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Elizabeth Warren Blasts Republicans For Insulting The Constitution And Obama
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) hammered Republicans today for insulting the Constitution and President Obama by refusing to do their jobs.
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Republicans Admit They Will Confirm Obama’s SCOTUS Nominee If They Lose The Election
Senate Republicans admitted that they are blocking President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee as an election tactic. Some Senators admit that they will confirm Obama’s Supreme Court pick during the lame duck session if they lose the presidential election in November.
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Republicans Are Caving So Fast They’re Backpedaling On Obama SCOTUS Nominee
“Senator McConnell will cave and President Obama will fill this vacancy this year,†Harry Reid predicted. Mitch McConnell’s House of Obstruction Cards came tumbling down today in quick succession right after President Obama announced his SCOTUS nominee.
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Mitch McConnell’s Obstruction Falls Apart As 8 Republicans To Meet With SCOTUS Nominee
Mitch McConnell’s plan to obstruct President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, by holding no meetings, hearings, or votes is coming closer to collapse as eight Senate Republicans have stated that they will meet with the nominee.
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Obama Set To Rock Republicans By Announcing Supreme Court Pick On Wednesday
President Barack Obama is likely to announce either Judge Sri Srinivasan or Judge Merrick Garland as his pick for U.S. Supreme Court nominee and the announcement could come as early as Wednesday, a source familiar with the selection process said on Tuesday.
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President Obama’s Focus on Diplomacy Offers Stark Contrast To Trump’s Empty Rhetoric
Citing the criticism for his commitment to diplomacy, the President touted JFK’s reasoning for trying negotiation, “‘Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.'”
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Texas Conservative Planned To Bring His Rifle to President Obama’s SXSW Event
A self-described conservative Texas gun rights activist planned to bring his rifle to President Obama’s South by Southwest festival (SXSW) speech and wrote, “This may get interesting.â€
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Obama Leaves Republicans Reeling By Explaining How GOP Birtherism And Hate Built Trump
President Obama hit Republicans right between the eyes by explaining how birtherism and the GOP’s politics of hate created Donald Trump.
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GOP Candidates Will Reverse Obama’s Record Deficit Reduction
GOP candidates want to reverse Obama’s gains with huge tax cuts for the rich that helped create the Bush deficit the President has erased
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Eric Holder Says It’s Time To Talk Marijuana Decriminalization
Holder says, “You know, we treat marijuana in the same way that we treat heroin now, and that clearly is not appropriateâ€
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Republicans Admit That Obstruction Of Obama SCOTUS Nominee Is Petty Political Payback
Sen. Lindsey Graham admitted that Senate Republicans are obstructing Obama’s Supreme Court nominee because they are still upset that Democrats changed the filibuster rules in 2013.
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Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval Would Not Be A Moderate Choice For The Supreme Court
Sandoval opposes solar energy, gun safety laws, thinks Obamacare is unconstitutional and will uphold Vatican-5’s anti-women bloc for decades
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Obama Annihilates Every Republican Argument With Plan To Close GITMO
President Obama called out the political cowardice of Congress while annihilating every Republican argument, and setting the record straight on GITMO.
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It’s The Kochs, Not Republicans Prohibiting A SCOTUS Nominee Vote
The mainstream media must identify the real American government and Supreme Court “hostage takers;†the Koch brothers
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With A Sharp Wit And A Smile Obama Obliterates Republican Obstructionists
President Obama joked that he was going to give “an indisputably qualified set of remarks,” and “I trust that you’ll give them a fair hearing.” The audience appreciated the totally not veiled message with laughter and applause.
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The Incredible Joy and Power in “Obama and Kids”
“Obama and Kids” is trending today after White House photographer Pete Souza shared the first photo in this gallery on Thursday of President Obama and a small visitor at the Black History Month celebration.
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Obama Announces That He Will Nominate A Replacement For Justice Scalia
Just hours after Republicans decided that they wanted to deny Obama the power of the presidency — even suggesting that he should not nominate someone, President Obama announced that he would nominate a replacement for Justice Scalia.
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GOP Says the Right to Know What You’re Eating is Burdensome to Corporations
Despite the protests of many medical organizations, Republicans ignore the health cost to Americans in favor of corporate profits
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Obama Annihilates Republican Gloom And Doom With An Economic Reality Bomb
President Obama annihilated the Republican claims of economic gloom and doom in a White House appearance where he called out the GOP failed economic policies and the fact that their presidential candidates appear to have no plans of their own for the economy.
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President Obama’s New Wall Street Rule Prompts Greedy AIG To Bail Out
Instead of adhering to the new Obama Department of Labor rule, AIG is selling the AIG Advisor Group to a Canadian pension investment manager
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Obama Keeps Democrats Strong And Unified With A Beat The GOP Focus On 2016
President Obama is making sure that his Democrats remain focused and together by delivering the message that the relevant contrast in 2016 is not between Sanders and Clinton, but between Democrats and Republicans.
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Obama Plays Republicans And Gets Exactly What He Wanted Out Of GOP Debate
President Obama laid out the bait when he outlined his positive vision for America, and the Republican presidential candidates couldn’t resist. Instead of talking about the Democratic candidates, the Republican field spent the night lost in an alternate universe of despair.
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Republican Fail: Evangelical Bigots Did Not Counter President Obama’s SOTU
It is an abomination that an avowed religious bigot like Kim Davis was invited as a protest and counterweight to President Obama’s message
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Promise Fulfilled: Obama’s Moral Mission Has Transformed America For The Better
Seven years in, one thing has become abundantly clear – this President is on a moral mission. Not all people who run for the highest office of the land actually have an agenda to do good for the people, but it appears as though this President did and does.
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Follow Obama’s Lead And Vow Not To Support Any Democrat Who Opposes Gun Reform
Democrats need to follow President Obama’s lead and promise not support or work for the campaign of any candidate who opposes gun reform.
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President Obama To SCOTUS – Butt Out of Colorado’s Pot Law
Republicans in two states are appealing to SCOTUS to empower them to abolish another state’s rights to pass a law Republicans do not like
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President Obama Nails The Media For Whipping Up Fear To Get Ratings
President Obama is calling out the media for trying the scare the American people about terrorism in order to boost ratings.
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Stop Praising A Koch Victory That Increases Climate Change and Enriches the Oil Industry
No wonder Republicans were praising themselves; just one unrelated-to-spending rider in a spending bill gave the Kochs tens-of-billions annually and endangered Americans lives and well-being; it is what Koch Republicans regard as a win-win.
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Obama Ends A Great Year By Reminding Republicans Of All Of His 2015 Wins
President Obama used a few moments of his end of the year press conference to remind Republicans and the American people of the many successes of his administration in 2015.
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Obama Rips Republican Candidates For Betraying Our Values During National Address
During his address from the Oval Office, President Obama ripped the proposals for discrimination against Muslim-Americans that are being offered by Republican presidential candidates like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
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President Obama Shows Republicans How It’s Done Via True Leadership In Dark Moments
President Obama leads the nation even in its darkest moments, and the San Bernardino slayings are no exception.
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Obama Speaks The Blunt Truth: It Is Too Easy For People To Carry Out Mass Shootings
While speaking at the White House today, President Obama delivered a blunt truth that many Republicans don’t want to hear. The President that it is too easy for people to carry out mass shootings and we need to make it harder for would-be killers to get guns.
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Republicans Have Blood On Their Hands For Inciting Deadly Domestic Terrorism
Americans can make a very accurate inference that Republicans have blood on their hands for inciting rage and more violence towards women’s healthcare providers; just like they are inciting violence against American Muslims.
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President Obama Responds To Planned Parenthood Shooting With Call To Action
“We have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them.”
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President Obama Declares Enough Is Enough After Colorado Planned Parenthood Shooting
President Obama reacted to the Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting by declaring that enough is enough and that something must be done about the easy access to weapons on our streets.
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Limbaugh, Republican Claim Obama Supports ISIS and Hates Freedom Because Refugees
They claim Obama is a collaborator because he adheres to America’s long-standing exceptionalism of giving war-weary refugees a safe haven
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Obama Shreds Cowardly GOP Presidential Candidates For Fearing 4 Year Old Orphan Refugees
During a press conference in Malaysia, President Obama pulled no punches and shredded cowardly Republican presidential candidates who are fearing four-year-old orphan refugees being admitted to the United States.
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Against NRA Opposition Sen. Feinstein Pushes To End Gun Sales To Suspected Terrorists
Senator Feinstein is leading an effort to bar gun sales to people on the Terrorist Watchlist, but the NRA is fighting her efforts.
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Koch’s Justice Reform Proposal Restricts Prosecution For Environmental Violations
The Kochs want to pollute with impunity by simply claiming they were unaware that it was a federal violation to poison the air and water
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Republicans Are So Detached From Reality, They Think Unemployment Has Risen Under Obama
The unemployment rate has not only dropped since Obama took office, it has dropped dramatically.
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Hillary Clinton Calls Out Hateful Republicans, Says They Have Sunk To A New Low
She tweeted: We’ve seen a lot of hateful rhetoric from the GOP. But the idea that we’d turn away refugees because of religion is a new low.
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Rupert Murdoch Says Make Exception For “Proven Christian” Refugees
Rupert Murdoch has joined Jeb Bush in wanting only Christian refugees, but upped the ante by demanding they be “proven” Christians
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President Obama Vows Not To Slam The Door On Syrian Refugees Seeking Safety In America
President Obama vowed to continue supporting the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States.
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Jeb Says Term “Islamic Terrorism” is not About Islam but Says “No” to Muslim Refugees
Jeb Bush says “Islamic terrorism” isn’t really about religion but he sure doesn’t want any Muslims in this country – even refugees
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Republicans Try To Rewrite History And Blame Obama And Hillary For Creating ISIS
The Islamic State grew out of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and of course, Al Qaeda was not IN Iraq until after Bush’s invasion, making Santorum a liar
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There Is No One I Would Rather Have at the Helm Today Than President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama knows this. That is why he hunted down and killed Osama bin Laden. That’s not something any person with an ounce of humanity wants to do, no matter what- to kill another human being. But it was necessary.
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Paris Terror Attacks Will Trigger Weekend-Long Republican War-gasms
The Islamic State counts on the response they’re going to get from Republicans this weekend, and GOP leaders will be only too happy to oblige
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American Public Disagrees With Republicans On The Need for a Bible-Believing President
It turns out the American people don’t agree with Republicans that it’s all that important what candidates believe about the Bible
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Hillary Clinton Was Assailing Wall Street Before It Was Politically Expedient
Clinton warned us a year before the true nature of Wall Street and the financial sector’s malfeasance manifested in a worldwide recession
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President Obama Promises His Loyal Supporters That He’s Not Going Anywhere
President Obama addressed a packed St. Regis hotel ballroom Monday afternoon and promised OFA supporters that while he is only going to hold office for another 14 months, he’s not going anywhere.
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Obama Devastates Republicans by Using Reagan To Prove The Success of His Presidency
Obama said, “The fact of the matter is, is that if you ask the question Ronald Reagan said was the most important thing to ask about a presidency, and that is, ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?’ You are.”
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Keystone XL Dies but TransCanada and Republicans Continue Lying About Pipeline
TransCanada’s Russ Girling accused Obama of “choosing misplaced symbolism over merit and science, and allowed rhetoric to win out over reason”
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Environmental Activist Bill McKibben: “This Is A Day Of Celebration”
Climate activist Bill McKibben expressed jubilation after President Obama announced his decision to deny the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Liberals Win Big As President Obama Drops The Hammer and Kills Keystone XL
President Obama said that Keystone XL will do nothing to grow the economy and called out Republicans for falsely inflating the economic impact of Keystone.
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Obama’s Winning Streak Continues: Strongest Three Years of Job Creation Since 2000
Unemployment rate ticked down, wages grew, and overall the economy added 271,000 jobs in October — which makes the last three years the strongest years for job creation since… oh, 2000.
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Huckabee Wants to Thank SCOTUS for Their “Thoughts and Opinions” And Ignore Them
Mike Huckabee says he gets to decide what is constitutional or not, not the Supreme Court, which is given that job by the Constitution
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Obama Refuses TransCanada Request to Suspend Keystone XL Pipeline Approval
TransCanada claims they need more time to work with American officials but the real reason is to avoid a losing battle with President Obama
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White House Tears Apart Trump After Bogus Billionaire Bashes President Obama
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest tore apart Donald Trump after the billionaire made a factless claim about President Obama and interest rates.
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The White House Hammers Chris Christie For Saying Obama Doesn’t Support The Police
The White House claimed another Republican scalp today as Press Secretary Josh Earnest ripped Chris Christie for falsely claiming that President Obama doesn’t support the police.
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The White House Blasts Paul Ryan After The Speaker Gets Caught Lying About Obama
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest blasted Paul Ryan after the Speaker went on national television and falsely blamed President Obama for the Republican refusal to allow a vote on immigration reform.
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President Obama’s Fiscal Discipline Cuts the Federal Deficit Below The 50-Year Average
If Americans need an example of true fiscal responsibility, they can look at the state of the economy under a fiscally responsible Democrat, President Barack Obama.
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Sean Hannity Gets a “Pants on Fire” From PolitiFact for Lie About Syrian Refugees
Fox News is in cahoots with Republican candidates Jeb Bush and Donald Trump, inventing inflated numbers of Syrian refugees to scare the base
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Obama Exposes How Republican Dysfunction Is Literally Destroying Our Beautiful Country
President Obama connected the dots and exposed how the dysfunctional Republican agenda is literally destroying the beautiful country that we live in.
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Federal Judge Blasts DEA’s Illegal Practice of Prosecuting Legal Medical Marijuana Use
Judge Charles R. Breyer said that the DEA’s interpretation of the bipartisan medical marijuana bill “defied logic and language”
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Following Mormon Trend Federal Judge Approves Uranium Mining In Grand Canyon
A federal judge has granted approval for a Canadian corporation to begin mining for uranium in the Grand Canyon National Park
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Obama Approval Rating Skyrockets To Highest Level In Two And A Half Years
President Obama’s job approval rating has gained six points since July and 11 points over the past year.
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President Obama’s Bold Step Stops Arctic Oil Drilling
In one fell swoop, the President took a concrete step to reduce all current and future threats to the Arctic region. The Administration cancelled new lease sales in the so-called “Polar Bear Seas,” the Chukchi and Beaufort, just off the north Alaskan coast.
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Obama Turns Donald Trump Into A Pathetic Crybaby By Explaining Why He Won’t Win
President Obama reduced Donald Trump to a pathetic puddle by explaining in less than a minute why Trump won’t win the 2016 election.
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Barbaric Oregon Gun Zealots “Politicize” Presidential Meeting To Comfort Grieving Families
Apparently what the gun maniacs in Oregon are up in arms over is the concept of gun safety as a political issue; they are livid that President Obama said as much.
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Obama Explains Why A Congress Still Investigating Benghazi Refuses to Pass Gun Laws
When you ask yourself why we have a Congress that will conduct a several years long investigation into a made-up conspiracy theory but refuses to even entertain the idea of responsible gun ownership laws, the answer is clear. Nonvoters.
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Boehner Lies and Blames Obama and Democrats For GOP Blocking Of Gun Safety Bills
Now that President Obama and a couple of Americans are asking why Congress cannot take action to reduce the frequency of mass shootings, John Boehner has come up with a typical Republican answer; it is not their fault or their responsibility to act.
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Love It or Hate It, When Obama Puts TPP Online It Will Be the Most Transparent Deal Ever
President Obama will give Congress at least 90 days to debate the agreement after it’s posted online before signing it. Love it or hate it, this commitment, when fulfilled, will make this the most transparent agreement on record.
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Obama Saves America From Republican Failure By Bringing Deficit Below 50 Year Average
The CBO put the deficit for the just ended fiscal year at 2.4% of GDP, below 50-year average.
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Australians Disgusted With America Call To Boycott This Violent and Immature Nation
Some 2.1 million Australians visit the U.S. annually and the call for boycott is likely motivated as much by self-preservation as disgust
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Oregon College Massacre Is a Product of the NRA-Republican’s Structurally Violent America
Gun violence comes courtesy of the tireless effort and machinations of Republicans and the NRA to create a structurally violent country
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President Obama Acts To Stop the Unconstitutional Criminalizing of Homelessness
The Obama White House this week took steps to force communities to halt the “cruel, inhumane, and degrading” treatment of the homeless
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Pope Visit Backfires On Republicans As Obama and Francis Team Up On Climate Change
Almost immediately, Pope Francis and President Obama negated any Republican hopes of using the Pope’s visit to score political points by teaming up at the White House on a climate change message.
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President Obama Hijacks The Republican Debate With An Epic Take Down Of Donald Trump
During his speech to the Business Roundtable, President Obama hijacked the Republican debate by taking down Donald Trump for claiming that America is not great.
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Senator Sanders’ Criticism Of President Obama Is Baseless Historical Revision
Obama “failing to directly engage millions of voters” is not a valid complaint against the Obama Administration but revisionist history
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President Obama Fights For the American Workers Republicans Hate
Obama defends workers’ right to earn the federal minimum wage and overtime protections; something Republicans believe is an abomination
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Get The Facts on President Obama’s Labor Day Executive Actions to Protect Workers
President Obama is taking executive action on Monday for workers. Get all of the facts here.
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Obama Drops The Hammer On Republicans, ‘Nobody Gets To Hold The American Economy Hostage.’
During a speech in New Orleans, LA, President Obama strongly told Republicans that he will not allow them to hold the economy hostage with another government shutdown.
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Charles Koch Says It’s Undignified for the President to Tell the Truth About The Kochs
Charles Koch could not believe the President would do something that “flabbergasted” the dirty billionaire like telling the truth
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51 Christian Faith Leaders Smack Down Republicans By Supporting Obama on Iran
More and more groups have come forward to support the president. The latest is a group of 51 Christian leaders, who represent dozens of Christian denominations and organizations. In a letter to Congress, they voiced their support of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as the best means of keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of Iran.
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Republicans Routed As House Democrats Set To Give Obama Total Victory On Iran Deal
President Obama has a liberal firewall in the House of Representatives as Nancy Pelosi has kept her Democrats together, and they are ready to deliver total victory for the president on the Iran deal.
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Kochs And ALEC Make War Against Americans And Pope Francis Public
The mainstream media is finally reporting that the Koch’s legislative arm ALEC is moving into the open to prevent action on climate change
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President Obama Calls Out The Republican Lies About Medicare
President Obama is pushing back against the Republican lies about Medicare while celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid.
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President Obama Tears Boehner And McConnell A New One At Highway Bill Signing
While he signed the three-month transportation funding bill, President Obama delivered a stern lecture to Congress in general and John Boehner and Mitch McConnell specifically about their total inability to govern.
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Where Is The Shame That The World Sees Americans As Racist And Extremists?
Everything bad about America that the rest of the world sees increasing, and Americans feel, is purely Republican and it is truly pathetic
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A Fed Up Obama Rips Donald Trump, Mike Huckabee, and The Entire Republican Party
President Obama ripped the ridiculous Republican Party as being incapable of discussing serious issues. The President specifically called out Donald Trump, Mike Huckabee, and Ted Cruz during a press conference in Ethiopia.
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Bobby Jindal Is Wrong; Louisiana Mass Shooting Is The NRA Norm
No sane human being would think to regard something normal as awful, except when a common occurrence founded on a group’s twisted values and behaviors is exposed for all the world to see; then it is prudent to label “normal” as awful.
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On Iran Deal, Obama is the Adult Voice in the Room Once Again
As GOP stupidity mounts, claiming they can stop a deal they cannot legally stop, President Obama proves again he can make the tough decisions
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Liar And Not-A-Scientist Boehner Blames California Drought On President Obama
Republican politicians thrive on the seemingly increasing stupidity of many Americans and they have learned exactly how to address their ignorant base
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Israeli Netanyahu And GOP React To Iran Deal Like Petulant Little Brats
This idea that Israel, or Netanyahu, has unfettered purview of America’s foreign policy is a legacy of the Bush administration
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Mitch McConnell Tries To Rig The Courts By Blocking Dozens Of Obama Judicial Nominees
Mitch McConnell is blocking dozens of President Obama’s judicial appointments in an attempt to rig the courts.
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Obama Rolls In Wisconsin While Obliterating Republicans With A 4th Of July Fact Bomb
President Obama delivered an epic speech in La Crosse, Wisconsin where he both celebrated his administration’s successes while dropping numerous fact bombs on his Republican critics.
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Obama Dropkicks Republicans With Executive Action To Raise Overtime Wages For 5 Million Workers
The media proclaimed “lame duck” president has roared back again, as President Obama signed an executive order this morning order that put the Labor Department into action to extend overtime pay and raise wages for 5 million workers.
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Republican Opposition To SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling Is Opposition To The Constitution
Conservative opponents of the Constitution see no contradiction in attacking the Marriage Equality ruling as a violation of the Constitution
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President Obama Ends An Incredible Week With Powerfully Moving Eulogy Of Clementa Pinckney
The heart and soul of President Barack Obama were on full display as he moved the nation with his powerful eulogy for the slain Rev. Clementa Pinckney.
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In the Most Moving Speech of His Presidency, Obama Sings Amazing Grace
President Obama burst into a spontaneous rendition of the poignant and appropriate song, “Amazing Grace”.