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Obama Strikes Back -- First Year Agenda, Phase III

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Phase III: Obama Strikes Back. The Republicans are still leaderless and teabaggers have hung up their Lipton for the winter. Meanwhile, two-thirds of Americans still want health care reform.

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2012 GOP Candidates as Diverse And Exciting as Their Ideas

Julie Farby | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Pawlenty, Republicans, 2012 Presidential Election, Newt Gingrich, 2012 Election, Bobby Jindal, Gop 2012, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News

In the vast wasteland that is the 2012 GOP presidential landscape, fresh-faced stars join seasoned statesman to create a powerful right-wing juggernau...

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Opt-Out? Not So Fast My Friend -- KansasDeservesReform.com

Mike Nellis | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kansas, Democratic Party, Health Reform, Republicans, Health Care, Politics News

You've heard the statistics: 350,000 Kansans don't have health insurance, while thousands struggle in a system that costs more, but provides less.

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GOP Impatient With Party Leaders Over Health Care, Awaiting An Alternative Plan

The Hill | Molly K. Hooper | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop Leadership, Republicans Health Care, Republican Health Care Alternative, Gop Health Care, John Boehner Health Care, Health Care Reform, Gop, Gop Health Care Alternative, Eric Cantor Health Care, Health Care, Health Care Alternative, Health Insurance Reform, Republicans, Politics News

Some House Republicans are growing frustrated that their leaders have not yet introduced a healthcare reform alternative. For months, the message fro...

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Newt Gingrich's Presidential Ambitions Laughed At By Conservatives

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tea Party Activists, Newt Gingrich Tea Party, Republican Presidential Candidates 2012, Newt Gingrich Republicans, Newt Gingrich Gop, Newt Gingrich Presidential Run, Newt Gingrich Conservatives, Conservatives, Newt Gingrich 2012, Gop, Newt Gingrich President, Newt Gingrich Right-Wing, Newt Gingrich, Gop Presidential Candidates 2012, Tea Party, Republicans, Politics News

When Lisa Miller found out that former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich would be signing books on Saturday in McLean, Va., she hauled out her video cam...

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GOP Activist Resigns Over "DWS" Target Practice

Sun Sentinel | Anthony Man | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Napolitano Wasserman Schultz, Ed Napolitano Resigns, Robert Lowry, Lowry Wasserman Schultz, Napolitano Resignation, Lowry Shoots Initials, Napolitano Apologizes, Lowry Target Practice, Gop, Ed Napolitano, Napolitano Gop, Napolitano Republicans, Debbie Waserman Shultz, Napolitano Letter, Republicans, Napolitano Apology Letter, Politics News

Republican activist Ed Napolitano has apologized to U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, and resigned from all his Republican Party positions...

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Poking the Cobra

Will Durst | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Karl Rove, Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, Satire, Political Satire, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Democrats, Republicans, Comedy News

Obama needs to keep in mind the advice my father regularly spouted after his third six pack: never get in a fight with an ugly person, he's got nothing to lose. You know. Like a Republican.

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Independent Voters Shifting Away From Obama, Democrats

RealClearPolitics | Salena Zito | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

A poll of opinion polls shows Americans' attitudes are changing rapidly. They are less and less thrilled about the country's direction and Congress, ...

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Deliverance

Steven Weber | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Jeb Bush, 2012 Election, Tea Party, Health Care, George Orwell, Republicans, Politics News

Would a truly patriotic American defend the practice of insanely profitable drug companies charging exorbitant fees for medicines that the elderly and infirm cannot afford?

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Marco Rubio Will Defeat Charlie Crist in the 2010 GOP Senate Primary

Senate Guru | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charlie Crist, Florida, Nrsc, Marco Rubio, Senate 2010, Republican Primary, Republicans, Straw Polls, Florida Senate Race, Politics News

Florida's conservative Republican base overwhelmingly prefers Rubio to Crist as their nominee, no matter what the DC GOP establishment and NRSC might try to dictate. Look at the polls.

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Jeb Bush: GOP Must Be More Than The "Old White Guy Party," "Party Of No"

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop Image, Republican Party, Republican Image, Jeb Bush Gwu Speech, Jeb Bush Republican Party, Jeb Bush Gop, Gop, Jeb Bush Speech, Jeb Bush, Republicans, Politics News

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush had some critical words for Republicans in a recent speech, saying the GOP needed to become more than the "old white ...

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Halloween Parties and the Latest in Gruesome Candy

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Candy, Marty Feldman, Stephen Moyer, Zombies, Will Durst, Vampires, Balloon Boy, Bela Lugosi, Vomit, Spiders, Halloween, Hannibal Lecter, Goldman Sachs, Candy Corn, Douchebags, John Belushi, Filippa Hamilton, Alex O'Loughlin, True Blood, Billy Mays, Activia Yogurt, Jeffrey Dahmer, Glenn Beck, Republicans, Halloween Party, Jack Nicholson, Leatherface, Living News

Where once the King of Halloween confection was Candy Corn -- selling 8.3 billion kernels a year -- planners of today's Halloween parties lobby their new faves: the latest in gross and disgusting party food.

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Myth Understood

Steven Weber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fox News, Roger Ailes, Law and Order, Barack Obama, Las Vegas, Republicans, American Democracy, Politics News

One good thing the Republicans have accomplished, albeit accidentally, is the lifting of the veil from the big, ugly machine of American democracy.

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The Missing Story in Democracy Corps' Analysis of the Conservative Right

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Authoritarianism, Democracy Corps, President Obama, Religious Right, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, Republicans, Politics News

The study is certainly worth reading in full, but I wanted to address Democracy Corps' dismissal of a "racial element" in this hard-core right wing opposition to Obama.

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Twitter Scandal: GOP Lawmakers Pose As Dems, Refuse To Stop

New York Times | Maria Newman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republicans Fake Websites, Gop Impersonates Democrats, Chris Healy, Democrats Twitter, Republicans Twitter Impersonation, GOP Twitter, Gop, Republicans Twitter, Gop Fake Website, Chris Healy Twitter, Gop Twitter Impersonation, Republicans, Politics News

We know politicians are making more use of Twitter and other social networking tools, and we know the Republicans are making more use of it than their...

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Republicans: We're Boxed In By Conservative Commentators

Politico | Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop Presidential Candidates, Republican Presidential Candidates 2012, Rush Limbaugh, Republican 2012 Election, Republican Party, Republican Rift, GOP Rhetoric, Mitt Romney, 2012 Election, Gop, Tim Pawlenty, Republican Rhetoric, Glenn Beck, Partisan Rhetoric, Gop Rift, Republicans, Politics News

Many top Republicans are growing worried that the party's chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboya...

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Keep Going, Republicans! You're Doing Great!

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pat Buchanan, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Democratic Party, Michelle Malkin, Mark Halperin, Michele Bachmann, David Brooks, Political Parties, Blue Dogs, Erick Erickson, David Frum, Glenn Beck, Christopher Buckley, Republican Party, Chris Cillizza, Republicans, Politics News

If recent polling is any indication, people don't want to be associated with the party that elevates the self-satirical wackaloons. Especially when they refuse to be honest about who they are.

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Wall Street Donating Little To Obama

The New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

The Wall Street giants that received a financial lifeline from Washington may have no compunction about paying big bonuses to their dealmakers and tra...

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Step Up to Mike's Challenge

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Roger and Me, Barbara Boxer, Fair Elections Now Act, Houses, Lobbyists, Vermont, Connecticut, Jobs, Fahrenheit 9/11, Dianne Feinstein, Contributors, Arizona, California, Capitalism: A Love Story, New Mexico, New Jersey, Clean Money, Maine, Senator Barbara Boxer, iPhone App, Foreclosure, Congressman Henry Waxman, North Carolina, California Fair Elections, Participatory Democracy, S. 752, H.R. 1826, Campaign Finance, Congress, Democracy, Henry Waxman, Democrats, Sicko, Insurers, Corporations, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Corporate Greed, Medical Treatment, Iphone, Banks, Michael Moore, Republicans, Senate, Campaign Finance Reform, Healthcare, Fena, Hardball, Anderson Cooper, Msnbc, Chris Matthews, Cnn, Politics News

Despite all we've learned from Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger and Me, we continue to take abuse. Our pal Mike is now asking us to act.

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Republican Senator Olympia Snowe Controversially Decides to Deprive Country of Poor Health Care

Ben Berkon | Posted 10.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Maine Senator, Bridge, Mitch McConnell, Olympia Snowe, Health Care, Orrin Hatch, Republicans, Ben Berkon, Dick Cheney, Comedy News

In political news, Republican Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe, has publicly decided to sign the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill, controversially depriving the United States of its poor health care.

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Bill Maher On The Year In Ridiculous Republicans (VIDEO)

Posted 10.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Bill Maher Republicans, Real Time With Bill Maher, Bill Maher Gop, Video, Bill Maher, Republicans, Comedy News

On ""Real Time" Friday night, Bill Maher decided to end his show by mocking all the Republicans who have become prime targets for jokes now that Georg...

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Hillary Is Still the Best President That Wasn't

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gallup Poll, Democratic Party, State Department, Obama, Presidential Experience, Presidency, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, 2012, Politics News

Millions still have a deep respect, admiration, and appreciation for her tireless work as a women's rights advocate, her fight for health care reform, civil rights, and international diplomacy.

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Joe Scarborough, the "Real Conservative," Has Been Blinded by the Right

Max Blumenthal | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Joe Scarborough, Republican Gomorrah, Conservatives, Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, Democrats, Barack Obama, Max Blumenthal, Republicans, Media News

"We don't do Crossfire here," Scarborough muttered to me after the cameras went off. He was visibly upset and unable to make eye contact with me.

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When the Two Parties of a Two Party System Don't Know Why They Exist

Simon Sinek | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vision, Dnc, Start With Why, Rnc, Olympia Snowe, Democrats, Democratic Party, Platform, Why, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

Neither party does a good job of contextualizing why they have the opinions they do in the first place. Though both parties know why America exists, neither party can tell you why it exists.

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