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It’s Time To Stop The Out Of Control Supreme Court Majority
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court made it clear that their recent decisions on guns, abortion, and climate change are the beginning and they must be stopped.
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Has Black Lives Matter Brought Us Closer To The Tipping Point On Class Inequality?
The Black Lives Matter movement, in demanding that we reconsider how Black lives have been valued, or rather de-valued, in U.S. culture, society, and political economy, essentially asks us as well to interrogate our entire system of economic and cultural values. On what basis do we in our socio-economic system and culture assign different values…
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Fox News Is Powerless As Republicans Crumble Under Trump Chaos
After abandoning Marco Rubio, Fox News will host a debate where they will be powerless to stop the GOP from crumbling under Trump.
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Politicus Podcast: The End Is Near As Republicans Have 13 Days To Stop Trump
PoliticusUSA’s Sarah Jones and Jason Easley discuss what could be the last 13 days in the life of the Republican Party.
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Even President Obama Is Laughing At Mitch McConnell’s Failure
Six years and some change later, the man who set out a detailed plan to derail the Obama presidency before he even took office is in the hot seat.
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Distrust Of Jeb Will Only Grow After Latest Bush Blunder Exposed
Bush’s attempt to claim himself to be “Hispanic” only furthers the rift between him and anti-immigrant Nativists in the Republican Party.
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It’s Time We Believed Elizabeth Warren. She’s Not Running. And That’s OK
Warren is not running. It is not going to happen, and I think it’s time to accept that fact.
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Politicus Radio: Democrats Push Back On Disrespect Of Obama
On this episode of Politicus Radio, Sarah Jones and Jason Easley discuss the Democratic pushback to the disrespect that was shown to President Obama by Netanyahu and Boehner.
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What’s Morning Joe’s Solution To Plummeting Ratings? Book More Republican Guests
It is no secret that MSNBC’s Morning Joe is hemorrhaging viewers. Over the past few months, the morning program has seen its audience bail in droves. The solution — book more Republicans.
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Obama Ignores Impeachment Threat And Tells Republicans He Is Going To Use His Power
President Obama is completely unfazed by Republican claims that they will impeach him if he issues his executive orders on immigration. The president responded to the threat by telling Republicans that he is going to use his power.
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Ted Cruz’s “Net Neutrality Is Obamacare For The Internet” Tweet Shows He Understands Neither
On Monday morning, President Obama made a public statement urging the FCC to take strong measures to protect net neutrality.To the surprise of nobody, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) had an opinion on net neutrality once the President made his statement.
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Obama Pushes Back Against Comcast and Verizon By Urging Strong FCC Action On Net Neutrality
In a strong statement, President Obama pushed back against the corporate takeover of the Internet by urging the FCC to implement the strongest rules to protect net neutrality.
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Democrats Need to Be Bold In Their Policies and Stand with the Guy In The White House
One thing is obvious: Democrats are still allowing the media to parrot GOP narratives, and Democrats are still running away from their own ideas and into the arms of the tepid enemy of equivalency. Democrats are still afraid to be bold.
Politicus Podcast: A Real Liberal Election Night In America
Tired of media babbling? Jason and Sarah bring you Election Night PoliticusUSA style.
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Friday Fox Follies – The Ebola Edition
The Fox “News” Fear-Mongering Industrial Complex launched The War Against The War Against Ebola this week.If there hadn’t been an Ebola crisis, Fox would have had to invent one.
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Enough About ISIL, Obama Needs To Take Off The Gloves and Go After Republicans
As we head into precarious midterm elections, President Obama needs to stop trying to explain why he feels it’s necessary to strike ISIL and instead he needs to call out Republicans more.
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After Getting Busted Congress Caves and Will Require Members To Disclose Trips From Lobbyists
The House Ethics Committee caved to public pressure, and quickly reversed itself two days after a secret ruling that changed eliminated a rule requiring members of Congress to publicly disclose the free trips they were getting from lobbyists.
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Corrupt Congress Secretly Kills Rule Requiring Them To Disclose Free Trips From Lobbyists
In a private meeting, the House Ethics Committee secretly killed a decades old rule that required members of Congress to disclose to the public trips they take that are paid for by lobbyists.
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California Democrat Slams Republicans On Their Criticism Of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s Release
On Sunday afternoon, Democratic Congressional candidate James Kimber, who is running against Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) in California’s 50th District, contacted me to express his disgust with the tactics that Republicans are using to undermine the President.
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Tell Darrell Issa to Stop The Politically Motivated Witch Hunts!!!
It is time for all Americans to take a stand against Rep. Issa’s out of control activities that are trying to find something to use to impeach President Obama. Send a message to Rep. Issa by signing our petition.
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Republicans Are Disgracing America With Their Talk of Impeaching President Obama
By resorting to threatening to impeach President Obama over his use of executive orders, Republicans are not only humiliating themselves. They are also disgracing the country.
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Christie Scandal Grows As a Second Mayor Accuses Gov. of Hurting Citizens for Revenge
Things are getting worse for Chris Christie by the day, as the mayor of Elizabeth, NJ has come forward to accuse the governor of closing down the state’s 4th largest DMV as an act of political revenge.
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For Many Americans There is Little To Be Thankful For On Thanksgiving
There are plenty of things for all Americans to be thankful for, but sadly, a substantial segment of the population has little reason to be grateful on this official “day of thanksgiving.”
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At Least One Institution is Thriving Under Our Divided Federal Government – Gangs!!!
Within a few years, there could be one million gang members in the U.S. Gangs are a refuge for children of poverty. No Teapublicans care.
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Mark Sanford Comes Unglued and Runs Around SC Asking Women if They Hate Him
It’s looking like Mark Sanford has some issues. In order to prove to the media that women don’t hate him, Sanford walked up to random women in Summerville, SC, and asked them if they hated him.
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Things Go Horribly Wrong For Fox News When They Ask GOP Congressman for Benghazi Evidence
Fox News tried to push their Benghazi conspiracy theory today, but things went horribly wrong when they asked Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz for evidence and he couldn’t provide any.
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Bill Maher Labels Rick Perry, Ted Nugent, and Sarah Palin the ‘Axis of Assholes’
On Real Time, Bill Maher played a clip of Rick Perry shooting things with an assault weapon, and labeled Perry, Ted Nugent, and Sarah Palin, ‘the axis of a**holes.’
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McCain Shoots Boehner’s Argument Out of the Water by Urging GOP to Raise Revenue
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) praised President Obama for reaching across the aisle and said Republicans should compromise on the budget by increasing tax revenues.
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Scott Prouty Gives Voice To The Real Silent Majority: The American Worker
Finding out the identity of the 47% videographer was nice, but Scott Prouty’s real contribution is that he has given a voice to America’s working class silent majority.
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Self Confessed Pedophile Ted Nugent Will be a Guest of House Republicans at the SOTU
House Republican Steven Stockman is helping to rebrand his party by announcing today that admitted pedophile, and generally insane person, Ted Nugent will be his guest at the State of the Union.
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Meet The 31 Corporations and Banks Who Dodged $128 Billion in US Taxes
Sen. Bernie Sanders released a report today directly taking on 31 banks and corporations who have dodged $128 billion in taxes.
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Mitch McConnell Gets Desperate and Promises to Avoid Losing Battles with Obama
Mitch McConnell is running away from doing battle with President Obama and hoping to focus attention on battles he thinks Republicans can win against Senate Democrats.
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Things I am Grateful for in 2012
Even in troubled times, there are a great many things to be grateful for. Here are a few of mine.
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Republicans Scramble to Make Horses and Bayonets Work for Them
Mitt Romney stepped into a hornet’s nest last night full of horses and bayonets and the Republican effort to extricate him is frantic
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The Obama Campaign Calls Out Gallup’s Deeply Flawed Battleground Women Poll
After Gallup released a poll showing Obama and Romney tied at 48% with battleground state women, the Obama campaign exposed a flaw in Gallup’s likely voter methodology.
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Obama Sends Romney Back Into the Fetal Position With Video on the Ryan Budget
Mitt Romney’s Paul Ryan bounce was over before it started as the Obama campaign released a new video hitting the Republican ticket hard on the Ryan budget.
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Watch the White House Crush Romney’s Blame Obama for Harry Reid Meme
The White House took Romney’s attempt to use the right’s blame Obama meme to cover up his tax returns and turned into another campaign disaster for W. Mitt Romney.
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MSNBC Blasts Sean Hannity For Spreading Misinformation During Zimmerman Interview
In a statement, MSNBC fired back at Sean Hannity for spreading misinformation during his interview with George Zimmerman.
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George Zimmerman Wants African-Americans to Apologize to Him
An unrepentant George Zimmermann sat down with Sean Hannity and asked African-Americans to apologize to him, even though he never apologized for shooting Trayvon Martin.
A Lesson for Sean Hannity on What Obama has Done for Students With Loans
Sean Hannity claimed President Obama has done nothing for students with loans, so in an attempt to educate the most uneducable, here is exactly what Obama has done to help student borrowers.
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Is Mitt Romney Aware That Ted Nugent Is a Self-Admitted Pedophile?
Mitt Romney’s Ted Nugent problems are much worse than the rocker’s threats against President Obama. Romney’s real issue is that he has accepted the endorsement of an admitted pedophile.
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Republicans Set A World Record For Lies Told At CNN Arizona Debate
A special Politicus Radio post Republican debate program focuses on the 2012 Republican presidential candidates, and their love of lying about America, their own records, and President Obama. Jason Easley, Sarah Jones and George Sirios take on the CNN Republican debate, listen here: As Jason wrote for PoliticusUSA last night, the CNN Republican Debate was…
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PBS’s Clinton Evokes Reminders Of Attacks On Obama
Part one of PBS’s two part biography of Bill Clinton airs tonight and the similarities between the attacks on Clinton and those lobbed at Obama are unmistakable.
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Elizabeth Warren Slams The GOP’s War On Contraception As A War On Healthcare
Elizabeth Warren joined Rachel Maddow to expose the fact that the GOP’s attack on contraception is the first step in gutting the entire health insurance system. Here is the video from MSNBC: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy MADDOW: Jim from New England Cable News there was essentially characterizing…
Fox News Claims The Media Is Conspiring To Reelect Barack Obama
As their dreams of defeating President Obama evaporate by the day, Fox News is claiming media conspiracy and using Palin to ease viewers into their collective psychotic break.
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Fox Unleashes Crazy Lady Sarah Palin To Claim Obama’s Unfit For Office
You know things are getting desperate when Fox News hosts the rumored mentally ill like Sarah Palin to claim Obama is unfit to hold office.
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Obama Shows America That He Now Owns Boehner, Cantor, and The GOP
President Obama’s statement today that he wants more than just a ten month payroll tax cut extension shows that he now owns Boehner and the House Republicans.
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Racist Super Bowl Ad Backfires Gives Democrats Double Digit Lead In Michigan
Remember Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra’s racist, xenophobic, and all around offensive Super Bowl ad? Voters in Michigan do, and the Democrat now has a double digit lead.
Elizabeth Warren Leads Scott Brown In Massachusetts Senate Nail-biter
A new WMUR poll of Massachusetts finds Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren holding a narrow lead over Republican Senator Scott Brown, 46%-43%. The WMUR poll shows the race between Warren and Brown to be as close as close can be. Not only is Warren’s three point lead within the poll’s margin of error, but both candidates…
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Watch Bernie Sanders Take Down Koch Class Warrior Paul Ryan
In response to Rep. Paul Ryan’s criticism of Obama’s budget, Sen. Bernie Sanders called out Ryan’s Koch fueled class warfare. Here is the video courtesy of The Ed Show: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Transcript via MSNBC: SCHULTZ: Let’s turn to Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, member of…
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Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich All Promise To Ban Porn
The top three Republican presidential candidates pledged a war on porn today which means that they have promised more action to ban porn than to create jobs.
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Independents Embrace Obama As They Flee Romney And The GOP
According to the new Pew Research poll, Independents are fleeing Mitt Romney and embracing
President Obama at a brisk clip.
Book Review: The Obama Hate Machine
In The Obama Hate Machine, Bill Press debunks the myths behind the Obama hate being funded by the Koch Brothers, promoted by Fox News and the GOP, and spread by the mainstream media.
Mitt Romney Has Gotten So Desperate That He Rigged The CPAC Straw Poll
It is getting ugly out there in Republican land as Rick Santorum claimed on CNN that Mitt Romney has become so desperate that he rigged the CPAC straw poll.
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The Media Turns A Blind Eye As The GOP Rigs Maine For Mitt Romney
The mainstream media has chosen to ignore it, but Mitt Romney’s win in Maine demonstrated again that there is something shady going on with the Republican primaries and caucuses.
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Sarah Palin Speaks For Free And CPAC Still Gets Ripped Off
Sarah Palin finally hit rock bottom and accepted an invitation to speak for free at CPAC, and her address was a combination of lies about Obama and bitterness over 2008.
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Mitt Romney’s Favorability Rating Plunges 23 Points With Republicans
The big story to come from the PPP Republican poll isn’t Rick Santorum’s lead, but Mitt Romney complete collapse in favorability with his fellow Republicans.
In 400+ Days The GOP Has Created 0 And Tried To Kill 7.4 Million Jobs
In the over 400 days since Republicans took control of the House, the GOP hasn’t passed a single job creation bill, but has passed bills that would kill 7.4 million jobs.
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The Right Freaks Out As GOP Poll Finds 20% Of Republicans May Vote For Obama
A major freak out is occurring on the right as a new poll released by a Republican polling company has found that 20% of Republicans are more likely to vote for Obama.
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Nancy Pelosi Joins With Stephen Colbert To Fight Citizens United
By releasing a new video calling Stephen Colbert out of control, Nancy Pelosi has joined with the popular comedian’s campaign against Citizens United.
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Bernie Sanders Calls Out The GOP’s Plan To Kill 230,000 Postal Service Jobs
Sen. Bernie Sanders took to The Ed Show to explain why the GOP’s plan to destroy the Postal Service is all about killing 230,000 jobs in the name of privatization.
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It Turns Out Most Catholics Agree With Obama’s ‘War On Religion’
A new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that contrary to the GOP’s belief, a majority of Catholics agree with Obama on contraception coverage.
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A Paranoid Mitt Romney Claims The White House Is Trying To Kill Him
After going 0 for 3 last night, the Romney campaign developed a new Nixon like strain of paranoia and claimed today that the White House is trying to kill Mitt Romney.
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As Voters Come Home To Obama, 2012 Begins To Look A Lot Like 2008
A comparison of recent polls in Ohio, Michigan, and Virginia with 2008 polling shows that voters who supported President Obama last time are starting to come back home to him in 2012.
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Bill O’Reilly Disrespects President Obama By Lecturing Him On Humility
On his Fox News program, Bill O’Reilly claimed that President Obama had nothing to do with saving the auto industry and he needs to be much more humble about success.
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Obama Super Bowl Interview Calls Out Wall Street And The Super Rich
President Obama used his Super Bowl interview to call on taxes to be raised on the wealthy, and more regulations on Wall Street.
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Rachel Maddow Lays Waste To The GOP’s Bogus Obama War On Religion
On Meet The Press, Rachel Maddow debunked the Republican claim that Obama has declared war on religion and exposed the secret conservative agenda against contraception.
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The 5 Biggest Lies About Obama In Mitt Romney’s Nevada Victory Speech
Mitt Romney won Nevada, but his victory speech was full falsehoods about President Obama. Here are his five biggest lies about the president.
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Fox News Uses Gout To Claim Poor People Aren’t Really Poor
While trying to defend Romney’s comments about the poor Fox News claimed that since more poor people have gout, the poor aren’t really poor.
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Obama Uses Unemployment Drop To Take Down Boehner and The GOP
President Obama used the news that the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.3% to warn John Boehner and the GOP against any attempts to wreck the economy.
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Simply Unelectable: How Romney’s Deal With Donald Trump Helps Obama
By cutting a deal for Donald Trump’s endorsement, Mitt Romney has done his part today to get President Obama reelected.
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Bernie Sanders Condemns Mitt Romney’s Death Sentence For The Poor
Bernie Sanders not only strongly condemned Mitt Romney, but also said that the GOP frontrunner’s attitude and positions represent a death sentence for the poor.
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Polling Shows Obama Heading For Huge Victory Over Romney
It is early, but an analysis of state by state polling data reveals that President Obama may be heading for a huge victory over Mitt Romney.
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The Republican Debate Audience Hits A New Low By Cheering Child Labor
Not only did the South Carolina Republican debate audience cheer child labor, they were orgasmic over the idea of using child labor to destroy unions.
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5 Reasons To Be Glad You Didn’t Watch The South Carolina Republican Debate
The South Carolina debate audience cheered child labor, and four other reasons to be glad you didn’t watch the Fox News Republican Debate.
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Even The Fox News Poll Thinks Obama Is Going To Win Reelection
A new Fox News poll delivered some surprising news, as 52% of those surveyed believed that President Obama will win reelection in 2012.
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Obama Sends SOPA Back To Censorship Hell
President Obama’s opposition to SOPA has killed the bill and sent it into eternal legislative limbo. All eyes are now focused on PIPA.
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Even Republicans Who Endorse Mitt Romney Don’t Think He Can Beat Obama
Jon Huntsman is about to become the latest Republican to endorse Mitt Romney who doesn’t think he can defeat Obama
Team Obama Dishes Out More Bain Pain To Mitt Romney
On CNN today Obama reelection strategist David Axelrod spread more Bain pain for Mitt Romney by pointing out that the GOP frontrunner made millions by bankrupting a dozen companies.
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Harry Reid Sells SOPA Censorship As Job Creation
Despite the White House’s objections, Harry Reid said on Meet The Press that SOPA will save jobs and the Majority Leader continued to push the legislation.
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Stephen Colbert Takes Sunday Morning By Storm And Skewers Citizens United
Stephen Colbert used his appearance on ABC’s This Week to satirize Citizens United and point out the absurdity of corporations being people.
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How The Mainstream Media Has Tebowed America On SOPA
Not only has the mainstream media ignored the SOPA legislation that they support, but new study revealed that Tim Tebow has gotten over twenty times more news coverage than SOPA.
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Rachel Maddow Calls Out The GOP Lie That Obama Has Grown Government
Rachel Maddow completely dismantled the Republican claims that President Obama has grown the size of government since taking office.
Poll: Republicans Could Be Heading For A Devastating 2012 Defeat
A new Democracy Corps poll revealed a nightmare scenario for Republicans where not only does Obama get reelected but Democrats regain total control of Congress.
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Obama Defeats The GOP Again By Calling Their Small Government Bluff
Under the guise of reforming the executive branch, President Obama set Republicans up with a no win situation. Either they give him what he wants or out themselves as the lovers of big government that they are.
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What The Media Won’t Tell You: GOP Voter Fraud Is Running Rampant
The media has been ignoring the real story on election fraud. Republicans all across the country from Mitt Romney to state party officials have engaged in voter fraud.
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Obama Mobilizes Supporters To Battle GOP’s Voter Suppression Campaign
President Obama continues to raise huge sums of money, but he is also mobilizing supporters to do battle against the GOP’s 2012 voter suppression campaign.
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Obama Auto Bailout Has Created 10 Times More Jobs Than Romney Ever Did
Mitt Romney may have only created 10,000 jobs while at Bain, but the Obama auto industry bailout that Romney opposed has created 170,000 jobs since 2009.
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The Real Mitt: Romney Admits That He Likes To Fire People
The real Mitt Romney resurfaced again today. At a New Hampshire event, Mitt Romney admitted that he likes to fire people.
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Democrats Catch Mitt Romney In A Huge Lie During The Facebook Debate
The more Mitt Romney talks the harder it gets for him to keep his stories straight as evidenced by this DNC video that caught Romney in a big lie during the Facebook debate.
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5 Reasons To Be Glad You Didn’t Watch The Meet The Press Debate
Shame on the American media, for giving no time to recover from last night’s GOP debate. Here are five reasons why you would have better off staying in bed than watching the Republican debate.
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5 Reasons To Be Glad You Didn’t Watch The New Hampshire GOP Debate
Mitt Romney thinks America would be stronger if gay people didn’t raise kids, and four other reasons to be glad you didn’t watch the ABC News New Hampshire GOP debate.
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Rachel Maddow Exposes The Republican Party’s Election Fraud Hypocrisy
Rachel Maddow points out the hypocrisy in the GOP’s position on voter ID and their complete dismissal of potential election fraud in Iowa.
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Obama Uses Jobs Number To Renew Call For Raising Taxes On The Wealthy
After President Obama gave his statement on the decrease in unemployment, he once again called for a tax increase on the wealthy.
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Ron Paul And His Insane Supporters Get Skewered By Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann took Ron Paul and his crazy supporters who put out a bizarre racist video about Jon Huntsman to task in his Worst Persons segment.
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Al Gore Denounces And Blasts SOPA
During a speech last night Al Gore came out against SOPA by warning it is a threat to the vibrancy and freedom of the Internet.
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Sarah Palin Explains Why Santorum Rises To The Top
Unintentional comedy gold took center stage on Fox News’ Hannity as Sarah Palin gave her expert analysis on why Santorum rises to the top.
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Occupy Wall Street Rains On Mitt Romney’s New Hampshire Parade
Mitt Romney’s town hall in New Hampshire was a disaster as Occupy Wall Street got him to explain why corporations are really the good guys.
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Debunking The GOP’s Power Grab Meme: Obama’s Made Only 29 Recess Appointments
The Republican Party is crying power grab, but even with the recess appointment of Richard Cordray, Obama has made fewer recess appointments than Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes.