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Tea Party Rep: Bank Should Have Known I Wouldn't Be Able To Repay $2.2 Million Loan

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Jillian Rayfield | - Aug. 11 (Opinion) - Tea Party aligned Georgia Rep. Tom Graves (R), who castigates Washington for fiscal irresponsibility, reached an out of court settlement Wednesday after he was sued for defaulting on a $2.2 million loan -- which his attorney argued is the bank's fault for lending him the money in the first place.

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All But 5 Senate Republicans Vote To End Medicare

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Brian Beutler - May. 25 (News Report) - The GOP continued its bloody walk into the Medicare buzzsaw Wednesday, when 40 out of 47 Senate Republicans voted in support of the House GOP budget, and its plan to phase out and privatize the popular entitlement program. The test vote failed by a vote of 57-40. But the roll call illustrates that Medicare privatization -- along with deep cuts to Medicaid and other social services -- remains the consensus position of the GOP despite the growing political backlash against them.

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New Polling Says Overwhelming Majority Wants Social Security Left Alone

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Evan McMorris-Santoro - May. 23 (Poll) - New Polling Says Overwhelming Majority Wants Social Security Left Alone — Ask the voters and they'll tell you: Social Security cuts are off the table when it comes to cleaning up the budget mess in Washington. — Fresh polling from Ohio, Missouri, Montana and Minnesota published …

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Pandemonium! Dems Jam Republicans With Even More Conservative Budget, GOP Panics

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Brian Beutler - Apr. 15 (News Report) - What was supposed to be a routine vote in the House -- to knock down an amendment authored by conservative Republicans -- turned into pandemonium on the House floor Friday, as Democrats tried to jam the plan through, and hang it around the GOP's necks.

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Virginia Teacher Holds Mock Auction Of Black Students To Teach Civil War Lesson

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:41:17 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Jillian Rayfield - Apr. 14 (News) - A fourth grade teacher in Norfolk, Virginia is in trouble for getting a bit too real in a lesson on the Civil War, in which she held a mock auction of black students while letting the white students bid on them.

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CNN Lets 'You Decide' About Trump's 'Birther' Claims

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - Apr. 08 (Opinion) - As you may have heard, Donald Trump has recently gone full "birther" -- openly questioning whether President Obama was born in the U.S. and demanding to see a satisfactory birth certificate -- as part of his public flirtation with a...

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Truly Pathetic

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Josh Marshall - Apr. 05 (Opinion) - You can respect people's contrary opinions. But presumably it's wrong to abolish Medicare because it's wrong. And that Dems are the party who believes it's wrong.

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Poll: Americans Wrongly Estimate $178 Billion In Fed. Budget Goes To Public Broadcasting

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Jon Terbush - Apr. 01 (Poll) - n a CNN poll of American adults released Friday, the median guess on what percentage of the federal budget goes to public broadcasting was 5%. With a $3.55 trillion budget last year, that would put funding for the CBP at approximately $178 billion. In reality though, that's not even close.

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Top Democratic Aide Says Breakthrough Possible To Avert Government Shutdown

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Brian Beutler - Mar. 31 (News) - A top Senate Democratic aide says there's been a key thaw in discussions between Senate Dem leaders and House Republicans to avert a government shutdown.

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Conservative Think Tank Seeks Michigan Profs' Emails About Wisconsin Union Battle ... And Maddow

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Evan McMorris-Santoro - Mar. 30 (News Report) - A free enterprise think tank in Michigan -- backed by some of the biggest names in national conservative donor circles -- has made a broad public records request to at least three in-state universities with departments that specialize in the study of labor relations, seeking all their emails regarding the union battle in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, TPM has learned.

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Indiana Prosecutor Encouraged 'False Flag' Assault On Walker To Discredit Wisconsin Unions

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Eric Kleefeld - Mar. 25 (News Report) - A deputy prosector in Johnson County, Indiana, has resigned his job after it was revealed that in February, during the large protests in Wisconsin over Gov. Scott Walker's anti-public employee union bill, he e-mailed Walker's office and recommended that they conduct a "false flag operation" -- to fake an assault or assassination attempt on Walker in order to discredit the unions and protesters.

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Just a Bad, Bad Idea

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Josh Marshall - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - At the end of last week I couldn't help tweeting that everything I was seeing in Libya was bringing out my inner foreign policy Realist. And everything I've seen this weekend has confirmed me in that view. Indeed, there are so many reasons this strikes me as a bad idea I really hardly know where to start. So let me focus on the three biggest problems I see.

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For The First Time, Majority Of Americans Support Gay Marriage

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Jon Terbush - Mar. 19 (Poll) - In another sign of Americans' rapidly changing attitudes toward gay rights, a new ABC News/Washington Post survey released today finds that, for the first time in a decade of polling, a majority of Americans now support same sex marriage.

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Ann Coulter: 'Radiation is Actually Good For You' (Video)

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Meena Rupani - Mar. 18 (Opinion) - According to conservative columnist Ann Coulter, this whole Japanese nuclear crisis is overblown and "radiation is actually good for you" and the media isn't reporting its benefits enough. On The O'Reilly Factor last night, Coulter spoke about her recent column...

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Every Single GOPer On House Energy Cmte Won't Say Climate Change Is Real

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Evan McMorris-Santoro - Mar. 16 (News) - Thirty-one Republicans on the House Energy And Commerce Committee -- the entire Republican contingent on the panel -- declined on Tuesday to vote in support of the very idea that climate change exists.

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Kansas GOPer: Let's Shoot Illegal Immigrants Like Pigs

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Jillian Rayfield - Mar. 16 (Opinion) - Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck (R) suggested Monday that the best way to deal with the illegal immigration problem may be the same way the state might deal with the problem of "feral hogs" -- by shooting them from a helicopter.

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Wisconsin Assembly Passes Walker's Anti-Union Bill

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Eric Kleefeld - Mar. 11 (News) - The Wisconsin state Assembly has passed Gov. Scott Walker's bill to roll back the rights of public employee unions, capping off a month of protest and controversy that has gripped the state. The bill now heads to Walker for his signature.

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NPR Emails Show CEO Refusing Donation from Phony O'Keefe Group

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Benjy Sarlin - Mar. 11 (News Report) - Responding to a report that NPR was closer to accepting a $5 million donation from a phony Muslim group than previously acknowledged, NPR released e-mails to TPM backing up their claim that they had refused the money.

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Huckabee: Obama Isn't From Kenya, But He's Still Anti-American

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Jillian Rayfield - Mar. 03 (News) - Mike Huckabee now says he knows President Obama wasn't born in Kenya and that he misspoke when he made that much-maligned comment earlier this week. But on social conservative Bryan Fischer's radio show on Wednesday, he agreed when the host offered that "there may be some fundamental anti-Americanism in this president."

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Fox Buses In Footage From Sacramento To Make Union Protesters Look Violent (VIDEO) | TPMDC

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Brian Beutler - Mar. 02 (Opinion) - Check out this clip from Monday night's episode of the O'Reilly Factor, a lower-quality version of which has gone viral on social media sites.

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WI Assembly GOP Passes Walker Budget In Surprise Vote -- Dems Chant "Shame!"

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Eric Kleefeld - Feb. 25 (News Report) - The Wisconsin State Assembly has just passed Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill, including its controversial provisions to eliminate almost all collective bargaining rights for public employee unions as well as many other provisions to weaken union organizing.

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Federal Judge In D.C. Upholds Health Care Reform, Says Some Arguments 'Ignore Reality'

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Ryan J. Reilly - Feb. 23 (News) - A federal judge on Tuesday upheld the health care reform law signed by President Barack Obama last year and found that Congress had the clear authority to regulate health insurance under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

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Wisconsin Gov. Walker Ginned Up Budget Shortfall To Undercut Worker Rights

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Brian Beutler - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - Wisconsin's new Republican governor has framed his assault on public worker's collective bargaining rights as a needed measure of fiscal austerity during tough times. — The reality is radically different.

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South Carolina May Adopt Own Currency

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Josh Marshall - Feb. 13 (News Report) - Picking up on the ancestral tradition, South Carolinians have spent much of the last two years asserting various forms of independence from the federal government and attempting to block different federal laws. Now a state senator from the Palmetto State has decided it's time for South Carolina to create its own currency. State Sen. Lee Bright (R-Roebuck) says that federal spending and increased monetary intervention by the Fed have placed the entire US Federal Reserve system on a path to monetary collapse. And when the crash comes, state residents will need to rely on the stable South Carolina currency to weather the storm. "If folks lose faith in the dollar, we need to have some kind of backup," Bright told Stephen Largen of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal on Friday.

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GOP Backs Massive Tax Increase To Phase Out Abortion Coverage By Private Insurers

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Brian Beutler - Feb. 09 (Opinion) - Ultimately, the impact of tax like the one in the Republican legislation would likely be to phase out abortion coverage in the private insurance market. This would upend the long-standing bipartisan consensus, which does not enshrine the idea that the government should exert pressure on private entities to deny medical services they don't like.

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