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Some Republicans Are Already Saying Trump Will Cost Them Congress

Trump’s bad New Hampshire primary performance has some Republicans thinking they will lose the House and not win the Senate in 2024.

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Trump Pushing Congressional Allies To Impeach Biden More Than Once

Trump assumes that the GOP will take the House and wants to know “how many times” the Republicans will impeach Joe Biden.

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Who Knew? Debate Over Switch to Permanent Daylight Savings Ignites Furious Passion

Most of us grew up knowing that time zones weren’t a “thing” until the railroads were built and it became somewhat important to know what time – relative to the other stupid town’s time – a train might show up. And we all at some point learned that the country went to daylight savings time…

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DNC Chair Harrison Rips Into Lauren Boebert Over Financial Disclosure Controversy

Despite being a freshman congressperson from a small district in Colorado, Lauren Boebert has fast become a name in politics. Most of the coverage of her, however, is not favorable. She tweeted out the location of Nancy Pelosi during the January 6th insurrection when Trump supporters were looking to harm the Speaker. She has made…

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Matt Schlapp: There’s A Lot of Buzz About Trump Becoming House Speaker in 2022

When Joe Biden won the White House this November, Democrats thought they wouldn’t have to deal with Donald Trump for number of years. That might not be true, though. If Trump wanted to, he could easily win a Republican house seat in the state of Florida. And if Republicans won back the House at the…

Ted Lieu obliterates Mike Pence's big virus lie

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Congressman Ted Lieu Calls for Matt Gaetz to be Removed From House Judiciary Committee

It has been a wild day for Florida Representative Matt Gaetz. Earlier in they day, many were surprised by rumors that the Trump sycophant could be leaving his post to go serve as a political commentator on Newsmax. But later in the day, Americans got a hint as to why he could be leaving. In…

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Matt Gaetz Blasts “Fake” Republican Cowboy Running For a Texas House Seat

This year saw both Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene were elected to congress. Prior to that, Republican voters had elected people like Louie Gohmert, Paul Gosar and Marsha Blackburn to office. So one can forgive Dan Rodimer for deciding that GOP voters will vote for pretty much anyone as long as they have an…

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WATCH: Taylor Green Says She Voted Against Honoring Capitol Police Because “The Government is Not God”

When a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building on January 6th, no one was necessarily safe. While the insurrections were nominally Republicans, many of them hoped to inflict damage on Conservatives like Vice President Mike Pence. The Capitol Police defended every lawmaker in the building whether they were a Republican or Democrats….

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It’s a Trap! Is Using Reconciliation to Pass the Dem Agenda a Giant Mistake?

The Senate is about to use a trick called “reconciliation” to pass Joe Biden’s Covid relief bill. Many Democrats want to go further and use this arcane rule to pass all kinds of policies that would never otherwise make it through – a rise in the minimum wage, climate policies, infrastructure, etc. But Tori Gorman, a…

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WATCH: Newsmax Hosts Lin Wood, Gushes Over His Attempts to Overturn Election

Lin Wood has long been involved in high profile legal cases. He represented Richard Jewell in his defamation case and was also the lawyer for the parents of Jon Benet Ramsey. He entered the MAGA world this summer when he volunteered to defend teen shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. And Wood has certainly gotten involved in the…

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With Majority Dwindling, Hoyer Wants Biden to Stop Nominating House Dems For Cabinet Spots

There were many Democrats in the House of Representatives that helped propel Joe Biden to victory. And it is tradition for some of these congresspeople to be rewarded with prominent cabinet seats. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) was important surrogate and adviser for the Biden campaign. The president-elect has now tapped him to be the director of…

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Trump Tweets Congress Was Distracted From COVID-19 By Impeachment, But Dems Requested Emergency Funding During The Trial

Citing words from an influential businessman, Trump suggested on Sunday afternoon that the poor response to coronavirus in the United States wasn’t his administration’s fault, but that of Congress’. “Great businessman & philanthropist Bernie Marcus, Co-Founder of Home Depot, said that Congress was too distracted by the (phony) Impeachment Witch Hunt when they should have…

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U.S. House committee prepares contempt vote against Barr

A U.S. House panel was poised to vote on Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena that demanded the full, unredacted report by special counsel Robert Mueller.

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Would-be Democratic investigators have crossed swords with Trump

In a multi-front House inquiry of Trump, his business interests and his presidency, Nadler would link arms with Elijah Cummings, who would become head of the House Oversight Committee, and Adam Schiff, who would chair the House Intelligence Committee.

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Democrats Introduce Legislation To Stop Trump From Separating Families

In the midst of the biggest political crisis of his presidency Donald Trump has been blaming Democrats and Congress. Of course everyone with half a brain knows that the policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico came straight from the Oval Office. But just to make sure everyone in…

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Ryan, McConnell Fight As GOP Election Strategy Crashes

Republicans are fighting among themselves again in the U.S. Congress, and this is a bad sign for their chances in November’s midterm elections. Speaker of the House Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) is pushing hard to get another misguided and harmful tax cut passed in the next few months. For some reason he thinks this will…

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Why Democrats Will Win Midterms Despite a Booming Economy

The economy is soaring, and so is public optimism about the economy. You would think this should result in President Trump having high approval ratings, but that is not the case. Trump’s approval rating based on the average of public opinion polls is stuck at around 41%. This is an historically low number. You…

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Republicans Added $1 Trillion to the Deficit — Now They Want A Balanced Budget Amendment

The Washington Post has reported that Congressional Republicans are now suggesting they want to pass a balanced budget amendment. Which is completely ridiculous since the tax bill they passed into law in December has added more than $1 trillion to the U.S. deficit. Congressional Democrats quickly criticized the Republican proposal, which is more of a…

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British PM, European Parliament Call for Facebook Investigation

‘The Heat is On’ is a Glenn Frey song made famous by the 1980’s TV show ‘Miami Vice.’ Given all the news about how Facebook data was improperly used to manipulate hundreds of millions of people in elections, the song’s title is an apt description of the environment that the social media giant is currently…

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New Poll Shows Most Americans Think Arming & Training Teachers Is a Horrible Way to Stop School Shootings

A new NBC poll released Thursday morning should be a wakeup call to the NRA and its supporters in Washington, including President Trump. Most people think that putting more guns in schools is a really bad idea. The truth is that arming teachers is a crazy idea that could only be thought up by the…

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Opinion: The Nunes Memo Fail Distracted From Trump’s Open Defiance Of Congress

The so called Nunes Memo, bombed by any measure. On a political level it was a disaster. Even conspiracy theory fans like Trey Gowdy called it a failure in it’s main objective of discrediting the Mueller investigation.

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Nicolle Wallace Just Nailed The GOP For Committing ‘Political Suicide’ By Smearing The FBI

“The fact that the Republicans have put the entire Republican Party brand on the line to smear and assassinate the character of the entire FBI … is political suicide.”

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Dem Senator Says The Best Way For Congress To Govern Is To Pretend Trump Doesn’t Exist

Negotiating with Trump is a waste of time. Not only does he lack a firm grasp of the issues, but he often just agrees with the last person he spoke to.

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Trump Pens Op-Ed Bragging About Accomplishments Hours After He Shuts Down Government

Hours after Donald Trump’s actions led to a government shutdown, the president penned an op-ed touting his so-called accomplishments over the past year.

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Republican Strategist Blasts Trump, GOP Over Shutdown: ‘All Of This Is On Them’

It’s going to be hard for Trump to convince the American people that the government shutdown is the Democrats’ fault when not even his own party agrees.

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With no deal in sight, Congress faces looming government shutdown

The U.S. Congress raced the clock to avoid a federal government shutdown before a midnight deadline on Friday after a meeting between President Donald Trump and Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer failed to produce a deal.

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House GOP Passes Cynical Spending Bill That Senate Democrats Are Already Planning To Smack Down

Senate Republicans aren’t likely to win over enough Democrats to pass their cynical spending bill.

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Trump To Delay Signing Tax Bill So The Devastating Impacts Aren’t Felt Until After Midterms

If this is such a fine piece of legislation, why didn’t congressional Republicans rush it to the White House today to get the president’s signature on it?

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Bill could make Congress members liable for harassment payouts

Lawmakers of both parties are working on legislation that would make members of Congress liable for settlements of sexual harassment claims against them, as new data shows public funds have been used to settle nearly a dozen cases of misconduct over the last decade.

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Factbox: From tax to budget, what’s on U.S. Congress to-do list

The U.S. Congress is hurtling toward some major tax, budget and other policy deadlines. Some are hard and some are flexible, with the end of 2017 approaching. Here is the Capitol Hill outlook for what promises to be a turbulent November-December.

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U.S. women lawmakers on sex harassment: Congress, heal thyself

The House of Representatives will adopt mandatory training on sexual harassment and discrimination, Speaker Paul Ryan said on Tuesday after members of Congress shared stories of women being propositioned and groped in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.

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GOP Lawmaker Falls Apart After Chris Hayes Busts Tax Plan For Killing Adoption Credit

GOP Rep. Mark Walker twisted himself into a pretzel on Wednesday when he tried to defend the Republican tax plan.

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Two-Thirds Of Voters Demand Tougher Gun Laws After GOP Pretends Vegas Shooting Never Happened

Republicans may continue to live in their NRA-funded bubbles, but it’s clear the American people – Democrats, Independents and Republicans – are still hungry for tougher gun laws.

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California Passes Bill Urging Congress To Censure Trump For ‘Racist’ Charlottesville Response

“The leader of the free world can’t continue to use language that legitimizes the actions of extremists groups that promote hate.”

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Key GOP Congressman Announces Retirement, Citing ‘Disorder And Chaos’ In The Trump Era

Dent’s retirement is just the latest in a slew of moderate Republicans who are calling it quits as Washington spirals out of control with Trump at the helm.

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GOP At War With Trump As He Attempts To Use Veterans As Props In Debt Ceiling Vote

While the president complains that members of Congress are turning the debt ceiling debate into “a mess,” it is his irresponsible tweets that are turning the simple vote into a political game.

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Republicans Are Finally Starting To Panic Over Trump’s Dangerous Incompetence

Six months into the Trump administration, the GOP tune is changing as the president’s incompetence, corruption, and unfitness has thrown the entire Republican agenda into a dumpster and set it ablaze.

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Exclusive: Congress asks U.S. agencies for Kaspersky Lab cyber documents

A U.S. congressional panel this week asked 22 government agencies to share documents on Moscow-based cyber firm Kaspersky Lab, saying its products could be used to carry out “nefarious activities against the United States,” according to letters seen by Reuters.

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Desperate GOP Calls Emergency Meeting To Revive Trumpcare And Kick Millions Off Insurance

The president and his GOP allies in Congress just can’t accept the fact that America isn’t buying what they’re selling.

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Rachel Maddow Credits Huge Victory On Health Care To Persistent Grassroots Activism

“These protests have been relentless,” Maddow said. “They’ve had a huge victory just tonight.”

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Joy Reid Smacks GOP With The Ultimate Reality Check On New ‘Repeal And Delay’ Plan

On almost every level, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be harder if they did it without a replacement plan.

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Pro-Obamacare Protesters Storm D.C. Airport As GOP Senators Leave Town

The spontaneous demonstrations by pro-ACA activists shows how politically toxic this issue has become for Republicans as they prepare to dismantle Obamacare.

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Senators want Congress to OK military action in Syria

U.S. senators called on Congress on Tuesday to take back its authority to determine whether the country goes to war, saying recent U.S. strikes in Syria were not covered by existing authorizations for the use of military force.

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GOP Approval Takes Double-Digit Nosedive After Trump, Republicans Accomplish Nothing In 100 Days

As the GOP-controlled government continues to wage war on middle-class Americans, this number will likely get worse.

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Attacking Syria Was the Gateway Sexual Activity Republicans Usually Warn You About

As you can see from the polling, conservatives, far from reacting with outrage, have instead laid back and lit up in the post-coital afterglow

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Nancy Pelosi Demands Congressional Action To Stop Trigger-Happy Trump From Blowing Up The World

With Trump in charge of America’s nuclear arsenal – like a toddler playing with a loaded firearm – Congressional oversight is a necessity.

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Bernie Sanders Gives Democrats Two Keys To Resisting Trump And Winning Back Congress

Democrats will win elections when they go to all parts of the country and explain that their policies are better for average Americans.

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The Ink On Trumpcare 2.0 Isn’t Even Dry And It’s Already Dead In The Water

Not only is the latest version of Trumpcare already doomed to fail, but it’s guaranteed to drag Republicans down with it.

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Steve King Says GOP Colleagues Have Been “Patting Me On The Back” Since His Racist Comment

This is the Republican Party under Donald Trump, and 2018 can’t come soon enough.

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Fox News’s Own Poll Shows That Trump Is Failing As President

As Trump doubles down on defending a disastrous heath care bill, all while peddling paranoid conspiracy theories and covering up his connections to Russia, these numbers aren’t likely to improve anytime soon.

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GOP Setting Itself Up For Midterm Bloodbath As Trumpcare Hurts The Most Reliable Voters

Trumpcare is political suicide for the president and his Republican colleagues in Congress.

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GOP Panicking As Majority Of Voters In Key 2018 States Are Unhappy With Trump

In record time, most voters are seeing that Trump is just a con artist who cares nothing about making life better for average Americans.

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Democrats Will Slam Trump As ‘Wall Street’s Champion’ In Post-Speech Rebuttal

The Democrats will use their first rebuttal speech to go hard after the unpopular president.

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Democrats Storm The Senate Floor And Social Media To Save Obamacare From GOP Repeal

“Our message to the Republicans is simple and straightforward: You are not going to get away with it.”

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Vladimir Putin Claims Obama Signed the NDAA to ‘Create Problems’ For Trump

“This policy has brought the current US administration…into a dead end. We hope the new administration will be more sagacious.”

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GOP Plays Dirty With Spending Bill, Threatens Government Shutdown Over Trump Appointee

It’s an irresponsible way to treat a spending bill, particularly since the failure to pass it would result in a government shutdown.

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Conservative Newspaper Joins The Chorus Calling For James Comey to Resign

F.B.I. directors are supposed to be above politics, not in them. Mr. Comey has to do the right thing – resign.

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GOP Says Exercising First Amendment Rights is Terrorism but Domestic Terrorism is Not

“The U.S. government should never subject Americans to surveillance for exercising basic Constitutional rights.”

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Congress Opposes President Obama’s Effort To Reduce Prescription Drug Costs

“Doctors get paid more if they prescribe really expensive drugs because they get paid a percentage of the cost of the drug as an incentive.”

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Paul Ryan’s ‘Pro-Growth Agenda’ Calls for Giving Your Money to Rich People

Paul Ryan insists he is going to ‘fix’ things, but since Obama has already done that, he can only mean he’s going to destroy them

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Southern Poverty Law Center Warns of More Insurrection to Come

Nobody did anything about Cliven Bundy’s armed insurrection, so it hardly comes as a surprise that his son Ammon should up the stakes

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Paul Ryan’s Response: Less American Values and More Assault Weapons to Terrorists

Responding to Obama Sunday, Ryan said nothing about gun sales to terrorists or the dangers of radicalizing Muslims with more Republican hate

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President Obama Responds To Planned Parenthood Shooting With Call To Action

“We have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them.”

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Koch’s Justice Reform Proposal Restricts Prosecution For Environmental Violations

The Kochs want to pollute with impunity by simply claiming they were unaware that it was a federal violation to poison the air and water

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GOP Leadership Purge May Continue As Conservative “Ditch Mitch” Voices Grow Louder

Since Boehner’s surprise resignation announcement, calls for removing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have intensified.

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House Democrats Blast Republican Plan to Create Committee on Planned Parenthood

When House Republicans announced a new witch hunt against Planned Parenthood, Democrats were swift and decisive in their response

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With Boehner Gone, House Republican Suggests Taking Out Mitch McConnell Next

GOP Congressman Matt Salmon texted Utah Senator Mike Lee a message that said: “Next guy in the crosshairs is probably gonna be McConnell.”

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Boehner’s Departure Opens The Door For Tea Party Crazies to Take The Wheel

With the tea party taking the wheel, the crazies can move forward with their plan to dismantle functioning government.

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Pope Francis Will Enter Hostile Republican Territory When He Visits Congress

The GOP is unhappy the Pope is adhering to Jesus’ teachings – not those of Ayn Rand, Charles and David Koch, and every teabagger in America

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Jon Stewart Slams Congress For Their Indifference To 9/11 First Responders

Jon Stewart unloaded on Congress for their seeming indifference to the plight of 9/11 first responders.

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Congress Pits its 14 Percent Approval Against Obama’s 46 Percent

Our GOP Congress says people just don’t like or approve of Obama, but he’s the guy near 50 percent, while they’re down to 14 percent approval

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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

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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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On Iran Deal, Obama is the Adult Voice in the Room Once Again

As GOP stupidity mounts, claiming they can stop a deal they cannot legally stop, President Obama proves again he can make the tough decisions

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Mitch McConnell Wants To Rob Pensions To Fund Highway Repairs

As long as the Kochs own Congress, Republicans will propose robbing the elderly to pay for projects that benefit the rich and corporations

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Fast Track Stuck At The Station As Pelosi Leads Charge To Kill Controversial Trade Bill

The U.S. House derailed President Obama’s trade bill on Friday. The chamber rejected an amendment designed to save the trade bill 302-126. That measure would have granted financial aid to workers displaced as a result of the trade agreement. However, skeptical members of both parties struck down that amendment, leaving Obama’s controversial trade bill “stuck at the station”, according…

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Koch-Republicans In Senate Vote To Nullify the Clean Water Act

Republicans, and their wealthy owners in the oil, coal, and chemical industry, particularly do not believe that any American warrants clean, non-toxic drinking water, and on Thursday Republicans in the Senate took an important step to make sure at least a third of the American population will lose access to what decent human beings believe is one of the most basic human rights; clean water.

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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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According To Polls Most Americans Are Socialists Like Bernie Sanders

It is glaringly obvious that for regardless the reason Senator Sanders self-labels himself as a “democratic socialist,” or whatever negative connotations that label socialist has according to constant harping by Republicans, most Americans support Mr. Sanders’ policies.

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Don’t Be Fooled Because Kansas Republicans Admit Trickle Down Is a Scam

Kansas’ Republican legislators are all but admitting their precious trickle down experiment was not only a failure, it is a scam. In fact, although not quite stating “our only economic policy is a scam to enrich corporations and the wealthy,” just admitting they have to raise taxes to plug gaping revenue holes and more recently, that income inequality is a problem in America, is just as good.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Busts Republicans for a Dangerous Sneak Attack on Dodd-Frank

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is keeping her eye on the big banks and she knows what they and their Republican friends are up to in Congress.

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Republicans Use TPP Trade Deal To Slash Medicare

Republicans in the Senate have discovered yet another means of cutting Medicare to add insult to injury from the already damage-ridden Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement that benefits no-one but the big corporations who wrote the ill-advised proposal.

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Unions Are Outsmarting Big Business And Winning The Battle Over Trade and TPP

Big business is getting bashed and outmaneuvered by unions who have mobilized and are winning the battle over the TPP and trade agreements.

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Paul Ryan Lies About Amtrak While Pledging No Republican Infrastructure Funding

Instead of acknowledging that as an austerity-minded Republican his only priority and primary goal for serving in the House cutting infrastructure spending, Ryan warned that Congress is in no way going to “rush to judgment and try doubling the size of government programs” just because some people died in an accident he said was caused by “human error.”

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GOP-Koch Drive To Privatize Rail Service Caused Deadly Amtrak Derailment

The tragic accident was, by all accounts, entirely due to perpetually inadequate funding for the nation’s transportation infrastructure; just one of the hallmarks of Republican governance when they control the nation’s purse-strings and yet another devious means to privatizing all aspects of government for the Koch brothers.

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White Religious Conservatives Feel Persecuted But They’re Not the Ones Found Hanging from Trees

We need to call out the appalling in our midst. And we should never, ever, apologize for telling the truth about them

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President Obama Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results?

If there is one thing Republicans and the Obama Administration love more than pandering to Wall Street, it is the abject 20-year failure of the charter school industry

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Bernie Sanders Explained Why Voters Aren’t Voting Ten Years Ago

Before perusing the one-time “world’s leading democracy” and its truly pathetic voter turnout record, it is worth looking back at comments from Senator Bernie Sanders that he recorded for posterity nearly ten years ago.

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Louie Gohmert: It’s Obama’s Fault We’re all Idiots

I paraphrase, but not by much. Gohmert uses nuns, the Posse Comitatus Act, and Waco 1993 to prove Obama is to blame

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Federal Court Rules NSA’s Bulk Phone Data Collection Is Illegal

On Thursday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of telephone metadata is illegal under current law.

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In Challenging the Supreme Court, Republicans Challenge the Constitution

The upcoming SCOTUS marriage equality ruling is just another opportunity for Republicans to challenge the constitutionality of the Consitution

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Boehner and McConnell Balance Their Budget on the Backs of the American People

Republicans are making much of their “balanced” budget but this “work harder for less” budget is not really balanced at all

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Obama Quotes FDR Saying We Are All Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists

President Obama quoted FDR on Cinco de Mayo as he made the case for immigration reform, the President quoted FDR, “As one of my predecessors, Franklin Roosevelt once said, ‘Remember, always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.’ “

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Republicans Admit Hobby Lobby Ruling Is Religious Tyranny Meant to Control Women

Republicans claim their abominable legislation overturning a Washington D.C. anti-discrimination statute that prohibited religious employers from punishing women who use birth control, family planning services, or abortion services was to protect employers’ religious liberty according to the Hobby Lobby ruling. However, they revealed the legislation is about using religious tyranny to control women.

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After Voting to Strip it From DC Residents, Boehner Claims to Champion Religious Freedom

“America was founded on the principle of religious freedom.” It’s just a shame he thinks only corporations have that freedom

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Pat Robertson Says if We Keep Mocking Him, God Will Smack Us Down

There are a whole bunch of fundamentalists who are upset we don’t take them seriously, which means, of course, that I will keep mocking them

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The Toxic Chickens Have Come Home To Roost As Republican Sequester Is A Total Disaster

The Republican Holy Grail of sequestration, the idea they were so proud of that they bragged about it and begged for it for years, has turned out to be a total failure. The fallout resulting from their slapdash, chaotic efforts to drown the baby with the bathwater continues.

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