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“Congress, Be Careful What You Wish For”: For Far Too Many Lawmakers, It’s So...
The funny thing about a dog that chases a car? Sometimes it catches the car and has no idea what to do next. Over the last several days, members of Congress have spoken out with a variety of opinions...
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“A Major League Asshole”: Ted Cruz Is Not Well-Liked And The Knives Are...
“Be liked and you will never want,” said Willy Loman, the protagonist of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. “That’s the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on...
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“Can’t Touch This”: Dear Republicans, Happy Obamacare Day!
To Sen. Ted Cruz, House Speaker John Boehner and all the Republican hostage-takers who brought us the government shutdown, I offer a salutation: Happy Obamacare Day! Smithsonian museums, national parks...
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“Nullifiers And Future Secessionists: The Tea Party’s Shutdown Is Their...
Yes, the tea party Republicans should hang a “Mission Accomplished” banner across the House of Representatives. They could flank it with large portraits of Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who...
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“The Tea Party’s Suicide Pact”: Hell Bent On Breaking The GOP And Picking Up...
If Senate Republicans are the surrender caucus and the House GOP is the suicide caucus, then the Democratic House caucus is the victory caucus. I’m a fan of the Military History Channel and all during...
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“Our ‘Real’ America”: Whiteness Is Still A Proxy For Being American
Anyone can make a fool of himself. So it’s tempting to dismiss last Thursday’s mega-gaffe by Florida Representative Curt Clawson as indicative of nothing more than the fallibility of the human brain....
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“We Need To Blow More Stuff Up”: Republican Fear-Mongering On Iraq Isn’t...
Now that the United States is engaging militarily in Iraq, both the Obama administration and its Republican critics are trying to convince the public that their preferred response to the situation...
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“Will The House GOP Stop The War on ISIS?”: If You Hamper The War Effort Of...
So here, with Congress now trying to figure out what to do about President Obama’s request for funding for the Syrian rebels, we have a glimpse, as rare in its way as an eclipse or a meteor shower, of...
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“What The Right Gets Wrong About Eric Garner’s Death”: Some Conservatives...
The death of Eric Garner, and the decision by a grand jury not to indict the police officer who killed him, spawned bipartisan outrage, presenting a striking contrast to the party-line response that...
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“Straight To ‘Hell No'”: The Rapid Radicalization Of The Republican Party By...
This is a blog, not a history lesson. But I can’t resist trying to make some sense of the current Republican desire for self-immolation. Where has this so-called “Hell No Caucus” come from? Whether it...
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“Holding The Boston Bomber As An Enemy Combatant?”: Would Tsarnaev Be...
That was justice at work. It took a week less than two years, an impressively brisk time window, for federal prosecutors in Massachusetts to deliver justice to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and the jury needed...
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“The Real Scandal In Denny Hastert’s Life”: Immersed In The Immoral Swamp Of...
Washington’s establishment of politicos, lobbyists, and media sparklies are shocked — shocked to their very core! — by the scandalous sexual revelations about Dennis Hastert. The portly Republican,...
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“Paul Ryan’s Choice; Speaker or Sanity?”: An Intransigent Group, The Far...
Even as an energetic group of Republicans try to jostle Rep. Paul Ryan into running for House speaker, the fact remains that the Wisconsin Republican would face a perilous situation—essentially the...
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“Counter To The Facts”: Pushing For Mosque Surveillance, Fox News Is Fighting...
Reaching for one of its favorite War on Terror talking points, Fox News is leading a charge in the wake of the Orlando gun massacre to push for surveillance of mosques in America. Convinced that a...
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“Just Another Day On The Campaign Trail”: Donald Trump To Republican...
Donald Trump spent his day on Capitol Hill calling fellow Republicans losers, complaining that the media is just too mean, and doubling down on his defense of Saddam Hussein. So basically, just another...
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