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“Unforgivable Stupidity”: Rep Louie Gohmert Shows How Not To Respond To A...
In the wake of tragic gun violence, most politicians realize the decent, responsible thing to do is send sympathies to those affected while leaving politics out of it. Others aren’t as sensible. After...
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“Bringing Welfare Back”: The Romney Campaign Picks Up Where Gingrich’s Lies...
Mitt Romney’s campaign is seizing on a story that’s been percolating on conservative blogs for weeks, rolling out a new attack today against President Obama for “unilaterally dismantling” the...
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“Libyan Head Fake”: GOP Pretends No One Cares About Abortion
With a major storm and presidential election arriving within a week of each other, the penultimate batch of Sunday morning political talk shows before the election were dominated by talk of how...
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“Dumb And Dumber”: Congress Is Awful Because Members Spend All Day Long...
Members of Congress don’t know anything about “the issues” and they spend all their time fundraising, according to both a new Huffington Post story and “an easy inference to make after observing...
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“Slick And Slicker: A Gingrich-Santorum Unity Ticket Was Still A Loser
Mitt Romney’s financial and organization advantages in the 2012 Republican primaries were commanding, but conservatives who opposed him had faint cause for hope: Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich...
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“Republican Rebranding”: Recent History Tells Us That Victory Isn’t Born Of...
The Republican “rebranding” effort may be on temporary hiatus as all the party’s factions come together in the vain hope that they may finally have something to impeach Barack Obama over, but as soon...
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“Arrested Governance”: Do Everything You Can To Sabotage Government To Keep...
The Internal Revenue Service was closed today, as employees were furloughed due to sequestration’s budget cuts. Conservatives found this to be an occasion for side-splitting humor; Sarah Palin, for...
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“All They Have Is Their Anger”: Why Republicans Can’t Destroy President Obama
Over the past few years, liberals like me have pointed out countless times that the Republican party was being (or would be soon, as the case might have been) terribly damaged by the ideological...
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“The Most Common Kind Of Racist”: Like Many On The Right, The One That...
Best I can tell, the furor over Jack Hunter, a long-time South Carolina-based neo-Confederate who co-authored a book with Rand Paul and then joined his Senate staff, is more or less “blowing over.” But...
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“Richard Nixon Runs The Republican Party, Again”: A Contempt For The Regular...
The current Republican Party isn’t the party of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. It isn’t a conservative party. It’s the party, instead, of Nixon and Gingrich. And that’s why it’s a dysfunctional...
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“Gingrich’s Revisionist History Of Himself”: Bizarre Anyone Would Take Newt’s...
Newt Gingrich has often relied on short memories of his political career (as I can attest from the shocked reaction I got in 2011 when writing about his well-known history as a Rockefeller Republican),...
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“Petulant Little Children”: Why The Republican Obamacare “No Strategy At All”...
After President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, conservative writer David Frum, who had been a speechwriter for George W. Bush, chided his compatriots for the strategy they had employed in...
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“Our Democracy Is At Stake”: It’s Not Just Obamacare, President Obama Is...
This time is different. What is at stake in this government shutdown forced by a radical Tea Party minority is nothing less than the principle upon which our democracy is based: majority rule....
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“The ‘Fraidy Cat Group”: Why We Probably Won’t Get Another Government...
So we probably now have a short-term continuing resolution set to expire in January. Does that mean another shutdown in January, after the two sides can’t reach an agreement? After all, that’s what...
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“Unnecessary And Replaceable”: It’s Time To Take The Debt Ceiling Gun Off The...
There’s long been an expression that’s common in theater: if there’s a gun on the stage, it has to go off. It’s a loose translation of something called “Chekov’s Gun,” and I’ve long believed it’s a...
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“Obamacare Horror Stories Aren’t So Horrible”: Republicans Struggling To Find...
There are real and substantial problems with the Affordable Care Act’s website, serious enough to warrant remarks this morning from President Obama and “tech surge” at HHS. But for the law’s critics,...
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“What If We Just Called It NixonCare?”: Republicans Have No Business Being...
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says Republicans will seek to delay a requirement of the 2010 Affordable Care Act that all Americans obtain health insurance or face a tax penalty. “With so many...
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“Nuttier By The Day”: The Right Wing Is Eating Its Own, Again
The nut jobs on the right are getting nuttier by the day. A new national survey for the Wall Street Journal and NBC News indicates that only one in four Americans (24 percent) support the tea party....
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“GOP Post Campaign Buckraking”: When Politicians Embrace The Power Of Spam
As a notable Republican presidential candidate, Herman Cain was able to pull together an email list of several hundred thousand people. His campaign obviously didn’t turn out well, but Cain eventually...
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“Conservatism Is Too Big For Its Own Good”: The Right No Longer Understands...
There’s a moment every year at the Conservative Political Action Conference when some eminence from the 1970s talks about the good old days at CPAC, hearkening back to the time when Ronald Reagan would...
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