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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.
Tagged Obama Administration
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A Nasty Anti-Obama Column Draws a Contributor’s Angry Response
A Newsday columnist, Lane Filler, recently wrote some truly untrue things about our President and his health care plan. I emailed an answer
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The Republicans Are Still Blaming Obama for Iraq and Afghanistan
it was not Obama who invaded Iraq on a fabricated pretext and with an army designed to fight not an insurgency but World War III.
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Jim Garrow and Erik Rush Obama Should Be Stood Against Wall and Shot
Republicans have become obsessed not with simply impeaching or imprisoning President Obama, but with killing him. And they are quite open about their desires. We just saw how a pair of former generals have dishonored their uniforms by saying Obama must be forcibly removed from office and how a Christian militia group claimed that Jesus…
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Republicans Show That They Abhor Peace by Criticizing Nuclear Deal With Iran
What the American people are reminded of with the warmonger’s criticism of diplomatic efforts is that Republicans abhor peace nearly as much as they love killing jobs.
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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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Republicans Hate Getting What They Wanted When They No Longer Want It
There are a bunch of Republicans besides McConnell who, when Bush was president, said they’d never, ever filibuster a nominee.
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The Founders Did Not Establish Congress as a Church Council
Only Anglo-Saxons are real Americans but then only if they are carrying around a Semitic book with a later Greek revision added to it?
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Republican Condemns President Obama For Not Using the Old Testament to Guide Policy
It is astonishing, but one of their champions used the floor of the House to condemn President Obama for not utilizing Old Testament prophecy as a guiding force for Middle East policy,
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Extremists Launch Treasonous Plot to Overthrow President Obama A Week Before Thanksgiving
Right wing extremists have proclaimed a date a week before Thanksgiving to demand the surrender of President Obama to face charges set out by a citizens’ grand jury.
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What the Media Won’t Tell You: Millions are Hurting as Red States Reject Medicaid Expansion
A number of right-wing states are leaving needy citizens without Medicaid coverage because their legislatures are rejecting expansion.
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NSA Taking a Lot of Heat, So Deserved, But There’s a Lot More to the Story
A lot has been written and broadcast about the National Security Agencies’ surveillance of allies. In fact, the “allies” knew all about it.
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The Affordable Care Act Ain’t Broke: So Let’s Fix Healthcare.gov (Quickly, Please)
The healthcare.gov website has been online for 2 weeks. It works, but must be improved. There has been an overload of political and media focus and furor about the problems of the Healthcare.Gov website.
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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.
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While Persecuting Everyone Else, the Religious Right Cries Persecution
Obama administration is the “modern-day equivalent” of ancient Rome, where each citizen is made to worship Caesar with progressivism.
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Boehner Angry GOP Did Not Get Free Pass on Day of Navy Yard Shooting
Republicans using the cover of the crisis to plot against Obama and the country itself, whine “no fair!” when Obama takes notice
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Louie Gohmert Suggests Defunding Executive Branch to Punish Obama
Louie Gohmert wants the Obama administration to come clean about non-existent scandals or face being defunded
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Remember 9/11 and Never Forget What George W. Bush’s Incompetence Did to America
As the nation remembers the American lives lost at the hands of a terrorist gang, they should take stock of the damage that an incompetent Bush administration caused this country.
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Where Syria is Concerned Let’s not Become a Global George Zimmerman
It is not hard to know what to think about the U.S. attacking Syria. That’s wrong. And it’s wrong for a number of reasons
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Eric Holder Puts Texas On Notice: Everyone’s Voting Rights Will Be Respected
Republicans see threat to white privilege in Eric Holder’s announced plans to make Texas obtain federal approval for changes to voting laws
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Obama Attacks Get Absurd as the President Is Called a Wussy Gay Drag Queen
Internet TV show host Stan Solomon indulges in fantasies of a cross-dressing, feminist-dominated Barack Obama
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Republicans Unveil Stop Hillary 2016
The best way to stop Hillary would be for Republicans to stop their obstructionism and help solve our problems . They’d rather tell lies
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GOP Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma Calls Obama Unfit and Biden Embarrassing
On Monday, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), forgot not only President Bush but his fellow ethically-challenged House Republicans, and excoriated President Barack Obama from the House floor.
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Poverty, Race, and Obama’s Morehouse Speech
Some people became upset with Obama’s “Racism is no longer an excuse” speech. Perhaps people gripped by poverty were what made them wince.
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Donald Rumsfeld Gives Bush a D and Obama an F
Donald Rumsfeld conveniently forgets the past and repeats the GOP’s favorite meme, that Obama has lost credibility and America’s confidence
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The Mainstream Media Suffers from Conservative-Induced Stockholm Syndrome
I wonder if, due to dangerously high levels of delusion, it is time to put the MSM, if not the Fourth Estate as a whole away as a threat to society.
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Cowardly Karl: ABC Let’s Their Chief White House Correspondent Issue Non-Apology
Howard Kurtz read a statement this Sunday from Jonathan Karl, chief White House Correspondent for ABC News, that didn’t make Karl look any better, but in fact only raised more questions.
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SEAL Team 6 Gate Replaces Benghazi as Worst Scandal Ever
Benghazi was bigger than Watergate (and apparently, 9/11 as well) but “Seal Team 6-Gate” is bigger even than Benghazi! (and Benghazi was totally the worst scandal ever, right? Well, not so much…).
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Rand Paul Continues to Use Disproved Talking Points to Attack the President
Rand Paul has gone to staggering lengths to ignore the facts and manufacture others to “prove” Obama is guilty of things that never
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Jon Stewart Tells Rumsfeld and Cheney Obama’s Transgressions Do Not Wipe Away Theirs
After the war criminals Rumsfeld and Cheney criticized Obama, Jon Stewart reminded them of their own grievous misdeeds
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Republicans Demanded an Investigation into AP Leaks; Now They’re Blaming Obama
In the lead up to the 2012 elections, Republicans were upset that the Obama administration was getting such great press on national security issues, so they demanded an investigation into the leaks.
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Republican Rep. Tom Price Says Obama No Longer has Consent of the Governed
What Price means by “the governed” is “angry white people” like himself who have sold their souls to the ravenous corporations seeking to replace the federal government
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Will the Republican Clown Car Find its Way Out of Benghazi?
Why the Benghazi hearings? How many votes can you hold, after all, on overturning affordable healthcare, free cancer-screenings and kids lunches
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Even Republicans Are Destroying Their Own Party’s Benghazi Conspiracy Theories
Robert Gates mocked Republicans for their criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of Benghazi, saying they had a ‘cartoonish’ impression of military capabilities.
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Republicans Have a Bad Case of The Benghazi Whackadoodle Blues
Republicans are convinced that it makes perfect sense that the wholesale slaughter of 9/11 made Bush a hero but because of four dead, Obama should be impeached.
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Republicans Claim That Immigration Reform Will Invite Terrorist Attacks
Some Republicans have conflated the identities of Muslims and Hispanics because they share similar skin color and to make their case that immigration reform is tantamount to inviting terror attacks.
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Sequester Tantrums Reveal Yet Again That Republicans Are Developmentally Stunted
Republicans are enthusiastic about sequester cuts until it affects their wealthy constituents. Then, they throw temper tantrums.
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The DEA Has Become Too Powerful as a Lobbying Force to Keep the Disastrous War on Drugs
This week, no less than eight former directors of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) signed onto a public letter to two Senators accusing the Obama Administration of abandoning the War on Drugs simply because he has indicated he plans to largely respect the decisions of voters in Colorado and Washington when they legalized marijuana in…
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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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Pat Robertson Says You Have Demons in Your Underpants
Pat Robertson thinks there are demons in your underpantsr, so be sure to rebuke them before heading out of the house
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John Boehner Whips Up a Batch of Desperate Lies After Getting Busted on the Sequester
John Boehner is trying to lie his way out of trouble after being caught red-handed on the sequester, and if the subject were not so serious, one might pity his peculiar attempt at logic
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The Right Claims Liberals Have a Dull-Witted, Self-Defeating, Abjectly Wicked Worldview
Conservatives seem completely confused and befuddled by reality, as evidenced by Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber and his recent scree
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John Boehner Thinks Obama Wants to Shove the GOP to the ‘Dustbin of History’
Speaker Boehner is tired of giving his funders pep talks, and he blames Obama. He says Obama wants to ‘annihilate’ the Republican Party, ‘shove us into the dustbin of history.’
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The Right Calls Obama a Dictator, but Sarah Palin Disarmed the Alaska Civil Militia
The same people who love Sarah Palin call Obama a dictator. But in 2008, then Gov. Palin stripped the militia of their guns and many powers.
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Critics on Both Sides Distort Obama’s White Male Cabinet Problem
Should we worry about Obama’s white male cabinet appointments? How about we wait and see what his cabinet looks like before we complain
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Presidents Bush and Clinton Also Used Executive Orders to Reform Gun Laws
Republicans are threatening to impeach Obama over executive action on gun control, but many presidents have issued executive orders on gun control, including George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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The Criminal Mindset Behind the Republican Threats to Shutdown Government
The concept of shutting down the government unless Republicans control the direction and vision of the nation is nothing less than criminal.
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Opposition to Chuck Hagel is a No-Win Scenario for the GOP
There is no conceivable outcome in which GOP opposition to Chuck Hagel ends happily for Republicans
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The Top Ten Smartest Democratic Quotes of 2012
If the Republicans fell all over themselves in 2012 to sound stupid, the Democrats were happy to help them along, as this list demonstrates
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Pamela Geller Really, Really Hates Islam, Obama, and the UN
Even when compared to 2012’s other conservative ranters and spewers, a sour-faced lot if there ever was one, Muslim-baiter Pamela Geller stands out.
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Obama’s Support for Israel’s Iron Dome Gives GOP Fits of Cognitive Dissonance
Facts crash into belief where Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system is concerned. How could Obama have paid for it when he hates Israel?
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Move Over Star Wars: A Trilogy of GOP Cognitive Dissonance: 2008, 2012, 2016
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
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Republican Desperation Grows as Benghazi Backfires and Scandal Talk Fizzles
Benghazi gate is not going as Republicans planned, and in fact, the failure to gain traction on their narrative is further compelling Republicans to hysterics.
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Will the Media Call Out McCain for Missing the Benghazi Briefing?
John McCain missed a classified briefing on Benghazi because he was giving TV interviews about his alleged questions about Benghazi.
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While Investigating Obama Over Libya, Darrell Issa Puts Libyans’ Lives at Risk
Darrell Issa (R-CA) has placed several Libyans lives at risk, in the course of investigating the alleged security issues regarding the attacks in Libya.
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In Foreign Policy Romney Needs to be More than Not-Obama
Mitt Romney is campaigning as not-Obama and in this case at least, he is being entirely honest: he is not Obama
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It is Time for Israel to Prove that They Strive for Peace
It is time for Israel to prove they ‘treat all with dignity and compassion and strive for peace’ instead of threatening to strike Iran or continue displacing Palestinians.
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Meme of Desperation – Bush Gave Middle East 10 Years of Peace
In a breathtaking revision of history, we are being told that President Bush gave the Middle East ten years of peace
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John Bolton Says Obama Planning Blasphemy Laws to Protect Islam
It’s probably needed but Obama is not going to do it, and why are we even talking about something like blasphemy? It’s so sixteenth century
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House GOP Was Warned Their Obstruction on Libya Would Embolden Our Enemies
In 2011, House Republicans ignored warnings from conservatives of emboldening terrorists and voted no on authorizing the Libya mission in order to obstruct Obama.
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The Right’s Religious Liberty Lie Hides the Heart of the War on Women
Religious liberty proponents don’t understand that Obama’s policy does not require any man, or woman, to use contraception or to abandon their own religious prohibition against using birth control.
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Romney-Ryan would have us Fiddle while the World Burns
The choice in this election is between a slow, but gaining, political struggle towards better environmental policy or a return to Industrial Era abuses
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Mitt Romney Disgraces America By Exploiting Embassy Attacks to Criticize Obama
This morning, Mitt Romney doubled down on his embarrassingly tone deaf and flat out wrong accusations against Obama over the Libya and Egypt embassy attacks.
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The Republican Obama Intelligence Briefing Smear is Already a Giant Flop
It’s 9/11, so right on schedule here comes the Republican Party with a story about how Obama has made America less safe. Only this time, the American people aren’t listening.
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As Isaac Arrives Republicans Threaten to Deny Disaster Relief Funding
House Republicans are already threatening to deny disaster relief funding for Hurricane Isaac unless they get more budget cuts.
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Gaffetastic: Team Romney Reminds Media of Ryan’s Lack of Military Experience
In a press release of talking points sent to reporters this morning after the Big Announcement, team Ryan Romney drew attention to Ryan’s lack of military service.
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With Zero Proof a Hypocritical Romney Blames Obama for Reid Allegations
Apparently oblivious to hypocrisy, the Romney campaign is offering zero proof but blaming President Obama for Harry Reid’s allegations that Mitt Romney hasn’t paid his taxes.
Barack Obama Rocks Change for LGBT Community
Today we can celebrate Hopey ordering the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a rule that would prevent hospitals who participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs (the majority of hospitals) from denying visitation privileges to gay and lesbian partners, among other groups who suffer discrimination under the current prevailing policy of “relative-only” visitation.