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While Republicans Vacation, President Obama Acts to Fight Zika
Failure to pass Zika funding forced the administration to choose between delaying vaccine work and raiding other programs to avoid these delays.
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Obama Gets Sweet Revenge On Republican Obstruction With Rising Approval Ratings
A series of polls are giving President Obama payback for years of Republican obstruction. At the exact time that Republicans were hoping to open the door to take back the White House, the American people are supporting the president at newly high levels.
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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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New Ad Nails Do Nothing Republicans By Asking What It Is That They Do In Washington
In a new Grassley ad, the Agenda Project Action Fund has decided to be exactly as dignified and respectful to Republicans as Republicans have been to America.
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Republican Senator Tries to Save His Job By Sucking Up to President Obama
It turns out, sucking up to President Obama by doing their job is a much smarter strategy. What a sick burn.
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Harry Reid Exposes The Koch Brothers As The Force Behind The GOP’s Obama Obstruction
Today on the Senate floor Reid accused Republicans of bowing to the Koch brothers with their SCOTUS blockade against Judge Merrick Garland.
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The Call Goes Out: It’s Time for the Grassley Rule
Perhaps a better name for it would be simply, “The United States Constitution.” It’s the one they’ve all sworn to uphold, after all.
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Sen. Chuck Grassley Pummeled With Backlash In Iowa Over Obama Nominee Obstruction
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was pummeled today with negative press over his refusal to hold hearings for President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
Dave Damstrom of Spencer Iowa was quoted by Omaha.Com saying to Senator Grassley, “Excuse me, Senator, but it seems to me like there’s so much crap in the political system, and I expect you to be a leader and not part of this. I’m just getting sick of this stuff. Just do your job, and let politics be what it is.â€
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Republicans Rebel As Mitch McConnell’s Decision To Block SCOTUS Nominee Backfires
Faced with angry voters who want them to do their jobs, the jobs the voters are paying them to do, which includes as a basic confirming Supreme Court nominees, Republicans are at a loss as to justify and sell McConnell’s big lie.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton Sounds Like A Realist – Not A Republican
The reality is that when Democrats did have majorities in both houses of Congress they were barely able to pass health-care insurance reform
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Half Of America is Now Impoverished Because the Koch-Republicans Destroyed the Middle Class
The percentage of middle-class households dropped in every state in the Union between 2000 and 2013, along with median income
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GOP Trickle Down Has 70% of Americans Near Financial Calamity
Instead of changing course and helping the majority of the population, Republicans still propose heaping wealth on the rich and increasing taxes on the bottom 90% of the population to complete the utter destruction of middle income earners. According to yet another report they are succeeding beyond their wildest dreams.
NRA-Republicans Blocked Treaty Banning Arms Sales To Terrorists
One might wonder what kind of malcontent opposes a worldwide treaty that limits the transfer of conventional arms and battlefield components to evil dictators who promote and commit genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and attack civilians or civilian buildings such as schools and hospitals. In America, it is Republicans indebted to, and serving, the National Rifle Association.
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Bernie Sanders Connects The Dots: If You Vote, Republicans Will Pay For Their Obstruction
Bernie Sanders pointed out on MSNBC that the only way Republicans will pay for their years of obstruction is if Democrats come out and vote this November.
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President Obama Reaches Out To Governors To Overcome Republican Obstruction
President Obama has come up with a novel way to get around Republican obstruction. He is bypassing Congress and reaching out to the nation’s governors.
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Mitch McConnell Hatches a Plan for Revenge on Harry Reid That May Cost Him His Senate Seat
Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans have hatched a plan for revenge on Harry Reid that is toxic that it could cost the Kentucky senator his seat in November.
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Recent Judicial Decisions Show How Crucial It is To Fight for Obama’s Nominees
Recent appalling decisions by Bush-appointed judges show the importance of getting some Obama-appointed judges on the bench. If only he could
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Obama Tells Republicans To Shove It As He Implements His Agenda Without Them
President Obama is done caring about what congressional Republicans think. The president is meeting with Democrats in order to implement his agenda without them.
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International Federation Sounds US Airspace Warning Due to Sequester Cuts
The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today warned that the operation of the USA’s National Airspace System is being put in danger by compulsory furloughing, courtesy of the sequester cuts.
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Making It Up As They Go Along, Republicans Use Fantasies To Block Obama Nominees
When obstruction for obstruction’s sake is the Republican reason for serving in government, any fantastical reason suffices to block the President’s choices.
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Harry Reid Needs to Get Both a Spine and a Clue and Confront Republican Obstruction
After suffering their obstruction in the 111th and 112th Congress, one would think Reid would get a clue, and a spine, and do his job as Majority Leader and end Republican abuse of the filibuster.
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Barack Obama May Go Down As the Only President Who Excelled In the Face of Racism
Barack Obama, may go down as the only president in the nation’s history who excelled in spite of hostility borne of racism, and an opposition party intent on sabotaging his presidency.
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Mitt Romney is the Executioner Who is Leading His Supporters to the Gallows
There is no demographic that supports Romney that is not inexorably linked to their own destruction and unfortunately, to their family members, friends, and this country’s future.
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Republican Stimulus Hypocrisy Should Enrage Every Struggling American
Every Republican who opposed infusing federal money into the economy, or obstructed President Obama’s jobs plans, knew they were stunting the economy and killing jobs.
