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Nancy Pelosi Is Now More Pro-Marijuana Than Rand Paul
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has more pro-marijuana position than the Libertarian-Republican Sen. Rand Paul.
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Rand Paul Claims Marijuana Takes Away Your Incentive To Work
Sen. Rand Paul went on Fox News Sunday and told a pretty big lie about marijuana. He claimed, with zero evidence, that marijuana takes away your incentive to work.
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Sunday Shows Respond to the Popularity of Same Sex Marriage By Hosting Anti-Gay Bigots
Even as support for same sex marriage reaches a record high, Meet The Press, Face The Nation, and CNN’s State Of The Union all gave air time to right wing gay bigots.
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From Bush’s Brain To Punching Bag: The Media Finally Calls Out Karl Rove’s Lies
It may be ten years too late, but someone in the mainstream media has finally called out Karl Rove for a lie.
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The Tea Party is Boycotting Fox News Because It Is Too Liberal
The paranoia that Fox News created is turning against them, as tea party activists are boycotting the network for being too far left.
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Bill Maher Destroys Republican Spending Cut Hypocrites With Their Own Words
Bill Maher used video interviews of Republicans demanding spending cuts, but refusing to cut anything they like to demonstrate the Republican hypocrisy on spending and cuts.
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Michael Moore Explains Why Bush and Cheney Must Be Prosecuted for War Crimes
On MSNBC, Michael Moore explained that we must prosecute Bush and Cheney for war crimes in order to send a message to future presidents.
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Big Oily Disgrace: 17 Senate Dems Join Republicans In Passing Measure Supporting Keystone XL
Seventeen Senate Democrats ignored the facts about Keystone XL, and joined with Republicans to pass a measure urging the construction of the pipeline.
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Fox News Responds to Obama’s Israel Success By Calling for Easter Egg Roll Boycott
President Obama’s visit to Israel was such a success that Fox News is desperately talking about anything else, including calling for a boycott of the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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Michele Bachmann Crashes, Burns, and Takes The Republican Party Down With Her
By claiming that Obamacare would literally kill people, and then calling Medicaid a ghetto, Michele Bachmann is destroying herself and the Republican Party.
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Rachel Maddow Busts The Media For Their Pro-Tea Party Bias
Rachel Maddow called out the mainstream media for blaming the dead, dying, and virtually non-existent tea party for the fact that Republican policies are unpopular.
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Reality Kicks Republican Ass: Spending As a Percentage of GDP Has Fallen Under Obama
The Republican talking point that Obama is on a spending spree has become so widespread that even some on the left believe it, but the truth is that federal spending as a percentage of GDP has fallen.
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Charlie Crist Leads Rick Scott By 12 Points in Latest Florida Poll
The latest PPP poll of the potential Florida governor’s race finds Gov. Rick Scott trailing former Gov. Charlie Crist by twelve points, 52%-40%.
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Meet The Five Cowardly Senate Democrats Who Killed the Assault Weapons Ban
It wasn’t cowardice that killed the assault weapons ban. It was the opposition of five Democratic Red State senators that forced the ban to be dropped from the bill.
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From Hero to Zero: The Right Trashes Rand Paul for Supporting Immigration Reform
In less than a week Sen. Rand Paul has gone from the filibuster hero/CPAC straw poll winner to total zero with the right for vaguely, kind of supporting some form of immigration reform.
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Fox News Is Dying: For the Second Straight Year the Network Adds No New Viewers
The new Pew State of the Media report confirmed that Fox News could be facing future economic woes because for the second straight year they have failed to add any new viewers.
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NRA Ridicules Congresswoman Whose Husband Was Shot and Killed in Mass Shooting
The NRA has decided that it is great strategy to claim that Rep. Carolyn McCarthy whose husband and son were mass shooting victims doesn’t know what she is talking about on the gun violence issue.
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Adding Fuel to the 2016 Fire, Hillary Clinton Comes Out In Support of Marriage Equality
Former Sec. of State and potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton added fuel to the 2016 speculation by announcing her support for marriage equality today.
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CNN Reports Steubenville Verdict With Disgusting Pro-Rapist Bias
Who knew that CNN was pro-rape? CNN reporters could not contain their sorrow over the fact that the two Steubenville football players who raped a teenage girl have had their lives ruined.
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Paul Ryan Trashes His Own Budget by Admitting That There is No Debt Crisis
On Face The Nation today, Rep. Paul Ryan reversed years of budgets and claims that the country faces an immediate debt crisis by admitting that there is no debt crisis.
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Boehner Admits There is No Immediate Debt Crisis; Wants to Gut Social Security and Medicare Anyway
On ABC’s This Week, Speaker John Boehner admitted that there is no immediate debt crisis, but in the next breath argued that the country should gut Medicare and Social Security anyway.
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Judge Finds Both Football Players Delinquent (Guilty) in Steubenville Rape Case
Two Steubenville High School football players were found guilty this morning of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl.
Rand Paul Becomes The Latest CPAC Straw Poll Winner Destined to Not Be President
The votes are in, and Sen. Rand Paul has defeated Sen. Marco Rubio in the latest CPAC straw poll to determine which Republican won’t be president.
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Reeking of Obama Hate and Desperation, Sarah Palin Was the Joke at CPAC
At CPAC, Sarah Palin stepped straight out of 2008 and offered America the same desperate, cartoonish, Obama hate that has made her a national joke.
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Cave Pig Rush Limbaugh Blames The Emotional Decisions of Women for Ruining TV
Rush Limbaugh is claiming that the emotional decisions of women, and shows like HBO’s Girls are ruining television.
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On the Edge of a Breakdown? Mitt Romney Thinks He Is Running For President at CPAC
Even though, he lost the election a confused Mitt Romney delivered his stump speech to CPAC.
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Wayne LaPierre Claims That Guns Prevent Rape
Wayne LaPierre has adopted a new strategy to oppose any changes in gun laws that would prevent mass shootings. LaPierre is now claiming that arming women will prevent rapes.
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‘Numbers Guy’ Paul Ryan Completely Ignores the Math of the 2012 Election
Paul Ryan took the stage at CPAC, and completely ignored the reality that he and his ideas lost the 2012 election.
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Rand Paul Proves That a Meth Addicted Monkey Is Smarter than He Is At CPAC
Rand Paul mocked wasteful federal spending on meth addicted monkeys, but a meth addicted monkey could have given a more lucid and truthful speech at CPAC.
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MSNBC Blames and Dumps The Working Class by Moving Chris Hayes to 8 PM
The reason why Chris Hayes is moving to 8 PM is because MSNBC thinks that they can attract more viewers by not talking about issues that impact the working class.
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Ted Cruz’s Defund Obamacare Amendment Crashes and Burns in the Senate
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) threatened to shut the government down if Obamacare wasn’t defunded, but Democrats called Cruz’s bluff and rejected his amendment to defund Obamacare, 45-52.
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Obama Destroys Paul Ryan’s Claim that America is Facing an Immediate Debt Crisis
President Obama has thrown cold water on the Republican dreams that he was going to go all in on spending cuts by by telling ABC News that, “We don’t have an immediate debt crisis.”
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Paul Ryan Admits That His Entire Budget is Based on a Lie
Paul Ryan admitted that his budget is based on the lie that Obamacare adds to the deficit, and without it being repealed, his budget doesn’t work.
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Bernie Sanders Files the Constitutional Amendment to Undo Citizens United
The great journey to undo the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision took another step today when Sen. Bernie Sanders filed the constitutional amendment that will give power back to the people.
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Costco Proves Republicans Wrong By Paying a Living Wage and Watching Profits Soar
Costco is proving Republicans and the Wal-Mart wrong by paying workers a living wage while also earning record profits.
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House Republicans Can’t Explain How Obama’s Policies Got Into Paul Ryan’s Budget
House Republicans overwhelmingly voted against the fiscal cliff deal, and they got busted today for trying to take credit for it by using the $600 billion in new revenue in Paul Ryan’s budget.
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Paul Ryan’s Budget is So Delusional that Even Fox News is Calling BS
Paul Ryan’s budget is so out of touch with reality that even Fox News had to call out his repeal Obamacare BS.
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Jeb Covers Up The Family Legacy of Economic Destruction With a Bushel of Obama Lies
On ABC’s This Week, Jeb Bush lied about Obama’s record on the debt to cover up his family history of destroying the American economy.
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Bill Maher: If Seeing Michelle Obama on TV Fills You With Rage, Get Help
Bill Maher used the frothing with anger of the right at the very sight of Michelle Obama to tell people who have to politicize everything to get help.
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Senate Republicans Plan to Shut Down the Government Unless Obamacare is Defunded
Senate Republicans plan to withhold funding to keep the government running as hostage for a ransom of defunding the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
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Rush Limbaugh Tries to Take Credit for Jon Stewart and The Daily Show
Rush Limbaugh tried to take credit for the success of The Daily Show by claiming that his 1990s television was the forerunner of what Jon Stewart and company are doing today.
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It Turns Out Rand Paul’s Filibuster Was a Pre-Planned Scam for Cash
It turns out Rand Paul’s filibuster was big scam. Sen. Paul has wasted little time implementing the second part of his planned filibuster. He is now trying to cash in with a fundraising letter.
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While Boehner Takes Millions in Illegal Donations, Republicans Accuse Obama of Selling Access
The media has ignored the FEC complaint filed against a Boehner super PAC for taking $2.5 million in illegal donations, but they are trumpeting the baseless claim that Obama is selling access.
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All Hell Is Breaking Loose on the Right After McCain Slams Rand Paul’s Filibuster
John McCain’s criticism of Rand Paul’s filibuster has set off a chain reaction of chaos within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
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Hillary Clinton Trounces Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, and Paul Ryan in New Poll
A new Quinnipiac University poll found that Hillary Clinton would trounce any of the top 3 Republican 2016 contenders, but Joe Biden would lose to Christie, struggle against Ryan, and defeat Rubio.
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John Boehner Calls Obama Sick For Making It Tough on Republicans
In an interview with CNBC, Speaker of the House Boehner said that President Obama is sick for making post-sequester life hard for Republicans.
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Jon Stewart Defends the Voting Rights Act and Slams Antonin Scalia
Jon Stewart used the behavior of Republicans in 2012 to explain why the Voting Rights Act should be expanded, and slammed Justice Scalia for his judicial activism.
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John Boehner Connected Super PAC Accused of Taking $2.5 Million in Illegal Donations
An FEC complaint was filed today against the John Boehner connected super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund for taking $2.5 million in illegal campaign contributions.
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Paul Krugman Gets A Taste of What President Obama Deals With Every Single Day
Paul Krugman got a taste of what President Obama deals with every single day during his debate with Joe Scarborough on Charlie Rose.
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Entitled Until The Bitter End, Ann Romney Blames The Media For Mitt’s Landslide Loss
While her husband is blaming ‘you people’ for his loss, Ann Romney is blaming the media for Mitt Romney’s defeat.
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Bob Woodward Completely Changes His Story on ‘Threatening’ White House Email
Bob Woodward has again changed his story on the ‘threatening’ White House email. On Face The Nation, Woodward says the email was never threatening.
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Mitt Romney Blames Minorities For Costing Him The Election
On Fox News Sunday today, Mitt Romney blamed minorities for costing him the election, and poor people who like free things for his defeat.
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Bill Maher: China Requires GMO Labeling, But America The Land of The Free Does Not
Bill Maher brought up a great point about GMO labeling. Even China requires GMO labeling, but the United States does not.
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Obama Uses The Force to Try To Make Republicans Do Right on the Sequester
President Obama and the White House are tapping into the power of The Force, and using everything this side of Jedi mind tricks to get Republicans to do the right thing on the sequester.
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Bob Woodward Comes Out of the Right Wing Closet by Praising Sean Hannity’s Journalism Skills
Bob Woodward outed himself as a right wing shill by going on Sean Hannity’s show and praising Hannity for “digging into things.” Those things are wild Obama conspiracy theories.
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Rachel Maddow Calls Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, ‘A Troll’
On The Daily Show, Rachel Maddow had a classic line when she labeled Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, “a troll.”
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Eric Cantor Admits That He and Paul Ryan Were the Driving Force Behind the Sequester
Eric Cantor has confirmed that he and Paul Ryan talked John Boehner out of accepting a “Grand Bargain” with Obama in 2011. It was this rejection that led to the sequester.
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Rush Limbaugh Thinks Obama Is Going To Kill Bob Woodward With a Death Panel
Never one to let facts or reality get in the way, Rush Limbaugh is claiming that Obama is going to kill Bob Woodward with a death panel.
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Paul Ryan Looked America In The Eye Today, and Completely Lied About the Sequester
Rep. Paul Ryan went on CNBC today, looked straight into the camera, and completely lied about the sequester to the American people.
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Fox News Could Be Facing Extinction as 29% of Their Younger Viewers Drop Fox
Younger television viewers continue to abandon Fox News in droves. In February, Fox is down another 29% with viewers age 25-54 in primetime.
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Rep. Keith Ellison Goes on Fox News and Absolutely Destroys Sean Hannity
Rep. Keith Ellison completely turned the tables on Sean Hannity. Instead of letting Hannity talk through and roll over him, Ellison destroyed Hannity with his own tactics.
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John Boehner Refuses to Allow the House to Vote on Sequester Replacement Bill
On the same day that John Boehner told the Senate to get off its ass, he refused to allow the House to vote on a sequester replacement bill.
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Harry Reid Fires Back and Calls John Boehner a Do Nothing Speaker
Harry Reid fired back at John Boehner’s attempt to blame the Senate for the sequester by saying, “The speaker’s doing nothing to try to pass anything.”
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President Obama Tells House Republicans to Clean Up Their Own Sequester Mess
President Obama told House Republicans that they need to compromise, and he will not be cleaning up their sequester mess for them.
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Boehner Says Obama Is Using the Troops as Props But His Sequester Will Leave Vets Homeless
Speaker Boehner claimed today that President Obama is using the troops as props, but his House passed sequester would leave thousands of veterans homeless.
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President Obama Has Had Enough of John Boehner’s Sequester Lies
While speaking to the nation’s governors today, President Obama took aim at John Boehner for his hypocrisy on his own tax plan, and the lie that Obama won’t work with him on spending cuts.
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House Republicans Are Now Begging Obama to Save Them From Their Sequester
House Republicans are so desperate to avoid being held accountable for their sequester that they are asking President Obama to save them.
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Republicans Fake Obama Corruption but PA’s 3 Sisters Conviction Shows How Corrupt the GOP Is
In the fantasy world of Republicans President Obama is corrupt, but the story of the three Republican Orie sisters reminds of us which party has the corruption problem.
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Coward Glenn Beck Leaves the Tea Party for Dead by Refusing to Get in the Ring With WWE
Glenn Beck was one of the tea party’s biggest defenders, but he turned down an opportunity to defend the group on WWE’s Monday Night Raw by claiming that he has better things to do.
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Attention Republicans: Obama’s Been Proposing a Sequester Plan Since December
Lost in the maze of blame Obama for the sequester Republican talking points is the fact that the White House has had a sequester replacement proposal on the table since December 2012.
Rush Limbaugh Can’t Be As Ashamed of America As We Are Of Him
Rush Limbaugh said that he is still embarrassed and ashamed of America, but Rush can’t be nearly as ashamed of America as we are of him.
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A Hilarious Fox Fail Ensues When They Try to Blame Democrats for Detroit’s Problems
Steve Doocy desperately tried to get reporter/author Charlie LeDuff to blame Democrats for Detroit’s problems only to watch LeDuff list the corrupt Republicans in the city’s history.
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Rush Limbaugh Insanely Claims Sarah Palin Wasn’t Wrong About Anything
Rush Limbaugh went way, way, way off the deep end today by claiming that Sarah Palin wasn’t ever wrong about anything.
Obama Blasts Republicans: Protecting the Rich is What ‘Binds Their Party Together.’
On Al Sharpton’s radio show President Obama said that protecting the wealthy from higher taxes is, “The thing that binds their party together at this point.”
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Obama Routs Republicans on Sequester as 56% of GOP Support His Balanced Approach
Republicans have lost the sequester battle so comprehensively that according to the new USA Today/Pew Research poll, 56% of Republicans support Obama’s balanced approach to reducing the deficit.
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Worried Too Many Minorities Are Voting Republicans Try To Rollback the Constitution to 1913
A group of Republican state representatives in Georgia want to ask Congress to begin the process of repealing the 17th Amendment, which provides for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
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John Boehner Calls Eliminating Food for 1.7 Million Americans ‘Common Sense Cuts’
John Boehner won’t tell you this, but the “common sense cuts” he referred to that would avoid the sequester, will eliminate food for 1.7 million Americans.
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House Democrats Crush Republicans With Their Best Fundraising Month Ever
House Republicans should be getting worried about 2014. Despite being the minority party, House Democrats had their best fundraising month ever in January.
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Hubris: Rachel Maddow Shocks America Into Remembering Bush’s War Crimes
Rachel Maddow’s latest documentary Hubris provides a shocking reminder of the consequences of misused presidential power, and the deceptions that led America into war.
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Rush Limbaugh Smears President Obama by Suggesting He is Cheating on His Wife
Rush Limbaugh smeared President Obama today by suggesting that the president was cheating on his wife while playing golf with Tiger Woods.
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Paul Ryan Calls Eliminating Food and Healthcare for 600,000 Kids ‘Smarter Cuts’
While trying to blame Obama for the sequester, Paul Ryan referenced the smart cuts that the House has passed. Those ‘smarter cuts’ would take away food and healthcare for 600,000 kids.
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Sunday Smack Down: The Mainstream Media Finally Challenges Republican Lies
The mainstream finally stepped up today,and on separate Sunday shows, challenged the lies and talking points of Republicans Paul Ryan and John McCain.
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Republicans Want to Take Away Healthcare from 30 Million to Pay for More Military Spending
Sen. Lindsey Graham spoke for many of his Republican colleagues today when he proposed avoiding the military cuts in the sequester by taking healthcare away from 30 million Americans.
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Rachel Maddow Annihilates the Paranoid Delusions of Rand Paul
Rachel Maddow completely annihilated the paranoid delusions of Rand Paul and highlighted the dangerous fact that he gets a say on major policy issues.
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Bill Maher:’Show Me Any Culture That’s Hostile to Women I will Show You a Culture that’s Screwed Up.’
Bill Maher made a point that also applies to the Catholic church and the Republican Party, “Show me any culture that is hostile to women, and I will show you a culture that’s screwed up.”
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Rush Limbaugh Insanely Claims Environmentalists Are Coming to Steal Your Electricity
Rush Limbaugh took his insanity to a new level today by claiming that environmentalists are out to take away the freedom to use electricity because they oppose the generation of electric power.
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The Role of Sarah Palin Will Now Be Played By Herman Cain On Fox News
Death panels have been replaced by 9-9-9 as Herman Cain will be taking over Sarah Palin’s role as the voice of crazy on Fox News.
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Cue the Right Wing Paranoia: Obama Thanks James Carter for Romney 47% Video
Right wing paranoia will run wild as Barack Obama personally thanked James Carter for his role in giving the world Mitt Romney’s 47% video before his speech in Georgia today.
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Nate Silver May Stop Doing Forecasts Out Fear of Influencing Elections
Nate Silver told an audience at Washington University in St. Louis that he may give up his election forecasts after 2014 or 2016 if they are having an undue influence on elections.
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Jon Stewart on Rubio: ‘Obama May Need a Prompter, But At Least He Doesn’t Need an IV Bag.’
Jon Stewart explained the difference between Marco Rubio and Barack Obama as, “He (Obama) may need a prompter, but at least he doesn’t need an IV bag.”
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Obama Rolls Into North Carolina and Challenges Decades of Republican Minimum Wage Myths
President Obama did something significant that could change the lives of millions today. In Asheville, NC, the president linked raising the minimum wage to creating jobs.
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Marco Rubio’s Morning After Excuses Make His SOTU Bomb Even Worse
Sen. Marco Rubio is actually making his State of the Union rebuttal disaster worse by offering up a series of excuses that demonstrate he is not ready to be president.
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Marco Rubio Bombs in SOTU Rebuttal/2016 Audition
Marco Rubio bombed in his audition for 2016. Rubio stumbled and was so nervous that he had to stop for a water break on live national TV. Rubio brought the same tired ideas and completely failed.
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Obama Delivers One of the Best Speeches of His Presidency: a Tour de Force SOTU
The Obama vision for America was laid out in sweeping fashion. President Obama delivered what might be the greatest State of the Union address from a president in at least 25 years.
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Obama Terrifies Republicans by Calling for Federal Minimum Wage Increase to $9.00/hr
A wave of terror is certainly spreading through the Republican Party as President Obama has embraced the politically popular issue of raising the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour.
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After Benedict’s Resignation Will Catholics Get Their First Black Pope?
Pope Benedict shocked the world today with his surprise resignation, and more historic changes may be in store as two of the top contenders to replace him are black.
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Hypocrisy Alert: Eric Cantor Added $3.4 Trillion to Debt But Blames Obama for His Debt
Eric Cantor lied when he claimed that Obama doesn’t care about the debt on Meet The Press. He also forgot his own votes for wars and programs that increased the debt by $3.4 trillion under Bush.
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Nancy Pelosi Goes On Fox News and Obliterates The Video Games Cause Gun Violence Meme
Nancy Pelosi went on Fox News Sunday and absolutely destroyed the false premise that video games, not guns, are the main cause of gun violence.
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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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Bill Maher Responds to Lawsuit by Demanding Trump’s Long Form Birth Certificate
Bill Maher responded to Donald Trump’s $5 million lawsuit against him by asking for Trump’s long form birth certificate.