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Rick Santorum Says He Decides What is Constitutional, Not the Supreme Court
Rick Santorum says says you refusing to believe what he wants you to believe is a violation of the First Amendment
Tagged Politics of the United States
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Ann Coulter Says Immigrants Will Rape and Impregnate Your Little Girls
Apparently, women are not already sexually abused in Ann Coulter’s America. Maybe she needs to get out more.
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Rick Santorum – Pope Has More Important Things to Worry About Than the Earth
It is interesting that Santorum thinks there are more important things than a habitable planet – like creating jobs for dead people on a dead planet
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Ann Coulter’s Appalling Demographic Engineering
Ann Coulter thinks it’s “Adios America” unless we can keep out overweight women, the physically disabled, and the visually impaired
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GOP Has Reason To Fret As Clinton Leads Bush 47-40 In North Carolina
A PPP poll found Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoying a modest 47-40 lead over Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush in North Carolina.
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Reject the Absolute Moral Corruption of the Republican Cult
The GOP is nothing more than a modern, reactionary cult designed to give religious justification for willful ignorance,bigotry, and bad behavior
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Former Bush Adviser Claims Democrats Moved Further Left than Republicans Moved Right
Peter Wehner says the liberal claim that Republicans are the ones who have become more extreme over the years is a “self-flatting but false narrative.”
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Marco Rubio Says Marriage Equality a Real and Present Danger to Christianity
Rubio talks about being globally competitive, but does hating gays more than Putin’s Russia make us globally competitive, too?
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Republicans Push the Benghazi Video Lie to Discredit Hillary Clinton
But there really was an offensive video, and it did actually offend Muslims, and it did actually play a role in the attack that left four Americans dead
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Thwarted By House Committee, Jindal Imposes Religion on Louisiana by Executive Order
In one stroke of his pen, perversely pretending to be a defender of the First Amendment,Jindal turned Louisiana into a theocracy.
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Jeb Bush Says Only Traditional Marriage Gives Kids A Chance Out Of Poverty
During a CBN interview, Jeb Bush suggested that the only way to fight poverty in America was to defend traditional marriage.
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Election 2016 – The Attack of the Republican Clones
Too much can be made of the plethora of Republican candidates for 2016 – after all, they are all virtually clones of one another
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Bluegrass Poll Reveals Kentucky Would Be A Tossup Between Hillary And Rand Paul
Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul are tied at 45 percent each in a recent poll of Kentucky voters.
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Fox News Claims Hillary Less Ethical, But Public Gives Her High Ratings on Every Issue
Fox News seems to want to wish away Hillary Clinton, but even their numbers cannot disguise that the public still approves of Hillary Clinton
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Rand Paul Prefers to Let the Refugees We Created in Iraq Suffer and Die
The invasion of Iraq and its bungled aftermath created millions of refugees. Rand Paul doesn’t think the United States owes them anything
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Religious Right Leader Rick Wiles is Fascinated by Obama’s Privates
You know the Religious Right, and maybe some of its male leaders, have got nothing when they start worrying about Obama’s presidential package
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Republican Presidential Hopefuls Put Their Buffoonery on Display in South Carolina
Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, and Ted Cruz, got together and agreed to collectively sound like Elisabeth Hasselbeck
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Sarah Palin Says President Obama is Flirting With the Devil
Sarah Palin warns that in his dealings with Iran that Obama is flirting with the devil…but wait…isn’t Obama the devil?
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Senate No-Show Cruz Criticizes Evangelicals Who Didn’t Show in 2008 and 2012
2016 may be the Year the mainstream media is surprised to discover there are actual Christians out there – and they don’t vote Republican.
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John Boehner Says We Finally Have a Senate That is Actually Working
Boehner’s reaction to Senate dysfunction is to claim a change of leadership in the Senate has given us a Senate that is actually working.
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It’s Getting Hard to Tell Where Sovereign Citizens End and Republicans Begin
Both Republicans and so-called sovereign citizens are citizens and subject to federal authority. If not, we should rethink deportation laws
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Public Support For Obamacare Grows As Less Than 30 Percent Of Americans Support Repeal
A Kaiser Health Tracking Survey finds that more Americans now have a favorable opinion of Obamacare than an unfavorable one.
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Proof That Bigots Are Not the Best and Brightest
If you listen to the anti-gay rhetoric coming from the GOP, you realize just how desperately hateful and stupid these people are
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Scott Walker Talks Up GOP Common Sense While Proving He Has None in NH Speech
Walker throws facts and history to the wind as he talks up a fantasy GOP with common sense that nowhere exists and has no chance of existing
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Ready For Martin? O’Malley Makes His Case Running To Clinton’s Left
O’Malley is hardly a household name in America, but he is making his case for president, by staking out bold positions well to the left of presumptive Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
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Republicans Admit Defeat and Silently Surrender In Their War On Obamacare
While Republicans aren’t waving the white flag publicly, the GOP is becoming quietly aware that they have lost their war against Obamacare.
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For The First Time Since 2009 More Americans Approve Of Obama’s Handling Of The Economy
A Bloomberg Politics poll finds more Americans now approve of President Obama’s handling of the economy than disapprove.
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Hillary 2016 – Did the Republicans Just Lose the Election?
The hapless GOP needs somebody of Hillary’s stature for 2016, but all they have is a cast of nobodies with no ideas
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Iowa FAMiLY LEADER Event Showcases Presidential Hopefuls’ Religious Bigotry
Crass ignorance is enshrined in the Iowa Calendar as Family Leader invites GOP presidential hopefuls to spew to the delight of the base
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Sean Hannity Helps Rand Paul Find Excuses For the Things He Used to Believe
Ah, the comforting embrace of Sean Hannity, where “that was then” is answer enough to questions about issues that affect millions
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Conservative Defense of Indiana’s Hateful RFRA is Awash in a Sea of Lies
Republican and Religious Right damage-control over Indiana’s RFRA is chaotic and entertaining, and as dishonest as the day is long
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Montana House Refuses To Follow Other Red States Down The “Religious Freedom” Rabbit Hole
The Montana House failed to pass a “religious freedom” to discriminate bill, deadlocking on a 50-50 vote on Friday.
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Michigan Republican Says Schools Should be a Ministry of the Church
When Pink Floyd sang that “we don’t need no education,” I don’t think church ministries are what they had in mind.
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Does Ted Cruz Actually Think He Can Win in 2016?
“I am running for president and I hope to earn your support,” Ted Cruz tweeted last night. Does he really think he can get it?
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Republican Fascists Want Pledge of Allegiance in English Only
If you want to hear one of the craziest things to come out of a Republican mouth this week, it’s the Republican objection to anyone reading the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic. This apparently deplorable display of patriotism took place on March 18 during National Foreign Language Week, of all things. Watch the latest…
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Using a Convention of States to Destroy the Federal Government for the Kochs
Republicans are supporting using Article V of the Constitution not to propose amendments to the Constitution, but to destroy the government
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House GOP Budget: More Money For War, Repeal Obamacare, Cut Food Stamps and Medicaid
House Republicans have once again shown that they have little regard for the average American family or the typical American worker.
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Even Joe Scarborough Believes Republicans Went Too Far With “Stupid” Iran Letter
During Monday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough finally relented and said that the “one-two punch” of House Republicans inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak and the sending of a letter to Iran by 47 GOP Senators was a step too far for the party.
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Clinton Emails Have Provided GOP Yet Another Excuse to Cry “Benghazi”
The GOP is determined to ignore every relevant fact about Benghazi on their mission to crucify Hillary Clinton
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Jeb Bush Tells Iowans Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Let Us Down
Jeb Bush can look at an Iraq wracked by civil war and marauding barbarians, and somehow imagine that America power is a force for good.
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Scandal? Use of Private Email is Pervasive Among 2016 Hopefuls
It turns abouta whole slew of Republicans looking at the White House in 2016 has used private emails for government business
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The Entire GOP Field for 2016 is as Tainted as a Bucket of Rotten Meat
We are already well on our way to becoming a 13th century-ish, Islamic State-like apparatus of repression
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Republican Congressman Peter King Slams Self-Righteous Delusional Wing Of His Party
Appearing on Luke Russert’s online MSNBC TV program, Shift, New York Congressman Peter King (R) slammed fellow House Republicans for not simply banding together to pass a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. King made it clear that he was fed up with Tea Party Republicans playing politics with Homeland Security funding….
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Why We Can’t Let Jeb Bush Pretend His Brother’s Wars Never Happened
Jeb doesn’t realize how critical it is he convince us he is not his brother, because the more you listen to him, the more alike they sound
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Legislative Paralysis Strikes Capitol Hill Under New Republican Congress
The new Republican-dominated Congress has proven unable to pass significant legislation. So far they have passed just two bills into law.
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Nothing Says Patriotism Like Celebrating Lincoln’s Assassination
The League of the South “thanks Mr. Booth for his service to the South and to humanity” for his “execution of the tyrant Abraham Lincoln”
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PFAW’s New Ad Calls Out the RNC for Israel Trip with Hate Group
PFAW says, “We deserve to know why Republicans continue to stand with this hate group after years of offensive statements by their leaders”
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Morning Joe Whines About Being “Low On Totem Pole” Because Hillary Clinton Won’t Come On
During Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Mike Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough openly complained about their inability to book likely 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to appear on the show.
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Critics Claim Hillary Has an Income Inequality Problem
Have we really reached the point where asking the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes is a form of vilification?
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Hillary Clinton Is Building Her Democratic Army As The GOP’s Worst Nightmare Comes True
She hasn’t even announced yet, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign is looking like an incumbent’s reelection campaign.
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Detroit Flop City: Jeb Bush Pretends To Care About Poor People In First Speech
Jeb Bush is marketing himself as a different kind of conservative, but his ideas support the same GOP policies that have failed before.
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Debate on Gun Violence Limited by Either-Or Thinking
There have been 101 school shootings since Newtown. Obama said afteward, “the time is now.” It is now well past time, and nothing has been done
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The Kochs Plan to Buy the 2016 Election for $889 Million
The Kochs are ready to outspend the Republican Party in putting forth candidates THEY approve of in 2016, like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz
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Sarah Palin Knows How to Beat Hillary – Accuse Her of a Bunch of Stuff!
“You know, reverse them. It is they who point a finger who don’t realize they have triple that number of fingers pointing right back at them”
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Bobby Jindal’s Prayer Rally Has Just Become a Demonic No-Go Zone
We are told angels will guard the site of Jindal’s prayer rally and turn it into a “no-go zone for demons in the name of Jesus.”
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Romney 3.0 Crashes And Burns As Mitt Unleashes Bitter Whiny Tirade At Obama
Mitt 3.0 is Mitt 2.0, but with some more carefully chosen words meant to appeal to the 47%. He came across as almost Palin level stuck on Obama, still pandering to everyone, and though carefully rehearsed, unsteady on foreign policy.
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Republican Senators Are Freaking Out Because A Bill From Boehner’s House Might Shut Down The Government
A handful of key Republican Senators are side-eying the plan House Republicans put forth on Friday in yet another effort to kill President Obama’s immigration executive actions, worried that the House Republicans defunding action may lead to a shutdown of government including the Department of Homeland Security.
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PolitiFact Busts Mitch McConnell For Trying to Steal President Obama’s Economic Record
“False”. This is the harsh ruling PolitiFact had for Mitch McConnell’s claim that the economy improved because the GOP won. Further, “The data we found suggest McConnell is engaging in some wishful thinking.”
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If Protesters Are Responsible For Officers’ Deaths, So Then Are The Tea Party
Are the protesters responsible for the death of the officers? If yes, then the Tea Party is responsible for the death of the two Las Vegas officers.
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President Obama Named The Most Admired Man In The World For The 7th Straight Year
The endless Republican anti-Obama campaign suffered another defeat as for the seventh consecutive year President Obama was named the most admired man in the world by Gallup.
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The Incomprehensibly Stupid Things Said by Republicans in 2014
Shubhranshu Choudhary says “Journalism has to become everyone’s business,” but Fox News says journalism is nobody’s business, including, especially, their own
CNN Suddenly Seems to Notice Republican Reliance on Religious Right
CNN is reporting that the GOP moves early to court conservative Christians. We are told that, “The first votes of the 2016 campaign won’t be cast for another year but there’s already a race well underway: The Christian primary.” Republicans are actively courting white evangelical and born again Christian voters, knowing they will be crucial…
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More Heartache Around the Corner for God’s Own Party in 2016
Where once three-quarters had been Protestants alone, now barely three quarters are even Christian, and the numbers continue to drop
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Republican Warhawks And Arms Lobby Unite To Undermine US On World Stage
President Obama has been clear in his advocacy of sensible gun reform at home, as well as balanced global demilitarization. Shamefully, the President has been totally lacking in Congressional partners who want to make the world’s streets safer with him.
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Media Matters Names George F. Will Misinformer of the Year
Will’s most egregious sin may have been his “attacking and dismissing rape victims” but climate denialism and ethical lapses also dogged him
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Ben Carson’s Embarrassingly Stupid Attack on Obamacare
Ben Carson thinks Obamacare is unconstitutional because it doesn’t help everybody. The only problem with that is that it DOES help everybody
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113th Congress Produces 22% of “Do-Nothing” 1947-1948 Counterpart
Similar to overpaid NFL “star” Jay Cutler’s reign of terror as the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears, the best thing we can say about the 113th session of Congress is that it’s over.
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ACLU Files Lawsuit Claiming Racial Discrimination In Ferguson School District Voting
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday is a St. Louis federal court in which it claims the Florissant-Ferguson School District is practicing racially discriminatory system in its election process.
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Drudge Suggests Obama Blackmailed Boehner to Get Funding Bill Passed
Because he can’t admit to the most likely explanation, insanity in his own party, Matt Drudge tweets the least likely explanation, blackmail
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RNC Allies with Christian Nationalist Who Calls U.S. Constitution “the Wrong Train”
David Lane, never mentioned by the MSM, is a big supporter of Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, Mike Pence, and Ted Cruz
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Gun Nuts Threaten President Over Something He Hasn’t Even Done
The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), regulates the international trade in things like small arms, battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships, so why the hate?
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Mama We’re All Crazy Now – A Michele Bachmann Retrospective
Bachmann’s flight from Dana Bash is a metaphor for an endless flight from reality, which pretty much describes her entire time in Congress
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Missouri Town Residents Greet Ferguson Protesters With Confederate Flag And Fried Chicken
Ferguson protesters marching through Missouri on their way to Jefferson City were met by angry residents in the small town of Rosebud. The residents left fried chicken in the road and waved a Confederate flag, along with verbally assaulting the protesters with racial slurs.
Rick Santorum Lyingly Claims Separation of Church and State is Communist and un-American
In fact, the separation of church and state is something quintessentially American. Americans invented the idea, after all
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Tom Tancredo Says Republicans in Congress Have Stockholm Syndrome
Tancredo says GOP is impotent. Impotent yes. Because they’re ideologically blinkered idiots. Not because they identify with their “captor” Obama.
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Immigration and the Shoddy Pretense of Journalism that is CNN
In examining the GOP’s wild accusations of Obama “lawlessness,” CNN declines to go beyond GOP talking points to the facts themselves
The Cloyingly Sweet Rot of Nationalism
Love of country should never be fueled hate. It should be sufficient unto itself, desirable for its own sake. It should be its own end, not an excuse
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Fox News Contributor Tells Republicans To Shut Down The Government To Spite Obama
In a column on his website RedState Tuesday, Fox News contributor Erick Erickson told Republicans in Congress that they should shut down the federal government in order to defund Obamacare and block any action on immigration.
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Gun Rights Advocate Says People Should Use Guns To Prevent Obama From Becoming A Tyrant
In an appearance on Newsmax TV Monday, gun rights activist Larry Pratt said that the reason President Obama is for gun control is “he clearly doesn’t like the fact that the American people can own guns because we might just want to use them to keep people like him from becoming tyrants.”
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The Mainstream Media is Culpable in the Murder of American Democracy
Democrats are now people who can have our heads held under water until we stop breathing, who can be “made to squeal,” not like pigs and the media will remain silent
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Midterm Madness – Meet the Latest Republican Crazies to Hold Office
Gordon Klingenschmitt brings his demonic obsessions to the Colorado State Senate and Michael Peroutka his neo-Confederate secessionism to Anne Arundel County, Maryland
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The Same Voters Who Gave Republicans The Senate Are Ready For Hillary Clinton To Be President
The same voters that gave the GOP this win think Clinton will be a good president, whereas they were not so impressed with any of the Republican front runners.
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The Likes of Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Leave America a Bleaker Place This Morning
We are the victims of voter suppression and intimidation. Our votes were overridden with dark money and corporate-funded propaganda
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Only 100 Show Up, 15 From Out Of State, For “Big” Rand Paul/Mitch McConnell Rally
There wasn’t any enthusiasm for Senator Mitch McConnell at Monday’s rally. The 15 or so young people may or may not be local, as they took off in vans with non-local plates.
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Alison Lundergan Grimes and Kentuckians Swamped by Corporate Dark Money
The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition’s millions of dollars represents the method by which we have had our democracy co-opted by big money
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Friday Fox Follies – Diseased Central
What’s more contagious than Ebola with absolutely no cure? As we head into next week’s election, Fox “News” has been stricken with a near-fatal form of Obama Derangement Syndrome. Worse: Quarantines won’t work against it — unless you switch off your tee vee.
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Hey Republicans, Hate and Bigotry are not Values, They’re Character Flaws
Rick Santorum claims if he hadn’t been persecuted into silence, he could have convinced millennials to be hateful bigots like he and his buddies
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Mitch McConnell Ad Backfires and Exposes His Empty Reelection Campaign About Nothing
Mitch McConnell goes bumper sticker slogan and dogs to avoid talking about his secretive policy agenda.
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Republicans: Women Problem? What Women Problem?
Nothing wrong with an exclusive and hate-filled Republican message. Just with the people who aren’t sufficiently white, male, and Christian.
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Republican Senate Wave Is Disintegrating As Democrats Again Outraise Republicans
Senate Democrats have outraised Republicans again, with the DSCC taking in $6.5 million to the NRSC’s $6 million in the first two weeks of October.
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You Are Voting for Democracy or Theocracy in the 2014 Midterms
Jody Hice’s new “Big Idea” is that state-sponsored religion, forbidden by the First Amendment, will put an end to government tyranny.
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For the Love of America, Ignore Republican Fear-Mongering and Vote
Not believing in reality doesn’t make you immune to it. Republicans will just blame the nearest Democrat, but all of us will have to deal with the fall-out
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Republicans Say Rainbow Flags Remind them of Nazi Flags – But Actual Nazi Flags Don’t
Mike Huckabee says he’s tired of this. All I’ve got to say is that we’re tired of it too, and that it’s time for America to unfriend the Republican Party
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GOP Privatization Would Substitute an Un-Electable Board of Directors for Democracy
Privatization is stripping powers from electable government, and handing it to the unelectable public – in other words, for profit – sector
Colorado Republican’s Claim that America Ended Slavery Voluntarily Steals Our History
Pamela Mazanec asks, “Shouldn’t our students be provided that viewpoint? This is part of the argument that America is exceptional.”
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Republican Says One Invented GOP Scandal Proves Another Invented GOP Scandal
Texas Republican Randy Weber says Obama’s record on invented scandals is so bad that he can’t possibly be on top of another scandal they invented
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After Doing Nothing for Six Years, Republicans Claim We Need More…Republicans
We are supposed to believe that “Republicans are working to create jobs for Americans. Democrats are working to save their own.”
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Pat Roberts of Kansas Goes All Tea Party and Warns of National Socialism
Losing at the polls in Kansas to independent candidate and X-Factor Chad Orman, incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is pulling out all stops. That means campaigning with 91-year-old former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole at Dodge City event in what Philip Rucker of the Washington Post styled a “geriatric rescue mission” – and if that…
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Gallup: Republicans Better Able to Defend Against Terrorism, Keep America Prosperous
The GOP has been able to destroy this country while getting Americans to willingly participate in their own demise with flag-waving and cheers
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Fumbling Toward War: The GOP’s Foreign Policy of Hate
Republican foreign policy is a tortured and terrifying admixture of religious dogmatism, political ideology, and corporate thirst for profit