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Anatomy of the Tea Party Movement: Tea Party Express

Alex Brant-Zawadzki | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Foley, Craig Shirley, Americans for Prosperity, Lloyd-Marcus-Tea-Party-Anthem, Tax Day Tea Parties, Fox News, Sal Russo, Teaparty, Tea Party Express, Barack Obama, Lloyd Marcus, Republicans, Politics News

When people think of the Tea Party movement many of them think of the Tea Party Express rallies that received extensive coverage over the summer from FOX News.

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GOP Purity Test: Republican Party's Version of the Longest Suicide Note in History

Kara Vallow | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Foley, Womens Rights, Ronald Reagan, John Ensign, David Vitter, Republican Purity Test, Women and Politics, Gop Purity Resolution, Gop, Purity Balls, Larry Craig, Defense of Marriage Act, Gop Purity Test, Politics News

You can tell the sun is setting on a once-great political party when it starts issuing angry, demonizing mission statements that seem deliberately devised to alienate as many moderate voters as possible.

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Letterman Hurled Spit Balls In Glass House

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 10.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mark Sanford, Mark Foley, David Letterman Affairs, Gary Hart, David Letterman Extortion, Larry Craig, Sarah Palin, David Letterman, Comedy News

NEW YORK — Some of the politicians zinged by David Letterman over the years for their indiscretions are offering pity and advice for the scandal...

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Bill Maher And Jay Leno Read Sexual Emails From Politicians (VIDEO)

Posted 11.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Bill Maher, Mark Foley, Mark Sanford, Mark Foley IMs, Video, Jay Leno, Mark Sanford Love Letters, Bill Maher on Jay Leno, Bill Maher and Jay Leno, Jay Leno Bill Maher, Bill Maher Jay Leno, Leno Maher, Comedy News

Bill Maher was Jay Leno's guest last night on his fledgling show, and while Leno is now in primetime, Maher brought a certain late night attitude to t...

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Mark Foley: Disgraced Former GOP Congressman Makes Radio Debut

AP | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley began his new career on a Florida political talk radio, three years after a lurid scandal ru...

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Mark Foley To Host Talk Radio Show

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — There's a surprising new voice in the world of political talk radio as former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley returns to the spotli...

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Other Politicians Who Should Join Reality TV Shows Now That Tom DeLay Did (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 09.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mark Foley, Slideshow, Ted Stevens, Reality TV, Mitch McConnell, Larry Craig, Marion Barry, Slidepoll, Comedy News

Since Tom DeLay has agreed to do the cha-cha on Season 9 of "Dancing with the Stars," we think a few of his compatriots should follow suit. Here are o...

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Hypocrisy in High Places

Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Mark Foley, Mark Sanford, Ted Haggard, Rob Livingston, Hypocrisy, Larry Craig, Newt Gingrich, Sexual Misconduct, Henry Hyde, John Ensign, Jimmy Swaggart, Family Values, Chip Pickering, David Vitter, Sexual Infidelity, Politics News

When we repress important needs and desires so severely that we are unable to accept them as a part of ourselves, we give up the possibility of a controlled, thoughtful response to them.

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Bill Maher Compares Mark Sanford's Love Letters To Mark Foley's IMs (VIDEO)

Posted 08.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mark Sanford, Mark Foley, Video, Bill Maher, Bill Maher Mark Sanford, Bill Maher Video, Comedy News

In the past Bill Maher has defended Governor Mark Sanford amidst the furor over his affair because he just seems like a guy lost in the throes of true...

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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Governor Sanford: Humpty Dumpty Cracks Up

Deborah King | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, South-Carolina-Governor-Sanford, Governor Sanford, Mark Foley, Larry Craig Scandal, Mark Sanford Argentina, John Ensign Affair, Sanford Affair, Elliot Spitzer, Politics News

Isn't it time we grew up and stopped accusing others of sexual "wrongdoing" to cover our own misguided behavior?

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Note To Spitzer: Gremilns?!

Lionel | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

No arena has been spared its own blemish and moral hiccup. Sports, entertainment, politics, the clergy -- name it.

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Poetry & Politicians: For Better or Verse

Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel | Posted 02.16.2009 | Style

Read More: Blagojevich, Mark Foley, Mitch McConnell, Clinton, John Boehner, Politicians, Palin, Dobson, Cheney, Mccain, Larry Craig, Richardson, Jeb Bush, Poetry, Bush, Rove, Portland Oregon, Style News

For Jeb Bush: "They fuck you up, your mum and dad./They may not mean to, but they do./They fill you with the faults they had/And add some extra, just for you."

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Smooth Criminals: The Best-Dressed GOP Convicts (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 12.19.2008 | Style

Read More: Corruption, Mark Foley, Jack Abramoff, Ted Stevens, Slideshow, Bribery, Scandal, Larry Craig, Bernard Kerik, Fashion, Bernie Kerik, Republicans, Style News

Every good political villain needs a look, be it Kim Jong-Il's fondness for futuristic fashion, the trademark fatigues of Fidel Castro, or the decepti...

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Former Congressman Mark Foley Breaks Silence On Sex Scandal

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mark Foley and Page Scandal, Mark Foley and Congressional Pages, Mark Foley, Foley Sex Scandal, Politics News

NEW YORK — Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexuall...

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Will God Stop Voting?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.29.2008 | Living

Read More: George Bush, Mark Foley, John MCain, John Ashcroft, Religion and Politics, Religious Right, Larry Craig, God, Barack Obama, Voting, Religion, Living News

There never will be, and never should be, a religious reason to pick one candidate over another. God hasn't personally voted in an American election, but he keeps voting by proxy.

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Friday Talking Points [52] -- What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

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I started blogging over two years ago. That is to say, right about the time the 2008 presidential campaign began. OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration...

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A Tale of Two Scandals

Win McCormack | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican Sex Scandals, Win McCormack, Tin House, Oregonian, Jeff Baker, Mark Foley, Tim Mahoney, You Don't Know Me, Democrat, Congress, Pedophilia, Political Sex Scandals, Republican, Adultery, Patricia Allen, Congress Scandal, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News

"What's the big deal? Don't Democrats do exactly the same things? Aren't they just as hypocritical? Aren't they just as guilty as Republicans are?"

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Second Mahoney Affair Discovered: Report

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tim Mahoney, Tim Mahoney Affair, Tim Mahoney Second Affair, Florida Rep Affair, Florida Congressman Affair, Mark Foley, Mahoney Affair, Mahoney Second Affair, Politics News

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney did not use campaign funds to buy the silence of a former aide with whom he is accused of having a...

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Congressman's $121,000 Payoff To Alleged Mistress

ABC News | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mark Foley, Tim Mahoney, Scandal, Democrat, Congressman, Mistress, Politics News

West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL), whose predecessor resigned in the wake of a sex scandal, agreed to a $121,000 payment to a former mist...

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Foley Not Likely To Be Charged In Page Scandal, Feds Say

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley won't face state or federal criminal charges for sending salacious computer messages to unde...

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Sexus Perplexus: Prurience, Politics and Piety

Linda Hansen | Posted 09.09.2008 | Home

Illicit sex is the ultimate American no-no, the "black act" we love to hate. But we have the power to change the definition of obscenity. Extra-marital sex? That's the least of John Edwards' problems.

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Top GOP VP Choices: Failed Business Leaders, Former Dems, Confirmed Bachelors and Creationists

Paul Jenkins | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

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If you thought the Republican primary field was a bit of a joke, wait until you get a closer look at the front runners for the vice presidential slot.

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Investigators Ask Pelosi For Access To Disgraced Former GOP Rep Mark Foley's Computers

ABC News | Vic Walter and Krista Kjellman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Republican Sex Scandals, Sexual Text Messages, Mark Foley Text Messages to Kids, Gop Sex Scandals, Nancy Relosi, Mark Foley, Republicans, Home News

Florida law enforcement officials investigating former Republican Rep. Mark Foley, whose e-mails and instant messages to teenage former congressional ...

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FL Statute Of Limitations May Get Foley Off The Hook

ABC News | Vic Walter and Krista Kjellman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley, whose e-mails and instant messages to teenage former congressional pages shocked the country, may avoid crimi...

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