GOP, You Can't Handle the Truth! (FRAUD)

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The GOP vision of the future is miserable. The same George W. Bush agenda but now served with a side dish of suffering.

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ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION: the inability to become
aroused over any of the choices for President, put
forth by the gop party in the 2012 election year.

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Since the disastrous Citizens United decision two years ago, there has been an unprecedented flood of corporate special interest money into the political process, much of it from oil companies and other polluters.

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Gingrich, who released his returns during the debate, told the audience, “If there’s anything in there that is going to help us lose the election, we should know it before the nomination. And if there’s nothing in there, why not release it?”

The fact that Romney still can’t answer that question coherently should be of great concern to Republican voters. The fact that Romney has suddenly forgotten how to be a competent debater should be of great concern to his Republican supporters.

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mitt, the Republican frontrunner “has come to be defined, through a recurring series of off-the-cuff gaffes, as a callous, out-of-touch rich man.”

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no one can afford to vote for the GOP (Greedy One Percent) again

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Jon M. Huntsman Jr. Says He Is Quitting G.O.P. Race

Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy a week before he had hoped to revive his campaign in the South Carolina primary.

Mr. Huntsman, who had struggled to live up to the soaring expectations of his candidacy, made plans to make an announcement as early as Monday. He had been set to participate in an evening debate in Myrtle Beach.

Read More:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/huntsman-says-hes-quitting-g-o-p-race/?emc=na

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I'll feel better when I know we have a winnable opponent....... WI Update: All Six Recalls Have Signatures Needed; A Look to What’s Next

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/14/wi-update-all-six-recalls-have-signatures-needed-a-look-to-whats-next/

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how positive does the walker recall look?

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Gingrich-Backing Casino Mogul Separates Himself From Anti-Bain Rhetoric

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the Republican Party has become radicalized

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GOP: Greedy One Percenters.

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The Republican Party is a criminal enterprise­.

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happy new year 2012 to all the democrats

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Republicans, for all their whining about the Dems, will use any means to gain power: deception, deceit, fraud, intimidation, etc. Scum.

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Google Mark Jacoby, voter fraud, and his Republican voter registration group YPM ( Young Political Majors. Republicans in California are familiar with voter fraud because they committed it. link:

http://tinyurl.com/5rbhxd7

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GOP mantra. lie. cheat and steal. never admit anything.

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There’s no mystery here, and Republicans aren’t even being subtle — they’re trying to rig an entire election cycle by putting the most severe hurdles between Americans and the voting process since Jim Crow.

The GOP fears losing in a fair fight, so the party is trying to rig the game through voter suppression, plain and simple.

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Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) appeared Sunday on CNN's State of the Union, with an important message for Republicans on Christmas: Don't let the Tea Partiers -- like the one challenging Lugar in his primary -- cost the GOP in 2012. Lugar, who was first elected to the Senate in 1976, is being challenged from the right in the Republican primary, by state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. Notably, Lugar slammed Tea Party activists and candidates from the last cycle -- for costing the Republicans the chance to win...

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Lugar: Tea Party In 2010 'Killed Off' Chance For Republican Senate

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Republicans have an incentive, not only to hold the country back on purpose, but also to block every good idea, even the ones they agree with, because they assume voters will end up blaming the president in the end.

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Republicans have to blame government whether the argument is ridiculous or not — their ideology demands it.

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We talked earlier, for example, about Romney lying about President Obama’s record on job creation. It was a rather casual lie, but it was a demonstrably false claim about the nation’s most important issue. The former governor made the claim in an interview with Time’s Mark Halperin, who not only chose to let the lie slide, but passed along Romney’s bogus argument to the public with no scrutiny or fact-checking at all.

Whether Halperin didn’t know he was being lied to or simply didn’t care is unclear. But the larger point remains the same: media professionals (a) have to know the basics so they can have some idea when candidates are trying to mislead them; and (b) have a responsibility to call out blatant dishonesty when they see it.

As Greg Sargent put it earlier today, “Look, Romney is going to make the claims that Obama didn’t create any jobs, and that he made the economy worse, countless times between now and next fall. They will be central to his entire campaign rationale. Can we please start pressing him to justify it when he says this stuff?”

That need not be a rhetorical question.

The alternative is a further descent into “post-truth politics,” with a negligent media enabling liars every step of the way.

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Republicans nationwide, as part of the “war on voting,” keep putting new hurdles between voters and the ballot box, ostensibly because they fear the scourge of fraud.

The irony is, the deceit Republicans are worried about is imaginary, while the real-world fraud is coming from their side of the political divide.

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GOP House has a message for the Middle Class

"We don't want your votes, we don't need your votes, Fuck you."

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and widdle airwick is gonna throw a tantrum

A tantrum is an emotional outburst that is typically characterized by stubbornness, crying, screaming, defiance, angry ranting and a resistance to attempts at pacification.

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What we have here is a failure to communicate.

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342 days since gop re-took the house and still no jobs bill

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Boehner: We Expect Members To Work Quickly To Reach One-Year Deal

House Speaker John Boehner says he expects members of Congress to work “expeditiously to reach the one-year deal we all want.”

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the gop loves jim crow laws acct they restrict minority voters

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Walker Recall: Little Progress With Job Creation Could Create Hurdle For Governor

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Their isolation complete, House Republicans on Thursday caved to demands by President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats and fellow Republicans for a short-term renewal of payroll tax cuts for all workers.

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Looks like.

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House GOP Caves On Payroll Taxes... 'This Was Bungled From Early On'

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the gop suffers from obama derangement syndrome

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the tea-baggers 15 minutes of fame is about to end

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Teabagger House members complain they were hung out to dry by non-leader Boehner over his agreement to approve a 2-month payroll tax extension.

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The Republicans in Congress are pro-life before you're born and anti-food after!

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Neither party has had a Speaker this feeble in modern times. His instincts told him to take the deal over the weekend, but Boehner allowed himself to be pushed around by his unhinged caucus, then get pushed around by Democrats, then get pushed around by his allies, then get pushed around by Senate Republicans.

How big a disaster was this for Boehner? Keep an eye on whether Eric Cantor’s travel schedule changes over the holidays.

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Add education “reform” to the list of Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) failures.

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Romney’s a craven con man.

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In the asylum known as the House of Representatives, is there any doubt as to the inmates’ power?

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GOP Goes To War With Itself Over Payroll Cut

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McConnell has decided to use his position to block majority rule and refuse to allow the votes to take place. Why? Because he wants President Obama to promise not to make recess appointments.

In other words, because the Senate Minority Leader says so, the Senate won’t be able to complete its legal responsibilities unless the president agrees not to use his legal authority.

The ability of the Senate to function, completing basic and routine tasks, is now dependent on the whims of the Minority Leader. When he’s satisfied, McConnell will then, and only then, graciously allow the institution to do its duty on pending nominees.

The Senate wasn’t designed to work this way; it didn’t used to work this way; and it can’t work this way.

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Gingrich bounces off his Iowa ceiling

Remember, about 10 days ago, when Newt Gingrich was soaring in Iowa, had claimed the national lead, and looked well positioned to win three of the first four nominating contests?

Well, forget it. The boom-and-bust pattern that has taken down so many Republican presidential candidates appears to be affecting the disgraced former House Speaker, too.

We saw the first hints of trouble for the Gingrich campaign late last week, and overnight, a new survey from Public Policy Polling confirms that Iowa’s alleged frontrunner has quickly slipped from first to third.

Newt Gingrich’s campaign is rapidly imploding, and Ron Paul has now taken the lead in Iowa. He’s at 23% to 20% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Gingrich, 10% each for Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry, 4% for Jon Huntsman, and 2% for Gary Johnson.

Gingrich has now seen a big drop in his Iowa standing two weeks in a row. His share of the vote has gone from 27% to 22% to 14%. And there’s been a large drop in his personal favorability numbers as well from +31 (62/31) to +12 (52/40) to now -1 (46/47). [emphasis added]



What I find interesting about Gingrich’s precipitous fall is how different it is from the other former frontrunners. Bachmann, Perry, and Cain were each riding high for a short while, but were brought down by self-inflicted wounds — gaffes, awful debate performances, controversial policy positions, and in Cain’s case, sex scandals.

Gingrich’s collapse is very different. The former Speaker didn’t do anything in particular to derail his chances; he just ran into a buzzsaw he couldn’t control — Gingrich, especially in Iowa, faced a barrage of attack ads, which he lacked the resources to respond to. This coincided with an aggressive push from the Republican establishment to derail Gingrich’s chances.

This isn’t to say it’s too late for the former Speaker — the caucuses are two weeks from tomorrow — but it looks as if Gingrich hit his ceiling too early, and then quickly bounced off of it. With the PPP poll showing Santorum, Bachmann, and Perry all breaking into double digits in Iowa — the former Speaker is now closer to fourth place than second — it’s going to be very tough for Gingrich to reclaim the momentum.

Ron Paul, meanwhile, now appears well positioned to actually win the Iowa caucuses. (Let that thought roll around in your brain for a few seconds.) Given Paul’s likely inability to seriously compete in the contests that follow Iowa, and the perception that he isn’t a credible threat for the nomination, Mitt Romney would gladly take this outcome — it would do significant harm to Gingrich’s viability, and make it that much more likely that Romney is the last Republican standing.

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House Republicans have told their ostensible leader this just won’t do, and the bipartisan agreement that would send everyone home for the holidays has, as the NYT put it, “given way to chaos.”

If Americans find all of this ridiculous, they should have been a little more careful before the 2010 midterms.

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With the U.S. war in Iraq coming to its overdue end, it’s worth noting those who got the policy wrong — and continue to ignore the error of their ways.

This week, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), arguably Congress’ biggest cheerleaders of this tragedy, delivered a lengthy tirade condemning President Obama for ending the conflict and bringing U.S. troops home, arguing, among other things, “All I will say is that, for three years, the president has been harvesting the successes of the very strategy that he consistently dismissed as a failure.”

That’s actually backwards. Obama didn’t dismiss the Status of Forces Agreement reached between the Bush administration and Iraqi officials in 2008; the Status of Forces Agreement reflected exactly what Obama was proposing at the time. Officials in both countries completely rejected the course McCain recommended at the time, and as we now know, that was the right move. It’s curious that McCain would forget this relevant detail.*

In any case, the bitter Republican senator added, “I believe history will judge this president’s leadership with the scorn and disdain it deserves.”

It’s not exactly surprising that good news and the end of a war would leave McCain in such a sour mood. In August, when Obama helped topple the Gadhafi regime in Libya, McCain thanked the British and French, but ignored the role of U.S. troops, and whined about Obama’s “failure” to run the mission the way McCain wanted.

But when it comes to Iraq in particular, it’s rather amazing McCain feels comfortable addressing the subject at all. I’m reminded of a Frank Rich column from a while back, noting McCain’s record of being consistently wrong about what’s alleged to be his signature issue.

To appreciate this crowd’s spotless record of failure, consider its noisiest standard-bearer, John McCain. He made every wrong judgment call that could be made after 9/11. It’s not just that he echoed the Bush administration’s constant innuendos that Iraq collaborated with Al Qaeda’s attack on America. Or that he hyped the faulty W.M.D. evidence to the hysterical extreme of fingering Iraq for the anthrax attacks in Washington. Or that he promised we would win the Iraq war “easily.” Or that he predicted that the Sunnis and the Shiites would “probably get along” in post-Saddam Iraq because there was “not a history of clashes” between them.

What’s more mortifying still is that McCain was just as wrong about Afghanistan and Pakistan. He routinely minimized or dismissed the growing threats in both countries over the past six years, lest they draw American resources away from his pet crusade in Iraq.



The smart move for McCain would be quietly slink away, hoping desperately that Americans forget how spectacularly wrong he was about a bloody, brutal war. The fact that this guy instead has the temerity to pop off publicly about how outraged he is that U.S. troops are coming home is nothing short of pathetic.

Someone in this debate deserves scorn and disdain, but it’s not the president.

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NO Newt Gingrich Is NOT Responsible For Four Balanced Budgets

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Five senators, John McCain (R-AZ), Jon Kyl (R-AZ.), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Joe Lieberman, (I-CT) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), have announced their intention to renege on the deficit deal agreed to by Congress and the White House in August, and attempt to circumvent the automatic defense cuts that were agreed to be part of the consequences should the Super Congress fail.

Which it did, but these petulant legislators refuse to accept consequences. Gee, that doesn't sound like Joe Lieberman at all, does it.

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the gop's budget under bush

U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000 ,000,000
Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
National debt: $14,271,00 0,000,000
Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000

Let's remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household
budget:

Annual family income: $21,700.
Money the family spent: $38,200.
New debt on the credit card: $16,500.
Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
Total budget cuts: $385.