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Absolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War | Americans Against the Tea Party

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:49:37 +0000

First, I’m going to need somebody to explain to me exactly what it was that we were fighting for.

Tags: #gop #imported:pinboard #iraq #politics #war

Absolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War | Americans Against the Tea Party

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:49:37 +0000

First, I’m going to need somebody to explain to me exactly what it was that we were fighting for.

Tags: #gop #iraq #politics #war

Secret Tape: McConnell and Aides Weighed Using Judd's Mental Health and Religion as Political Ammo | Mother Jones

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:18:10 +0000

A recording of a private meeting between the Senate GOP leader and campaign aides reveals how far they were willing to go to defeat the actor/activist.

Tags: #dirty #gop #imported:pinboard #judd #mcconnell #politics

GOP Opposes Critical Thinking: Party platform paints original ideas as a liberal conspiracy - News Blog - The Austin Chronicle

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:52:09 +0000

It's official: The Republican Party of Texas opposes critical thinking. That's right, drones, and it's part of their official platform.

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GOP Opposes Critical Thinking: Party platform paints original ideas as a liberal conspiracy - News Blog - The Austin Chronicle

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:52:09 +0000

It's official: The Republican Party of Texas opposes critical thinking. That's right, drones, and it's part of their official platform.

Tags: #corruption #gop #texas #to:fb

The GOP can no longer avoid its Rush Limbaugh problem - The Washington Post

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:36:47 +0000

What we are saying is that Mr. Limbaugh has abused his unique position within the conservative media to smear and vilify a citizen engaged in the exercise of her First Amendment rights, and in the process he debased a national political discourse that needs no further debasing. This is not the way a decent citizen behaves, much less a citizen who wields significant de facto power in a major political party. While Republican leaders owe no apology for Mr. Limbaugh’s comments, they do have a responsibility to repudiate them — and him.

Tags: #contraception #gop #imported:pinboard #politics #republicans #rushlimbaugh

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:27:03 +0000

After taking office, Clinton immediately seized the mantle of fiscal discipline from Republicans. Rather than simply trimming the federal deficit, as his GOP predecessors had done, he set out to balance the budget and begin paying down the national debt. To do so, he hiked the top tax bracket to nearly 40 percent and boosted the corporate tax rate to 35 percent. "It cost him both houses of Congress in the 1994 midterm elections," says Chafee, the former GOP senator. "But taming the deficit led to the best economy America's ever had." Following the tax hikes of 1993, the economy grew at a brisk clip of 3.2 percent, creating more than 11 million jobs. Average wages ticked up, and stocks soared by 78 percent. By the spring of 1997, the federal budget was headed into the black.

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Perry blames editing for viral 'drunk' video, said it was a 'good speech' - The Hill's Video

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:32:49 +0000

I still think he was high as a kite

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On GOP jobs plan, an epic media fail (Greg Sargent/Washington Post)

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:15:04 +0000

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Obama health insurance requirement taken from GOP - Yahoo! News

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:47:00 +0000

"Republicans were for President Barack Obama's requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it. The obligation in the new health care law is a Republican idea that's been around at least two decades. It was once trumpeted as an alternative to Bill and Hillary Clinton's failed health care overhaul in the 1990s. These days, Republicans call it government overreach."

Tags: #gop #healthcare #hypocrisy #politics

Op-Ed Columnist - Going to Extreme - NYTimes.com

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:21:24 +0000

"For today’s G.O.P. is, fully and finally, the party of Ronald Reagan — not Reagan the pragmatic politician, who could and did strike deals with Democrats, but Reagan the antigovernment fanatic, who warned that Medicare would destroy American freedom. It’s a party that sees modest efforts to improve Americans’ economic and health security not merely as unwise, but as monstrous. It’s a party in which paranoid fantasies about the other side — Obama is a socialist, Democrats have totalitarian ambitions — are mainstream. And, as a result, it’s a party that fundamentally doesn’t accept anyone else’s right to govern. "

Tags: #armageddon #gop #healthcare #krugman #politics #republicans

Op-Ed Columnist - An Absence of Class in the G.O.P. - NYTimes.com

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:21:51 +0000

"For decades the G.O.P. has been the party of fear, ignorance and divisiveness. All you have to do is look around to see what it has done to the country. The greatest economic inequality since the Gilded Age was followed by a near-total collapse of the overall economy. As a country, we have a monumental mess on our hands and still the Republicans have nothing to offer in the way of a remedy except more tax cuts for the rich."

Tags: #america #conservatives #failure #gop #politics #republicans #teabaggers

Op-Ed Columnist - America Is Not Yet Lost - NYTimes.com

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:02:05 +0000

"The truth is that given the state of American politics, the way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government. Senators themselves should recognize this fact and push through changes in those rules, including eliminating or at least limiting the filibuster. This is something they could and should do, by majority vote, on the first day of the next Senate session. Don’t hold your breath. As it is, Democrats don’t even seem able to score political points by highlighting their opponents’ obstructionism. Well, America is not yet lost. But the Senate is working on it. "

Tags: #america #gop #history #krugman #obstructionism #politics #republicans #senate #stupidity

GOP Fighting For Money From Stimulus They Opposed

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:10:01 +0000

"House Republicans, as a group, may take great pride in the goose egg they offered President Obama's stimulus package. But now the unanimous opposition is struggling to bring that money home. "

Tags: #economy #gop #obama #politics #republicans #stimulus

Op-Ed Columnist - The Republican Rump - NYTimes.com

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:41:35 +0000

Tags: #fear #gop #ignorance #intolerance #politics #republicans