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Paul Krugman Strikes Back At Liberals Who Attack ‘Obamacare’
Krugman points out that with GOP control the House, it may take many years before Republicans agree to provide more funding for a healthcare system
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Complacency and EmoProgs Aided Conservatives’ Drive To Rewrite the Constitution
There have been a few articles lately that began appearing last October making a compelling case that while the 2016 Presidential race might look promising for Democrats and it appears that Republicans are in disarray, Democrats, liberals, or progressives, take your pick, are actually in deep trouble everywhere else. There is no doubt that the…
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It’s Nearly 2016 – Time For Democrats To Embrace Reality And Be Pragmatic
It is apparent that Democrats are on pace to repeat the electoral debacle of 2010 that allowed conservatives to take control of Congress
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Stop Praising A Koch Victory That Increases Climate Change and Enriches the Oil Industry
No wonder Republicans were praising themselves; just one unrelated-to-spending rider in a spending bill gave the Kochs tens-of-billions annually and endangered Americans lives and well-being; it is what Koch Republicans regard as a win-win.
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Democrats Hammer Republicans For Allowing 2,000 Terror Suspects To Legally Buy Guns
As House Republicans continue to protect terrorists’ legal ability to purchase deadly weapons, the facts are staggering: according to the GAO, over the last 11 years, more than 2,000 suspects on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist bought weapons in the United States.
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Refugee-Hating Mayor Uses Racism to Justify Discrimination
Bowers rejects allowing Syrian refugees into his city and compares them to the non-existent threat of Japanese-Americans interred in WWII
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Three New “Scientific” Polls and Rising Numbers Reveal Hillary Clinton Won The First Debate
Impassioned #FeelTheBern supporters proclaimed Sanders the Democratic debate winner but the numbers tell a different story
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Nancy Pelosi Demands An Investigation Into Group Behind The Planned Parenthood Videos
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called for an investigation into the heavily and deceptively edited Planned Parenthood videos on CNN’s State of the Union today.
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61 House Democrats Are Taking A Stand Against Corporate America
The 61 House Democrats led by Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairs Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva are demanding a new funding mechanism for the cost of TAA for displaced workers; but they did not call for a corporate tax hike to cover the cost. Why? Because this is America and corporations get a free ride which is precisely why Washington politicians let corporations write the trade agreement in secret.
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Democrats Go On Offense, Tell Millennials Republicans Are Not On Your Side
Democrats are on the offense and will be holding Republicans accountable for their votes on the GOP budget with an aggressive “Republican Accountability Project: Diplomas Not Debt!” campaign.
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Ted Cruz’s 2016 Announcement Backfires By Firing Up Liberals and Democrats
Instead of exciting Republicans by announcing his 2016 presidential candidacy, Sen. Ted Cruz has fired up liberals and Democrats who are giddy that Cruz has entered the race.
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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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Democrats Tried To Shut Elizabeth Warren Up So She Fought Them Even Harder
The talking point that Elizabeth Warren is the new Ted Cruz came from Democrats. Warren responded to this attempt to shut her up by fighting the Wall Street Dems twice as hard.
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Is Georgia Ready For Hillary Clinton?
Midterm election results in Georgia show progressive trends and point to battleground potential for the 2016 presidential race.
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Democrats Lost Because They Wasted Their Most Valuable Weapon in the Midterms
Barack Obama is still the President, and his administration’s record achievements over the past five-and-a-half years were squandered by Democratic candidates intent on appearing to be more like Republicans than Democrats affiliated with a President with a record of successes.
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Here’s More Great Economic News For Democrats To Hammer Republicans With
There has been relative silence on two new economic reports that put a stake in the economic agenda Republicans are frothing at the mouth to enact should they win control of Congress.
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Kansas Is a Portent of Republican Medicare Privatization Disaster
Democrats have a living, breathing example of privatizing Medicare, and frankly everything in the Path to Prosperity budget, that has done nothing Republicans promise and everything Democrats warned will come to pass. If he has accomplished nothing else, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has given Democrats and all of America a preview of precisely what a Republican Congress will do to America.
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Democrats Are Squandering an Opportunity to Expose The Republican Agenda
One of the primary reasons the GOP is so successful selling a bill-of-goods to voters is that Democrats, while campaigning on issues they fully intend on advancing if elected, are more often than not reluctant to either cite Republicans’ broken promises, or inform voters of the GOP’s true motivation for seeking control of the government.
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Politico’s Poll Showing Democrats In Trouble This Midterm Election Is a Total Crock
This week, political news site Politico released a poll showing that Democrats are at a seven-point disadvantage against Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. The poll is supposed to reflect voter sentiments in the most competitive House and Senate races this year.
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Toxic? Not So Much. President Obama’s Daily Approval at 50%
The President — the one that the media keeps tittering Democrats must distance themselves from because he is so hated — has a 50% approval rating in the somewhat dubious Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking poll.
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Farm Bill Screws The Poor In Order to Provide More Corporate Welfare
Republicans will never pass up an opportunity to cut spending on a program like food stamps to enrich corporations and this horrific farm bill is a continuation of the practice.
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Special Election Victory By Democrat Jennifer Wexton Completes GOP Collapse in Virginia
In a battle to determine party control of the VA Senate, Jennifer Wexton (D) coasted to a resounding 53-37 victory over John Whitbeck (R).
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Virginia’s Top Three State Offices Held By Democrats as Obenshain Concedes in AG Race
On Wednesday afternoon, Republican State Sen. Mark Obenshain conceded to Democratic Mark Herring as the recount vote for Virginia’s Attorney General was coming to an end.
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CO State Senator Resigns Preventing Recall and Preserving Democratic Senate Majority
Facing a potential recall effort for her vote to strengthen Colorado’s gun laws, State Senator Evie Hudak (D-Westminster) took one for the team and resigned today
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Democrats Set to Rock Republicans By Pushing to Raise the Minimum Wage to $10.10
Senate Democrats are meeting today and are preparing to drop a bomb on Republicans. They are going to push for raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour by 2015.
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Republican Traitors Draped in Tea Keep Their Promise to Break the Government
The current Republican government shutdown is what teabaggers came to Washington to do; “break the government of the United States.”
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Conservatives Revel In Their Racism As They Mock First Lady Michelle Obama
The real issue is not Mrs. Obama’s body shape, it is her presence as First Lady that challenges the historic view of a black woman’s, or any African American’s, place in American culture.
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A Revealing Look at Racism’s Role in Which Party White People Support
Ever since Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act and championed policies supporting minorities, whites have been defecting from the party.
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GOP ReBiblicans Swept Congressional Races Virtually Unnoticed
This image gives you the dramatic story of ReBiblican wins in 2012 Congressional races.
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Freedom Rider John Lewis Urges Us All To Stand Up, Speak Out, and March to the Polls
Must see video of Rep. John Lewis’ profound speech about the history of the struggle for sacred right to vote, and call to march on to the voting booth Nov 6.
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Rush Limbaugh Hopes that Hurricane Isaac Kills Poor Black Democrats
Rush Limbaugh hoped today that Hurricane Isaac kills lots of poor Democrats in New Orleans, so that Louisiana can become a more Republican state.
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Republicans Wrong Again: Over 50% Of Small Businesses Want To Keep ObamaCare
Contrary to what Republicans say, only 30% of small businesses want the healthcare law overturned while 50% want it to stand with minor or no changes.
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The Forest and the Trees: How Extreme Ideologues Destroy the Left’s Unity
The left needs to coalesce around one goal; defeating Republicans at all costs, but here is already talk of various groups of ideologues sitting out the election to teach Democrats a lesson.
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Our Government’s Immoral Abandonment of People with Mental Illness
Despite the fact that people with mental illnesses end up in systems that cost taxpayers more money, state governments continue to slash funding for services.
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The Very Real Possibility of No Compromise In The 112th Congress
The prescient question is; will the 112th Congress accomplish anything without compromise? It is difficult to foretell the future, but it doesn’t look promising for the American people who desperately want their leaders to work together to create jobs and keep the economy going in the right direction. Obama has shown a willingness to compromise when Republicans have not.
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Senate Democrats Betray Both Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama
Senator Sanders stood up for Americans against Republicans, and true to form, only two Democrats stood with him. If Democrats were truly outraged with the tax cut deal, they would have been in attendance and at least given Bernie toilet breaks. But being the frightened, fractured group they are, Democrats ran from the fight. Now we can just wait for them to turn on Senator Sanders for not filibustering long and hard enough. It is what frightened cowards do.
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Where’s the Tea Party When You Need Them?
The left and the left of left are at each other’s throats, locked in a battle of high minded principles versus bread and butter pragmatism. Divided over whether President Obama is a skilled negotiator who had to make a bad deal in order to protect the unemployed and the middle class, or a weak leader who caved in to hostage takers. If there was ever a time when we could use a common enemy, it’s now. Oh sure, Sarah Palin is still out there, fluttering and twittering around. But with her book sales flagging and her reality show ratings down, she just isn’t the polarizing figure we need right now.
Obama Has Nothing To Lose By Saying No To Tax Cuts for the Rich
David Axelrod said in an interview that the Obama Administration is considering keeping the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans. The question Americans deserve an honest answer to is; what is the benefit to 98% of Americans, or the economy?
