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The main thing that broke up the Beatles was leadership. When the Beatles first began, John Lennon saw the group as his band, and no one disputed it, at least not openly. Early on there was even a notion to call themselves Long John and the Silver Beatles. Lennon retained his good pal Stu Sutcliffe as bass player, ignoring McCartney’s objections that Sutcliffe was clueless as a musician. And

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Obama has already passed health care reform. Financial reform? Polls show the American people want it, so Obama wins either by passing it, or by pounding on the Republicans for blocking it; the Republicans also blocked unemployment benefits repeatedly, and tried to kill a number of jobs bills. Immigration reform? Polls say America wants it, Obama has a bill, Republicans are blocking it. Again, he

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Modern conservatism began with the French Revolution. Horrified by the excesses of the Reign of Terror, European conservatives were forced to think about what they believed and then defend it in a new, revolutionary world. Philosophers such as Edmund Burke established a manifesto that embraced a love of tradition, religion, order, class hierarchy, old-fashioned habits and manners. Then and now,

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For about 200 years, the Polish parliament, or Sejm, consisting of about 135 people, actually required that laws pass by unanimous vote within six weeks and also win the approval of the king. To make such unanimity even remotely possible, exhaustive discussions were necessary. Also, for most of this period, if a bill was vetoed in a particular session, then all of the legislation from the entire

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More proof that conservatism is intellectually bankrupt...For many years now, conservatism has stood for nothing more or less than a fear and hatred of new ideas, new things, new people. The few times they have ventured out into the plain of intellectual endeavour, they have sunk into a quicksand of philosophical dishonesty, hiding behind stilted vocabulary and logical fallacy like Buckley,

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As we’ve heard from the news, two anti-government terrorists with links to white supremacist groups just murdered two policemen with an AK-47 during a routine traffic stop in Arkansas. The two terrorists were Jerry Kane and his son. Kane had a long police record based on many run-ins with the law, due largely to his belief that all governmental activity is illegal and no federal or local

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Remember the West Wing episode in which the President caught a lot of flack for saying something controversial to a reporter when he thought the mike was off? Only it wasn’t a mistake – he did it on purpose? I’m thinking Rand Paul did the same sort of thing on Rachel Maddow. Let me set the stage here. After the 2008 election, statisticians took a good look at the election results, county by

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Obama is more conservative than the founder of modern conservatism. Nixon is the true founder of modern conservatism. He took the conservative mantle from the discredited McCarthy and Goldwater, crafted the southern strategy by way of exploiting the fears of whites, and spent two decades warning that the Democrats couldn’t be trusted on national security, or anything else. Nixon, rather than

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One of the sillier efforts by the wingnuts has been to call Obama a “Maoist”. Their three or four minutes of research turned up the nugget that Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party were influenced by Maoist teaching decades ago, and like all wingnuts they have a great deal of trouble telling one scary brown person from another, so they have made the equation that Obama = Black Panther. Which

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Arizona drafts a Nazi-like immigration law; Los Angeles calls for a boycott of Arizona. And now?A utility commissioner in Arizona has sent a letter to LA’s mayor, threatening to cut off the electricity from Los Angeles, to retaliate for the boycott. A lot of LA’s power runs through Arizona. Arizona has set up a PR task force to repair its image, but short of repealing the law, what do they do?And

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Link text If you're just joining us, Cantor's new toy was launched last week -- Republicans will pick government programs they don't like, and then encourage the public to vote on which one they want to see eliminated. GOP lawmakers will then try to cut the "winning" program, responding to public demand.This week, the initial round of voting wrapped up, and the first measure on the chopping block

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The latest AP poll shows a gigantic 8-point swing in voter preferences for control of Congress. A month ago the GOP had a 3 point lead; now they trail by 5, 45-40. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...O7g7wD9FN54G00Other data like the Economist poll show the same thing. In the last century the House has been grabbed by the minority party six times. Three of them were short-term speed bumps,

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So what did we learn tonight?First, the PA-12 race was a must-win for the Republicans, it went for McCain in 2008, the GOP spent a ton of money to grab this seat…and they lost by a touchdown.Second, all the fears that the Democrats would lag between the GOP in turnout and enthusiasm didn’t pan out. Democrats are energized and pissed off. Third, the Republican tactics haven’t changed. Goon squads

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Two pivotal events happened to the Republicans in the 1960s, both involving Nixon. First, the Republicans sustained a terrible shock in 1960, losing by a hair to that upstart Irishman. They have insisted ever since that Kennedy stole the election, but the argument is so bogus that even Pat Buchanan laughed it down, pointing out all the illegal stuff the Republicans did in the same election. But

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The website ThinkProgress has had a great couple of days:77 percent of Arizonans want Obama to pass immigration reform – they prefer a federal law over their own brand-new, idiotic state law. (elsewhere on the net, Republican operatives have admitted privately that they chose Tampa rather than Phoenix for their 2012 convention partly because the new Arizona immigration law would make the GOP

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Apocalypse for the wingnuts and Republican bigots, that is. Obama has picked Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. Kagan is Jewish. Let’s stop and appreciate the enormity of this historic moment. For the first time ever, there will be no white male Protestants anywhere in the leadership of the U.S. government. Obama, black, no fixed church (half-black, if you want to be fussy). Joe Biden, Catholic.

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It’s official: the Republicans have no ideas.The Republican “idea machine” has shut down. About a year ago, the Republicans set up a “National Council for a New America”, the GOP’s think tank for its own ideas, to compete with Democratic ideas. We waited and waited and waited. It became clear that the GOP had no ideas. Their entire agenda was to tear down Democratic ideas and attack the Democrats

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Plenty of perfectly sane adults go to Star Trek conventions, dressed up as Star Trek characters, even dressed up as aliens, speaking Klingon, and indulge themselves in their weird little world, the world of phasers and photon torpedos and new planets and the Borg. Then they go home to their relatively normal lives, putting the world of Star Fleet behind. That’s the key. They go home and take off

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Two things you forgot about Arizona!We just learned that the Senate asked the Republican governor of Arizona to delay implementation of their “papers please” policy until next year, to give Congress a chance to do what the Republicans claim they want done – immigration reform. The governor told the Senate to pound sand. This makes it even more likely that Congress will try to tackle the problem

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Good catch from Ariana this week. Look at the four frontrunners for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012? Huckabee, Palin, Romney, Gingrich. What do they have in common?Three of the four are employees of Fox News. All but Mitt. And it’s still early days – they may get him too!So no matter who the GOP nominates to run against Obama, that person is likely to be an employee of Rupert Murdoch. The

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Polling data from ABC shows that the tea party movement is fizzling out, and doing little damage to the Democrats. The movement is drawing support from the Republican party almost exclusively, and the movement's supporters mostly lean Republican already. Only 8 percent of its own members are even active anymore, the movement has little room for growth, Americans have decided that the more they

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Joe Lieberman’s proposal to strip the U.S. citizenship of anyone who is even accused of supporting with a terrorist group, without any due process, is so clearly unconstitutional that both Democrats and Republicans alike have ridiculed it. But there is a small, admittedly irresponsible part of me that wants this law passed. The rightwing yahoos, the most wild-eyed wingnuts, love this plan. “You

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As we know, the Republicans like to make stuff up – not only facts, but the very words we use. For every political jihad they fight, the bumper sticker phrases are sure to follow in short order: death panels, permanent bailouts, checkbook tax, tax-and-spend liberal, soft on terrorism, “Support the Troops!”, Kenyan socialism and all the other neologisms. Their latest gambit: to redefine treason by

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/03/times-square-bomb-attempt_n_561673.htmlAnd in two minutes, the wingnuts will start screaming that Big Bad Gummint is depriving him of his rights....**UPDATE** -- Boy was I wrong! Now the wingnuts are complaining because Obama didn't deprive him of his rights. They are complaining that this U.S. citizen was actually Mirandized. Do these yuckapucks not

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The teabaggers keep saying they are non-partisan populists who want to protect the little guy from the Big Boys who are jeopardizing their economic future – the want accountability for the fat cats who wrecked the economy on Wall Street, and so forth. So they should support the financial reform bill, right?Um, no. Bob Corker, Republican Senator from Tennessee, made the terrible mistake of talking

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Gee, the wingnuts are cracking down on Obama, to bring Big Gummint in and whup up on those big bad oil companies. Clearly their sense of irony is...as sharp as it ever is.As the Washington Monthly correctly pointed out, Obama had the Navy and Coast Guard out there immediately, and already more than a dozen agencies are busting their butts on this -- seems like half his cabinet is down there

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The new Washington Post polls says that:Obama’s approvals are the highest in several months.Respondents like the Democrats over the Republicans by 14 points with respect to solving the nation’s problems.Respondents favour the president over the GOP on virtually every issue.Democrats actually have a 5-point lead over Republicans in a generic ballot, their best showing in months.…and people are

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Why the Democrats need to push immigration reform right now:The Democrats are on a roll, finally figuring out how to shame Republicans into ending their filibusters. But that’s not why they need to push immigration reform.Right now people are really steamed about the Arizona “Papers Please” law. But that’s not why to push reform, either. Right now other states – Texas, Ohio, Utah – are thinking

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More on the dire straits of the white folks. Many powerful historical movements experience what one might call “The Wile E. Coyote Moment”. That dreadful moment when the coyote runs off the cliff, and hangs in the air, in open defiance of the laws of physics. And then he realizes that he is about to fall 1000 feet to yet another physics-defying nonfatal smack! Into the desert floor. The day the

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One thing I find fascinating about the wingnut militiamen, is how they think that they are going to be the Darwinesque survivors if they manage to overthrow the government for the terrible crime of allowing a colored feller to run the store. To that end, these “patriots” have built disaster shelters, stocked with food, batteries, radios, and lots and lots of guns. All ready for the day when Big

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Declare war on Arizona in ten easy steps! Proceed to your local used-car dealership, and purchase the biggest, oldest car you can find. Cadillacs, old Lincolns, perhaps a really old T-Bird or Monte Carlo. Proceed to your local body shop, and have the car lowered six inches down to the ground, and painted a cheery pastel color – yellow, pink, lavender, baby blue, minty green. While you’re there,

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The wingnuts have been screaming about BIG GUMMINT since August. But what else did we hear from the wingnuts all through the last year or so?Where's the federal government, we've got flooding down here in Kentucky and Georgia!!Where's the federal government, we've got a hurricane!!Where's the federal government, the mine exploded!!Where's my Social Security?? Where's my Medicare??We need the Fed

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Kos had a wonderful observation on what the wingnuts really mean when they say they want freedom from Big Gummint, but I wanted to add a couple of observations. As the Kos gang noted, the Republicans and teabaggers hate hate hate the gummint in Washington. The wingnuts want to take us back a century, when there was no government protecting us from dirty sooty air, from contaminated water, from

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Ron Paul did pretty well in the recent GOP straw poll, because he had his minions vigorously flacking his name there. So some of his supporters are pumping him up as the guy to save the GOP from Palin, Romney, Newt and the teabaggers. But is he really ready to fight in the heavyweight class? Plenty of fighters look tough when they've never really been in the ring. And Paul has never faced a real

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Lindsey Graham is throwing a titanic hissy fit, to the effect that he must stop bilateral talks on climate change, because the Democratic effort of immigration is a “cynical ploy” which undermines the legislative process.The problem? Graham was working on immigration with Schumer and the other Democrats. In March he even complained that Obama wasn’t moving forward fast enough on it. "At the end

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So...Will he want to run for VP a second time?And will Obama want him? Obama wanted Biden last time to alleviate concerns about his experience, a problem that Obama won't have next time. Then...If Biden is off the ticket, does Obama make history with Hillary or Sebelius? If Obama's a shoe-in for 2012, does he try to pick a running mate who would be poised to compete in 2016, like Warner or

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Depends on how you look at it. We have now learned that Wellpoint, the health insurer who "covers" 33 million customers, is not only targeting new breast cancer victims to have their coverage dropped -- they actually paid someone to write a computer software algorithm to do it, to find their victims. They undertook a deliberate program to systematically make it easier to ruin the lives of these

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Okay, this is a critical test for the Democrats. First we have the Republican Senate leadership spewing lies about finance reform that are so obviously bullcrap that even the other Republicans couldn't keep a straight face. The Iron Curtain Of Pigheaded Republican Obstruction collapsed in days. They got caught in an obvious bald-faced lie on an issue where the public is fully on the side of the

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The Republicans seem to think that if they can only find some brain-dead wingnut who happens to have gorgeous, luxurious, Ken-doll hair, they’ve got an instant presidential candidate. Thus all the unwarranted presidential oohing and ahhing over guys like John Thune and Rick Santorum. Pawlenty, Pence, Romney, the whole metrosexual set. The latest candidate from Mattel Toys: Virginia Governor Bob

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Did you notice that Mitch McConnell has struggled to hold his troops together?1. unemployment benefits, a vote he already lost, and...2. finance reform, where the other Senate Republicans are hesitating to support McConnell's "Obama wants more bailouts!" nonsenseSeems the other Republicans don't want to campaign this year on a platform of starving unemployed families and giving crooked bankers a

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When a political party is launching an election campaign, not only must they figure out how to raise money, they must also figure out how to organize the money. And then spend it. During the course of a campaign, the party coordinates with its national committee, its presidential campaign if any, Senate committee, House committee, state committees, and everyone else, to coordinate where the

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Larry North of Texas, hate Big Bad Gummint, plants bombs in mailboxes and other sites, to kill the postal workers and other dastardly representatives from that Big Bad Gummint. Thirty-six bombs. Even the rock-ribbed conservatives of Texas call him a terrorist.http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gWR6MJRyzqOvEyvar0bjtY4C5SbAD9EV4VQ00

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Just another attempt by the wingnuts to go nuclear with every stupid political dispute. Teaching kids how to keep themselves safe is a good idea. If the wingnuts want to oppose the policy for their own goofy evangelical reasons, that's fine. But elevating sex ed from a mere political dispute into throwing teachers in jail is...just another sign that these yahoos are completely out of control.

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The Council of Economic Advisers reports that Obama's stimulus package already saved or created 2.2 million to 2.8 million jobs, and it will be 3.5 million jobs by the end of the year. In other words, 3.5 million, um, voters. The deficit has been cut by $300 billion, or a thousand saved for every man, woman and child in the country. Retail sales are up as consumer confidence increases. Job growth

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When Republicans start attacking each other instead of, say, a black Democratic president, there's probably a reason. Four names which are regularly bandied about for the 2012 presidential nomination are the wingnut-friendly Palin and Huckabee, and the would-be grownup "moderates" Romney and Gingrich. Right now, Gingrich is attacking Romney's health care initiatives in Massachusetts. Which is

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For more than a year, Obama has been pounded with an unprecedented rightwing campaign of lies and smears, on everything from death panels to birth certificates. Meanwhile his potential challengers for 2012 have gone largely unscathed, except for a few well-earned potshots at Palin for her latest outrages, like resigning her post mid-term. So you would think Obama wouldn't poll very well in

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http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/04/judge_denies_in.htmlNo less than six health insurers sought to impose double-digit rate hikes. Then a judge slapped them down and said "no". Somebody buy this guy a beer. Do we need any more proof that the insurers are going to screw us over any way they can, unless Big Bad Gummint brings them under control?

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Obama has pesuaded the Ukrainians to give up their nuclear materials. This is a huge deal, now that we are trying to round up the fissile material which is being managed, or mismanaged, by up to 40 countries across the globe -- the Ukraine being among the leaders in this regard. So the obvious question is -- are the Republicans going to increase our risk of a terrorist-run nuclear attack, by

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http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/04/military_poll_advance_041110w/Support for the GOP has dropped like a rock among military professionals in the last few years. And, more importantly, it has dropped even more since Obama came into the picture. This is undoubtedly because (a) they know better than anyone else how badly the Bush administration misused them, and (b) they know that Obama hustled

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Roland Martin of CNN observed that the southern guys who are defending the Virginia Governor’s proclamation regarding Confederate History Month, have been emailing Martin. And they have been using the same arguments to defend the behaviour of the Confederate soldiers, that Muslims use to defend al-Qa’ida and the Taleban. “They invaded our homeland, so we had to defend it, and get revenge for the

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In Afghanistan the Taliban have a system called “night letters” – they drop a letter at your house, threatening violence unless you do what the Taliban says. So let’s read a few:“You’re a dead man. We’re coming to your house. We already smashed your window. Now we’re coming back to kill your wife and your kids. We might even run you off the road, and your kids too. We’re in your town every day,

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That's right, girls. Obama cut your taxes. Because he's a socialist. Obama removed government-run single-payer from the health plan. Because he's a socialist. Obama removed the government-run public option from the health plan. Because he's a socialist. Obama saved the auto manufacturers. Because he's a socialist. Obama saved the banks, and resisted the urge to impose draconian regulations.

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The word we’re looking at today is "fatwa".That's one of those funny Islamic things, in which an imam or ayatollah says "it is permissible and desireable, under Islamic law, for good Muslims to go attack Americans, Israelis, and Jews anywhere." And then the cuckoobirds go and do just that. The Ayatollah Khomeini put a fatwa on Salman Rushdie, and Usama bin Laden put one on all Americans. Issuing

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Look at Republicans present and past, and ponder…Were they gay?J. Edgar Hoover, I think we can close the book on that one. Reagan and Romney, with the perfectly coiffed, laquered black hair, hostile to women and their causes...? Bush 41, married a woman who looks like his mommy, forever trying to blow shit up and kill people just to prove he was as manly as Ronnie? Rick Santorum, Eric Cantor,

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/11/lieberman-nuclear-deal-ob_n_533204.htmlLieberman threatens to block the nuclear arms treaty like he did with the public option. Now can we strip him of his committee chair and toss him out of the Democratic caucus?

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http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/36248Potential presidential candidate Rick Santorum is out there claiming that Obama is…a black Muslim totalitarian communist who hates families – so jump out of your chairs and fight!Read his words, and let’s break the code together. They’re all about speaking in code words. “The founding documents upon which our founding documents were based and that's

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http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/west-virginians-1-wingnut-westboro-0The Westboro hatemongers are at it again – in West Virginia. They marched over to coal country to tell all those grieving parents, wives and children that the miners deserved to die because America tolerates gays. And because West Virginia has too many Catholics.

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Lately the Republicans, in their desperation, have started whinging about having – gasp! – a community organizer as President. That’s their code language for “angry uppity black man who stirs up trouble in the ghetto and maybe even causing a riot in a neighborhood near you”. Scary black man! Be afraid!Let’s set aside the stupidity of their implications with respect to what a community organizer

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At the recent GOP White Boy Conference in New Orleans, Romney won the straw poll although he didn’t even show up. Romney 439, Paul 438, Palin 330, Newt 321. Not bad. And neatly enough, of the four big vote-getters, three are at least seen as sane. The party leaders are clearly nervous about throwing too much meat to the teabaggers by pumping up Palin or Bachmann or some other loon. Palin marches

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Republicans usually excel at message discipline. For weeks they screamed that the reconcilation process was an unconstitutional usurpation. It was a laughable lie -- reconciliation is not only constitutional, but the Republicans themselves used it to beat up the Democrats many times. But the GOP maintained discipline and kept hollering the same lie over and over, until a lot of people began to

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Some Republicans, in a desperate search for any credible presidential candidate not from Alaska, are touting the clear and obvious brilliance and greatness of that glorious piece of presidential timber, John Thune of South Dakota. But they don’t really say why he’s such hot stuff. They’re kinda quiet about Thune and his record. Hmm…Could it be because Thune twisted arms in the Senate, to get

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Chris Bowers of Open Left says that the 2012 GOP nomination is Palin’s if she wants it.She can draw a crowd and raise money, as Bowers noted. Right now the Republicans are intensely focused on fundraising, because Steele clumsily broke the GOP money pipeline right in the middle of the midterms, by angering party donors with his strip-club fiasco. The Republicans have expressed fear of Palin in

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Currently the Republicans are bellowing all sorts of insane threats about how they're going to beat us up and take our lunch money in the 2010 elections. "We're going to lie to the American people about the Senate bill and tell people you approved the Nebraska deal! Because we can lie faster than you can tell the truth! Muwahahahahahahahaha!"Their latest threat is that they are going to campaign

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Earlier I noted how the GOP has slid so far to the right, that it is leaving its former heroes behind -- they have slammed McCain, Lindsey Graham and Newt for being insufficiently wingnutty. Practically socialists!Keith Olbermann neatly juxtaposed two such stories tonight: Glenn Beck screeching that Mitt Romney is a socialist for advocating a decent health care system in Massachusetts. And Rudy

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Palin and Bachmann had a monster teabagger rally today, and people were running around wearing Palin-Bachmann buttons. 2012 GOP ticket?I'm not a praying man, but please please please could we have this ticket to run against?

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Here's the news, just from today:1. Rightwing congressional candidate Allen West tells the people of Florida to use terror tactics against the incumbent congressman, just for being a Democrat. "Let me tell you what you've got to do! You've got to make the fellow scared to come out of his house! That's the only way that you're going to win!"So not only are they admitting that terrorism is their

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Not long ago a wingnut redneck posted some crazy screed about boycotting the Dixie Chicks. And I responded...So, I’m assuming that you also boycott the Letterman show, because of the adultery. And all of Tiger Woods’ tournaments and sponsors, and Robin Williams’ movies…And I suppose you burned all your Michael Jackson records when you found out he was a pedophile and a drug addict. And all the

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...and here's an old piece published just before health reform was passed. On the last day, the left and the right…The last full day of conflict and strategy on the health reform bill. Here’s the left, negotiating with the various factions on serious issues such as abortion, Roe, the Hyde Amendment, budget concerns, CBO projections, reconciliation, parliamentary process. You know, doing their

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This was originally posted elsewhere a couple of weeks ago. It is the day after health reform became law…and how have the Republicans behaved? All I can say is…Wow. How long do we put up with this, before we declare the conservative movement a domestic terrorist group, with the Republican party acting as their Sinn-Fein-like front men? They tried to blow up four children who are relatives of one

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The Republican party is sinking to a new low that even I wouldn’t have expected. Their new argument is that the latest wave of Republican-inspired violence and threats is…all the Democrats’ fault. This, of course, is not the first time the Republicans have tried to blame Democrats for the consequences of Republican disasters that the Democrats actually opposed – the entire GOP economic policy

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Yes, America, we know. Times are tough. But listen now. Let’s remember who got us into this mess: the Republicans, with their irresponsible deregulation, handing incredible power to corporate criminals, and racking up gigantic deficits. The Republicans got us into this recession, they did virtually nothing to get us out of the recession, and when the Democrats took over, the Republicans BLOCKED

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In the space of about a week, Obama smacked around the Republican party on health care and on recess appointments, slapped the Prime Minister of Israel upside his head on settlements, and brought the President of Russia to heel on nuclear arms. Then he said it was his best week in a long damn time and flew off to Camp David for Miller Time and basketball. Clearly the experiment with being the

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Sarah Palin eggs on the tea-partiers a week ago: “In these volatile times when we are a nation at war, now more than ever is when we need a commander-in-chief, not a constitutional law professor lecturing us from a lectern.”Let’s set aside the fact that Obama has done superbly as commander in chief – clearly better than his criminally incompetent predecessor. And the fact that Obama has by no

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I am beginning to wonder if Obama is even smarter than we thought.Until recently, Mitt Romney would have been considered the frontrunner for the 2012 GOP nomination: he consistently wins straw polls among Republicans, he has the money to run, and he does okay against Obama in head-to-head polling (although Obama still leads). But by winning passage of health care reform, Obama has seriously

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Now that health reform has passed, the roar of the conservative wingnuts is just beginning to reach full blast. The feds arrested the Hutaree for plotting to kill police and their families, Daniel Cowart pleaded guilty for planning a killing spree aimed against blacks, windows were smashed at Democratic headquarters in Alaska, and – something the mainstream media seems to be underplaying for some

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First of all, this is not 1994. There are a great many differences. One key difference is Republican leadership. In 1994 the GOP had Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and of course Haley Barbour, who was arguably the most effective Republican party chairman ever. Now those three positions are held by John Boehner, who is not taken very seriously as a potential Speaker; Mitch McConnell who is a master

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Something to watch for: Palin's movements over the summer. When someone plans to run for president, they build up a stack of chits they can cash in later, by helping party candidates across the country, with campaign visits and particularly with fundraising. That's how Nixon rose from the dead in 1968. So if you see Palin out there raising money for normal, sane Republicans, then she is taking

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/01/03/romney_will_hit_key_primary_states_on_book_tour/They just announced that Mitt Romney is launching a book tour. Guess where he’s going to flack the book and speak out? Iowa.So, to the shock of nobody, he’s running again in 2012. Romney is no mere dabbler in Mormonism. He used a ministerial deferment to dodge the draft, spent two and

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/polls-show-no-political-backlash-against-obama-after-flight-253----even-a-possible-improvement.php?ref=fpaMore GOP smear attacks fail.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-29-admire-gallup-poll_N.htmA solid year of unprecedented smear attacks against Obama, and he is still, by a mile, the most popular man in America. All the crap about birth certificates, death panels, government takeovers, improper choice of mustard...All ignored by the 80 percent of the country that is not insane. And Hillary, not Sarah Palin, is

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Cancer Treatment and Health Care ReformOne argument you may hear against health care reform concerns cancer survival rates. The United States has higher cancer survivor rates than countries with national health care systems, we’re told. Doesn’t this mean we should keep what we’ve got and not change it?Certainly cancer survival rates are a critical issue for people suffering from the deadly lung

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Months ago, the GOP was screeching about Obama's handling of the swine flu crisis -- neatly ignoring the fact that they were holding up the nominations of the top Health and Human Services officials who would have handled the mess. Now they're hollering about Obama's handling of the Detroit airplane scare -- all while they're blocking the appointment of the TSA chief. They have also been blocking

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The great causes in the progress of mankind – freedom, justice, democracy, the abolition of slavery -- often have deep roots, lost in the mists of the ancient world. But the cause of female empowerment, I think, can be given a pretty firm birth-date: 463 BC. The ancient world was an inhospitable place for women. For more than a thousand years, the lives of women in ancient China were described as

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Tonight was a meeting of people who shouldn't be alive. My youngest daughter was abandoned to die, at birth, in the woods; she has overcome almost total blindness, allergy to sunlight, and infectious disease that drove her temperature to 106. My wife was so sickly at birth that her family was told she would never be born alive, and she has a long laundry list of medical conditions. I was born

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/02/beck-primary/

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Recently, Iowa Republicans were turning away from Sarah Palin and toward Mike Huckabee as the conservative choice for the all-important Iowa primary in 2012. But now the SS Huckabee has taken another torpedo in the side. A second Huckabee commutee, Maurice Clemmons, seems to have murdered four policemen. Huckabee also commuted the sentence of Wayne Dumond, who raped and murdered two women, one of

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Let’s play a parlor trick on the Republicans. Let’s send Robert Gibbs out to announce to the White House press corps that America faces an imminent attack from terrorists based in Fredonia. And then wait for the insanity to begin. Glenn Beck: (weeping) OMG the humanity! All the women and little children at risk of being MURDERED IN THEIR BEDS by these Fredonians!Michael Steele: We’re imposing a

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The media is still relentless in bashing Obama, even in defiance of the facts. Such as: Obama has extracted concessions from China on climate change and on Iran, both of which are huge advances. But you'll never hear the media admit it.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/27/trigger-urban-institute/Early discussion of Olympia Snowe's trigger option faded away because Democrats feared the trigger would never be pulled, and Republicans didn't want to do anything at all. But Obama and Reid are looking for a way out of the current impasse. Now there is a new trigger proposal that links the trigger, not to local affordability of

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The National Tea Party convention will be held at Nashville’s Opryland Hotel this February; tickets are $549. 500 dollar tickets to the Opry, way to reach out beyond old white voters! Palin and Bachmann will speak; the media will be cordoned off in the lobby, banned from the convention itelf, and definitely banned from the Palin event (if Palin shows up). So the wingnuts are taking giant strides

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/business/economy/21stimulus.html?_r=1GDP and employment would have been much worse without the stimulus. “There are a little over 1.1 million more jobs out there as of October than would have been out there without the stimulus."Another GOP talking point goes up in smoke.

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Mike Huckabee is arguably the strongest GOP presidential candidate for 2012; he has a legitimate claim to being the top leader of the party. But wait! I'm wrong! The real party leader is...COURIC: Were you referring to anyone in particular or anyone specific because I know Rush Limbaugh had criticized the day before you made that statement. HUCKABEE: No one in particular. I wasn’t criticizing

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Although the Republican wingnuts nationally are turning away from Palin and toward Huckabee, in Iowa she is at least as popular as Huckabee is, according to the latest polling in Iowa. Both of them poll better than Romney in Iowa, but in the Iowa caucuses Palin and Huckabee will be competing for the same wingnut votes. So while we know Palin is still alive as a presidential candidate, despite her

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Last week Fox was caught lying yet again, this time by faking the size of the turnout at a Palin book-signing. But this time they actually admitted the error and imposed a zero-tolerance policy for errors: people who put factual errors on the air face punishment. “Jobs are on the line here”! So obviously Fox will go off the air in a matter of weeks, because none of their on-air talent can

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That silly old hate crimes bill was compleeeeeetely unnecessary, right?The FBI disclosed today that the number of anti-gay hate crimes last year was almost 2000. Two thousand. Five times a day, crazed wingnuts attack some gay guy, or some gay girl. Five times a day. And that's just the stuff that's reported as a crime, not to mention the thousand times a day a gay student is rammed into his

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The Republican National Committee is working on a “purity test” for its candidates. All candidates must oppose Obama’s stimulus bill, oppose Obama’s health reform, oppose health care rationing (which no one is proposing) and federal funding of abortion, oppose Obama’s cap-and-trade plan, oppose gay marriage, oppose card check, oppose immigrant amnesty, support troop surges, support the

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/22/beck-100-year-plan/BECK: I’ve done a lot of reading on history in the last few years and I was amazed to find that what we’re experiencing now is really a ticking time bomb that they designed about 100 years ago, beginning in the progressive movement. And they thought, “you know what, if we just do this and this and this and this, over time if we do it in both

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/20/inhofe-to-boxer-we-won-yo_n_365465.htmlHere's wingnut Senator Inhofe celebrating that he managed to delay the climate change bill until January, sneering at Barbara Boxer -- "We won, you lost, get a life."Remember Leon Lett in the Super Bowl years ago, doing his touchdown dance before he even got to the end zone, and then getting the ball knocked out of

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The latest polling shows that J.D. Hayworth, a far-right anti-immigrant radio host and Tea Party activist, is in a virtual tie with John McCain for the Republican nomination for McCain’s Senate seat. Hayworth has said he’s interested in running but he hasn’t committed. This is perfectly fitting, because McCain helped throw gasoline on the fire all across Planet Wingnut, when he surrendered to the

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