GOP Did Contribute To Obamacare, Study Finds – Turns Out They Wrote A Large Portion

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/11/10/obamacare-study-republican-contribution/
"For the final bill, over 10% came from House Republicans, and almost 30% came from Senate Republicans. That brings the total GOP contribution to Obamacare to 38.5%, meaning that over a third of Obamacare was written by the Republican party."

Why the Hate-Filled, Retrograde Politics of the Tea Party Are Here to Stay | Alternet

Why the Hate-Filled, Retrograde Politics of the Tea Party Are Here to Stay | Alternet
"The Republican Party is not only the party of plutocrats and oligarchs; it’s also the party of the South. The party’s leaders are predominantly southern."

Sexist Rush Limbaugh Refers to Single Mothers as "Semen Receptacles"

www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/10/1254528/-Sexist-Rush-Limbaugh-Refers-to-Single-Mothers-as-Semen-Receptacles?detail=facebook
"The right wing talk show host made the comment about unmarried Democratic mothers voting in this week's Virginia gubernatorial race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli."

Koch Group Throws Boozy Anti-Obamacare Tailgate Party At College Football Game

Koch Group Throws Boozy Anti-Obamacare Tailgate Party At College Football Game: The game day bash included a "fleet of Hummers," according to a Generation Opportunity spokesperson, in addition to beer pong, models, and anti-Obamacare rhetoric.

GOP Donors Seek To Oust Michigan Tea Party Congressmen Over Shutdown

GOP Donors Seek To Oust Michigan Tea Party Congressmen Over Shutdown: The growing rift between Tea Party conservatives and the moneyed GOP establishment may have finally broken out into open hostilities.

Who Is Chief Right Wing Whacko this Week? It Might Surprise You | Alternet

Who Is Chief Right Wing Whacko this Week? It Might Surprise You | Alternet
"Rand Paul may have assumed the mantle of Wacko-in-Chief this week, but lots of lesser known right-wing nutjobs had banner weeks as well."

PERRspectives: Republicans Put Red State Hospitals at Risk

PERRspectives: Republicans Put Red State Hospitals at Risk
"Among the myriadtactics Republicans are using to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, the "coverage gap" is perhaps the most visible. Because 26 GOP-led states have refused to accept the federally-funded expansion of Medicaid to their residents earning up to 138% of the poverty level, at least five million Americans will needlessly be left without health insurance in 2014. As it turns out, that Republican rejection will deal a second body blow to the red state health care systems that need help most by draining funds from hospitals that currently serve the uninsured."

It’s Official: When It Comes To Immigration, House GOP Can Only Agree On Deporting DREAMers

It’s Official: When It Comes To Immigration, House GOP Can Only Agree On Deporting DREAMers: Despite insisting that comprehensive immigration reform was still a "priority," Republicans will not take-up the issue this year.

Republican Lawyers Who Gutted 1965 Voting Rights Act Seek Millions From Taxpayers | Alternet

Republican Lawyers Who Gutted 1965 Voting Rights Act Seek Millions From Taxpayers | Alternet
"The lawyers who argued the case destroying the law now want taxpayers to pay them."

Even Right-Wingers Become Liberals When They Turn Off Fox News | Alternet

Even Right-Wingers Become Liberals When They Turn Off Fox News | Alternet
"America's center is to the left, and even Tea Partyers are liberals when they turn off Rush and learn real facts."

How the Koch Brothers Organized the Federal Shutdown

How the Koch Brothers Organized the Federal Shutdown
"The Koch machine has now been rather well documented, via leaks from the Kochs' periodic secret bundling-conferences."

Laura Ingraham Forgets When The Government Shutdown Happened

www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/07/laura-ingraham-forgets-when-the-government-shut/196783
"Many right-wing media personalities have denied the economic effects of the shutdown after failing to pin blame for the shutdown on someone other than the congressional GOP."

How The Shutdown Hurt The Country’s Businesses

How The Shutdown Hurt The Country’s Businesses:
"Standard & Poor’s estimated that the shutdown would shave percentage points off of GDP growth, costing the economy $24 billion, nearly the same as paying for a year of Head Start, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Women Infants and Children (WIC) program combined."

Fox Pundits Terribly Upset That 'Comrade Bill de Blasio' Might Raise Taxes on Rich New Yorkers

Fox Pundits Terribly Upset That 'Comrade Bill de Blasio' Might Raise Taxes on Rich New Yorkers
"If anyone thought the vitriol directed towards our first black, Democratic, moderate president who has been called everything in the book from dictator, to Marxist, to Socialist, to Communist was bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Here's what we get to look forward to for years on end now that New York has elected an actual liberal/progressive to be their new mayor."

John Stossel 'Upset' Poor People Aren't Selling Kidneys for $1,200 -- Like in Iran!

John Stossel 'Upset' Poor People Aren't Selling Kidneys for $1,200 -- Like in Iran!
"Libertarian Fox Business host John Stossel on Thursday said he was outraged that most government services like the military and "organ selling" had not been turned over to private business."

Rewriting Rand Paul on plagiarism

Rand Paul is sinking fast — but hopes we won’t notice

Rand Paul is sinking fast — but hopes we won’t notice
"Attacked for plagiarism, he takes his column to the Breitbart fringe and pummels Chris Christie as a distraction."

Colorado State Senator Goes ‘Birther’ At Political Breakfast

Colorado State Senator Goes ‘Birther’ At Political Breakfast: The U.S. Senate hopeful told a Republican breakfast on Friday that President Obama hails from Kenya.

Women sway the liberal vote in Virginia

Pete Sessions Admits Sole Mission Is Winning Senate, Not Governing

Pete Sessions Admits Sole Mission Is Winning Senate, Not Governing
"Pete Sessions just came right out and said it: House Republicans are not in Washington, DC to govern. They're there to create messaging opportunities to gain control of the Senate."

Right-wing lens sees wins in election losses

Democrats sharpen focus on Wisconsin for 2014

Scandal’s toll on Rand Paul exposes weakness

Top Texas Republican Thinks Abortion Caused Global Warming

Top Texas Republican Thinks Abortion Caused Global Warming: David Barton: "A door has been opened and we have said, you know, we embrace a wicked policy. Okay, then I’ll take my hand of protection off your nation, and whap! Here comes storms like we’ve never seen before..."

The Tenth Amendment Is Dead As A National Political Issue

The Tenth Amendment Is Dead As A National Political Issue: Ken Cuccinelli is the original gangster of tentherism. And he just lost to a real life House of Cards character.

Why Ken Cuccinelli Lost The Election

Why Ken Cuccinelli Lost The Election: By defeating Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli II in the gubernatorial election Tuesday, Virginia voters rejected one of the most openly-right wing politicians in the country.

15 Things You Need To Know About David Barton, The Man Who Could Be Texas's Next Senator | Right Wing Watch

15 Things You Need To Know About David Barton, The Man Who Could Be Texas's Next Senator | Right Wing Watch
"David Barton’s dishonest and discredited pseudo-history hasn’t stopped him from becoming a star within the Republican Party. Despite the glaring flaws and political bias found in his work, not to mention the fact that actual conservative Christian scholars are among his most vocal critics, GOP candidates for office consistently seek Barton’s advice, counsel and endorsements."

How Cable News Mainstreams Outright Con Men Like Ralph Reed

How Cable News Mainstreams Outright Con Men Like Ralph Reed
"Ralph Reed came through the ranks of conservatism through the College Republicans, which was headed by Jack Abramoff and Grover Norquist back in the 80's. He suddenly turned into a religious-right zealot during that time and then capitalized on the poll results he collected from Pat Robertson's failed presidential run in 1988 and then ran the faith-based caucus called the Christian Coalition.
His loyalty to Jack Abramoff never wavered and when he was caught lying to his coalition so he could reap in millions of dollars from the gaming industry as well as the Choctaws Indian tribe, disgrace followed."

Lies, Nonsense and Totally Off-the-Wall Behavior -- 10 Doozies from the Nutty Right Wing This Week | Alternet

Lies, Nonsense and Totally Off-the-Wall Behavior -- 10 Doozies from the Nutty Right Wing This Week | Alternet
"Some really crazy things came out of the mouths of the frothing right wing this week"

Rise Again: The Creation of the Modern Nullification Movement

Rise Again: The Creation of the Modern Nullification Movement
"But third, and this is the most dangerous for the future of Constitutional government in the United Staes, Ted Cruz and the “Tea Party” GOP minority in the House of Representatives have created something very important: the modern version of what is called “Nullification.” In this he has already been successful. The original version of Nullification was an attempt by the Slave Power to protect its interests even though they represented a minority of the then popular vote in the United States. The present one is an attempt by representatives of a wing of the Corporate Power to protect its interests, even though they too represent a minority of the popular vote in the United States."

GOP Lawmaker Speaking to Tennessee Neo-Confederate Secessionist Group This Weekend

GOP Lawmaker Speaking to Tennessee Neo-Confederate Secessionist Group This Weekend
"As The Tennessean reported on Thursday, the Southern National Congress' website announced that both state Rep. Judd Matheny (R) and state Sen. Frank Niceley (R) would be attending a weekend session to discuss legislation supporting the idea that the Southern states could again secede and form their own government."

Tea Partiers Gang Up In Colorado To Capture Local School Boards

Tea Partiers Gang Up In Colorado To Capture Local School Boards
"What Gessler and his moneybags pals are doing in Douglas County isn't all that different from what Republicans do in general. They move in gangs, they capture big bucks to buy the office and then pay off their sugar daddies with quid pro quo activities like suppressing the vote, weakening campaign finance laws, and busting unions.

Is it any wonder the parents in Douglas County are aggravated? What happened to caring about the children, after all?"

The Stunning Collapse Of Infrastructure Spending In One Chart

The Stunning Collapse Of Infrastructure Spending In One Chart:
"Infrastructure spending levels are tied fairly directly to economic performance. Continued underfunding in this arena over the coming years will cost businesses a trillion dollars in lost sales and cost the economy 3.5 million jobs. Infrastructure spending enjoys overwhelming support from voters."

Fewer than 1/4th of Republicans Support Electing More Women to Congress | Alternet

Fewer than 1/4th of Republicans Support Electing More Women to Congress | Alternet
"New poll reveals staggering partisan gender divide on women in politics."

McConnell on front lines of GOP ‘civil war’

Mitch McConnell Declares War on Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, and Tea Party Outside Groups

www.politicususa.com/2013/10/29/mitch-mcconnell-declares-war-ted-cruz-sarah-palin-tea-party-groups.html
"In an abrupt change in strategy, Sen. Mitch McConnell has decided to go after Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, the Senate Victory Fund and other conservative groups who are backing his primary challenger."

Republicans’ Cruz problem

The truth about the Affordable Care Act

WATCH: Ted Cruz's Dad Calls US a "Christian Nation," Says Obama Should Go "Back to Kenya"

www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/ted-cruz-rafael-father-video-christian-tea-party
"A sermon Rafael Cruz delivered in August 2012 at an Irving, Texas, mega-church has also come under scrutiny. At that event, he asserted that Christian true believers are "anointed" by God to "take dominion" of the world in "every area: society, education, government, and economics." He was preaching a particular form of evangelical Christianity known as Dominionism (a.k.a. Christian Reconstructionism) that holds that these "anointed" Christians are destined to take over the government and create in practice, if not in official terms, a theocracy."

Scott Walker’s ‘Unintimidated’ inaccuracies

Rand Paul doesn’t get plagiarism

Sandy aid naysayers now want NY money

More Wikipedia copying in Rand Paul speeches

House GOP gives up on working rest of year

Where’d you get your speech, Rand?

MSNBC's All In Reports on Devastating Food Stamp Cuts Rest of the Media is Ignoring

MSNBC's All In Reports on Devastating Food Stamp Cuts Rest of the Media is Ignoring
"These right-wingers hate the poor. They hate minimum wage which might help lift them out of poverty. They hate taxes if they're going to the "lazy moochers" who don't deserve to have food put in their mouths. And they don't want to do a thing about outsourcing and shipping jobs overseas. And they hate public education. But they expect everyone to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps by whatever means necessary. It's long past time these people were shown the door."

25 Facts Right-Wingers Desperately Want Us to Forget | Alternet

25 Facts Right-Wingers Desperately Want Us to Forget | Alternet
"Now that we have named the disease, we have to point to the cure: the facts. Here are 25 facts that right-wingers often forget, overlook, omit or ignore."

How 2016 Could Be An Even Bigger Democratic Blowout Than 2008

How 2016 Could Be An Even Bigger Democratic Blowout Than 2008: Democrats could make progress in 2016 toward a decades-long aspiration: a Bobby Kennedy-style coalition that unites minorities, young people, and educated liberals with working class whites.

The New Nullification Movement | The Nation

The New Nullification Movement | The Nation
"In reality, the two-tiered system of registration being set up in Arizona and Kansas has far less to do with stopping voter registration fraud (which, as shown, is very rare in both states) than with “nullifying” federal laws that Republicans don’t like, such as Obamacare. There’s a symmetry between shutting down the government and creating separate and unequal systems of voting. It’s a strategy that dates back to the antebellum South, when fierce segregationists like John C. Calhoun tried to prevent the federal government from interfering with slavery and taxing the region."

Santorum: Cruz ‘Did More Harm’ Than Good During Shutdown Fight

Santorum: Cruz ‘Did More Harm’ Than Good During Shutdown Fight:
"The harm Cruz did does not extend only to the GOPs image, though. As Cruz and other Republicans opposed raising the debt ceiling, the shutdown and the simultaneous threat of default cost the economy $24 billion, according to Standard & Poor’s, and at least 120,000 jobs, according to the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers. A similar fight in 2011 cost the country as many as a million jobs. And the GOP’s preferred spending cuts are crushing economic growth too. So when it comes to fully recovering from the recession and its aftermath, it isn’t just Ted Cruz causing problems. Republican policy priorities are causing more harm than good too."

PERRspectives: Paul Ryan's Secret Love Affair with Obamacare

PERRspectives: Paul Ryan's Secret Love Affair with Obamacare
"The Affordable Care Act, Republicans and their right-wing water carriers warn, is the worst thing to happen to America since slavery and theFugitive Slave Act. But for Congressional Republicans in general and Paul Ryan in particular, Obamacare also happens to be the love that dare not speak its name. After all, Ryan's dangerous and unpopular voucher scheme to privatize Medicare not only depends on the success of the very kind of health insurance exchanges he now decries, but also requires the ACA to cover the 65 and 66 year-old beneficiaries he would drop from the program covering 49 million seniors. And as it turns out, the same Paul Ryan who would defund, delay or repeal Obamacare nevertheless wants to keep every penny in new revenue it generates in order to fund his massive tax cut windfall for the wealthy."

North Carolina GOP Official Resigns After Racist 'Daily Show' Interview

North Carolina GOP Official Resigns After Racist 'Daily Show' Interview
"The chickens are coming home to roost in North Carolina, as at least one official decided to speak candidly about their voter suppression efforts."

Republicans Demand Social Security And Medicare Cuts, Is It Reported? | Common Dreams

Republicans Demand Social Security And Medicare Cuts, Is It Reported? | Common Dreams
"Republicans are demanding cuts in Social Security and Medicare if Democrats want to change the terms of the “sequester.” I’m sure their Tea Party “base” would be shocked if they understood this. So would most Americans. So is the media giving Americans the information they need in order to make informed decisions?"

Mississippi Candidate Has Ties to Secessionist Groups

Mississippi Candidate Has Ties to Secessionist Groups
"Is it even possible to run to the right of an ultra-conservative Mississippi senator? In Mississippi, it seems that it is, provided you spout neoconfederate views, are a birther, and a reactionary."

The Affordable Care Act’s Lower-Than-Projected Premiums Will Save $190 Billion

www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/report/2013/10/23/77537/the-affordable-care-acts-lower-than-projected-premiums-will-save-190-billion/
"These savings will boost the health law’s amount of deficit reduction by 174 percent and represent about 40 percent of the health care savings proposed by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform—commonly known as the Simpson-Bowles commission—in 2010.
Moreover, we estimate that lower premiums will lower the number of uninsured even further, by an additional 700,000 people, even as the number of individuals who receive tax credits will decline because insurance is more affordable."

Echoes of Confederacy seen in tea party

6 Most Brazen Right-Wing Lies About Obamacare | Alternet

6 Most Brazen Right-Wing Lies About Obamacare | Alternet
"These are not the hackneyed GOP talking points about death panels, job killers and government bureaucrats coming between patients and doctors. These are far more fanciful efforts that stretch the limits of credulity and appear to have more in common with satire than actual news reporting. But this is what it has come to as Obamacare has finally reached the consumer stage and conservatives are desperate to keep people from discovering its benefits."

Three Extreme Right-Wing Ideologies Have Taken Over the Republican Party -- and Could Destroy It Forever | Alternet

Three Extreme Right-Wing Ideologies Have Taken Over the Republican Party -- and Could Destroy It Forever | Alternet
"The overlapping ideologies of Ayn Rand capitalists, Christian fundamentalists and neo-Confederate white supremacists is a toxic mix"

Fact-checker finds Hannity wanting

Coulter 'Proud of Republicans' For ‘Magnificent, Run Beautifully’ Government Shutdown

Coulter 'Proud of Republicans' For ‘Magnificent, Run Beautifully’ Government Shutdown
"These millionaire pundits might think this is some sort of a game where the real damage done to people's lives and livelihoods don't matter much, but I doubt most of the public shares their view of the harm that was done to the country due to Republicans' brinksmanship, pure spite and their desire to lash out due to their overwhelming hatred of President Obama."

Texas Republican Judge Switches Party, Denouncing GOP as Party of Bigots and Hate-Mongers | Alternet

Texas Republican Judge Switches Party, Denouncing GOP as Party of Bigots and Hate-Mongers | Alternet
"A Republican Judge from San Antonio, Texas, has announced he is quitting the GOP and will seek re-election as a Democrat, saying that he can no longer be part of political party whose identity is based on hate, bigotry and destrying people’s lives."

Ted Cruz's Father Suggested His Son Is 'Anointed' to Bring About 'End Time Transfer of Wealth' | Alternet

Ted Cruz's Father Suggested His Son Is 'Anointed' to Bring About 'End Time Transfer of Wealth' | Alternet
"In other words, the "great transfer of wealth" is about more than wishful thinking. It's about an ongoing effort, by leaders and institutions of the evangelical right, to gradually gobble up the secular sphere of government."

A Field Guide to the Koch O’ Nuts Behind the Near Government Default

A Field Guide to the Koch O’ Nuts Behind the Near Government Default
"It’s time for a fact check. The Koch family foundations and the newest known Koch vehicle -- Freedom Partners, which is staffed with by operatives connected to the Kochs and housed in the same building as Charles Koch’s foundation -- have bankrolled practically every group working to create a fake grassroots uprising against the ACA. Many of the groups linked to the Kochs have also pushed an extreme “shut-it-down” position that led the U.S. to the brink of a historic government debt default."

Poll Indicates Dems Could Win 'Sizable Majority' in 2014

Poll Indicates Dems Could Win 'Sizable Majority' in 2014
"A new survey of 25 GOP-held districts shows dwindling favorability for Republican members of the House in the wake of the recent government shutdown."

McDowell County, USA Has Close to Haiti's Life Expectancy: Welcome to Third World America | Alternet

McDowell County, USA Has Close to Haiti's Life Expectancy: Welcome to Third World America | Alternet
"The Affordable Care Act is merely a small step in the direction of universal healthcare. One need only look at the data on life expectancy among Americans to realize how badly health care reform is needed in the United States. People in much of Europe are, on the whole, outliving residents of the U.S., which in some places, is looking more and more like a Third World country when it comes to life expectancy.

There is a considerable amount of data on life expectancy among Americans, much of it disturbing."

Shutdown Will Continue To Damage Economy Through The Holiday Season, Economists Predict

Shutdown Will Continue To Damage Economy Through The Holiday Season, Economists Predict: Thousands of workers, bracing for the next budget crisis, will likely hold back on Christmas shopping and other economic activity.

Fact-Checking Fox: What Real Journalism Looks Like

Fact-Checking Fox: What Real Journalism Looks Like
"The stubborn need to oppose something even when it goes against their own self-interest is a uniquely conservative and bewildering phenomenon. Fox News' exploitation of their own choices for ratings and demagogue points is predictable and disgusting."

Billionaire Koch Brothers Spending Millions To Deny Health Coverage To Low-Income Americans

Billionaire Koch Brothers Spending Millions To Deny Health Coverage To Low-Income Americans: Volunteers with the conservative organization are distributing misleading flyers, attending committee hearings, and intimidating constituents.

10 Reasons Why the Tea Party is So Unpopular | Alternet

10 Reasons Why the Tea Party is So Unpopular | Alternet
"Now that the federal government has reopened and its debt limit raised, the Tea Party is more unpopular with Americans than ever—including among moderate Republicans—polls are finding, with analysts asking if the Tea Party is part of the GOP at all."

House Republicans Say They Are Punishing Obama By Refusing To Vote on Immigration Reform

www.politicususa.com/2013/10/18/house-republicans-punishing-obama-refusing-vote-immigration-reform.html
"It will come as a shock to many House Republicans to learn that they are being paid by the American people to vote on things. Voting is a part of their job description. When they refuse to vote, they are sending the message that they aren’t interested in doing their jobs.
The real reason why Boehner won’t bring the immigration reform bill to the floor for a vote is that there are enough votes between Democrats and Republicans to pass it. Since it would make the tea party faction angry, Boehner can’t allow the House to properly function."

Free Consultations: After Shutdown, Fox Advises GOP On Image Rehabilitation

www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/17/free-consultations-after-shutdown-fox-advises-g/196481
"Fox News offered the Republican Party advice on how they might recover from the GOP-led government shutdown that damaged the images of both Republicans and the tea party and caused at least $24 billion in economic harm."

Republicans Have Resumed Their Koch Funded Seditious Conspiracy To Destroy Government

www.politicususa.com/2013/10/18/republicans-resumed-koch-funded-seditious-conspiracy-destroy-government.html
"Americans have witnessed Republicans engage in a concerted effort over the past two-and-a-half years to bring the government to its knees because the people elected an African American as President. In Early in 2012 Republicans began warning their members that “armed revolution” would be necessary to impose their will on the people if President Obama won re-election in 2012. Although they have not yet brought out their considerable arsenals, they are rebelling against the Constitutional government and are more than willing to see its demise than give up their coup d’état to rule by extremist minority."

Ted Cruz Is A Grifter Who Believes In Divine Wealth Transfers

Ted Cruz Is A Grifter Who Believes In Divine Wealth Transfers
"It's all just a big con to pull some money out of your pocket and slip it into theirs. Of course Ted Cruz will never stop. The combination of greed, hubris and his own narcissism make him King Grifter, but little else."

Republicans Have Done Real Damage to the Economy

Republicans Have Done Real Damage to the Economy
"Republicans have been obstructing ... everything. The ongoing economic damage has been just incredible but because it gradually worsens things the public is not as aware as they should be. There are two obstructions taking place. In the Senate Republicans have been filibustering every bill, every nominee ... everything. In the House the "Hastert Rule" prevents the majority of the Congress from being able to vote. By preventing bills from coming up for a vote if they might be passed by a majority that includes Democrats and some "RINO" Republicans, anything that could help the country and economy is blocked."

Ted Cruz Single-Handedly Blocks FCC Nominee Over Concerns That He’ll Make Elections More Transparent

Ted Cruz Single-Handedly Blocks FCC Nominee Over Concerns That He’ll Make Elections More Transparent:
"Cruz’s stated reason for blocking Wheeler is that he’s concerned the FCC nominee may try to make spending by corporations and millionaire donors seeking to influence elections more transparent."

Poll: Tea Party Less Popular Than Ever

Poll: Tea Party Less Popular Than Ever
"Negative views of the tea party have nearly doubled over the past two years, making the conservative movement more unpopular than ever"

The Abject Failure of Reaganomics

www.consortiumnews.com/2013/10/17/the-abject-failure-of-reaganomics/
"House Republicans got next to nothing from their extortion strategy of taking the government and the economy hostage, but they are sure to continue obstructing programs that could create jobs and start rebuilding the middle class. What they won’t recognize is the abject failure of Reaganomics"

Beer Offensive: The Koch Brothers Try to Bribe College Students Not to Sign Up for Obamacare with Brewskies | Alternet

Beer Offensive: The Koch Brothers Try to Bribe College Students Not to Sign Up for Obamacare with Brewskies | Alternet
"What's a family values conservative to do when every effort to protect millions of Americans from the scourge of affordable healthcare fails?

Break out the beer, of course. The latest campaign to kill off Obamacare in its infancy is now playing out on college campuses where a conservative group known as Generation Opportunity (GO), who are funded in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, is using the  lure of free beer and "opt out"  beer koozies to persuade young  students not to buy health insurance – or, at least, not to buy it from the Obamacare exchanges."

Voter purge case puts Cuccinelli in conflict

Houston Paper Revokes Cruz Endorsement

Houston Paper Revokes Cruz Endorsement
"Ted Cruz’s hometown paper, the Houston Chronicle, took back their endorsement of him on Wednesday—and even claimed they only endorsed him with “many reservations” in the first place."

Thanks To Obamacare, Oregon Cut Its Unsinsured Population By 10 Percent Over The Past Two Weeks

Thanks To Obamacare, Oregon Cut Its Unsinsured Population By 10 Percent Over The Past Two Weeks: 56,000 new people have signed up for Oregon's Medicaid program so far this month. Most of them wouldn't be eligible for coverage without Obamacare.

The Tea Party and the Economy: It's Like Putting an Arsonist in Charge of the Fire Department

The Tea Party and the Economy: It's Like Putting an Arsonist in Charge of the Fire Department
"The uncertainty of never knowing when an economic hostage taker is going to hold a gun to the head of the United States takes its toll."

Republicans Owe Us 24 Billion Dollars Plus for the Government Shutdown

www.politicususa.com/2013/10/17/republicans-owe-24-billion-dollars-government-shutdown.html
"The shutdown cost us at least $24 billion dollars. The shutdown that got Republicans nothing but funding at sequester levels that they claimed wasn’t theirs and blamed Obama for, but now claim as a victory – that sequester."

Ken Cuccinelli Donor Linked To Kidnapping Case, Anti-Semitic Newspapers | Right Wing Watch

Ken Cuccinelli Donor Linked To Kidnapping Case, Anti-Semitic Newspapers | Right Wing Watch
"While Ken Cuccinelli may be the top law enforcement officer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, that hasn’t stopped him from taking campaign contributions for his gubernatorial bid from a Religious Right activist linked to a kidnapping investigation. Blue Virginia notes that Cuccinelli donor Philip Zodhiates of Response Unlimited is tied to the Lisa Miller kidnapping case."

GOP Rep: Agreement to Reopen Government is a Victory for America and a Defeat for Ted Cruz

www.forwardprogressives.com/gop-rep-agreement-to-reopen-government-is-a-victory-for-america-and-a-defeat-for-ted-cruz/
"One of the most vocal GOP critics of Ted Cruz has been House Republican Peter King. He hasn’t pulled any punches when he’s discussed the idiocy behind Cruz’s push to shut down the government to defund “Obamacare"."