PERRspectives: Rubio, Like McCain, Pledges to Vote Against His Own Immigration Bill

PERRspectives: Rubio, Like McCain, Pledges to Vote Against His Own Immigration Bill
"Hispanic voter weren't buying his act, and on Election Day delivered their ballots to Barack Obama by a 66 to 32 percent margin. Four years later, Mitt Romney self-deported more Latino voters to the Democratic Party, losing that vital demographic block by a staggering 71 to 27 percent.

Hoping to catapult his White House hopes and rescue his Republican Party in 2016, Marco Rubio is trying to perform McCain's trick. But as McCain learned the hard way, voters know what a trick is."

Tea Party Takes On Georgia Power Over Lack Of Solar Energy

Tea Party Takes On Georgia Power Over Lack Of Solar Energy: The fight to bring cheaper, clean energy to Georgia is uniting some unlikely allies. Renewable energy advocates and leaders of the Atlanta Tea Party are taking on utility giant Southern Co., and its subsidiary Georgia Power, over resisting the call to expand its development of solar energy. As Debbie Dooley, co-founder of the Atlanta Tea [...]/p

Hypocritical Republicans Have An Obamacare Problem

Hypocritical Republicans Have An Obamacare Problem
"But Cornyn, like other colleagues, is a secret admirer of Obamacare. Lee Fang has unearthed their appeals for grants to bolster health care services in their states, and there are many, from all those loyal GOP Obamacare haters."

Meals On Wheels Slashes Services And Adds Waiting Lists Thanks To Sequestration

Meals On Wheels Slashes Services And Adds Waiting Lists Thanks To Sequestration: Meals on Wheels, the program that brings hot food to home-bound seniors, is facing big budget cuts thanks to sequestration, and the Meals on Wheels Association of America just released a new survey of 640 of its members to find out what choices they’re making with fewer dollars. It found that nearly 70 percent have [...]/p

Marco Rubio's Immigration Cube

Marco Rubio's Immigration Cube
"You know the stupid that resides in the Conservative party and takes place on a daily basis is the kind of stupid you don't often see or hear about in everyday life. It would appear that Marco Rubio has realized that, by trying to do the right thing on immigration, he has put his own future political aspirations in jeopardy because House Republicans are crazed, fire-breathing Neanderthals. Here he is talking to another platinum member of the knuckle draggers party Hugh Hewitt and telling him that he won't even vote for his own bill."

Economy Killer Scott Walker Takes Wisconsin to 49th in the Country

www.politicususa.com/economy-killer-scott-walker-takes-wisconsin-49th-country.html
""The bad news keeps coming for Governor Scott Walker (R-WI), who ran as a conservative who was going to save the state and create 250,000 jobs. Instead, he’s thrown the state into what’s looking now like a long term economic contraction.
In the latest numbers from the Philadelphia Fed, which is a monthly state-by-state index of leading economic growth indicators, Wisconsin ranks 49th in the nation.
Out of the 50 states, only five are in contraction. Alaska, Louisiana, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming are all projected to decrease growth, with Wisconsin second to last with an index of -.74%."

Senate GOP Puts Corporate Tax Loopholes Over Student Loans

Senate GOP Puts Corporate Tax Loopholes Over Student Loans: After their own proposal on student loan interest rates failed Thursday morning, Republican senators blocked a Democratic proposal to forestall the doubling of rates for the poorest students for two years. Republicans object to the way Democrats would pay for the extension – by closing tax loopholes for oil companies, wealthy pensioners, and multinational corporations. [...]/p

Protesters Shake Up North Carolina Legislature with Moral Monday Demonstrations | Common Dreams

Protesters Shake Up North Carolina Legislature with Moral Monday Demonstrations | Common Dreams
"In 2010, Republicans took control of the state house and senate for the first time since Reconstruction. With their firm majority, the GOP redrew district lines for state senate and house seats, securing an even more solid majority in the 2012 election. Voters also elected a Republican governor, the former mayor of Charlotte, Pat McCrory. Many assumed that his big-city background would make him a moderate, but McCrory quickly appointed Art Pope, the money behind many of the state’s Tea Party candidates, as budget director, and the legislature went to work."

House Republicans Booed As They Vote To Deport DREAMers

House Republicans Booed As They Vote To Deport DREAMers: To a chorus of boos from the gallery, House Republicans voted 224-201 on Thursday to approve an amendment that defunds the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The amendment, from Rep. Steve King (R-IA), undercuts the flexibility that allows the Department of Homeland Security to halt deporting DREAMers and instead focus on people convicted of [...]/p

Republicans Are Looking for More Incompetent Candidates Who Promise to Obstruct Obama

www.politicususa.com/republicans-incompetent-candidates-promise-obstruct-obama.html
"In fact, they have been incompetent for thirty years and despite empirical data that their economic strategy of giving all of Americans’ assets to the rich, deregulating their favorite donors’ industries, forcing Christian ideology on the people, and destroying every social program in sight, they continue pushing the same policies they know are doomed to failure to cover their complete and utter incompetence."

The Lie About Job Creation Republicans Don’t Want You to Think About

www.forwardprogressives.com/the-rebublican-lie/
"It’s time we end this nonsense.  Three decades, 5 recessions and one near economic depression later—it’s safe to say Trickle Down Economics has been a failure."

Gov. Scott Walker Cutting Medicaid To Fund Tax Cut For Rich

Gov. Scott Walker Cutting Medicaid To Fund Tax Cut For Rich
"I know a couple of people for whom Badgercare is a lifesaver, keeping a mother and child alive and functional. Gov. Scott Walker, who long ago sold the tattered remnants of his soul to the Kochs and their friends, is using Obamacare as an excuse to slash the state's very successful Medicaid program."

Limbaugh, O'Reilly costing Republicans elections

www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/04/1213757/-Limbaugh-O-Reilly-costing-Republicans-elections
"Republicans decided to figure out why young voters were avoiding their party like MySpace: The most damning conclusions lay in the survey’s examination of how people view the two major parties in terms of broad attributes. For Democrats, young voters chose “tolerant,” “diverse” and “open-minded,” while for Republicans they often chose “rich” and “religious.”
In focus groups in January, the report said, young voters were asked to list leaders of the Democratic Party. “They named prominent former or currently elected officials: Pelosi, the Clintons, Obama, Kennedy, Gore. When those same respondents were asked to name Republican leaders, they focused heavily on media personalities and commentators: Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck.”

So it’s not terribly surprising that when they were asked what words came to mind when they heard "Republican Party," the results "were brutal — closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned"."

GOP's Nonsense Problem Leaves It Ill Prepared For Actual Policy

Rep. McDermott wonders why tea party groups applied for taxpayer-funded subsidies

Rep. McDermott wonders why tea party groups applied for taxpayer-funded subsidies (via Raw Story )

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) on Tuesday questioned why tea party groups were seeking to be subsidized by the government. At a House hearing on IRS misconduct, McDermott acknowledged the federal tax agency had inappropriately used political criteria to locate nonprofit applications that needed extra review…

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It’s Time to Tell the Truth: Republicans Aren’t Christians

www.forwardprogressives.com/its-time-to-tell-the-truth-republicans-arent-christians/
" whether you believe in Jesus Christ or not is not the issue, what he symbolized and his story aren’t really debatable.  He spent his life helping the poor, sick and needy.  He never once spoke about homosexuality or abortion.  He embraced those from the lowest rungs of society by saying that those for whom much had been given, much is expected.  He taught love, hope, compassion and forgiveness.  He warned against those who would manipulate the word of God for their own selfish ambitions.  He opposed greed and encouraged giving.

You know, the exact opposite of what Republicans stand for."

How Chris Christie’s Plan To Replace Senator Lautenberg Will Waste Millions In Taxpayer Dollars

How Chris Christie’s Plan To Replace Senator Lautenberg Will Waste Millions In Taxpayer Dollars: Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) announced on Tuesday afternoon that New Jersey’s special election to fill the seat vacated with the passing of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D) will take place on October 16, three full weeks before the state’s general election and his own re-election. The decision to hold the election at the earliest possible date [...]/p

Republican Attacks Measure To Prevent Taxpayer Bailouts

Republican Attacks Measure To Prevent Taxpayer Bailouts: On Monday, a regulatory body created by the Dodd-Frank reforms of 2010 named the first set of non-bank financial companies that will face the most stringent provisions of the Wall Street reform package. Since the so-called “shadow banking” sector was the epicenter of the complex and risky behavior that caused the financial crisis to spill [...]/p

Ted Cruz Thinks Raising Taxes on the Working Class is a Wonderful Idea

Ted Cruz Thinks Raising Taxes on the Working Class is a Wonderful Idea
"Sen. Ted Cruz and Fox guest host on Cashin' In this Saturday, Eric Bolling, both think that lowering taxes on the rich, while raising taxes on the poor and the middle class is just a wonderful idea."

When will Republicans stop talking about the 47%

GOP Viewed As ‘Closed Minded, Racist, Rigid’ By College Students In Republican Survey

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/03/gop-viewed-as-closed-minded-racist-rigid-by-college-students-in-republican-survey-video/
"Republicans belief in trickle-down economics as the way to induce a robust economy has failed. Reagan started that process while George W. Bush continued it on steroids. Young people can see that hard work does not necessarily make wealth and success anymore. The people sitting on their rear ends moving capital are the ones rewarded. When young people leave college with a large debt load and they hear that a Republican Party wants to leave loan rates that float with the desires of bankers, they understand the party may say they care, but their actions say otherwise.

When young people see austerity measures that, even though publicly debunked, are still the core of the Republican ideology and actions, they understand that the party has no intention in investing in them, even as those who are rewarded today profited by policies youth will be paying for. Young people understand that the income and wealth disparity can be directly attributed to the same policies Republicans continue to push.

When young people see the caricature that characterizes many of the Tea Party rallies and the hate for government these “we the people” groups promote, they become embarrassed for the country that preaches tolerance."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/03/gop-viewed-as-closed-minded-racist-rigid-by-college-students-in-republican-survey-video/#ixzz2VBdSll00

Kicking 'Em When They're Down: Wisconsin Punishes People Who Can't Find Jobs (Because Oops They've Failed to Create Any) | Common Dreams

Kicking 'Em When They're Down: Wisconsin Punishes People Who Can't Find Jobs (Because Oops They've Failed to Create Any) | Common Dreams
"Having created just 10% of the jobs he said he'd create and thus helped  Wisconsin sink to the rank of 44th nationwide in economic performance and 50th in job growth, Scott Walker and his GOP cohorts are taking out their frustration on the jobless by proposing a bunch of bills that will, in one critic's words, find "seven new ways to get people kicked off unemployment insurance." Among the changes: The jobless will have to prove each week they looked for four, not just two jobs, to get benefits, and the state will be able to spy on - and freeze - their bank accounts to make sure they didn't get an extra 20 bucks, even if it was the state that screwed up the payments. This, while the legislature continues giving outrageous tax breaks to the rich, who inexplicably seem to be using their added wealth to be doing something - buying yachts, maybe? - other than creating jobs."

GOP Survey Of Young People Reveals They Support Progressive Policies

GOP Survey Of Young People Reveals They Support Progressive Policies: The College Republican National Committee released a report on Monday outlining the major challenges facing the GOP as it seeks to rebrand and redefine itself in the aftermath of the 2012 election. The survey criticizes the party’s singular focus on “big government” and “tax cuts” and calls on Republicans to become more tolerant and open [...]/p

Why you should care about filibuster abuse

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Behind Their Patriotic Disguise The Tea Party Behaves Like The American Taliban

www.politicususa.com/patriotic-disguise-tea-party-behaves-american-taliban.html
"No other group in America openly threatens violent insurrection against the legally elected government of the United States, passes nullifications laws, supports theocracy, and no patriot calls for assassinating elected representatives for their votes. Republicans are just as culpable for not tamping down threats and calls for revolution or civil war, and openly advocating for armed revolution “if President Obama won re-election.” There is a reason teabag leaders advocate for armed resistance against the federal government and it is because they know their followers are bound to take them seriously and begin an uprising to overthrow the government evident in gun zealots stockpiling weapons and ammunition to defend themselves against government tyranny they never claimed during the Bush Administration, and it exposes their real anti-American bent is racial animus. Teabaggers were content with millions of jobs lost, a decimated economy, and unnecessary wars so long as a white man was president, but they became uber-patriots fighting tyranny when an African American was elected President."

Koch Update | Brainwash Update

Cigarette Maker Funded Dark-Money Conservative Groups

www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/tobacco-dark-money-norquist-koch-brothers
"Reynolds doled out $175,000 to Americans for Tax Reform, conservative activist Grover Norquist's anti-tax group. The company also gave $50,000 to Americans for Prosperity, $45,000 to the US Chamber of Commerce, and $100,000 to the Partnership for Ohio's Future, an Ohio Chamber-backed group that supported restricting the worker bargaining rights."

GOP Hispanic Outreach Failing? 'Focus on Whites Instead'

Tea Party Speaker Presents Proof Grover Norquist Is a Secret Muslim: 'He Has a Beard'

Tea Party Speaker Presents Proof Grover Norquist Is a Secret Muslim: 'He Has a Beard'
"A speaker at a tea party event in Texas recently suggested that that anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist was a secret Muslim because "he has a beard"."

Conservative Activist Urges Republicans To Forget Hispanics, Work Harder At Courting Whites

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/31/conservative-activist-urges-republicans-to-forget-hispanics-work-harder-at-courting-whites/
"The truth of the matter is that the GOP has moved ever further to the right since Reagan was in office. It doesn’t matter which side of the political spectrum you’re on; the further toward the fringe you go, the less appeal you will have to the general population."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/31/conservative-activist-urges-republicans-to-forget-hispanics-work-harder-at-courting-whites/#ixzz2UtcHPkF9

Now Empirical Proof That Republicans Lie - A Lot

Radio Wingnuts Call for Armed 'Peaceful' Overthrow' Of U.S.

Radio Wingnuts Call for Armed 'Peaceful' Overthrow' Of U.S.
"The "Santilli" that he's talking to there is my old pal Pete Santilli, who made violent threats against Hillary Clinton just a couple of weeks ago and doubled down on them last week."

Disheartening Spate Of Threats Mar Political Discourse

Issa Brings Back Summer Of Subpoena

Republican Lies Thwart Attempts to Reach Democratic Ideal of Educated Citizenry

Republican Lies Thwart Attempts to Reach Democratic Ideal of Educated Citizenry
"Having an enlightened and educated citizenry is a great ideal to strive for in theory, but it can be very hard to achieve in practice.

This is especially true when those that we are supposed to trust, like our elected officials in Washington, choose to lie to the American people over and over again, rather than face the facts.

And when it comes lying lawmakers, Republicans are the worst."

Rick Perry Vetoes “Buy American” Bill Approved 145-0 by Texas House

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"Passing the Senate by a vote of 23-7 and the House 145-0, the Texas legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill meant to give preference to American-made goods for purchase by the State of Texas when they are of equal cost and quality to foreign-made products.

In other words, if an American-made product and foreign-made product are of equal quality and cost, when the state is purchasing a good or service, the state would always give preference to the American-made product or service.

96% of Texas legislators supported the “Buy American” bill…

And Rick Perry vetoed it."

Economic policy is largely being driven by obstructionism, not economic advisers | Economic Policy Institute

Economic policy is largely being driven by obstructionism, not economic advisers | Economic Policy Institute
"the GOP has routinely and frequently obstructed economic recovery since 2009—much of which should inform any debate this summer regarding much needed reform of the Senate’s filibuster rules, as well as the inevitable political fight over the debt ceiling. Conservatives, particularly the Tea Party caucus, are to blame for exploiting every piece of leverage available (including thenation’s credit worthiness) to extract premature spending cuts, filibustering just about anything that would boost aggregate demand, watering down the Recovery Act, hamstringing monetary policy and demanding counterproductive legislative ‘pay fors’—stipulated to never, ever include revenue increases. The frequently espoused pox-on-both houses punditry is not just off-base, but is also somewhat complicit in this sad state of affairs."

Letters Containing Ricin Poison Sent To Bloomberg And Gun Control Group Director

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/29/letters-containing-ricin-sent-to-bloomberg-gun-control-group-director/
"This is the act of a coward. It appears as though a gun nut decided he didn’t like what these men were saying so he took it upon himself to try to kill them. I guess that’s the only thing that sort of person can understand; violence and threats. Not a great way to get sympathy for your position, is it? Hopefully this yellow-bellied blowhard will be arrested soon."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/29/letters-containing-ricin-sent-to-bloomberg-gun-control-group-director/#ixzz2UnZsB8Ir

Nutjob Calls For Armed Insurrection On July 4th

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/30/july-4th-gun-march-cancelled-wingnut-calls-for-armed-rebellion-instead/
"Kokesh also gave the federal government a one-year deadline to comply with his demands before possibly taking violent action"

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/30/july-4th-gun-march-cancelled-wingnut-calls-for-armed-rebellion-instead/#ixzz2UnNpsd4z

Tea Party's Idea of Joke: "Shoot" Senator Who Supports Immigration | Alternet

Tea Party's Idea of Joke: "Shoot" Senator Who Supports Immigration | Alternet
"Right-wing extremists see no need to dial back violent rhetoric"

After Bachmann, Who's America's Next Top Wacky Right-Winger?

www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/next-michele-bachmann-wacky
"Facing a mounting investigation into her presidential campaign's alleged campaign finance improprieties, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced Wednesday morning that she won't seek reelection in 2014. Here's a quick guide to the people jockeying for Bachmann's place as the far right's biggest star in Congress."

Schlafly Advises Republicans: Ignore Hispanics and 'Reach Out to... White Voters'

Schlafly Advises Republicans: Ignore Hispanics and 'Reach Out to... White Voters'
"Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly says Republicans are making a mistake by trying to court Hispanics with comprehensive immigration reform legislation."

North Carolina GOP Seeks Even More Regressive State Tax Burden Than Current Law

North Carolina GOP Seeks Even More Regressive State Tax Burden Than Current Law: North Carolina lawmakers are seeking to shift much of the state’s tax burden off its wealthiest citizens and most profitable businesses and onto its low- and middle-income residents. After initially proposing to eliminate the state’s income tax outright, Republicans are instead introducing a flat income tax rate across all earning levels. The proposal unveiled Thursday [...]/p

Don't Blame the IRS For Doing Their Job

Don't Blame the IRS For Doing Their Job
"That's really the bottom line here. Billionaires used these organizations to hide their massive contributions to election-buying. The only difference between a PAC and a c4 organization as they were used is that the c4 didn't have to disclose donors, which served them quite well and sent many of us on a lot of treasure hunts to try and find out who was behind those ugly ads in many states. The IRS was right to question them and right to carve them out for higher scrutiny."

Who LIES More- Republicans or Democrats?

Tea Party Conference Call Features Threat To Assassinate U.S. Senator Because She Supports Immigration Reform

Tea Party Conference Call Features Threat To Assassinate U.S. Senator Because She Supports Immigration Reform: In a Tea Party-sponsored conference call held on Wednesday night, a participant called for the assassination of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) over her support for immigration reform. Prominent conservative policymakers Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)’s communications director Stephen Miller and Heritage Foundation research fellow Robert Rector also joined the call, hosted by the conservative Eagle Forum [...]/p

Ohio School District Considers Teaching Beck's Cuckoo Conspiracies

Ohio School District Considers Teaching Beck's Cuckoo Conspiracies
"After electing Tea Party representatives to school boards and city councils across the nation, the move is on to push these whacko theories into the mainstream, and in the case of at least one Ohio school district, they're succeeding."

War on Democracy in Wisconsin: Bill Would Enact Voter ID, End Disclosure, Limit Early Voting, Expand Lobbyist Influence

War on Democracy in Wisconsin: Bill Would Enact Voter ID, End Disclosure, Limit Early Voting, Expand Lobbyist Influence
"A Wisconsin legislator has managed to bundle nearly all of the excesses associated with dirty elections into a single bill that good government advocates are describing as a "sweeping assault on democracy:" the legislation would try reinstating restrictive voter ID requirements, make it easier for donors to secretly influence elections, expand lobbyist influence, restrict early voting, and make it harder to register, among other measures."

Leader of Armed March On Washington Calls For ‘Revolutionary Army’ To Topple Government

Leader of Armed March On Washington Calls For ‘Revolutionary Army’ To Topple Government: Thousands of people signed up to attend an armed march on Washington over the course of the last month. But now, the leader of the march is setting his sights much higher than a single demonstration — he wants his armed followers to help overthrow the American government. About a month ago, a gun activist [...]/p

The Republican Party Ignores Reality According To Former Reagan Adviser

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/29/nates-reality-based-community-article/
"Ultimately, Bruce Bartlett has come to understand the fundamental flaw in conservative thinking. It is insular, only able to exist properly when divorced from reality. While one can be conservative, one cannot be ruled by conservatism. This demand for a reality bubble has resulted in Republican anti-science legislation geared to replace reality with their own brand of fantasy. No conservative thought can survive except in isolation, and if in isolation then it is unable to react to the realities of the moment. The modern Republican Party, and conservative movement can be summed up as a collective of putting their fingers in their ears and pretending not to hear what people are telling them."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/29/nates-reality-based-community-article/#ixzz2UiAC0pCh

Bye Bye Bachmann: Reliving Ten of the Tea Party Darling's Craziest Gaffes | Alternet

Bye Bye Bachmann: Reliving Ten of the Tea Party Darling's Craziest Gaffes | Alternet
"Minnesota far-right Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann has declared she will not run for a fifth term in 2014, and is making the dubious claim that her decision has nothing to do with that ongoing ethics probe into her campaign fund-raising in the 2012 race, or her falling poll numbers. No, she is a newfound convert to term limits.

Right. This is about as believable as some of the gaffes, misstatements, anti-science positions, conspiracy theories, not to mention wobbly grasp of both American history and world geography, she displayed on her ill-fated quest for the 2012 Republican nomination. She even managed to make Texas Governor Rick Perry look both sane and slightly enlightened."

Michele Bachmann's 5 Wildest Predictions, including Slavery, Sharia and More | Right Wing Watch

Michele Bachmann's 5 Wildest Predictions, including Slavery, Sharia and More | Right Wing Watch
"But while Bachmann may be retiring from Congress, her many predictions live on. Here are five of the wildest among them:"

Social Security, And Four Other Things The GOP’s Latest Senate Candidate Thinks Are Unconstitutional

Social Security, And Four Other Things The GOP’s Latest Senate Candidate Thinks Are Unconstitutional: Alaska Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Joe Miller is a throwback to the extravagant youth of the Tea Party. He embodies the era when conservative Republicans, drunk with the opportunity to bludgeon Democrats with a weak economy, turned off their filters and began proudly touting their most radical plans to change the country. Indeed, at the [...]/p

Democrats Are Three Times More Likely To Tell Truth Than GOP, Study Reveals

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/29/republicans-lie-three-times-more-than-democrats/
"At this moment, Republicans have noses that even Pinocchio would be ashamed of, but they’re not only liars, they’re hypocrites too.

In their effort to smear and obstruct President Obama at every turn, Republicans have told lie after lie to advance their agenda. And a new study proves it, Salon reports.

A new study conducted by the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University shows that Republicans lie three times more to the American people than Democrats do."

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/29/republicans-lie-three-times-more-than-democrats/#ixzz2UhBcdYW4

Both Sides Don’t Do It: Study Finds Republicans Lie Three Times More Than Democrats

www.politicususa.com/sides-it-study-finds-republicans-lie-times-democrats.html
"A new study from the nonpartisan Center For Media Affairs has concluded that since the beginning of President Obama’s second term, Republicans have lied three times more often than Democrats.

The Center For Media Affairs (CFMA) at George Mason University found that PolitiFact rated Republican claims as false three times more often than Democratic claims. Not only do Republicans lie more often, but Democrats are more truthful. By a 2 to 1 margin"

The 8 Most Outlandish Moments Of Michele Bachmann’s Time In Congress

The 8 Most Outlandish Moments Of Michele Bachmann’s Time In Congress: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) announced late Tuesday night, in a recorded video spot, that she will not be seeking reelection in 2014. Bachmann, a Tea Party standard-bearer, has been under Congressional investigation for misuse of funds during her failed 2012 presidential bid, but insisted in her video, “This decision was not impacted in any way [...]/p

GOP's Lurch Right Leaves Moderates Behind

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So Much For Fiscal Hawks – Republicans Now Costing You Tens Of Millions To Save A Few Million

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/25/so-much-for-fiscal-hawks-republicans-now-costing-you-tens-of-millions-to-save-a-few-million/
"Now, instead of the $7 million in renovations and upgrades, the cost to replace the collapsed bridge will run $15 million and take up to a year. The collapse will cost an estimated $47 million in reduced productivity and trade. With the current average tax revenue from this total for trade and productivity in dealing with trade to Canada to be around 22%, the result is that this bridge collapse will cost the federal government $10 million in revenue for the period of repair, which when added to the $15 million pricetag means that we are looking at a total impact of $25 million. All in order to save $7 million.

The Republicans are no fiscal conservatives."

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Source of Anti-Government Extremism

Source of Anti-Government Extremism
"something extreme has surfaced in modern American politics: an ideological hatred of government. From the Tea Party to libertarianism, there is a “principled” rejection – at least rhetorically – of almost everything that government does (outside of national security), and those views are no longer simply “fringe.” By and large, they have been embraced by the national Republican Party."

PERRspectives: Red States Rejecting Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Need It Most

PERRspectives: Red States Rejecting Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Need It Most
"the defining irony of the never-ending debate over Obamacare is this: health care is worst in those states where Republicans poll best. The map of the states with the worst health care systems largely mirrors GOP strongholds in the Electoral College. Red state residents are generally the unhealthiest and more likely than their blue state cousins to be uninsured."

Texas Will Deny Health Coverage To 1.5 Million Low-Income Residents

Texas Will Deny Health Coverage To 1.5 Million Low-Income Residents: 1.5 million low-income Texans may go without health care coverage after lawmakers in the state voted against expanding Medicaid using $100 billion in federal funds offered under President Obama’s health care law. The decision comes almost a year after the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government cannot require states to enroll more Medicaid beneficiaries. [...]/p

Ohio School District May Add Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theories To Curriculum

Ohio School District May Add Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theories To Curriculum: The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio is challenging an Ohio school district for considering a “controversial issues policy” that would require teachers to encourage discussions about creationism and conservative conspiracy theories about U.N. Agenda 21. Springboro Community City School District’s new curriculum — part of an effort to help students think critically and learn [...]/p

Bob Dole On GOP: 'Closed For Repairs'

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Bob Dole Trashes The Republican Party on Fox News

www.politicususa.com/bob-dole-trashes-republican-party-fox-news.html
"The far right has chased all of the mainstream conservatives out of their party, and the rest of us are paying for their folly by suffering through a completely dysfunctional congress that is incapable of passing meaningful legislation."

Social Conservative Extremists Fill Virginia GOP Slate

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The Weather-Manipulation-for-Evil-Political-Purposes Theory: Straight Out of Militialand

The Weather-Manipulation-for-Evil-Political-Purposes Theory: Straight Out of Militialand
"Most right-wing extremists aren't as imaginative in their paranoia as John Trochmann. Mostly, they just recycle old conspiracy theories that were cooked up liked the Mad Men of MOM."

10 Crazy Things the Right Did This Week | Alternet

10 Crazy Things the Right Did This Week | Alternet
"It's been another week of the insane, inane, and outright offensive."

VA GOP Treasurer: 'I'm Not A Big Fan Of Contraception'

VA GOP Treasurer: 'I'm Not A Big Fan Of Contraception'
"You have to see this. Bob Fitzsimmonds is the treasurer of the Republican Party of Virginia who served as Ken Cuccinelli's legislative aide in the Senate, and is a close adviser to the man who very well may be Virginia's next governor"

Congressman Quotes Jesus in Bid to Gut Food Stamps | Common Dreams

Congressman Quotes Jesus in Bid to Gut Food Stamps | Common Dreams
"While Fincher cites chapter and verse to prove that it is immoral for out of work folks to mooch off government largesse, he fails to mention that his own fingers have been observed in the public till. But not for the sake of a measly loaf of bread or carton of milk, mind you. No, the good congressman is one of Tennessee's largest-ever recipients of farm subsidy payments-- otherwise known as "Big Ag's Food Stamp program."

How much exactly has the Tennessee legislator received from hard working American taxpayers? Together with his father and brother, who farm over 2500 acres for cotton in five counties, roughly 8.9 million dollars in cotton subsidies over the last 10 years, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

Rep. Fincher, who is the second largest recipient of farm subsidies in the United States Congress-- and that is saying a lot-- wants to increase federal crop insurance by a whopping 9 billion dollars over the next 10 years. The congressman has not said how much more he would personally reap if these additional federal subsidies are enacted."

After the Cuts Hit Them, 68% of Republicans Disapprove of Sequester

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"It’s all “reckless spending” and “don’t tread on me!” until Republicans feel the hits of spending cuts. Suddenly, they strongly disapprove of the spending cuts championed by their party. This is also odd, because we’ve been told for years that they are the makers and this is “their” money. If that’s true, how did government cuts impact them by a larger percentage than Democrats?

They protest spending, but now they’re upset that they got their way."

Idiot Guv | Common Dreams

Idiot Guv | Common Dreams
"Nowadays Maine has an Appalled by LePage website, with an Appall-O-Meter usually set at 90%. We have bumper stickers that say, "One of 61% of Mainers Embarrassed by our Governor." We have Democrats seeking, semi-facetiously, $14 donations to help send this idiot packing. And we have the dismal knowledge that, for the first time in some time, Maine's politics are (often) just as depressing as everyone else's."

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Rubio Misleads On Debt Ceiling In Floor Speech Blocking Budget Process

Rubio Misleads On Debt Ceiling In Floor Speech Blocking Budget Process: In a floor speech Wednesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) falsely claimed that the debt ceiling is critical to saving future generations from inheriting a crippling national debt. Rubio, who is widely expected to seek his party’s presidential nomination in 2016, insisted that the Senate forbid its budget conferees from including an increase to the debt [...]/p

South Carolina governor appointed white supremacist to steering committee

www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/22/south-carolina-governor-appointed-white-supremacist-to-steering-committee/
"The group openly opposes the immi­gra­tion of “non-European and non-Western peo­ples into the United States” and condemns “all efforts to mix the races of mankind.” The Council of Conservative Citizens also believes the United States should not tolerate “sexual licentiousness, homosexuality and other perversions, mixture of the races, pornography in all forms, and subversion of the authority of parents"."

House Republicans Destroy the GOP by Voting to Raise Student Loan Interest Rates

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"By a vote of 221-198, House Republicans continued to destroy their party by passing a bill that would raise student loan rates."

Republicans Claiming Tax Exempt Status May Have Conspired to Hide Illegal Donations

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"As it turns out, the groups claiming they promoted social welfare may have conspired to conceal illegal campaign donations as well as protect their donors if they illegally deducted contributions to a tax exempt “social welfare charity” they would be disallowed from claiming if they gave to Political Action Committees or directly to any particular campaign."

Latest Wingnut Alex Jones Conspiracy Theory: Weather Weapons

Latest Wingnut Alex Jones Conspiracy Theory: Weather Weapons
"Alex Jones is nuts. It's nuts that he gets any traction on his crazy show, and nuttier still that he gets support from any member of the Republican party. But he does, and he feeds all the paranoia and insanity on the far right on a daily basis."