protestantism on all
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Bernie Sanders Rules Out Third Party Run If He Doesn’t Win Democratic Nomination
Bernie Sanders explicitly ruled out a third party presidential bid if he fails to secure the Democratic nomination.
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President Obama Says He Could Win A Third Term If The Constitution Didn’t Prevent It
In an off the cuff remark, during his visit to Africa, Barack Obama proclaimed that he could win a third term as president.
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Bush, Cruz, Rubio and Walker To Attend Koch Brothers’ Summit To Grovel For Their Support
Several of the leading GOP candidates are planning to attend a Koch-sponsored event in Southern California to court billionaire donors.
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Fox News Outnumbered Panel Have Bizarre Idea that Trump is Sticking it to the Man
Andrew Napolitano said if Marco Rubio “said exactly what he thought … he’d be higher in the polls. They can take a lesson from The Donald”
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Supposedly God’s Own Party, the 2016 GOP Still Doesn’t Care What Jesus Said
By the time children step foot in school again this fall, it will have been two years since Pope Francis cautioned that the Church had become “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception. “It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.” Indeed, it is not. Jesus never mentioned any of them….
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Ted Cruz Sells His Soul to Frackers for $15 Million
Ted Cruz just brought in the largest campaign contribution in the 2016 election cycle, from a pair of rich Texas frackers
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Donald Trump May Be the Worst Thing to Happen to the Religious Right
Trump doesn’t seem impressed by the Religious Right and has shown no signs that he feels the need to impress them, or even that they matter
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GOP Unity Blows Up As Ted Cruz Tries To Win GOP Nomination By Bashing McConnell
Ironically, Ted Cruz appears to be running for president as an opponent of GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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First I Shook Jeb’s Hand; Then I Shook My Head
- Commentary, Elections, Issues, Media, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, White House
A 2013 Gallup Poll of 65 countries that considered the U.S. the greatest threat to world peace. Elect Jeb Bush and that number will double.
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Struggling To Stay Relevant, Rand Paul Takes Chainsaw To US Tax Code
Presidential hopeful Kentucky Senator Rand Paul released a video of him carving up pages of the tax code with a chainsaw.
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Time To Stop Treating Jeb Bush As A Serious Candidate As He Dips to 7 Percent In Iowa Poll
A Monmouth Poll finds former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is polling just 7 percent with likely Iowa Republican caucus voters.
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Sanders And O’Malley Appear Politically Tone Deaf To Black Lives Matter Protest In Phoenix
Sanders and O’Malley both failed to address the “Black lives matter” protesters in a substantive or even symbolically meaningful way.
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Huffington Post Moves Coverage of Donald Trump from Politics to Entertainment
Liberals and independents must avoid the temptation, like Republicans, to dump reality when we don’t find it lining up with our preconceptions
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Jeb Bush’s Message To Working Americans Is Work Longer, Harder, and For Less
Jeb Bush wants to abolish the federal minimum wage, deny workers overtime pay, and raise the retirement age for social security.
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Trump Says “The Hispanics Love Me”, But New Poll Shows They Can’t Stand Him
While Trump was bragging that Hispanics loved him, a new poll found that 81 percent of Hispanic voters had an unfavorable opinion of Trump.
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GOP Donors Preferred The Dumbed Down 2012 Rick Perry To The New Improved Rick Perry
Rick Perry raised just 1.07 million dollars in the 2nd quarter of 2015. In 2012, he raised 17 million during his 1st quarter of fundraising.
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As Trump Calls Him Stupid, Jeb Complains President Obama Uses Big Words
“Big syllable words and lots of fancy conferences and meetings and – We’re not leading. That creates chaos. It creates a more dangerous world”
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Political Prediction Guru Nate Silver Says Bernie Sanders Could Win Iowa and New Hampshire
Sanders could win the two early contests on the strength of white liberal voters, but Clinton still holds the advantage nationally.
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One Bush is Like Another: Jeb Doesn’t Know. Jeb Doesn’t Care
It is hard to believe Jeb Bush really wants to be president, with the things he says. Maybe it’s just that he’s missing a Dick Cheney of his own
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Sean Hannity Helps Rand Paul Find Excuses For the Things He Used to Believe
Ah, the comforting embrace of Sean Hannity, where “that was then” is answer enough to questions about issues that affect millions
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Does Ted Cruz Actually Think He Can Win in 2016?
“I am running for president and I hope to earn your support,” Ted Cruz tweeted last night. Does he really think he can get it?
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PolitiFact: Scott Walker Lied About Unsealing his College Records
Habitual liar Scott Walker has said he released his college records, but as PolitiFact has shown, this is just another lie
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The Entire GOP Field for 2016 is as Tainted as a Bucket of Rotten Meat
We are already well on our way to becoming a 13th century-ish, Islamic State-like apparatus of repression
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Critics Claim Hillary Has an Income Inequality Problem
Have we really reached the point where asking the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes is a form of vilification?
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It’s On! Ben “I’m not crazy” Carson Exploring 2016 Presidential Bid
Feeling “fingers from God” but assuring us he is not crazy, Ben Carson has appointed an Iowa operative for a possible presidential run in 2016
