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“This Is Sabotage, Plain And Simple”: The Unprecedented GOP Efforts To...
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who’s never been the Affordable Care Act’s biggest fan, appeared on MSNBC yesterday to join the critical chorus. In reference to the Obama administration, the conservative...
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“Voters Wil Not Forget”: Opposition To Obamacare Will Come Back To Haunt...
It is truly amazing to me to read through the blogs, the press releases from the Republican anti-Obamacare war room, the phalanx of Koch-brothers’ sponsored think tanks and web sites – one message:...
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“What Would Jesus Cut?”: Republicans Should Listen To Pope Francis’ Economic...
Usually poverty gets less attention from the media than global warming, which gets very little. Now the problem is on the front pages and trending on Twitter. Two weeks ago, Pope Francis issued a plea...
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“We Don’t Want Nothing Out Of This Debt Limit”: Paul Ryan Says He Isn’t Done...
In the spectacular Republican burnout at the end of the October government shutdown, it was easy to miss that America came within just hours of a full economic meltdown. The brinksmanship over the...
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“Boehner’s New Enemies”: Tea Folk Are Largely Unaffected By Attacks From The...
I’ve spent quite a bit of time mocking the extraordinary Beltway joy over House Speaker John Boehner’s rebuke to “outside” conservative groups, as representing the millionth decisive setback for the...
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“Merry Christmas From The GOP”: On December 28th Unemployment Benefits End...
Three days after Christmas, unemployment benefits end for 1.3 million people who have exhausted their state unemployment benefits, but still can’t find a job. To be eligible for unemployment benefits,...
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“Fast And Loose With The Facts”: Lying About Obamacare Continues As Campaign...
You may want to sit down before reading this: Republicans aren’t being totally truthful about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As the 2014 midterm elections approach, conservative groups are beginning to...
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“The Cruelty Of Unleashed Capitalism”: Rich Catholic Republicans Threaten...
If anyone wonders whether Pope Francis has irritated wealthy conservatives with his courage and idealism, the latest outburst from Kenneth Langone left little doubt. Sounding both aggressive and whiny,...
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“Feeling A Little Left Out”: The Religious Right Won’t Tolerate Being Ignored
The defining debate within the Republican Party over the last several months has pitted Tea Partiers against the GOP’s Corporate wing. The two contingents have already begun gearing up for some notable...
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“Data Is Digital Gold”: Beyond The NSA, What About Big Data Abuse By...
Taking steps to end, or at the very least to constrain, the federal government’s practice of storing information on the personal communications of Americans is a good thing. There is every reason to...
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“Like A Drunk In A Bar Fight”: Why Republicans Will Never Stop Lying About...
Politically speaking, here’s the thing about those melodramatic ads attacking the Affordable Care Act currently running on TV: In terms of actual policy, they’re as futile as the 40-odd votes to repeal...
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“GOP Like The Dog That Chases A Car”: Republican’s Can’t Do Better Than...
We are all familiar with the spectacle of a dog frantically chasing a car, which strikes us as stupid because, after all, what on Earth would the dog do with the car if it actually caught it? That’s...
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“Christie To CPAC, I’m One Of You”: An Invitation To Mainstream Voters,...
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) carefully cultivated “brand” includes a few key pillars. The first is that he’s a different kind of politician with no use for “politics as usual.” The second is...
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“Health Care’s Resistors And Adapters”: Why The ‘Bette’ And ‘Boostra’ Stories...
You’ll recall that Washington state Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, in delivering one of the 17 GOP State of the Union responses, spoke of “Bette,” the Spokane woman whose premiums were going up under...
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“Learning The Right Lesson”: Despite Their Loss In Florida’s Special...
So here we go: Republicans—and, no doubt, the Koch Brothers—are crowing that David Jolly’s win over Alex Sink in the special election in Florida’s 13th Congressional District Tuesday proves that...
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“The New Billionaire Political Bosses”: Political Power Tends To Rise To...
Charles and David Koch should not be blamed for having more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans put together. Nor should they be condemned for their petrochemical empire. As far as I know,...
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“Showing Its True Colors”: The GOP’s Case For Scrapping Democracy
When I wrote a recent column describing the GOP’s new voting laws as a “war on democracy,” I expected a sharp response from the Right. What I thought I’d hear were variations on the following: “No,...
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“Enough With Puff Pieces About Painting”: Bush Crew’s Deplorable Return, How...
It’s been more than five years since Dick Cheney left the White House and nearly eight years since Donald Rumsfeld was booted from the Pentagon. With the obvious exception of George W. Bush himself, no...
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“Beyond Corruption”: A Campaign Finance System Warped Beyond What It Would Be...
There was a time in our history, thankfully long past now, when bribery was common and money’s slithery movement through the passages of American government was all but invisible, save for the...
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“Pity The Poor Plutocrats”: Time’s Winged Chariot Draws Near, And There’s No...
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There...
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