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Democrats Beware: Ideological Purity is Un-Democratic
There is room for us all. The problem is not the wildly variant views we hold, but those who insist that only they are the real Democrats
Tagged tea party movement
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Despite Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Pledge, Koch-Republicans Will Block Infrastructure Spending
It is likely that Senator Sanders was sending a message to the Koch brothers that regardless they currently control government spending, he intends on appealing to the people for support to invest in America. Something Republicans oppose regardless Americans’ lives have been lost and are increasingly in danger due to America’s substandard transportation infrastructure.
Pat Robertson Says if We Keep Mocking Him, God Will Smack Us Down
There are a whole bunch of fundamentalists who are upset we don’t take them seriously, which means, of course, that I will keep mocking them
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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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Delusional Michele Bachmann Thinks President Obama Has Virtually Guaranteed World War III
In a radio interview, former GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann asserted that President Obama’s policies will lead to World War III.
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The Newest “Joe the Plumber” Washes Up On The Shore
I could be wrong, but I suspect Louis Jordan will be sailing into murky political waters very soon.
Michele Bachmann Is Still Bonkers, Compares Obama To Deranged Germanwings Co-Pilot
Former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R) compared President Obama to Andreas Lubitz, the deranged German co-pilot who crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, on her Facebook page Tuesday. Bachmann posted: With his Iran deal, Barack Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls on the German Wings…
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Florida Republican Slayer Rep. Patrick Murphy Launches Bid To Take Rubio’s Senate Seat
Murphy’s candidacy gives the Democrats strong odds of winning the Senate seat held by Republican Senator Marco Rubio.
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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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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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Marco Rubio Flip Flops On Immigration Reform, Recasts Himself As Border Hawk At CPAC
Friday morning, at CPAC, Senator Rubio told an audience that he had learned that his previous support for immigration reform was a mistake.
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Alaska Legalizes Recreational Marijuana, Prompting Sarah Palin’s Town To Ban Pot Brownies
Libertarian-style conservatism has its limits in the town that launched Sarah Palin’s career. They draw the line at pot brownies.
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Marco Rubio Laughingly Accuses Obama’s Policies of Being Bad for the Nation
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tried to walk a finer line when asked to respond to Giuliani’s remarks. He demonstrated how to be weak and spineless while playing more subtly with Palin fire.
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The Koch Agenda Brings Pain And Woe To People In Republican Controlled Red States
Because they own most of the Republican state’s governors and legislatures, it is there that the Kochs’ ideology is doing the most damage that their GOP surrogates are unrepentant about.
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Jon Stewart On Sarah Palin: She “Doesn’t Believe In Your Liberal Elitist Grammar And Syntax”
During Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart skewered former GOP Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s incoherent speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Emerges As The Republican Candidate To Fear Most
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker impressed the crowds at the Iowa Freedom Summit. Democrats cannot afford to underestimate him.
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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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Jon Stewart Scorches Rand Paul And Ted Cruz Over Their State Of The Union Responses
During Wednesday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart took aim at the multiple Republican responses to this year’s State of the Union address.
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Charlie Hebdo Has Republicans Getting Their Crazy On in 2015
Charlie Hebdo tells Republicans that people who don’t look like Fox News hosts should be killed, or at the very least, expelled from the US
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Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin’s Coup Against John Boehner Gets Just Three Votes
Despite the backing of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Louie Gohmert received just three votes in his bid to unseat House Speaker Boehner.
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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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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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GOP On GOP Violence: Marco Rubio Slams Rand Paul For Agreeing With Obama’s Cuba Policy
During an appearance on Fox News’ The Kelly File Thursday night, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) criticized Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for agreeing with President Obama’s decision to normalize the United States’ relationship with Cuba.
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Sen. Marco Rubio Leads Predictable Republican Whinefest Over Obama’s New Cuba Policy
After President Obama announced a new policy shift with Cuba Wednesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) led the predictable Republican outrage. Specifically, Rubio called Obama a weak negotiator and said Congress will not lift the embargo.
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No Texas Messiah: A Requiem for Rick Perry
Rick Perry is another in a growing collection of GOP banditti. In the old days, the Texas Rangers would have been hunting him down. In today’s Texas, he was their boss
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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
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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Tea Party Congressman Steve Stockman Subpoenaed By Grand Jury In Criminal Investigation
Outgoing Republican Congressman Steve Stockman and three of his aides have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury as part of a criminal investigation.
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The Significant Role That Stupidity Played in Republicans Winning Control of Congress
The sad fact is that the stupidity that drove the results of the midterms is not reserved to the Republican base, or Democratic voters would not have stayed home in a repeat performance of the devastating 2010 midterms.
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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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South Carolina Continues Its Quest To Be The Reddest State In The Nation
Some view South Carolina as the reddest state in the nation. After November 4th, it just might be.
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Sarah Palin Puts McConnell On Notice And Places Republicans On The Path To Destruction
With an eye on a two year gravy train, Palin put the GOP on notice; she’ll be trolling them for the next two years.
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Cheaters Never Win – Winners Never Cheat? A Close Look At November 4th
This will be my last mid-term general election contribution. At least in my state of South Carolina, it ain’t pretty.
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The Ervin South Carolina Bombshell. Could It Affect Nikki Haley’s Chances?
For the first time in this mid-term election cycle, South Carolina politics suddenly got interesting. The state’s just been politically “Ervinized.”
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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Mitch McConnell Tries To Undo Everything Obama Has Done With Government Shutdown Threat
If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell’s own words encapsulated the entire conservative mindset when he promised that “Obama won’t like it, but that will be done. I guarantee it.”
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Chris McDaniel Insists Thad Cochran Abandoned Christian Values by Appealing to Black Voters
It’s not Christian, McDaniels whines, to remind black people that he hates them. It’s not Christian to reach out to black voters.
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The Reality Is That There Is No Difference Between Republican and Tea Party Candidates
One would be hard-pressed to find any difference whatsoever between Republicans and their teabagger cohort except their willingness to openly state their goals.
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To No One’s Surprise Sarah Palin Doesn’t Understand How The Election Process Works
Former half-term Governor of Alaska and the Republican Party’s 2008 nominee for Vice President Sarah Palin did not have an enjoyable Tuesday night.
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Tea Party Candidate Endorsed By Ted Cruz And Sarah Palin Loses By 23 Points
Tuesday night Rep. James Lankford (R-OK) easily defeated former Oklahoma House Speaker TW Shannon in Oklahoma’s US Senate Republican primary. Lankford will move on to the general election this November.
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CNN Intentionally Avoids the Truth About the Tea Party and The GOP
CNN doesn’t want to deal with the undeniable connection between the GOP, Tea Party, Fox News, and elements of the Neo-Nazi movement.
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Republicans Self Destruct By Moving To the Far Right After Cantor’s Loss
Republicans are convinced that tea partiers are enraged that establishment Republicans did not oppose President Obama over the past five years and that now they demand, and Republicans will deliver, unflinching opposition to the President.
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Louie Gohmert Tells Americans Without Jesus, They’re All Going to Hell
Gohmert asks, “So, you do not believe somebody would go to Hell if they do not believe Jesus is the way, the truth, the life?”
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Surprise, Surprise! Alex Jones Calls Las Vegas Shooting a False Flag Set Up By Obama
Well, that sure didn’t take long. Alex Jones, crazy right-wing conspiracy theorist and con artist, took to his radio show on Monday to claim that the Las Vegas shooting that took place on Sunday was a false flag operation to turn public sentiment against the so-called patriot movement.
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Joe The Plumber Says Guns Are For Hunting Down Politicians
Joe the Plumber declares that the most important reason for having guns is to hunt down politicians.
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Joe the Plumber Says Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump His Constitutional Rights
Wurzelbacher tells grieving parents to forget their First Amendment rights: “any feelings you have toward my rights being taken away from me, lose those.”
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Sarah Palin Claims That She Is the Real Victim In Karl Rove’s Attack On Hillary Clinton
Well, I think we all knew this was coming, in one degree or another. Former half-term Governor of Alaska and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin decided to weigh in on the recent brouhaha surrounding Karl Rove’s comments on Hillary Clinton’s health.
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Operation American Spring Sprung a Leak Over The Weekend
Benghazi. Obamacare. Gun grabbing. These are just a few reasons grassroots activists on the right gave in a rally cry to all the anti-Obama supporters who want to impeach the POTUS for violating the Constitution.
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Operation American Spring Rallies a Few Hundred Lunatics at Most
Protesters has no problem finding places to sit on the capital mall while they try to wish Obama away
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Tea Party’s Latest Plan To Get Millions To March On Washington Will Be A Comedic Failure
This weekend, a far-right, anti-government group calling itself Patriots For America, plans to organize a ‘huge’ march on Washington, D.C. The march is supposed the be the first phase of a plan they are calling Operation American Spring.
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Right Wingers Rebel Against Fox News And Demand A New Tea Party Driven Network
On Tuesday, Lord Christopher Monckton, a contributor for World Net Daily, penned an article for the far-right website complaining about the mainstream media and how it is too far to the left. He suggests a new far-right network.
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CNN Shoots Down Michele Bachmann With a Single Point About Benghazi and Jobs
Michele Bachmann tried to justify yet another Benghazi investigation by saying it’s what the people want, but Candy Crowley said the people want jobs.
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Someone Needs to Tell Sarah Palin If Obama Were a Dictator, She’d Be In Gitmo
After Obama left Americans for “destroyed”, the press is just now waking up, according to Sarah Palin, who is still free after all of these many years of traitor-adjacent behavior to write and speak as she pleases.
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Chris Christie Says Income Equality is Mediocrity – Doesn’t Know Sh*t from Shinola
“You want income equality? That’s mediocrity.” That’s Chris Christie being pragmatic
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Sarah Palin Gets Dose Of Reality As Hillary Clinton Leads By 27 Points In 2016 Matchup
A poll released by McClatchy-Marist on Wednesday shows that former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over pretty much every GOP candidate for the 2016 Presidential election.
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An Unknown Crazed GOP Congressman Appears To Be Sending Threats To House Republicans
Republican lawmakers have been receiving threats for the past few weeks over the debt ceiling vote, and the threats appear to be coming from another member or staffer.
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SOTU: Obama is Hope. GOP Responses – All Four of Them – Are Despair
What Tuesday night demonstrated to every American and to the world, is that President Obama has a plan and that Republicans do not
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John Boehner Blames President Obama For Three Years of Republican Incompetence
After spending three years killing jobs, sending Americans into poverty, and damaging the economy, Boehner is doing damage control and blaming President Obama for House Republican incompetence.
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The Religious Right Champions Moral Relativism in Defense of Phil Robertson
All this fuss about Phil Robertson comes down to the Religious Right’s insistence that they have a right to say nobody else has rights
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Get Ready to Tread on Some Tea Party Snakes
Isaac Asimov wrote that, “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” The tea party is bending over backward to prove Asimov right.
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Glenn Beck Says Daughter Brainwashed into Thinking he is Anti-Gay
In true Beckian style, he has invented a Glenn Beck who can be outraged and hurt by an intolerance on the left he has invented out of whole cloth
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MSNBC Helped Sarah Palin Muzzle the 1st Amendment By Not Supporting Martin Bashir
What MSNBC accomplished by not supporting Bashir’s 1st Amendment right was to muzzle and pre-censor the rest of the network’s on-air talent. They also positioned themselves as just another conservative media outlet.
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Alan Keyes Says We Need a Religious Right Party Because GOP Not Extreme Enough
Keyes says, “if it’s really broke, you don’t fix it either, you replace it with something that works. Have Americans forgotten how to replace hijacked political parties?”
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Michele Bachmann Says Obama has Rewritten Constitution For Himself
“You’re not a king, you’re not a dictator, you can’t do whatever you want. Our Constitution limits the president’s power, even though President Obama doesn’t act that way.”
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Tissues for the Tea Party’s Issues
The tea party is the intersection of cognitive dissonance and reality. It’s certain to become a reality show. Oh wait – it already is.
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Ex-Generals Say President Obama Must be Forced to Resign
Vallely and Jones want to violate the Constitution so they can call for adherence to the Constitution with strict congressional oversight of all executive actions
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Did Martin Bashir Really Need to Apologize to Sarah Palin?
MSNBC host Martin Bashir went on the air on Monday and apologized for remarks he made about former half-term Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin during his show on Friday.
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The Kochs and Their Astroturf Tea Are Demanding an Exemption From Campaign Finance Rules
It appears Americans are being kept unawares again as the Koch’s so-called grass-roots organization, the teabaggers, have asked for an FEC exemption on campaign finance disclosure rules.
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Ted Cruz is Attending David Barton’s Conference for State Legislators
Barton is not a scientist. He is not a historian. He pretends to be a constitutional scholar but has no law degree. So why is Ted Cruz listening to him?
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Rand Paul is Dishonest and Lacks Integrity
It would have been bad enough if he’d pulled a Bachmann and claimed “urban legend!” but shooting people for telling the truth?
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Religious Right’s Pet Rabbi Calls Liberty Twisted and Diseased
Lapin says atheists are parasites and we’d be better behaved (do what conservatives want) if we acted like we had God looking over our shoulders
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Grayson’s Firestorm – GOP Says the Truth is Unacceptable and Deplorable
Grayson said, “I’m calling them out for their hate. That’s not wrong. That needs to be done. It’s the only way to end it.”
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Tea Party Insists that Extremist Ken Cuccinelli Not Extreme Enough
The Richmond Tea Party says Cuccinelli hasn’t taken a sufficient stand against “Obamacare, immigration, and moral decline.”
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Ted Cruz Has Found Himself a Niche Within a Niche Market
If the tea party is a niche market – a market focused on hate-fueled anarchy – what does that make Ted Cruz? A niche within a niche.
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Republicans Have Resumed Their Koch Funded Seditious Conspiracy To Destroy Government
The seditious conspiracy in the war for America is still ongoing and the next major assault is already in the planning stages and there is little any American can do to stop it.
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South Dakota Conservatives Abandon the Tea Party Government Shutdown
When the Tea Party’s base starts sound like liberals, you know the Tea Party is in trouble.
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The Tea Party Adds the GOP to its List of Enemies to be Destroyed
The Heritage Foundation’s Tim Chapman says, “We have an opportunity to take over the party and it will be in the next election.”
As Shutdown Continues, a Traitors’ Bromance is in the Air
Tony Perkins said, ‘I think they are acting heroic, I think they are heroes. They are along the lines of the patriots who founded this nation’
Michele Bachmann is Sleeping with Putin, Proving We Are in the End Times
Michele Bachmann, digging deep, claims Obama is supporting Al Qaeda, proving that we are in the End Times
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Left-Leaning American Majority Sees Views Consistently Ignored
The mistakes legislators make tend to fall in one direction, giving U.S. politics a rightward tilt compared to what most voters say they want
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The Big Lie Behind Rand Paul’s Pack of GOP Shutdown Lies
The shutdown Republicans initiated claiming Obamacare is costing Americans too much money, costs more money than Obamacare.
President Obama Went Where The Media Won’t By Calling Out the GOP Threat to America
President Obama did what the mainstream media has failed to do throughout the government funding crisis and said, “They’ve shut down the government over an ideological crusade.”
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As Obamacare Sign Up Begins Tea Partiers Are Fighting A Battle They’ve Already Lost
Americans can begin signing up to buy affordable healthcare insurance, and it is unlikely that reality will sink in to Republicans in Congress that the next phase of the ACA is underway.
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Tea Party Heroine Determined to Save Americans from Obamacare Crack Cocaine of Dependency
Michele Bachmann took time off from election fraud efforts to have an Obamacare hissy-fit for the ages
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Republican Traitors Call for a Government Shutdown Even If Obamacare Isn’t Defunded
Over half of Republican voters and Koch-patriots are clamoring for a government shutdown if Republicans fail to kill the ACA.
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Michele Bachmann Says Only God Can Defeat Hilary in 2016
Republicans know they are in such trouble in 2016 that only divine intervention can save them from themselves and those mean old atheists
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For the Second Time In Three Months America Hating Republicans Try to Secede
For the second time in less than three months, a disgruntled group of conservatives went beyond talking about secession and one has taken the first step form their own state.
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John Boehner Claims He Is Saving America by Destroying It
John Boehner boasts about the sequester saving America but he cannot and will not explain how withholding food from seniors and children will preserve this country for even one day.
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Republicans Are Doing Their Best to Kill Dr. King’s Dream
It’s good that Dr. King is not around to see his dream set back 50 years because it is contrary to Republicans and their supporters’ dream who still judge a man by the color of his skin
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Republicans Have Lost Their Grip on Reality and Are Disregarding the Constitution
Republicans have lost their grip on reality and it manifest itself their blatant disregard for the Constitution save the 2nd and 10th Amendments.
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The Republican Plot to Thwart The ACA With American Horror Stories Has Completely Failed
Republicans have spent every day of their vacation following their plan to the letter seeking horror stories about the not-yet-implemented ACA, but they have not had the success they planned.
Republicans Want To Impeach Obama For the Crime of Being President While Black
For the record, being twice-elected is not an impeachable offense, and being Black while President does not qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Sarah Palin and the Banality of Republican Evil
On behalf of those who are trampling their rights, Palin convinces people that somebody else is is responsible. She pronounces evil with a smile
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Jim DeMint Says GOP Will Destroy America To Stop Obamacare
DeMint’s remedy for Obamacare is like burning down your house to stop a leaky pipe from flooding your bathroom.
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Ted Cruz Says Obama’s Trayvon Remarks Prove He is Coming for Our Guns
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) admitted he hadn’t watched Obama’s remarks about Trayvon Martin and Stand Your Ground laws, but complained that Obama was going after white folks’ guns again.
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Michele Bachmann Wants Obama Spanked and his Imaginary Magic Wand Taken Away
President Barack Obama, Michele Bachmann claims, has a “perpetual magic wand,” (as opposed to a one-use magic wand?) and he is using it with impunity.
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Speaker Boehner and House Republicans Deploy Desperate Stall Tactics
Conservatism has been described as the belief that no one should be the first person to do anything … and House Republicans are taking that seriously.
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Marco Rubio’s Epic Fail as the Aspiring Hero of 2016
Making Rubio the face of immigration reform has backfired and he has become a target of ridicule, all of it due to his having no discernible ability to articulate his politics and beliefs.
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Michele Bachmann Warns Immigration Bill Puts Republic at Stake
Bachmann says, ‘We will not successfully pass the torch of liberty if we have perpetual amnesty. It won’t happen.’
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Bearded Muslims and the Incredible Mental Midgetry of the Tea Party
Cathie Adams’ stunning conclusion that Grover Norquist is a Muslim because he has a beard, left me speechless despite five years of Tea Party stupidity