Republicans Nix Food Stamps Because Starving People is Their Brand | Alternet

Republicans Nix Food Stamps Because Starving People is Their Brand | Alternet
"This is how they choose to be identified. They will bring the government to a halt to defend against any tax hikes on millionaires, or to fend off the closing of corporate tax shelters. They will vote in lockstep to take the sequester cuts entirely out of domestic programs -- education, clean water, pre-school -- in order to protect a Pentagon budget that remains the biggest source of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.

And they will lavish subsidies on agribusiness while throwing children and seniors off the bus."

Why Libertarians Will Never Shake Their Neo-Confederate Ties

Why Libertarians Will Never Shake Their Neo-Confederate Ties: Despite the man’s racist past, Senator Rand Paul is standing with an embattled aide, the aide’s Confederate sympathies be damned. In an interview with the Huffington Post today, Rand Paul defended his co-author and close confidante Jack Hunter, formerly an incendiary shock jock known as the “Southern Avenger,” on the grounds that “can a guy [...]/p

David Barton Doesn't Need Religion Or The Bible To Lie About Gay Marriage | Right Wing Watch

David Barton Doesn't Need Religion Or The Bible To Lie About Gay Marriage | Right Wing Watch
"When it comes to honesty and accuracy, we have learned not to expect much of either from David Barton, just as we have learned that he is not going to stop repeating something just because it is demonstrably false."

Bringing Back Jim Crow

www.consortiumnews.com/2013/07/10/bringing-back-jim-crow/
"As the United States edges toward a second Jim Crow era – with right-wing whites seeking to “take our country back” via Supreme Court rulings and voter suppression against black and brown Americans – there is an urgent need to reexamine U.S. history and remove the pro-racist distortions that have been implanted by white supremacists for more than two centuries."

House GOP holds immigration meeting, agrees they don't like brown people

www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/11/1222756/-House-GOP-holds-immigration-meeting-agrees-they-don-t-like-brown-people
"The bottom line was a given: House Republicans don't like brown people, they don't like immigration, they don't like President Obama, they would like insane amounts of border security. Beyond that, well, they're in disarray."

PERRspectives: Rand Paul and the GOP's Confederacy of Dunces

PERRspectives: Rand Paul and the GOP's Confederacy of Dunces
"Republican 2016 White House hopeful Rand Paul is just the latest example. This week, Americans learned that the foe of the 1964 Civil Rights Act employs a neo-Confederate staffer who, among other things, praised the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. As it turns out, Paul's self-proclaimed "Southern Avenger" Jack Hunter has plenty of company when it comes to trafficking in casual racism and antebellum nostalgia. One hundred and fifty years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the whitewashing of slavery, the resurrection of the "Lost Cause," the championing of states' rights and the endorsement of nullification and secession are sadly all too common in the Party of Lincoln."

GOP Gubernatorial Candidate: Health Insurance Shouldn’t Cover Doctors’ Visits

GOP Gubernatorial Candidate: Health Insurance Shouldn’t Cover Doctors’ Visits: During a policy breakfast for the Loudon County Chamber of Commerce in Virginia, state attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli (R-VA) compared health care coverage to car insurance, and argued that insurance plans shouldn’t cover routine care such as doctors’ visits. According to an account of the meeting in the Ashburn Patch, Cuccinelli claimed [...]/p

McDonnell Gift Scandal Could Engulf Cuccinelli As Well

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Virginia Governor Gift Scandal Grows

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Rand Paul's Opposition to the Civil Rights Act Beginning to Make More Sense

Rand Paul's Opposition to the Civil Rights Act Beginning to Make More Sense
"For those keeping score at home, the League of the South is a hate group."

Despite Ken Cuccinelli’s Claims, Records Show Deep Involvement In Bob McDonnell Ethics Controversy

Despite Ken Cuccinelli’s Claims, Records Show Deep Involvement In Bob McDonnell Ethics Controversy: The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Gov. Bob McDonnell’s (R-VA) company and family may have received an additional $120,000 from Star Scientific CEO Jonnie R. Williams Sr. beyond the tens of thousands in gifts previously reported — payments which are already the subject of both federal and state investigations. McDonnell’s endorsed would-be successor, Attorney General [...]/p

Rick Scott Proves His Incompetence Yet Again, Accidentally Bans All Computers in Florida

www.forwardprogressives.com/2013/07/09/rick-scott-proves-his-incompetence-yet-again-accidentally-bans-all-computers-in-florida.html
"Before he was even elected Governor of Florida, the man was CEO of a company which was convicted of defrauding Medicare.  It’s absolutely mind-boggling — Florida elected a man who was in charge of a company which was scamming the government, and costing the taxpayershundreds of millions of dollars."

Billionaire Koch Brother Says Eliminating The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor

Billionaire Koch Brother Says Eliminating The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor: A conservative mogul worth $25 billion says he knows the secret to helping poor people. According to Charles Koch, the U.S. needs to get rid of the minimum wage, which he counts as a major obstacle to economic growth. On Wednesday, the Charles Koch Foundation launched a $200,000 media campaign in Wichita, Kansas, with a [...]/p

Rand Paul And 'The Southern Avenger'

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Meet the "Southern Avenger"! Another Member of Rand Paul's Team Has White Supremacist Past | Alternet

Meet the "Southern Avenger"! Another Member of Rand Paul's Team Has White Supremacist Past | Alternet
"A top staffer is exposed as a pro-secessionist radical, but it's not the first neo-Confederate on staff."

PERRspectives: Blue States Should Get a Refund Under Roberts' "Equal Sovereignty" Doctrine

PERRspectives: Blue States Should Get a Refund Under Roberts' "Equal Sovereignty" Doctrine
"Eight of the top 10 beneficiaries of federal largesse voted for John McCain and Mitt Romney for President. Unsurprisingly, all 15 states at the bottom of the list--those whose outflow of tax revenue is funding programs elsewhere in the country--all voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012."

GOP Demands Adoption of Ryan Budget as Debt Ceiling Ransom

GOP Demands Adoption of Ryan Budget as Debt Ceiling Ransom
"despite plummeting annual federal budget deficits, a stabilization of the debt as a percentage of the U.S. economy and his own admission that default would produce "a financial disaster, not only for our country but for the worldwide economy," Speaker John Boehner and his House GOP allies are once again planning to hold the once-routine debt ceiling increase hostage. Their price this time? Enacting large parts of the Ryan GOP budget repeatedly rejected by the Senate, the President--and the voters."

Why We Have a "Do Nothing" Congress

Boehner Keeps Vow That House GOP Will Do No Work, Ever

Boehner Keeps Vow That House GOP Will Do No Work, Ever
"Wow, our House of Representatives is definitely on track to make history, and not in a good way. John Boehner assured reporters on Monday that the House of Representatives had absolutely no intention of dealing realistically with student loans or immigration reform."

No, Republicans, ‘Missing’ White Voters Won’t Save You

No, Republicans, ‘Missing’ White Voters Won’t Save You: As GOP House members continue their Kamikaze mission to scuttle the immigration reform bill, many political observers are wondering why. After all, isn’t it obvious that Republicans need more minority, particularly Hispanic support, and that therefore their self-interest should lead them to support a reasonable bill? Karl Rove thinks so. But lots and lots of [...]/p

Concept of "Limited Government" Is Right-Wing Bunk: Try to Find Anything Remotely Like It in the Constitution | Alternet

Concept of "Limited Government" Is Right-Wing Bunk: Try to Find Anything Remotely Like It in the Constitution | Alternet
"The Constitution was never intended to “provide limited government,” and furthermore it did not do so. The U.S. government possessed the same constitutional power at the moment of its inception as it did yesterday afternoon."

Republicans Trying to Be as Unpopular as Humanly Possible | Alternet

Republicans Trying to Be as Unpopular as Humanly Possible | Alternet
"Privatizing Medicare and taking Paul Ryan's cues are recipe for being hated."

Nine Things We Won’t Miss About Rick Perry

Nine Things We Won’t Miss About Rick Perry: With his announcement Monday that he will not seek an unprecedented fourth full term as Governor of Texas, Rick Perry (R) will retire from the office in January 2015. Sadly, he will leave behind a record of right-wing extremism that few could match. Here are ten of the worst moments from his 13 years as [...]/p

What We Can Learn From America's First Tea Party About Countering Corporate Power

What We Can Learn From America's First Tea Party About Countering Corporate Power
"Although schoolchildren are usually taught that the American Revolution was a rebellion against “taxation without representation,” akin to modern day conservative taxpayer revolts, in fact what led to the revolution was rage against a transnational corporation that, by the 1760s, dominated trade from China to India to the Caribbean, and controlled nearly all commerce to and from North America, with subsidies and special dispensation from the British crown."

Why We Have a Do-Nothing Congress

Why We Have a Do-Nothing Congress
"The stunning inaction and backlog in the 113th Congress can be traced back to January 20, 2009."

Koch Brothers To Pour Millions Into Obamacare Misinformation Campaign

Koch Brothers To Pour Millions Into Obamacare Misinformation Campaign: Americans for Prosperity — a conservative group funded by the Koch brothers — is spending millions on ads that aim to turn Americans against the Affordable Care Act, just as government officials prepare to enroll the uninsured in the law’s new health care exchanges beginning on October 1. The campaign will eschew attacks on President [...]/p

Stupid Linings Playbook: Boehner & Ryan Cook Up A Plan That Hands Dems the 2014 Election

www.politicususa.com/2013/07/07/boehner-ryan-cook-debt-ceiling-plan-hands-democrats-2014-election.html
"House Republicans may think they are safe, but how safe will they be if they vote to privatize Medicare and Social Security before their reelection campaigns kick off? If House Republicans stay on this course, they will also force Republican Senate candidates to say whether they support privatizing Medicare and Social Security."

Paul Ryan Reveals That Everything He Said About Medicare in 2012 Was A Total Lie

www.politicususa.com/2013/07/08/house-gop-threaten-hold-medicare-hostage-exchange-raising-debt-ceiling.html
"But while Ryan and the Republicans are saying that to you, their other hand is behind their back trying to give your Medicare to wealthy men like David Koch so he can raid the treasury that your tax dollars funded while denying you care. They call this “privatizing Medicare”. The media might want to pretend that privatizing Medicare doesn’t end it as we know it, but it would. Perhaps they are ignorant about the usual costs/results of privatization."

GOP May Hold Debt Ceiling Hostage To Enact Paul Ryan’s Budget

GOP May Hold Debt Ceiling Hostage To Enact Paul Ryan’s Budget: House Republicans will hold the national debt ceiling increase hostage until President Obama agrees to mandatory spending cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, the National Journal reports, and will seek to use the leverage of default to force Democrats to enact the policies in Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget. Since slashing discretionary spending to [...]/p

Congress Is Squandering the Opportunity of a Lifetime

Congress Is Squandering the Opportunity of a Lifetime
"The sad fact is that the GOP’s dysfunctions—its hyper-ideological approach to government, hostility to liberalism, and opposition to compromise—will keep the United States from capitalizing on one of the great opportunities of the last 20 years. Thanks to GOP-driven gridlock and Washington’s myopic focus on debt reduction, we have squandered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rebuild this country at pennies on the dollar, and bounce back from a long decade of mismanagement and neglect."

Rebirth Of Jim Crow In Red States A 4th Of July Slap In The Face

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/04/rebirth-of-jim-crow-in-red-states-a-4th-of-july-slap-in-the-face/
"Texas was not alone however. North Carolina, Mississippi, & other states have joined the voter suppression movement."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/04/rebirth-of-jim-crow-in-red-states-a-4th-of-july-slap-in-the-face/#ixzz2Y8sDu3Bu

The Tyranny of Flag Waving Rights Stealing Republicans Tarnishes Independence Day

www.politicususa.com/2013/07/04/tyranny-flag-waving-rights-stealing-republicans-tarnishes-independence-day.html
"Republicans in states, with the blessing of the ALEC Supreme Court, have already taken major steps to eliminate voting rights, and in state after state women are being denied their right to reproductive health choices. Republicans are openly defying the Supreme Court’s gay rights decisions as “anti-biblical ideologies,” and using religious language to force women into becoming perpetual birth machines."

How Can We Celebrate Independence Day When Democracy Is Dead In Michigan?

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/04/celebrate-independence-day-when-democracy-is-dead-in-michigan/
"Over the past two years Michigan’s Teaparty regime, under the leadership of Rick Snyder, has worked around the clock to undermine freedom, removing democracy from cities, towns and schools. It began with the takeover of Benton Harbor, where the state’s governor-dictator first removed all elected officials, placing a hand-picked emergency manager over the people of the city.Public property was seized and handed over to private corporations."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/04/celebrate-independence-day-when-democracy-is-dead-in-michigan/#ixzz2Y8iIW3f1

35 Founding Father Quotes Conservative Christians Will Hate

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/04/35-founding-father-quotes-conservative-christians-will-hate/
"They were lawyers, judges, soldiers, merchants, farmers, and some were even clergy. And the great majority of them signed the Constitution knowing that matters of government and matters of religion would be separate."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/04/35-founding-father-quotes-conservative-christians-will-hate/#ixzz2Y6PHL9qR

For July 4th: Remembering Why the Right Does Not Own the Stars and Stripes | Alternet

For July 4th: Remembering Why the Right Does Not Own the Stars and Stripes | Alternet
"The right-wingers of the Revolutionary era were Tories -- colonists who remained loyal to the British crown, fearful of change and, in their assistance to the occupying army of George III, the precise opposite of patriots. Only from the perspective of two centuries of ideological shift can the republican faith of the Founding Fathers be described as "conservative." 
        The Civil War, too, was a struggle between left and right, between patriots and ... well, in those days, the Confederate leaders were deemed traitors (an epithet now usually avoided out of a decent concern for Southern sensibilities). Academics will argue forever about that war's underlying economic and social causes, but it was the contemporary left that sought to abolish slavery and preserve the Union, while the right fought to preserve slavery and dissolve the Union. Today, reverence for the Confederacy remains the emotional province of extremely right-wing Southern politicians and intellectuals (as well as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi skinheads, and not a few members of the tea party)."

Is the South Dragging the Rest of the Nation Down? | Alternet

Is the South Dragging the Rest of the Nation Down? | Alternet
"That leads to what is for me the single most baffling 21st century paradox about the South. The region, home to nine of the nation’s 10 poorest states, is rabidly against government spending, yet all of its states get far more in government subsidies than they give back in taxes"

The Denition of American Patriotism (ca. 2013) | Common Dreams

The Denition of American Patriotism (ca. 2013) | Common Dreams
"Consider, for example, the definition of “patriotism.” A self-described “patriot” in ’76 had qualities no longer patriotic. Paul Revere and Sam Adams were, for example, the least conservative guys on the block. They were bolsheviks ready to take up arms and overthrow the established order. They believed in elections and in representative, secular government whose power derived neither from bishops nor aristocrats nor kings, but from the people. They were geopolitical isolationists who opposed the creation of a permanent armed force."

New California House Candidate Funded By Advocate For ‘Total Integration Of Biblical Law’

New California House Candidate Funded By Advocate For ‘Total Integration Of Biblical Law’: "Ahmanson served for decades on the board of this radical Christian Reconstructionist organization and heavily funded its efforts. The group’s late founder, Rousas John Rushdoony advocated for American laws to literally follow those in the Book of Leviticus, including death by stoning for gay and lesbian people and similar execution for adulterers, juvenile delinquents, non-believers, and most other Americans."

Democratic Run States Move Forward While Republican Controlled States Dither

www.politicususa.com/2013/07/03/democratic-run-states-move-republican-controlled-states-dither.html
"Looking at state governments around the United States, one lesson becomes clear. Put Democrats in charge and good things can happen. Give Republicans control of the machinery of government and they will dither or turn the clock backwards."

How Low Can the Republican Party Go? | Alternet

How Low Can the Republican Party Go? | Alternet
"Never before in American history have we seen a political party so completely dominated and controlled by its extremist wing; and never before have we seen a political party that brings together the attributes of nihilism, heartlessness, radicalism and naked partisanship quite like the modern GOP."

The Republican Party Has Become Toxic to High Information Voters

www.politicususa.com/2013/07/02/republican-party-toxic-high-information-voters.html
"The toxicity of the GOP message to educated voters is most evident in races where Republican candidates espouse extremist positions and where they pander to religious fundamentalists, xenophobes, or to anti-intellectualism."

Historically Lazy Congress Only Manages to Pass 15 Legislative Items in 6 Months

www.politicususa.com/2013/07/02/historically-lazy-congress-manages-pass-15-legislative-items-6-months.html
"Perhaps this historic failure is a function of Republicans cutting down the total work days for the House to just 126 days. Yes, we have a part-time House of Representatives, and if they worked in the private sector, this would make them ineligible for health insurance, pensions, paid days off, etc."

Southern States Are Pushing Themselves Deeper Into Poverty By Voting Republican

www.politicususa.com/2013/07/02/southern-states-pushing-deeper-poverty-voting-republican.html
"The data show that despite improvements in education and health nationally, Republicans have accomplished their goal of seriously setting back progress when it comes to the economic well-being of children in Republican-controlled Southern states. It is bad enough that the richest nation on Earth comes in at number 2 in the world with over 23% of its children living in extreme poverty, but the numbers are worse in the bottom five states that, not coincidently, are controlled by Republicans on a path to increase poverty and keep their poorest and youngest residents hungry, homeless, and in ill-health."

Joe Conason: Investigate Darrell Issa! - Truthdig

Joe Conason: Investigate Darrell Issa! - Truthdig
"Among the many reasons that Americans hold the House of Representatives in low repute—at historically abysmal levels, in fact—is the blatantly partisan and ideological misconduct of so many committee chairs. Without any evident embarrassment these mighty politicians deny science, defy mathematics and dismiss every fact that contradicts their prejudices. But bad as these chairs tend to be, none is quite as flamboyantly awful as Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the Government Oversight Committee, a special investigative panel whose latest effort to conjure scandal from nothingness at the Internal Revenue Service would provoke his removal by a responsible leadership."

Republican Obstruction Of Budget Process Hits 100th Day

Republican Obstruction Of Budget Process Hits 100th Day: Monday marks 100 days since the Senate passed a budget amid bipartisan praise of the open process. But initial Republican eagerness to work on a budget has given way to the obstructionism that’s defined the Senate minority under Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Over the past hundred days, Republicans have blocked 15 separate attempts to [...]/p

The Original Tea Partiers Were Protesting A Corporate Bailout, Not Taxes

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/30/the-original-tea-partiers-were-protesting-a-corporate-bailout-not-taxes/
"So the original Boston Tea Party had little if anything to do with the stated beliefs of the modern tea party."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/30/the-original-tea-partiers-were-protesting-a-corporate-bailout-not-taxes/#ixzz2XlPKLCDy

America is Under Siege As The Koch Brothers Look to Replace The Constitution

www.politicususa.com/2013/06/30/america-seige-koch-brothers-replace-constitution.html
"In fact, in preparation for oligarchs and theocrats ascendance to unchallenged authority to reign over the people, Republicans are eliminating the last vestiges of democracy, economic independence, and freedom from religion as they openly oppose the Constitution in their final push toward fascism."

The Architect Of Trickle Down Economics Finally Put In His Place

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/30/the-architect-of-trickle-down-economics-finally-put-in-his-place/
"ever since Milton Friedman began pushing his ideas, companies, and our nation, have suffered. While in the short-term, it can look decent, over the longer period, only collapse is shown. If we do not halt this idea, and bury it alongside its creator, then we shall pass as a nation, great no more and just a faded memory."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/30/the-architect-of-trickle-down-economics-finally-put-in-his-place/#ixzz2XlIgv4P7

Thirteen Facts About America's Tax-Dodging Corporations

Thirteen Facts About America's Tax-Dodging Corporations
"Abusive offshore tax havens cost the US $150 billion in lost tax revenue every year (via FACT Coalition). That’s $1.5 trillion over the next ten years."

Why The GOP Can’t Afford To Kill The Immigration Bill

Why The GOP Can’t Afford To Kill The Immigration Bill: Immigration reform passed the Senate on Thursday, with 14 Republicans voting in favor. Despite this bipartisan support in the Senate, the bill could easily die in the more polarized House or thereafter in the conference process. If it does, the cause of death will be a lack of Republican support. That will reinforce the anti-immigrant [...]/p

North Carolina Becomes First State to Disqualify Itself for Federal Jobless Benefits

North Carolina Becomes First State to Disqualify Itself for Federal Jobless Benefits
"The wingnuts are really running wild in North Carolina. A new law taking effect over the weekend will cut unemployment benefits for new claims and disqualify the state from receiving federal funds for the long-term jobless."

The Reagan Revolution is an Utter Failure

Cavuto and Erickson Continue Flogging Fake IRS 'Scandal'

Cavuto and Erickson Continue Flogging Fake IRS 'Scandal'
"Never mind that Darrell Issa's witch hunt with the IRS has pretty well blown up in their faces, or the recent confirmation of what we've known for some time now, which is that the IRS was also giving extra scrutiny to liberal groups applying for tax exempt status, and not just these so-called tea partiers.

Never mind any of that, because no one at Fox is going to let a few facts get in the way of them continuing to flog one of the many items on the list of the fake "scandals" they've been carrying on about ever since that black Kenyan, Muslim, Socialist, Communist, Marxist usurper got reelected.

So what's their latest excuse to continue harping about this story after it's been debunked?"

Small Words, Small Guys | Common Dreams

Small Words, Small Guys | Common Dreams
"Ha. Rick 'Foot-in-the-Mouth' Perry was stupid, arrogant and contemptible enough to sound off at a right-to-life cabal on heroic filibuster Wendy Davis not learning from her own life experience as a teen mom, after which he got what was coming to him. Davis called his statement "without dignity..."

How the Supreme Court's Outrageous Assault on Our Lives Might Be Used to Knock Republicans Out of Power in Congress | Alternet

How the Supreme Court's Outrageous Assault on Our Lives Might Be Used to Knock Republicans Out of Power in Congress | Alternet
"The damage to this country that the Supreme Court's right-wing majority has done could be employed by Dems to destroy House Republican majority."

The Marriage of Libertarians and Racists

www.consortiumnews.com/2013/06/27/the-marriage-of-libertarians-and-racists/
"The modern Republican Party and its chic libertarians have dallied with white supremacists as a political necessity, because blacks and other minorities have rallied to the Democrats due to their better civil rights record. But the Right’s dancing with the racist devil is not new."

Wisconsin Budget Includes $1 Million Taxpayer Giveaway for Well-Funded Teach for America

Wisconsin Budget Includes $1 Million Taxpayer Giveaway for Well-Funded Teach for America
"Teach for America is a non-profit whose stated mission is to "eliminate educational inequity by enlisting high-achieving recent college graduates and professionals to teach," but the organization is backed by a number of right-wing interests that have bankrolled the conservative push to privatize, voucherize, and generally dismantle free and universal public education in America."

Darrell Issa: "Fool me once..."

BREAKING: Senate Passes Historic Immigration Reform

BREAKING: Senate Passes Historic Immigration Reform: On Thursday afternoon, an immigration reform bill that would affect millions of undocumented immigrants was approved by a final vote of 68 to 32 in the Senate. The bill puts up to 11 million undocumented immigrants on a pathway to citizenship and enforces tough border security measures. Vice President Joe Biden presided over the historic [...]/p

Same Old Party

The IRS “Scandal” Was A Set-Up | Common Dreams

The IRS “Scandal” Was A Set-Up | Common Dreams
"Got that? Republicans told the IG to limit it to conservaitve sounding names, and then when the IG report only mentioned conservative-sounding names, they blasted out this “scandal” to the media.
It was a set-up from the start. And the media completely fell for it. If you hear anyone say that “the IRS targeted conservatives” please let them know this is not what happened — not at all."

Time for Congress to Regulate the Supreme Court Clan!

Supreme Court’s War on Democracy

www.consortiumnews.com/2013/06/25/supreme-courts-war-on-democracy/
"After the Voting Rights Act was gutted on Tuesday, some officials from the Old Confederacy immediately rubbed their hands with glee, anticipating how they could minimize the number of black and brown voters in future elections and maximize the number of white Republican members of Congress."

TX Senate Erupts Into Chaos As GOP Tries to Cheat Their Way To Abortion Ban

TX Senate Erupts Into Chaos As GOP Tries to Cheat Their Way To Abortion Ban
"Because of Republicans' behavior in front of Texas and the rest of America, it's quite likely Texas really will turn blue, and sooner rather than later. Stay tuned, this is just the beginning."

Republican Senator Calls For Abolishing The Minimum Wage

Republican Senator Calls For Abolishing The Minimum Wage: On the 75th anniversary of the landmark bill that established a minimum wage, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) called for abolishing it completely, the Huffington Post reports. At a Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee meeting to mark 75 years since the signing of the Federal Labor Standards Act, which set a minimum wage and mandated [...]/p

The Court, The Corporate Coup, And The Call To Struggle

The Court, The Corporate Coup, And The Call To Struggle
"Our democracy was under siege even before the Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act. This decision caps the Court's clean sweep on behalf of the United States Chamber of Commerce and is part of a concerted effort to seize democracy on behalf of moneyed interests."

Ku Klux Kourt Kills King's Dream Law, Replaces Voting Rights Act With Katherine Harris Acts

Ku Klux Kourt Kills King's Dream Law, Replaces Voting Rights Act With Katherine Harris Acts
"Despite the racial stench of today's viciously antidemocratic ruling, the GOP majority knew they were handicapping the next presidential run by a good 6 million votes."

Poor Darrell Issa! Turns Out IRS Also Targeted Groups With 'Progressive' Or 'Occupy' In Title

Poor Darrell Issa! Turns Out IRS Also Targeted Groups With 'Progressive' Or 'Occupy' In Title
"That hissing sound you hear is the last of the so-called IRS scandal melting away forever. Like every right-wing faux outrage, it's yet another example of how effortlessly they light up our ADHD media, creating smoke but no fire. First it was Benghazi and now it's the IRS non-scandal which is now an embarrassment for Darrell Issa in a very, very big way."

BREAKING: Senate Clears Way For Immigration Reform Bill To Pass With Broad Bipartisan Support

BREAKING: Senate Clears Way For Immigration Reform Bill To Pass With Broad Bipartisan Support: On Monday night, the Senate moved forward a key provision predicted to make or break its ability to pass comprehensive immigration reform. The amendment, offered by Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and John Hoeven (R-ND) and known as the “border surge” amendment, would add 20,000 border patrol agents, require the completion of 700 miles of fencing, [...]/p

102 Things NOT To Do If You Hate Taxes

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/22/102-things-not-to-do/
"The Republicans are lying when they say that we pay the highest taxes in the world and are only attacking taxes to reward corporations and the wealthy and to weaken our infrastructure and way of life."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/22/102-things-not-to-do/#ixzz2XAu66UMI

Top Ten Reasons It Sucks To Be A Republican

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/23/top-ten-reasons-it-sucks-to-be-a-republican/
"The agenda seems to be to decide what sort of nonsensical, greedy, hateful or underhanded thing you feel like doing today, and then try to work out a way to make it less offensive to the general public."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/23/top-ten-reasons-it-sucks-to-be-a-republican/#ixzz2XAtPbnJr

Darrell Issa just had a bad day: IRS 'targeted' groups with 'Occupy' and 'Progressive' in names

www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/24/1218531/-Darrell-Issa-just-had-a-bad-day-IRS-targeted-groups-with-Occupy-and-Progressive-in-names
"The IRS has stopped using any so-called BOLO ("Be on the lookout") lists, but you know what this looks like? It looks like they were trying to screen for groups engaged in political activity ... because groups engaged mainly in influencing campaigns are not entitled to non-profit tax exempt status. In other words, they were trying to enforce the law."

Within 24 Hours, Arizona Governor Takes Two Positions On Immigration Bill

Within 24 Hours, Arizona Governor Takes Two Positions On Immigration Bill: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer called the Senate immigration bill a “victory for Arizona” on Fox News this weekend, offering support for the bill following an agreement from Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and John Hoeven (R-ND) that would increase border security enforcement. “I think that what we’re seeing taking place in the Senate is a victory [...]/p

Republican Strategy For 2016: Change Nothing, Piss Everyone Off

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/23/shannons-failing-gop-piece/
"Republicans will once again lose the popular vote in the 2016 election, just as they have the last five of six presidential elections unless they put their listening caps on and and pay attention to what they are being taught. It does not matter how they convey their message if their message is: We hate poor people, we hate minorities, we hate women. Hate is no way to win an election and there isn’t a nice enough way in the world to sugarcoat it."

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Rand Paul Promises To Vote Against Senate’s Immigration Reform Bill

Rand Paul Promises To Vote Against Senate’s Immigration Reform Bill: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Sunday that he will vote against the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill because it puts too little emphasis on border security. Despite the security measures expected to be included in the bill — including 700 miles of new fence, 20,000 new border agents, and triple the number of unmanned drones [...]/p

GOP Senator Dismisses Push For Immigration Reform As ‘Ethnic Politics’

GOP Senator Dismisses Push For Immigration Reform As ‘Ethnic Politics’: During an appearance on CBS’s Face The Nation on Sunday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) dismissed the comprehensive immigration reform bill making its way through the U.S. Senate as “ethnic politics.” Sessions’ comments came after host Bob Schieffer asked what effect GOP opposition to the legislation would have on the party’s relationship with Hispanics. After claiming [...]/p

Demographic winter? Republicans ensuring their own demise

www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1216898/-Demographic-winter-Republicans-ensuring-their-own-demise
"Conservative economic policies are fueling this so-called demographic winter. And if Republicans want to have any voters left who will support them, they will have to make sure that the economy works for the the generation that is currently producing children, instead of vacuuming up more wealth into the hands of those who already possess it."

Hey, Paul Ryan -- We All Depend on Government - Even You (and Your Mom)! | Common Dreams

Hey, Paul Ryan -- We All Depend on Government - Even You (and Your Mom)! | Common Dreams
"This is the Paul Ryan whose budget plan would have slashed funding for public education, roads, and public services that are the investments we need to lift people out of poverty and strengthen our economy. Now he's taking aim at the most vulnerable people in society -- food stamp recipients.
Ryan worships at the altar of novelist Ayn Rand, the philosopher of you're-on-your-own selfishness, whose books were required reading for his Congressional staffers."

Fact-Checking the Sean Hannity Playboy Interview

Fact-Checking the Sean Hannity Playboy Interview
"Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity sat down with Playboy, and though I'm not going to attempt to correct every one of his lies, it's worth spotlighting just how much wrongness he can cram into a single interview."

How American Society Unravelled After Greedy Elites Robbed the Country Blind | Alternet

How American Society Unravelled After Greedy Elites Robbed the Country Blind | Alternet
"Thirty years ago, the old deal that held US society together started to unwind, with social cohesion sacrificed to greed."

The Tea Party’s Legacy of Racism

www.consortiumnews.com/2013/06/20/the-tea-partys-legacy-of-racism/
"The anger of Southern whites was taken out primarily on the modern Democratic Party, which had led the fight for civil rights. Opportunistic Republicans, such as Richard Nixon, fashioned a “Southern strategy” using racial code words to appeal to Southern whites and turned the region from solidly Democratic to predominantly Republican as it is today."

Senate Republicans Try To Buy Off Their Base

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Farm Bill Dies; Hypocrisy Lives

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Launches A New Attempt To Kill Social Security

www.politicususa.com/2013/06/21/u-s-chamber-commerce-launches-attempt-kill-social-security.html
"It is a sad commentary indeed, that the people who built America and contributed to the obscene wealth Wall Street, banks, and corporate giants conceal offshore are facing a prospect of working until they drop dead. Republicans are attempting to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and any program for the people at the behest of America’s real leaders; ALEC, Wall Street, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and to ensure the government lacks funds to maintain, let alone strengthen, those programs, they are keeping wages low, jobs scarce, and given the opportunity, will raise taxes on those least able to subsist in the Republican economy."

North Carolina Throws Out Racial Justice Act | Common Dreams

North Carolina Throws Out Racial Justice Act | Common Dreams
"North Carolina's governor Wednesday signed away the state's Racial Justice Act that makes it illegal to pursue the death penalty against a defendant based on racial bias."