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The Sad Race for Bottom on the Loony Right

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Robert Reich - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - even if they lose the presidency on Election Day they’re still likely to be in charge of at least one house of Congress as well as several state legislators and governorships. That’s a problem for the nation.

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Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:53:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Bill McKibben - Jan. 05 - My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve—dangerously naïve. I'm aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we need deep change in this country, then c

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Jon Stewart Mocks Barney Frank's Retirement Coverage On Fox News (VIDEO)

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Katla McGlynn, Jon Stewart - Nov. 30 (Comedy News) - After nearly three decades of serving Massachusetts' 4th congressional district, Democratic U.S. Representative Barney Frank announced Monday that he will not be seeking re-election in 2012. On Tuesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart bid farewell to him the only way he knows how: with clips of absurd reactions from the GOP.

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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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Jon Stewart Rips President Obama For Debt Ceiling 'Dealageddon' (VIDEO)

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Aug. 02 (Comedy News) - video

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How Fraudulent Is the GOP Budget Plan? It Wouldn't Even Make a Dent In the Deficit!

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Jun. 02 (Opinion) - The Republican budget plan is the purest expression of the Right's longstanding desire to dismantle the social safety net. It's not about the budget deficit—that's simply a premise -- it's the "Shock Doctrine" in action.

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Paul Ryan Still Doesn't Get It

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

readersupportednews.org - By Robert Reich - May. 25 (Opinion) - 'Ryan calls it 'demagoguery,' accusing Hochul and her fellow Democrats of trying to 'scare seniors into thinking that their current benefits are being affected.

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Paul Ryan: Don't Blame Me for NY-26 Loss! It Was Evil Democrats' Demagoguery on Medicare

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

Crooks and Liars - May. 25 (Opinion) - Apparently Paul Ryan needed a place to come lick his wounds after the Republicans' loss in New York's 26th District special election loss last night, and the crew over at Morning Joe was more than happy to help him mend his bruised ego. Given Scarborough's screaming tirade yesterday about greedy seniors who want to keep their Medicare being just like someone who wants to eat steak and chocolate cake every day, along with the months on end of fawning coverage of him he's received on this show, Ryan had no doubt he was coming into friendly territory this morning.

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The Right Bailing The Left Out On Spending

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Matthew Yglesias - Apr. 20 (Opinion) - You have a government set to steadily increase spending on autopilot as a result of demographic change and rising health care costs. And you have a Democratic President urging congress to enact spending cuts. But you have conservative politicians refusing to make a serious effort to reach an agreement out of some blend of taxophobia and fear of giving the President a win. The result, again, whether the right realizes it or not, is a gift to the wing of the Democratic Party that disagrees with Obama about the desirability of enacting spending cuts.

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Does Not Compute

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Jonathan Chait - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - The new GOP budget unveiled by Paul Ryan is a wildly cruel document. Yet pointing this out, as Democrats keep doing, seems only to flatter Ryan’s self-conception as a serious man telling hard truths. So let me instead concede Ryan’s moral premises. (Throw tens of millions of people off health care? Why not! Slash food stamps? It’ll just inspire the next Dickens!) Instead, let’s judge Ryan by his own standards. Does his plan, however cruel, actually address our fiscal realities?

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Tea Party budget hatchets are aimed at the poor

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

seattlepi.com - By David Horsey - Mar. 25 (Opinion) - Beckmann, an economist and Lutheran clergyman, is head of Bread for the World, a grassroots network that advocates for programs and legislation aimed at eradicating hunger in the United States and across the globe. His success in this endeavor is what ea

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The Tea Party and civil liberties

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

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Feb. 09 (Opinion) - It's long been clear that the best (and perhaps only) political hope for civil liberties in the U.S. is an alliance that transcends the standard Democrat v. GOP or left v. right dichotomies.

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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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Gabrielle Giffords' revolutionary political role

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Rebecca Traister - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - "Who, besides Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, might the country look to in coming years when considering the future of women in American politics?"

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My day in the courtroom of Judge John Roll, who lived and died in Arizona’s climate of hate

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Max Blumenthal - By Max Blumenthal - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - John Roll, the Chief Justice for the US District Court in Arizona, was among those killed this afternoon at a town hall with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. In February 2009, I testified as a prosecution witness in Roll’s courtroom in Tucson in a politically charged civil trial known as Vicente v. Barnett. I did not know at the time that Roll was living under a 24/7 protective detail because of hundreds of threats against him and his family as well as inflammatory rhetoric directed against him by right-wing elements.

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Darrell Issa, Step Away From the Corporations

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amy Goodman - Jan. 05 (Opinion) - Darrell Issa sent letters to 150 trade associations, companies and think tanks, seeking advice on which regulations to investigate. An excerpt of the letter, posted by NBC News, read: "I ask for your assistance in identifying existing and proposed regulations that have negatively impacted job growth in your members' industry. Additionally, suggestions on reforming identified regulations and the rulemaking process would be appreciated."

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Boehner Speech Preview: Will He (Republican) Party Like it's 1995?

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Arianna Huffington - Jan. 04 (Opinion) - As we get ready for John Boehner to take the gavel from Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, I find myself thinking back to the last time a Republican speaker took control of the House from a Democrat -- and reflecting on how far down the wrong road we have traveled since then.

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Darrel Issa A Rep. Of Very Little Brain

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By Bill Egnor - Jan. 03 (Opinion) - Still Rep. Issa might know more about crime and corruption than you might think. After all he has been indicted twice once for stealing a car and once for faking the theft of a care that was sold to a dealer. To be fair both of these charges were later dropped so it is not like he is a convicted car thief, just an accused one.

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A Toast to a Remarkable Leader: Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Robert L. Borosage - Dec. 22 (Opinion) - Speaker Nancy Pelosi will relinquish the gavel to the perpetually tanned, lachrymose Republican leader John Boehner when the new Congress convenes next January. It will be four years after that January 4, 2007 day when she "broke the marble ceiling" and became the first woman Speaker in the two century history of the House. At the time, Republican pundits mocked Democrats for the choice of a "San Francisco liberal" woman as Speaker, suggesting she'd be a weak leader, unable to control the conservatives in the ever disputatious Democratic party, and easy to burlesque in campaigns across the country. But this was Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi, raised in a tough Baltimore Italian political family, who imbibed politics with her mother's milk.

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Reps. Rush Holt and Raul Grijalva on House Democratic Opposition to Obama's Tax Deal With GOP

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 16 (Interview) - The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on President Obama’s controversial tax deal with Republicans following its approval in the U.S. Senate. While taxes on the wealthy will decrease under the proposal, some tax experts are predicting taxes on the poor will actually increase. We speak to Democratic Congressmembers Rush Holt of New Jersey and Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, who say they will vote against the deal.

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Michael Moore: Let's Pass Some Laws Before the Republicans Head Into Town (after all, that's what they'd do)

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Michael Moore - Nov. 16 - Dear Congressional Democrats: Welcome back to our nation's capital for your one final session of the 111th Congress. Come January, the Republicans will take...

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The election has made the US more foreign

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Goldfarb - Nov. 04 (Opinion) - Post-election, the rest of the world marvels at Americans' avoidance of their problems.

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A Lost Generation

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By John B. Judis - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - Republicans might say it’s the re-emergence of a conservative Republican majority, but that’s not really what happened. What this election suggests to me is that the United States may have finally lost its ability to adapt politically to the systemic crises that it has periodically faced.

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The 2010 Election: Bill Clinton is the new "ONE"

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Steve Clemons - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - President Obama's team -- heck, even Hillary Clinton's presidential team -- saw former President Bill Clinton as a problem, as unpredictable, as off his game and a potential major liability. But as Terry McAuliffe pointed out the other night at a fundraiser for the Tomorrow's Youth Organization which had Clinton, Cherie Blair, and Quincy Jones as headliners, Bill Clinton is the most popular politician in the United States today -- and may be the most popular politician in the entire world.

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The Morning Briefing: The Tsunami

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Red State - By Erick Erickson - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - Republican gains are massive. And when I say Republican gains are massive, I mean tsunami.

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