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With A Blue Wave Coming, Another Trump Republican Bites The Dust As Sen. Orrin Hatch Retires
One of the few allies that Trump has in the Senate, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has announced his retirement.
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Another Republican Bites The Dust As Orrin Hatch Plots His Retirement
Sen. Orrin Hatch is reportedly planning to retire before the end of his term, and Mitt Romney is going to run for his seat in Utah.
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In A Hilarious Twist, Mitt Romney Wants To Run For Senate To Troll Donald Trump
Utah Republicans are trying to convince 83-year-old Sen. Orrin Hatch to retire so that they can run Trump critic Mitt Romney for Senate.
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Ana Navarro Destroys Trump’s Secretary of State Brouhaha With Single Tweet
“Let’s stop obsessing over who’ll be Secretary of State. We don’t need one. Our Twitterer-in-Chief can set foreign policy in 140 characters”
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Trump Sources Say Kellyanne Conway ‘Went Rogue’ Attacking Mitt Romney
Trump is ‘furious’ at Conway’s comments on Sunday suggesting he “betrayed his supporters by even considering Mitt Romney for a position in his cabinet.”
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National Review Writer Claims Dems Sentimentalize Past Republicans. No, We Don’t
It is troubling that Republicans insist on projecting: making their problems a liberal or progressive problem. Like being blamed for Trump when it is beyond question that they built that without any help from us. All Donald Trump did was make even deplorable an already crude message. Yet Daniel Payne writes at National Review that…
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Donald Trump Whined the Emmys Were Rigged Too – Three Years in a Row
“The Emmys are all politics, that’s why, despite nominations, The Apprentice never won–even though it should have many times over”
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A Disgusted Mitt Romney Slams Trump for Demeaning Women and Corrupting America’s Image
Romney could barely contain his disgust over Donald Trump’s comments, tweeting, “Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America’s face to the world.”
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Hillary Clinton Shuts Down Trump For Not Naming Any Female Cabinet Choices
In less than 140 characters, Clinton destroyed Trump.
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Four Years Later, Republicans Hope Benghazi Sticks To A Different Democratic Opponent
The GOP spent the first night of the RNC recycling one if its favorite (and discredited) attack lines of the 2012 presidential campaign.
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Next Stop, The Twilight Zone: Romney Says Trump Disqualified For Not Releasing Tax Returns
Mitt Romney of all people is claiming that Donald Trump has disqualified himself from the presidency by refusing to release his tax returns.
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In Salt Lake City, Trump Calls Romney a Choke Artist, Questions His Mormonism
“I have many friends that live in Salt Lake City…Mitt Romney is not one of them. Did he choke?…Are you sure he’s a Mormon? Are we sure?”
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Paul Krugman Calls Romney vs. Trump a Collision of Fallacies
In 2012, Mitt Romney was making almost the exact same economic proposals he is now accusing Donald Trump of making today
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Donald Trump Comes Unglued And Accuses Mitt Romney Of Ruining His Living Room Carpet
Donald Trump responded to Mitt Romney calling him a phony by claiming that Mitt Romney ruined his living room carpet in 2012.
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Mitt Romney Poised to ‘Eviscerate’ Trump – But Trump Strikes First
Trump says, “Looks like two-time failed candidate Mitt Romney is going to be telling Republicans how to get elected. Not a good messenger!”
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In A Desperate Effort To Stop The Crazy, Republicans May Draft Mitt Romney
Republicans are so desperate to stop the insanity that they are seriously considering drafting Mitt Romney to run against Trump and Carson.
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Mitt Romney Takes Credit for ObamaCare, But Only If You Like It
Three years after he ran for president by promising to repeal Obamacare, Republican Mitt Romney finally admitted that his Massachusetts healthcare plan is just like ObamaCare.
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Desperate Republicans May Dig Up Mitt Romney To Run Against Donald Trump
In what would be the most unlikable primary election in the history of the United States, Mitt Romney’s supporters are suggested that the failed 2012 nominee would like to return and take on Donald Trump.
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Even Mitt Romney Says South Carolina Needs to Take Down the Confederate Flag
In the face of the stunning cowardice of almost all of the Republicans running for president in 2016, we get this from Mitt Romney of all people, “Take down the #ConfederateFlag at the SC Capitol. To many, it is a symbol of racial hatred.”
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Jeb Bush Morphs Into Mitt Romney And Tells The American People To Get Over His Bushness
At a roundtable in New Hampshire, former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) announced that his last name is not his problem, it’s yours. And you need to get over it.
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Bluegrass Poll Reveals Kentucky Would Be A Tossup Between Hillary And Rand Paul
Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul are tied at 45 percent each in a recent poll of Kentucky voters.
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Fox Dredges Up Compulsive Liar Mitt Romney To Claim That Hillary Clinton Is Untrustworthy
Fox News Sunday turned to a man who lied his way through an entire presidential campaign while refusing to release his tax returns (Mitt Romney) to argue that Hillary Clinton is untrustworthy.
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Religious Right: GOP Will Never Win Presidency if They Soften Gay Rights Stance
The Religious Right thinks, despite all the evidence, that doubling down on anti-gay bigotry will have better results than Indiana
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Scott Walker’s Romneyesque Pandering Demonstrates His Lack Of Leadership Qualities
Walker has morphed into a candidate so feckless, that the 2012 version of Mitt Romney looks like a profile in courage by comparison.
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Chris Christie’s New Campaign Strategy? Run On Slashing Social Security and Medicare
On Friday, Robert Costa at The Washington Post reported that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie disclosed his 2016 platform to a group of Republican policy analysts on Monday.
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Bombastic Tea Party Loon Joe Walsh Eyes Illinois Senate Race
Former Congressional Representative Joe Walsh (R) says he is “very seriously considering challenging” Illinois Senator Mark Kirk (R).
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Texas Bill Would Let Teachers Shoot And Kill Kids To Protect School Property
The Teacher’s Protection Act would authorize school teachers to use deadly force against students, in order to protect school property.
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Democrat Praises Romney For Finally Saying Something People Want To Hear: He’s Not Running
Democrats are praising Mitt Romney for going away. Former Rep. John Dingell said that Romney has finally said something that the American people want to hear.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Emerges As The Republican Candidate To Fear Most
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker impressed the crowds at the Iowa Freedom Summit. Democrats cannot afford to underestimate him.
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Delusional Donald Trump Says He Would Have Beaten Obama In 2012
Shameless self-promoter Donald Trump is once again trying to draw attention to himself, claiming he would have beaten Obama in 2012.
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Washington Post/ABC Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Crushing Every Potential GOP Candidate
Hillary Clinton enjoys double digit leads over five prominent Republican contenders, according to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll.
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Mitt Romney Thinks Acting Like He Cares Will Get Him Elected in 2016
“If you show up at churches and at minority communities it shows you care much more broadly. And that’s something that I want to do.”
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Obama’s Tax Plan Forces Republicans To Choose Main Street Or Wall Street
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President Obama’s proposal to give middle class and working class Americans a tax break has the GOP on the defensive.
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Romney 3.0 Crashes And Burns As Mitt Unleashes Bitter Whiny Tirade At Obama
Mitt 3.0 is Mitt 2.0, but with some more carefully chosen words meant to appeal to the 47%. He came across as almost Palin level stuck on Obama, still pandering to everyone, and though carefully rehearsed, unsteady on foreign policy.
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A Mitt Romney-Jeb Bush Brawl Will Divide The GOP Establishment And Help The Tea Party
The GOP is poised for an epic clash of plutocrats that is likely to split establishment donors and benefit the Tea Party
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Rudy Giuliani Says Mitt Romney Could Have Won In 2012 If He’d “Made Benghazi A Bigger Issue”
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday morning, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed that 2012 Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney could have possibly defeated President Obama in 2012 if he “had made Benghazi a bigger issue.”
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2014 Finishes With Best Job Growth Since 1999 As Unemployment Rate Drops To 5.6%
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released December’s job numbers and revealed that the strong growth we had seen throughout 2014 continues unabated.
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Republican Congressman Michael Grimm To Resign From Office After Felony Conviction
New York Republican Congressman Michael Grimm is resigning, after pleading guilty to felony tax evasion.
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GOP House Leader Was Honored Guest Speaker At White Supremacist Conference
This week it was revealed that the third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives is guilty of pandering to a white supremacist extremist organization founded by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
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Thanks, Obama! Economy Surges Forward As GDP Growth Fastest In More Than A Decade
The federal government reported Friday that real GDP growth rose by 5.0% for the third quarter of 2014, marking the fastest growth in any quarter since 2003.
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Republican Rebranding Fails As Mitt Romney And Jeb Bush Lead GOP Field
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that Mitt Romney leads the pack of GOP hopefuls for 2016, with Jeb Bush running in second place.
Like A Spoiled Child, Mitt Romney Is Threatening To Run For President Until He Wins
Mitt Romney feels there isn’t anyone he can’t beat in the2016 field, and he refuses to defer to Jeb Bush, according to Wall Street sources who recently sat down with the 2012 Republican nominee.
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Rick Perry Getting Ready to Inflict Himself on America in 2016
Rick Perry is putting together a 2016 run that is certain to fail as spectacularly as his ill-fated 2012 run
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Jon Stewart: Bobby Jindal Bashing Obama Is “Like Watching A Non-Jedi Try A Jedi Mind Trick”
Jon Stewart took both Bobby Jindal and Mitt Romney to school over their complaints regarding President Obama’s upcoming executive orders on immigration.
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Mitt Romney Accuses President Obama Of Violating The Principles Of The Constitution
Mitt Romney is accusing President Obama of violating the Constitution in order to cover up for the fact that Republicans are refusing to do their jobs.
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Mitt Romney Tells The Ultimate Lie: Democrats Are The Real Party Of No
Mitt Romney can’t stop lying. On Fox News Sunday, Romney claimed that if Republicans win the Senate they will prove that Democrats are the real party of no.
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Election Day Reality: The Republicans Have Got Nothing, and They Know It
Not a lot of voters will fit in that tiny little GOP tent set up deep in the heart of Dixie, surrounded by Confederate flags and guarded by white supremacist militias
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Right-Wing Media Will Blame Obama For Rising Gas Prices But Stay Silent When Prices Drop
During President Obama’s tenure in the Oval Office, conservative pundits and Republican politicians have continuously blamed him anytime the price of gasoline has jumped up. Interestingly, those same voices tend to grow very quiet whenever we see a drop in the price.
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Nondisparagement Clauses and the Path to GOP Corporatist Tyranny
If our elected government is replaced by a board of directors, is it far-fetched to think corporate nondisparagement clauses might trump our freedom of speech?
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Joni Ernst’s Campaign Is Clueless As They Have Two-Time Loser Mitt Romney Stumping For Her
Two-time failed Presidential candidate Mitt Romney hit the campaign trail for GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst in Iowa Sunday night.
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GOP Privatization Would Substitute an Un-Electable Board of Directors for Democracy
Privatization is stripping powers from electable government, and handing it to the unelectable public – in other words, for profit – sector
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Mitt Romney Claims That He Would Be a Better President Than Obama Or Hillary Clinton
Mitt Romney arrogantly suggested on Fox News Sunday that he would be a better president than President Obama or Hillary Clinton.
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Mitt for President – He’s Got Your Position Covered
If he runs, you simply have to vote for my man Mitt, because whatever your position, Mitt shares it.
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New Poll Shows That Hillary Clinton Would Crush Mitt Romney in 2016
A new CNN poll smashed Mitt Romney’s delusions that he could defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016 by showing that voters would support Clinton over Romney 55%-42%.
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GOP Wants Mitt Back: 70% Of Republican Voters Are Open to Voting For Romney in 2016
The idea that Mitt Romney may run for president again in 2016 is getting closer to becoming a reality as a Vox Populi Poll found that 70% of Republican primary voters are open to voting again for Romney.
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Paul, Santorum, Perry, Romney: Republicans Offer No Imagination for 2016
As Charlie Brown despairs from time to time, “Good Grief” or if times get truly stressful, “OH, Good Grief.” From the perspective of the upcoming presidential race, this will be neither of those times. That doesn’t mean there won’t be ear-bending yammering from the right.
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Kansas Ready To Dump GOP Governor As Democrat Is Up 6 Points On Sam Brownback
Democrat Paul Davis leads Republican Sam Brownback 47-41 in the latest poll, as voters express their dismay with Brownback’s policies.
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Another Red State Democrat Calls On Elizabeth Warren To Bring Home A Victory
West Virginia Senate candidate Natalie Tennant plans to campaign with Elizabeth Warren in July.
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Romney Returns: Big Money Republicans Working On a Deal To Make Mitt The 2016 Nominee
It is being reported that Mitt Romney wants to be the 2016 Republican nominee, and the millionaires and billionaires who bankroll the GOP are trying to make it happen.
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GOP Carpetbagger Scott Brown Trails Democratic Incumbent By Double Digits In Senate Race
A new poll released Thursday by Suffolk University and the Boston Herald shows that Republican Scott Brown trails Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) by 10 points in his bid to defeat the incumbent.
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While Lying Through His Teeth Mitt Romney Calls Hillary Clinton Clueless
Mitt Romney can’t stop lying. On Meet The Press, Romney called Hillary Clinton clueless, while basing his claim on some ridiculous falsehoods.
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Racist Police Commissioner Who Called President Obama The N-Word Has Resigned
CNN is reporting that Robert Copeland, a police commissioner in New Hampshire who unapologetically used a racial slur when referring to the President, has decided to resign from office.
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Even Mitt Romney Knows Republicans Are Wrong to Use Monica Against Hillary Clinton
Mitt Romney schooled David Gregory after the host asked him if we should judge Hillary on her husband’s record – personal and otherwise.
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Chris Christie Says Income Equality is Mediocrity – Doesn’t Know Sh*t from Shinola
“You want income equality? That’s mediocrity.” That’s Chris Christie being pragmatic
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Sarah Palin Gets Dose Of Reality As Hillary Clinton Leads By 27 Points In 2016 Matchup
A poll released by McClatchy-Marist on Wednesday shows that former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over pretty much every GOP candidate for the 2016 Presidential election.
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Why Aren’t More Republican Politicians Following Charlie Crist’s Example?
The real question as I see it does not revolve around why Crist fled into the more inclusive arms of the Democratic Party. Rather I wonder why more Republicans of any social conscience, not to mention survival instincts, haven’t done the same.
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Rand Paul Says Earrings and Tattoos Will Save Texas for GOP
Rand Paul believes that if the Republican Party gets hip by embracing tattoos and earrings, they can appeal to more voters. He thinks that the Republican Party can save a state like Texas from marching towards turning blue with cosmetic changes.
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Compulsive Liar Mitt Romney Says Chris Christie Is Telling The Truth
Compulsive liar Mitt Romney was on CNN today standing up for Chris Christie and telling the world that just like Jeep was moving to China, Christie is telling the truth.
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Alaska Voters Reject Sarah Palin and Every Other Republican for US Senate
A newly released Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey from Alaska reveals how badly tarnished the GOP brand is even in the Last Frontier State. Mark Begich, the Incumbent Democratic Senator, leads all Republican opponents in the poll. Alaska voters are not thrilled with Mark Begich’s job performance. 43 percent of Alaska voters approve of…
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Which Republican Congressperson Should Bill Maher Target To Flip A District Blue?
Earlier this week, Bill Maher and the producers of his cable talk panel show, Real Time With Bill Maher, revealed that they are going to present a new segment on their show through Election Day.
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‘New’ Republican Healthcare Plan Sticks It To Everyone Except Insurance Companies
The Republicans “new” plan to replace the ACA brings back everything that was wrong with the old system and they found away to make things even worse.
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A Bitter and Jealous Mitt Romney Claims Putin Has Outperformed President Obama
In an interview with NBC News, Mitt Romney showed that he can’t stop being bitter about losing the 2012 election to the president by claiming that Vladimir Putin has out performed President Obama.
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Huge Victory For Voting Rights As Judge Strikes Down Pennsylvania Voter ID Law
On Friday morning, Judge Bernard McGinley ruled that Pennsylvania’s restrictive voter ID law, that was passed in 2012, is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced in the state.
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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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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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Taking Back the House, Vol. 23: Duncan D. Hunter and California’s 50th District
This is the twenty-third edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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Taking Back the House, Vol. 21: Gary Miller and California’s 31st District
This is the twenty-first edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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The Folks Who Gave us Rand Paul Think Chris Christie Won’t Hold Up to Scrutiny
The party that has offered us every kook who walks in off the street would really like to wish away New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The party that gave us Sharron “Rape Lemonade” Angle and Christine “I might be a Witch but I Don’t Know where my Vagina is” O’Donnell, and Sarah “I can see…
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The GOP’s Benghazi Hoax Exposed
The Republican Party refuses to let go of their manufactured Benghazi scandal narrative. We saw just the other day that a Benghazi “witness” featured on 60 Minutes was in fact nowhere near the U.S. compound when terrorists attacked. Yet the GOP insists the testimony of this non-existent witness justifies further hearings on the subject. Have…
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Sleazy Mortgage Lenders Almost Destroy the Economy, Steal Billions and Stay Out of Prison
When the housing bubble hit and threatened the American economy, many low-level lenders went to jail, but not their bank presidents or CEOs.
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Stuff Rich People Say: Austerity Admissions and Banker Bonuses
Rich people should talk more openly, more often. It would make a progressive agenda a whole lot more achievable.
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Chris Christie Signs Ban on Gay Conversion Therapy for Minors
By signing ban on gay conversion therapy for minors, Governor Chris Christie moves further from the lunatic Republican base
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Edward Snowden Highlights the Peculiar Republican Obsession with Russia
Remember when Mitt Romney said that Russia is “without question our number one geopolitical foe”? Thanks in part to Edward Snowden, Republicans love to think now that Romney might have been right.
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Limbaugh Says GOP Wants New Base and that Obama Likes Scandals
Rush Limbaugh told Greta Van Susteren that the GOP hates the Tea Party and the Tea Party, feeling rejected, stayed home and didn’t vote.
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New Book Claims Non-Existent Liberal Media Stole 2012 Election
This book describes the continued inability of the GOP to see their policies and not everyone else, are to blame for their failures
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E.W. Jackson Whines That Religious Tests Only Apply to People He Doesn’t Like
Virginia’s GOP nominee for lieutenant governor feels he can say whatever he wants and you have absolutely no right to talk about it
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Mitt Romney Blames The IRS and Hurricane Sandy For His Loss to Obama
Mitt Romney is still clinging to his skewed polls and claiming that if Hurricane Sandy wouldn’t have hit when it did, and he would have known about the IRS scandal, he would have won the election.
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Insider: A Chain of Errors Led to Romney Looking ‘ill-informed and opportunistic’
A tell all book written by Gabriel Schoenfeld, who describes himself as a “senior adviser” to the Romney campaign who spills the beans on the series of errors that doomed his campaign.
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Obama Adviser Schools GOP: The President Won Re-election, Won’t Enact Romney Budget
President Obama’s senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer was on ABC’s ‘This Week’ Sunday, taking aim at the Republicans’ attempt to force their rejected budget onto the people.
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On the Edge of a Breakdown? Mitt Romney Thinks He Is Running For President at CPAC
Even though, he lost the election a confused Mitt Romney delivered his stump speech to CPAC.
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Mitt Romney Blames Minorities For Costing Him The Election
On Fox News Sunday today, Mitt Romney blamed minorities for costing him the election, and poor people who like free things for his defeat.
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Ann Romney Moans About Being a Nobody After Mitt Lost in 2012
Ann Romney compared the end of the 2012 Presidential campaign to serving in their church, ‘And now all of a sudden, you’re released and you’re nobody. And we’re used to that.’
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Conservative Cluelessness Seen Aboard Political Cruise
Mirroring their counterparts nationwide, conservatives on a post-election political cruise reveal they still don’t understand their faults.
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The Top Ten Smartest Democratic Quotes of 2012
If the Republicans fell all over themselves in 2012 to sound stupid, the Democrats were happy to help them along, as this list demonstrates
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The Top Ten Dumbest Republican Quotes of 2012
It was not easy to pare down to ten a list from literally hundreds of dumb Republican quote candidates, but out of patriotism and love of country I have decided to take on the challenge.
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Tea Party Fantasies of Sending Obama to Prison for Benghazi
Tea Partiers indulge in wild fantasies of sending President Obama to prison since they haven’t managed to impeach him for Benghazi
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The Romneys Take Their Ball and Go Home, Claiming Mitt Never Wanted to be President
The new meme to come out of the Romney family is that Mitt never wanted to be President anyway, so fug you America!
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It Gets Worse for Mitt Romney as He is Named the Least Influential Person of 2012
Mitt Romney hasn’t hit rock bottom yet. Since losing the election, Romney has gone from being one of two men vying to be president to being named the least influential person of 2012.
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Republicans Turn Charter School Officials Into the New Robber Barons
School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools are the the Republican hammer to be used to prise it out of our hands.
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Bizarre GOP Thanksgiving Pics Make America Ask, ‘What’s wrong with these people?’
Thanksgiving brought us John McCain’s Old Man in the Tree and a leaning into Ann, uncombed Mitt in the sterile white kitchen.