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Michele Bachmann Says She Will Not Seek A Fifth Term
Michele Bachmann announced she would not run again for Congress – and oh, by the way, she’s innocent
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Michele Bachmann Says God Will Free Us From the Yoke of Obamacare
Michele Bachmann, Queen of Batshit Crazy, says “We serve a mighty God and I believe it can happen”
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Reeking of Desperation, John Boehner Claims Obama Witch Hunt is All About Jobs
Referencing 1998, when the GOP lost five seats after trying to kill the Clinton presidency with never-ending investigations, a reporter asked Boehner if he was worried about backlash. He claimed it’s all about the jobs.
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Republican Rep. Tom Price Says Obama No Longer has Consent of the Governed
What Price means by “the governed” is “angry white people” like himself who have sold their souls to the ravenous corporations seeking to replace the federal government
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Michele Bachmann Endorses Tyranny Over the Constitution
Michele Bachmann seems to envision an America governed not through the democratic process but through a prayer-tyranny of the bigoted few
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Sarah Palin Hypocritically Accuses Obama of Playing the Politics of Emotion
The queen of the politics of emotion accuses President Obama of playing the politics of emotion
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Conservative Logic: Mass Shooters = More Guns, But 3 Immigrant Bombers = No Immigration
Follow the crazy: We shouldn’t implement any kind of gun safety legislation even after repeated mass shootings, but immigration reform should be killed because several immigrants allegedly bombed Boston.
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The Tea Party Speaks From The Gutter and Tells the GOP to Forget Hispanic Voters
Tea Party Republicans like Rep. Tim Huelskamp are spewing more hate and intolerance by decrying Republican outreach to “so-called” Hispanic voters.
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The Professional Left Is Handing Republicans Precisely What They Want
The professional left is really not different than the right in that they forget their past missteps and repeat them despite evidence they are on a path to hand Republicans precisely what they want.
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Newsflash: Sarah Palin Comes Out Against Education
Sarah Palin thinks that Melissa Harris-Perry’s ad calling for an investment in public education is evidence that MSNBC thinks your children don’t belong to you.
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Sequester Tantrums Reveal Yet Again That Republicans Are Developmentally Stunted
Republicans are enthusiastic about sequester cuts until it affects their wealthy constituents. Then, they throw temper tantrums.
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Local Tea Party Leader is Investigated for Menacing Email to GOP Senator
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is investigating a local Tea Party co-founder after he sent a threatening email to his Republican state Representative.
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Republicans Can’t Hide Their Racist Obama Hate
At CPAC, conservatives lambasted Obama for all manner of fallacious sleights, but in one panel the underlying reason for all Republican extremism and hate was laid bare; sheer racial animus.
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The Kochs and Their Corporate Arm ALEC Are Out to Destroy the Healthcare System
There is no doubt the Kochs and their corporate arm ALEC are out to end the healthcare system starting with Medicare and Medicaid.
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The Republican Party Won’t Rest Until Children Starve and Seniors Perish
Between Ryan’s budget and the CPAC lineup, it should be painfully apparent that the new extremist Republicans will not rest until poverty is rampant, children starve, and seniors perish.
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Sarah Palin’s Cash Grab War on Christmas Book Doesn’t Mean She’s Back
Sarah Palin’s upcoming book complaining about the commercialism of Christmas doesn’t mean she’s back. Palin is just doing a drive-by cash pick up from the easily exploitable.
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Behind the GOP’s Debt and Deficit Talk Is a Scam To Make the Super Rich Even Richer
A group of Americans are being scammed by immoral operatives, and as is usually the case, the scammers are motivated by sheer greed for power and control of America and its wealth.
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Sick House Tea Partiers Celebrate the Sequester’s Human Carnage
House tea partiers are preparing to celebrate the damage to the people and economy that the sequestration cuts will cause when they begin in two days.
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DEMomentum: Democrats Target 27 House Tea Partiers with New Ads
The DCCC is launching online ads to hold 27 Tea Party House Republicans accountable for the thousands of layoffs and other costs to the middle class in the upcoming sequester.
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Rand Paul Says Ashley Judd is Attractive, Articulate and Doesn’t Represent Kentucky
Asked about the negative ads running against Ashley Judd in Kentucky, Rand Paul told CNN said she was attractive, articulate and and doesn’t represent Kentucky.
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Univisión Staffer Slams Republican Marco Rubio For Being a ‘Token Slave Boy’ Loser
Angelica Artiles, assistant to Univisión’s Vice President of news, took to Rubio’s aide’s Facebook page to unload freely, calling the Republican lawmaker a “loser” and “a token slave boy.”
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Obama’s Reelection is Literally Destroying Fox News
President Obama’s reelection has had a devastating impact on Fox News. Ratings are down, viewer trust is at an all time low, and now the network is caught in the middle of a Republican civil war.
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The Tea Party Deploys Rand Paul to Sabotage the Republican SOTU Makeover
Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) Tea Party State of the Union response will follow Sen. Marco Rubio’s Republican SOTU response. This isn’t going to help the GOP with their rebranding effort.
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Sarah Palin Hits Rock Bottom, Would Lose Alaska to Her ‘Rival’ Hillary Clinton
A new poll by Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows that not only are Alaskans done with Palin, but Clinton could win the state by 16 points were she to run in 2016.
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GOP: Refusing to do What We Want You to Do is a Violation of the Constitution
The Republican Party seems to think if Obama doesn’t do what they want him to do, he is violating the Constitution
Michele Bachmann Refuses to Pay Employees Unless They Promise to Hide Illegal Activities
Americans should be asking themselves this weekend why Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is refusing to pay five of her staffers for the work they did helping her try to win the presidential nomination.
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Obama has learned that dealing with Republicans is an exercise in futility
President Obama has learned that dealing with Republicans is an exercise in futility regardless the issues facing the nation.
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Republicans Aren’t Misguided and Misinformed;They’re Ideological Saboteurs
It is simplistic to think Republicans are misguided and misinformed about the damage their policies will cause. As ideological saboteurs, they know what will result if their policies are enacted.
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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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Anti Union Dana Loesch Sues Breitbart for Hostile Working Conditions
Apparently Dana was unaware that working for a crazy conservative media outlet would naturally involve ‘indentured servitude in limbo.’
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Republicans are Devolving and Trying to Drag Society Back With Them
Conservatives have rejected the idea of the country’s progress into the 21st century and by their own admission, Republicans are devolving and attempting to drag the entire society backwards.
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The GOP Obsession with the Rich and Corporations Has Brought Us to the Fiscal Cliff
The Republicans’ love affair with an anti-tax agenda goes back to before the Reagan era, and has persisted as the GOP embraced the lunacy of supply-side economics.
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Grover Norquist Makes a Fool Out of Himself By Demanding Reagan Era Tax Rates
Grover Norquist made a fool out himself by demanding a return to the Reagan era tax rates, which were higher than taxes are under President Obama.
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Move Over Star Wars: A Trilogy of GOP Cognitive Dissonance: 2008, 2012, 2016
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
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Republicans Label President Obama and the American People the Enemy
Republicans are laboring under the fallacy that President Obama and his supporters are enemies because they rejected the great white hope as president.
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Battling the Tea Party over the Language of Liberty
There is a battle being waged in America today over the meaning of liberty. The Tea Party has co-opted the language of liberty, but freedom for all does not interest them. They want freedom for the few at the expense of the many. Real choice, real liberty, is devalued by the limited menu offered by the Tea Party. They want to “take America back” but they don’t want to share it.
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The Hard Truth is the Tea Party Can’t Elect Anyone
There simply aren’t enough anti-intellectual, conservative religious, racist and bigoted voters to pass the lunatic agenda of the Tea Party. They can believe their own spin if they wish, but even if you ignore facts they will still be there to bite you in the ass at the end of the day. This is the bleak future that the Tea Party faces in November.
Right Wing Cyber Terrorists Fail To Silence PoliticusUSA with DDoS Attack
Recent visitors to my blog PoliticusUSA had undoubtedly noticed that the site had been crashing frequently. At first both tech support and myself thought a new server was the cause, but the real cause was much more sinister. We were the victims of a sophisticated DDoS attack. Since the far right did not like what we were publishing, they decided you should not be able to read it. This is what passes for freedom in “Real America.”
The Conservative Woodstock Involves Heckler Beat Downs
Leave it to the tea party to turn the original intent of Woodstock, peace, love, and music into an excuse to beat down dissent. According to MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer the tea partiers in Mesa, NV got rough with hecklers, as one heckler was drug out by the arm, and another by the hair, because nothing says freedom like beating down dissent.
Rahm Emanuel: GOP Leaders Are Scared of the Tea Party
In an interview that will air on CBS’ 60 Minutes on Sunday night, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel waded into the civil war that is going on within the Republican Party. Emanuel refused to identify the tea partiers by name, but he described the state of the GOP as being, “at the behest of a fringe group that’s taken control of their own party and their own leaders are scared of it.”
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The Tea Party Apocalypse Is Upon Us
There are many potential or would-be leaders for the Tea Party craze – from libertarians to conservatives to Christian dominionists like Sarah Palin. It does not seem to be only conservatives lining up for tinfoil hats but libertarians with a fear of big government who have perhaps let their imaginations run away with them. The “New World Order” phenomenon is by no means limited to conservatives and Christian apocalyptic millenialists awaiting the return of Jesus but is embraced by some libertarians as well.
The Founding Fathers Did Not Wear Tinfoil Hats
Tea Partiers present themselves as average, everyday Americans who have been pushed too far. From their perspective, they are us. They are America. But they are no America I know or am familiar with. Their America seems to be a phobic, paranoid little place rife with conspiracies intent on overthrowing “real†America. They claim to represent the ideas of the Founding Fathers, but the Founding Fathers did not wear tin foil hats.
Glenn Beck Explains To Us Why The Teabaggers Are So Dumb
On his Fox News program yesterday Glenn Beck was asking his panel for one book that is a must read. The Federalist Papers were suggested. Beck said, “The one that makes your head hurt. We need really smart people who can take The Federalist Papers and rewrite them for the common man.” Teabaggers are so stupid because reading is hard.
Keith Olbermann Reminds the Teabaggers that They Coined Their Own Name
On his MSNBC show Countdown, host Keith Olbermann reminded the teabaggers, who just now seem to have figured out what the name means, where the term teabagger came from. Hint: it wasn’t Maddow or Olbermann but the teabaggers themselves who coined the term.
Dick Cheney is NOT a traitor, He Is a Terrorist
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann recently declared that former Vice President Dick Cheney is a traitor, but I would take Olbermann’s comments about Cheney’s traitorous activities one step further. Plain and simple, Dick Cheney is a TERRORIST.
Obama Mocks Fox News and the Tea Bag Protests
At a town hall meeting in Arnold, MO, President Obama took a not so veiled shot at Fox News and the tea bag protests. Obama talked about a certain news channel where he isn’t very popular and people waving tea bags around. Obama said that these people are playing games and pretending that the problem is the Recovery Act.
2006 Chicago Immigration Rally Outdrew All the Tea Parties
Here is a dose of reality for Republicans. As Geraldo Rivera pointed out last night on FNC’s Hannity the 2006 Great American Boycott drew more people in Chicago, than the entire Tea Party movement did across the country. 400,000 people attended the 2006 Chicago rally compared to roughly 200,000 for tea parties around the country.
Veterans upset that Republicans will Be Tea Bagging at Kansas Memorial
Some veterans in Pittsburg, KS are unhappy with the decision of Republican Party to hold their tea party protest at the veterans’ memorial at Pittsburg State University. The veterans point out that memorial is not an appropriate place for a political protest.
GOP Tries to Muscle in on the Tea Party Movement
The organizers of the April 15 Chicago Tea Party claim that they rejected a request from RNC Chairman Michael Steele to speak at the event, but Steele claims that he never asked to speak. The real story here is that the GOP is trying to muscle in on the Tea Party Movement, but not all Tea Parties will be alike. Republicans will find themselves unwelcome at true grass roots events.
