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Paul Ryan Throws Trump-Like Tantrum Over The CBO’s New Score Of GOP Health Plan
The Speaker said more Americans will be without insurance because it’s what they want, not because the GOP health care plan is bad.
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Trusted Trump Advisor Demands Federal Workers Who Voted For Clinton Be Fired
“Those bureaucrats overwhelmingly voted for Clinton. There won’t be any real cooperation until we change federal law so we can fire them.â€
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GOP Prohibits CBO From Reporting How Much ACA Repeal Blows Up the Deficit
The new Republican rule implicitly instructs the CBO not to say how much it will cost taxpayers to repeal Obamacare, because it is frightening.
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Koch-Republicans Remember Soldiers’ Sacrifice With A Veterans Healthcare Coupon Scam
The privatization scam amounts to a yearly-issued, and set amount, coupon to purchase healthcare services at a private hospital or doctor’s office, or use as a discount card to purchase a private insurance policy.
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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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John Boehner To Hold Tax Repeal Vote To Increase Welfare For the Rich
Speaker of the House John Boehner will hold a vote to repeal the “Estate Tax” and give the very richest of the rich another government handout at the expense of the rest of the population.
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Real Economist Paul Krugman Calls Republican Budget A Trillion Dollar Con Job
Republicans only know one approach to economic policy; the abject failure and scam known as trickle down with a healthy dose of Draconian austerity. Those features epitomize the most recent budget proposal Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman officially and accurately labeled as a “trillion dollar con job.”
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Koch-Funded Professor Publicly Calls For Less Democracy
A university professor heavily funded by the Koch brothers has very publicly and openly called for less democracy to reduce the power of the majority.
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Push to boost defense spending puts GOP in budget bind
Pressing Pentagon demands in a time of terror threats and Islamic State militants have put newly empowered congressional Republicans in a bind.
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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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Pelosi Tells Republicans To Stop Playing Games with the Safety of the American People
Pelosi pointed out the obvious to delusional Republicans: It’s time to get back to work and stop playing games.
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Thieving Republicans Robbed Americans In Their First Week Controlling Congress
It is amazing that Republicans who could not pass any legislation last year, spent the first four days of the 114th Congress stealing from women, retired and disabled Americas, large corporations’ employees, and various government departments and the Executive Branch.
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GOP’s First Step To Inflict Kansas Economic Woes On America
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There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous to other human beings and should be prevented at all costs, and yet wishes they could do the same thing. Last year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, like all Republicans, witnessed the complete economic devastation…
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The First Act Of The Koch Congress Is A Vicious Attack On Social Security
On the evening before officially taking control of Congress, Republicans launched a Koch-Wall Street attack on Social Security as a first step in another Republican-created crisis; this time to hasten privatizing Social Security for the Kochs and Wall Street.
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Republicans Plan Another Bush Trickle Down Assault In 2015
Some Republicans are beginning to express little hope that the President will go along with the scam and may eschew raising taxes on the poor, for now, and instead set their sights on slashing corporate taxes.
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Paul Ryan Plans A CBO Rubber Stamp For Trickle Down Disaster
Paul Ryan is quietly working behind the scenes to make sure the next head of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Congress’s objective eye in all matters concerning fiscal policy, is an ardent proponent of the Koch’s Americans for Prosperity economic agenda.
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Latest Obamacare Scandal is Just More Republican Hypocrisy and Lies
Media Matters went to the trouble of exposing the GOP’s latest Obamacare scandal on Thursday, three days before CNN made a big deal bout it
Republicans Are Unhinged and Terrified of Good Economic Reports
Despite their Herculean efforts to bankrupt America though, another report this week revealed the economy is on the mend despite the GOP plot to obstruct the new President’s attempt to turn around the economic disaster eight years of Republicans’ drunken spending spree on the nation’s credit card.
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The Congressional Budget Office Vs. Paul Ryan: Will the Nonpartisan Entity Stand Its Ground?
There are very few nonpartisan, unbiased institutions left to us. But we always have the Congressional Budget Office. Or do we?
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Myth Busted: Republicans Wrong Again as Obamacare Premiums Set to Decrease in 2015
For five years, Republicans claimed the Affordable Care Act would produce significant rate hikes that would kill the law. For five years, they’ve been dead wrong.
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House Republicans’ Intransigence On Immigration Reform Will Cost Them Seats In November
A year ago Friday marked the one year anniversary since the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill with bipartisan support. It still sits in seemingly permanent limbo in the House.
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Republicans Rejoice as They Spread the South’s Third World Status To The Entire Nation
Apparently, Republicans and their supporters are proud that America’s infrastructure compares unfavorably with most advanced and even some developing nations because in their minds spreading the South’s third world status to the entire nation is a worthy goal.
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Liberal States Outperform Conservative Ones as Republicans Push More Trickle Down
It is beyond question that after over thirty years, the Republican “trickle down” economic experiment continues providing the same empirical data and living results of starving government of revenue, depressing economic growth, increasing debt and deficit, and retarding job creation.
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Republicans Will Kill 240,000 Jobs In 2014 By Not Extending Unemployment Benefits
Republicans will have killed an additional 240,000 jobs in 2014 according to The Council of Economic Advisers who estimated that not extending the unemployment benefits will have a deleterious effect on hiring.
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Democratic Candidate For Congress Slams Incumbent For Not Supporting Unemployment Benefits
On Wednesday morning, Tim Sheridan, Democratic candidate for California’s 42nd District, issued a press release. The statement showed both his both his personal support for the extension of unemployment benefits and slammed his opponent, Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
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Republicans Devastate The Lives of 1.3 Million Americans as the Media Stays Silent
The media is not about to damage Republicans’ electoral chances by telling Americans the real reason why they are in poverty, not finding good jobs, and losing their unemployment benefits.
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Bill O’Reilly Asks Fox News Viewers to Pray for Every Wealthy Person In America
Bill O’Reilly has asked his viewers to pray for people he feels are in imminent danger; every affluent person in America.
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John Boehner and Eric Cantor Respond to Economic Good News By Planning to Kill More Jobs
It was a certainty that Republicans would use the recent good news on the economy, both GDP growth and job numbers, as a reason to find new ways to thwart the recovering economy and kill more jobs.
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Natural Born Job Killers: Republicans Are Set to Kill 1 Million More Jobs in 2014
Republicans will be killing 1 million more jobs in 2014, and a new report found that their austerity madness is doing immense long term damage to the US economy.
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The Insurance Industry Hates the ACA? The Insurance Industry Loves the ACA.
If you were to believe the headlines, it would appear that Blue Cross and their ilk are terrified of ACA. Quite the opposite is true.
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President Obama Slams Republicans For Not Having an Economic Plan
The President told the audience that the Republican plans to shut down the government unless the Affordable Care Act is defunded is not an economic plan.
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Obama Proven Right as CBO Finds GOP Backed Spending Cuts Don’t Reduce Debt
The CBO reported that the nation’s debt is $231 billion less than last year, and they highlighted the fact the declining debt is entirely due to increased revenue and not Republican spending cuts.
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Fox News Claims the Economy is Great in Order to Bash President Obama
In an attempt to bash the President over food stamp usage, Fox News claimed that the recession ended four years ago, which is right about when President Obama took office.
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Democrats Must Call Out The Absurd Canard That Spending Cuts Make The Economy Grow
It is time for Democrats to call out the absurd canard that taking money out of the economy helps the economy grow. There is a time to address debt, but it is not during an economic downturn.
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Republican Myth Busted: Reagan Raised the Debt Ceiling 3 Times More than Obama
President Reagan raised the debt ceiling the more times than any other President since 1960. He raised it 18 times. In contrast, President Obama has raised the debt ceiling just 6 times.
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The Republican Obsession With Obstructing Obama is Endangering the Country
The GOP’s insane obsession with obstructing the President is a danger to economic recovery and 98% of the population.
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Obama Primes the Pump for a Mitt Fit at the Debate
The Obama camp explains in detail what Mitt Romney is really saying in case he does spend those ninety minutes avoiding the facts and sticking instead to the same hollow plans he’s shown us before.
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As Fiscal Cliff Approaches Republicans Try to Kill 2 Million Jobs
With fiscal cliff in sight, Republicans will not accept anything less than austerity measures that guarantee to kill 2 million jobs in 2013.
Rick Santorum is a Hateful Master of Deceit
Rick Santorum is fast setting new lows in his disdain for honesty, choosing instead the path of deceit, expressing hatred to sow hatred of our president and of us