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29 Mar 2011

Paranoid Michelle Rhee blames her "enemies" for cheating report

Former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, champion of "education reform," is a right-wing folk hero because while working for the public she combined corporatist policy with open contempt for the public. An ostensible Democrat, she now advises Republican governors on how best to battle the nefarious teachers' unions, which, in her reckoning, are almost solely responsible for poor student performance. Her solutions to the "education crisis" mostly involve the privatization of public schools. Her qualifications, besides having all the currently fashionable opinions, are her successes as head of Washington's schools. Test scores increased during her tenure! In some places, they increased dramatically!
Former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, champion of "education reform," is a right-wing folk hero...
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28 Mar 2011

Beck Twists Statement By Obama Adviser To Portray Her As Anti-Israel

Glenn Beck played an edited video clip of Obama adviser Samantha Power to suggest she favors a "mammoth protection force" to "protect against Israel." In fact, Power was asked what would be necessary to stop a move toward genocide by "one party or another" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; she said it may require investment in a new Palestinian state and a "meaningful military presence."
Glenn Beck played an edited video clip of Obama adviser Samantha Power to suggest she favors a "mammoth protection...
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28 Mar 2011

Wisconsin universities form unions despite Scott Walker’s union-busting

Wisconsin's workers haven't only fought back with protests and recall efforts. Since Scott Walker began his attack on Wisconsin's public employees, faculty at three University of Wisconsin campuses have voted to join the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Wisconsin's workers haven't only fought back with protests and recall efforts. Since Scott Walker began his attack on...
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28 Mar 2011

Why we must defend Sarah Palin

She is, as I have said before, hyper-partisan, painfully ignorant, pathologically dishonest, chronically unethical, intellectually unconscious, and jaw-droppingly stupid. And those are her better qualities. But that does not mean that sexist attacks on her are immune from criticism.
She is, as I have said before, hyper-partisan, painfully ignorant, pathologically dishonest, chronically unethical,...
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26 Mar 2011

The Deindustrialization Of America

The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class - pitting unionized workers against non-unionized, public-sector workers against non-public, older workers within sight of Medicare and Social Security against younger workers who don t believe these programs will be there for them, and the poor against the working middle class.
The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class - pitting unionized workers against non-unionized,...
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25 Mar 2011

Indiana prosecutor told Wisconsin governor to stage ‘false flag’ operation

An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a fake attack on himself to discredit unions protesting his budget repair bill.
An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott...
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25 Mar 2011

Scott Walker Bad for Wisconsin Business

Scott Walker did not run primarily on a platform of killing public employee unions and becoming a conservative darling. His slogan during the Wisconsin gubernatorial campaign was"Wisconsin is open for business." He put a premium on attracting new businesses to the state.
Scott Walker did not run primarily on a platform of killing public employee unions and becoming a conservative darling....
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24 Mar 2011

Michele Bachmann bid could shake up GOP field

It s easy to dismiss Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) as bomb-throwing back-bencher who is eying a presidential run largely because her attempt to secure a post in the House leadership was stymied. There s a long history of camera-hungry House members making improbable runs that have served mainly to highlight their irrelevance.
It s easy to dismiss Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) as bomb-throwing back-bencher who is eying a presidential run...
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24 Mar 2011

Republicans Now Bringing Back School Segregation

We've all heard the cries from Repub­li­cans and Tea­partiers claim­ing that they "want their coun­try back!" Have you ever won­dered what exactly was meant by the phrase? Well, here s one way they re try­ing to take back their coun­try Repub­li­cans in Min­nesota want their school sys­tem seg­re­gated, and they re in the final phases of fund­ing a bill that will do just that.
We've all heard the cries from Repub­li­cans and Tea­partiers claim­ing that they "want their...
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23 Mar 2011

John McCain’s Libya amnesia

The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
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23 Mar 2011

John McCain’s Libya amnesia

The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
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21 Mar 2011

Girlfriend of Wisconsin Republican state Senator gets state job, 36% raise

Wisconsin Republicans, from Scott Walker on down, have repeatedly justified their move to strip collective bargaining rights for state employees by claiming that the state is broke. However, this has not stopped them from giving a state job and a 36% raise to the 26-year-old girlfriend of Wisconsin state Senator Randy Hopper.
Wisconsin Republicans, from Scott Walker on down, have repeatedly justified their move to strip collective bargaining...
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21 Mar 2011

Sarah Palin goes to Israel, snubs influential GOP group

Sarah Palin's trip to Israel -- which has been covered a bit more extensively by the press than her trip to India -- has been a fairly predictable exercise. She said hawkish things and told high-ranking members of the Likud party that they should "stop apologizing" and she'll dine with Benjamin Netanyahu and she has repeatedly announced that she's on Team Jewish People when it comes to the various disagreements in the region.
Sarah Palin's trip to Israel -- which has been covered a bit more extensively by the press than her trip to India -- has...
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20 Mar 2011

House GOP Take Aim At Elizabeth Warren

House Republicans may be afraid of Elizabeth Warren, but Elizabeth Warren is not afraid of them. That's a good thing because her agency and its oversight authority is at the top of the list of transparency and regulatory moves by the Obama administration the right hopes to undo.
House Republicans may be afraid of Elizabeth Warren, but Elizabeth Warren is not afraid of them. That's a good thing...
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16 Mar 2011

The New Robber Barons (h t Jeffrey Sachs)

"It's pretty clear there's an agenda nationwide: Republican governors backed by the Koch Brothers [and] extreme right wing money want to crush the unions," says Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs. "The public is against it, but public opinion doesn't count much in this country these days." (Editor's note: The Koch Brothers have denied our repeated requests for an interview.)
"It's pretty clear there's an agenda nationwide: Republican governors backed by the Koch Brothers [and] extreme right...
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16 Mar 2011

The New Robber Barons (h t Jeffrey Sachs)

"It's pretty clear there's an agenda nationwide: Republican governors backed by the Koch Brothers [and] extreme right wing money want to crush the unions," says Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs. "The public is against it, but public opinion doesn't count much in this country these days." (Editor's note: The Koch Brothers have denied our repeated requests for an interview.)
"It's pretty clear there's an agenda nationwide: Republican governors backed by the Koch Brothers [and] extreme right...
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16 Mar 2011

Wake up America

Show me a company that ignores revenues and focuses on cutting costs, and I will show you a firm that is headed for failure. Show me a government that ignores revenue and focuses on cutting costs, and I will show you a government that is a failure.
Show me a company that ignores revenues and focuses on cutting costs, and I will show you a firm that is headed for...
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16 Mar 2011

Wake up America

Show me a company that ignores revenues and focuses on cutting costs, and I will show you a firm that is headed for failure. Show me a government that ignores revenue and focuses on cutting costs, and I will show you a government that is a failure.
Show me a company that ignores revenues and focuses on cutting costs, and I will show you a firm that is headed for...
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16 Mar 2011

Palin ‘becoming Al Sharpton’

Sarah Palin has played the sexism card, accusing critics of chauvinism against a strong woman. She has played the class card, dismissing the Bush family as "blue bloods" and complaining that she is the target of snobbery by people who dislike her simply because she is "not so hoity-toity."
Sarah Palin has played the sexism card, accusing critics of chauvinism against a strong woman. She has played the class...
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16 Mar 2011

Defend the Dream Action

Republicans in Congress are holding the middle class hostage - proposing a federal budget that would would cut 700,000 to 1 million jobs from our communities and slash funding to support preschool and college students, pregnant women, unemployed workers, and much more. This isn't a budget, it's a slap in the face to the public workers, services, and institutions making the American Dream possible. We have until the March 18 budget deadline to push Congress in another direction.
Republicans in Congress are holding the middle class hostage - proposing a federal budget that would would cut 700,000...
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16 Mar 2011

Republicans Double-Cross the Elderly

Terrified by bogus Republican claims of draconian Democratic cuts to Medicare, elderly voters propelled the GOP to an overwhelming victory last November. Voters 65 and over, the only age group to support John McCain in 2008, boosted their share of the turnout to 21% from 16% two years earlier.
Terrified by bogus Republican claims of draconian Democratic cuts to Medicare, elderly voters propelled the GOP to an...
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10 Mar 2011

What happened in #Wisconsin, and what happens next

Last night, Wisconsin State Senate Republicans stripped most public employees unions of most collective bargaining rights. After insisting for weeks that busting the unions was essential to balancing the state's budget, they broke Governor Scott Walker's "budget-repair bill" into two parts. One part contained the anti-union provisions, the other the items that Republicans now deemed fiscal.
Last night, Wisconsin State Senate Republicans stripped most public employees unions of most collective bargaining...
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7 Mar 2011

Wis. Dems File Ethics Complaint Over Walker’s Comments On ‘Koch’ Call

Wisconsin Democrats are continuing their fire on Gov. Scott Walker's infamous phone call with blogger Ian Murphy, who was posing as Republican financier David Koch, in which Walker spoke of his passion for busting the public employee unions. And in their latest move, the Dems have announced that they are filing an ethics complaint with the state's Government Accountability Board -- accusing Walker of serious violations of the law.
Wisconsin Democrats are continuing their fire on Gov. Scott Walker's infamous phone call with blogger Ian Murphy, who...
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6 Mar 2011

National Right-Wing Spin Machine Gears Up In Wisconsin

Shadowy "issue ad" groups that do not disclose their funders as well as heavy hitter political action committees are rushing to the aid of embattled Wisconsin Senator Scott Walker, whose poll number are dropping like a rock. The list of outside big money attacking Wisconsin state workers and teachers read like a "who's who" of the Republican donor and special interest group apparatus.
Shadowy "issue ad" groups that do not disclose their funders as well as heavy hitter political action committees are...
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6 Mar 2011

Koch’s American for Prosperity Stand with Walker Bus Tour BUSTED!!!

I've been following the American for Prosperity's "Stand with Walker" bus tour or is it the "Stand Against Spending -- Stand With Walker" bus tour through Wisconsin? It's amazing how they went from one name to the next. But it is truly AMAZING how they went from 1,000 signatures in support of Walker this morning to 115,000 signatures this evening. And they did it all in Northern Wisconsin where animals out number people!
I've been following the American for Prosperity's "Stand with Walker" bus tour or is it the "Stand Against Spending --...
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5 Mar 2011

Hmm. Prominent Conservative Radio Hosts Planted Scripted Actors Among Callers

Well, here s a shocker: Some of the people who phone in to talk radio shows (that caller with the pitch-perfect rant, provocative comment or burning question) may actually be hired actors reading from scripts. I m not an angry listener, but I play one on radio!
Well, here s a shocker: Some of the people who phone in to talk radio shows (that caller with the pitch-perfect rant,...
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2 Mar 2011

Ohio SB 5: The Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill Explained

Senate Bill 5 bill takes aim at state collective bargaining laws, and opponents have dubbed it an anti-labor or anti-union bill. Jones told the Youngstown Business Journal: "We cannot restore our economy and create jobs if we keep raising the tax burden on Ohioans, and the only way to get that under control is to limit the growth of government. Senate Bill 5 is an important step in that process."
Senate Bill 5 bill takes aim at state collective bargaining laws, and opponents have dubbed it an anti-labor or...
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17 Feb 2011

Support Wisconsin Workers

People in Wisconsin are protesting for the third consecutive day at the state capital in Wisconsin in solidarity with public-sector union workers under assault by Republican governor Scott Walker who has proposed to strip public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights.
People in Wisconsin are protesting for the third consecutive day at the state capital in Wisconsin in solidarity with...
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15 Dec 2010

Forget Tea Party rhetoric – pork barrel politics is back

Dear Tea Party voter: You've been had. When the good people of South Dakota voted last month to send Republican Kristi Noem to Congress, they probably believed that she would give no quarter to the lobbyists and special interest groups who enjoyed, as she put it, "throwing money at the feet of a member of Congress."
Dear Tea Party voter: You've been had. When the good people of South Dakota voted last month to send Republican Kristi...
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8 Nov 2010

Election Results Fueled by Jobs Crisis and Voter Apathy Among Progressives

Experts and pundits will float many interpretations of the 2010 midterms over the next few weeks, each of which progressives should consider carefully. But the most parsimonious explanation of how 2010 unfolded in terms of lessons for progressives going forward lies in a few fundamental factors: the poor state of the economy; the abnormally conservative composition of the midterm electorate; and the large number of vulnerable seats in conservative-leaning areas. These trends cost the Democrats their House majority but were not strong enough to sweep them out in the Senate.
Experts and pundits will float many interpretations of the 2010 midterms over the next few weeks, each of which...
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31 Oct 2010

The Grand Old Plot Against the Tea Party

ONE dirty little secret of the 2010 election is that it won t be a political tragedy for Democrats if a Tea Party icon like Sharron Angle or Joe Miller ends up in the United States Senate. Angle, now synonymous with racist ads sliming Hispanics, and Miller, already on record threatening a government shutdown, are fired up and ready to go as symbols of G.O.P. extremism for 2012 and beyond.
ONE dirty little secret of the 2010 election is that it won t be a political tragedy for Democrats if a Tea Party icon...
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28 Oct 2010

GOP-Linked ‘Latinos For Reform Airs Nevada Ads Urging Hispanics Not To Vote

UPDATE: Univision will not broadcast ads -- ThinkProgress reports that Spanish-language network Univision has reversed its decision to air ads by Latinos for Reform that urge Hispanic voters in Nevada not to vote.
UPDATE: Univision will not broadcast ads -- ThinkProgress reports that Spanish-language network Univision has reversed...
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23 Oct 2010

Elections – Oshkosh Shrugged

"Ross Feingold lives by his rules," said Fred Wertheimer, the guru of campaign finance reform and chief of Democracy 21, a nonprofit organization. He s true to his school, which makes him a freak of nature in Washington. This is not the first time Feingold has risked his seat to hang onto his convictions about the proper way to finance political campaigns. In 1998, in a race he ultimately won by a whisker, he told outside groups not to come into Wisconsin with unregulated 'soft money' ads on his behalf. 'No career, including mine, is as important as breaking the hold of this system of legalized bribery,' he told R.W. Apple of The Times.
"Ross Feingold lives by his rules," said Fred Wertheimer, the guru of campaign finance reform and chief of Democracy 21,...
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3 Oct 2010

The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine ‘Â’Donnell

The Republicans new "Pledge to America" promises the $3.8 trillion addition to the deficit and says nothing about serious budget cuts or governmental reforms that might remotely offset it. Surfing the Beltway talk shows last Sunday, you couldn t find one without a G.O.P. politician adamantly refusing to specify a single program he might cut at, say, the Department of Education (Pell grants?) or the National Institutes of Health (cancer research?). And that s just the small change. Everyone knows that tax cuts for the G.O.P. s wealthiest patrons must come out of Social Security and Medicare payments for everybody else.
The Republicans new "Pledge to America" promises the $3.8 trillion addition to the deficit and says nothing about...
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26 Sep 2010

Slouching Toward Washington

Christine O'Donnell doesn't understand why monkeys can't turn into people right before her eyes. Bill Maher continued his video torment of O Donnell by releasing another old clip of her on his HBO show on Friday night, this time showing one in which she argued that Evolution is a myth." Maher shot back, "Have you ever looked at a monkey?" To which O Donnell rebutted, "Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?"
Christine O'Donnell doesn't understand why monkeys can't turn into people right before her eyes. Bill Maher continued...
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30 Aug 2010

It’s Witch-Hunt Season

The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent figures on the right accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of everything from drug smuggling to murder. And once Republicans took control of Congress, they subjected the Clinton administration to unrelenting harassment at one point taking 140 hours of sworn testimony over accusations that the White House had misused its Christmas card list.
The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent...
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29 Aug 2010

The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party

...Yet inexorably the Koch agenda is morphing into the G.O.P. agenda, as articulated by current Republican members of Congress, including the putative next speaker of the House, John Boehner, and Tea Party Senate candidates like Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, and the new kid on the block, Alaska s anti-Medicaid, anti-unemployment insurance Palin prot g , Joe Miller. Their program opposes a federal deficit, but has no objection to running up trillions in red ink in tax cuts to corporations and the superrich; apologizes to corporate malefactors like BP and derides money put in escrow for oil spill victims as a slush fund ; opposes the extension of unemployment benefits; and calls for a freeze on federal regulations in an era when abuses in the oil, financial, mining, pharmaceutical and even egg industries (among others) have been outrageous.
...Yet inexorably the Koch agenda is morphing into the G.O.P. agenda, as articulated by current Republican members of...
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28 Aug 2010

Paul Singer’s Largess Reflects G.O.P.Â’s Wall St. Support

Mr. Singer, professorial and soft-spoken, used a gathering of business and government leaders at the conservative Manhattan Institute to lash out at indiscriminate attacks by political leaders against anything that moves in the world of finance. Government efforts to take over and run the economy through more regulations, he warned, threatened to ruin the United States standing as the world leader in finance. As the head of a $17 billion hedge fund, Mr. Singer, a self-described Barry Goldwater conservative who is 66, is using his financial might to try to change those policies. He has become one of the biggest bankrollers of Republican causes, giving more than $4 million of his money and raising millions more through fund-raisers he hosts for like-minded candidates who often share his distaste for what they view as governmental over-meddling in the financial industry.
Mr. Singer, professorial and soft-spoken, used a gathering of business and government leaders at the conservative...
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25 Jul 2010

There’s a Battle Outside and It Is Still RaginÂ’

This country was rightly elated when it elected its first African-American president more than 20 months ago. That high was destined to abate, but we reached a new low last week. What does it say about America now, and where it is heading, that a racial provocateur, wielding a deceptively edited video, could not only smear an innocent woman but make every national institution that touched the story look bad? The White House, the N.A.A.C.P. and the news media were all soiled by this episode. Meanwhile, the majority of Americans, who believe in fundamental fairness for all, grapple with the poisonous residue left behind by the many powerful people of all stripes who served as accessories to a high-tech lynching.
This country was rightly elated when it elected its first African-American president more than 20 months ago. That high...
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18 Jul 2010

NAACP Stands by Charges of Tea Party Racism

NAACP President Ben Jealous says tea party supporters like Sarah Palin need to publicly condemn racist behavior among some of the group's members. The civil rights organization accused tea party activists Tuesday of tolerating bigotry.
NAACP President Ben Jealous says tea party supporters like Sarah Palin need to publicly condemn racist behavior among...
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27 May 2010

Who Wants to Elect a Millionaire

So far this season, the Republicans have offered two new models of their future. One is the Tea Party vision, in which outsiders full of spirit and excitement overthrow the old order. In North Carolina, there was so much spirit and excitement that voters gave the top spot in a Congressional primary to a former drug addict who, according to court documents, once referred to the United States government as the Antichrist and claimed to have personally located the Ark of the Covenant.
So far this season, the Republicans have offered two new models of their future. One is the Tea Party vision, in which...
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23 May 2010

The ‘Randslide’ and Its Discontents

Still, it's Paul's brand of populism, not his views on Jim Crow or Iran, that are most germane to the Tea Party's birth and its future - both within the G.O.P. and as a force that will buffet Obama and the Democrats. Paul most abundantly embodies the movement's animus when he plays on classic American-style class resentment.
Still, it's Paul's brand of populism, not his views on Jim Crow or Iran, that are most germane to the Tea Party's birth...
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23 May 2010

GOPers Make Friends With Rand Paul, But What Are They In For

Republicans have no choice but to get behind Paul if he wins, and doubtless most prominent Republicans will praise him when he does. But that means they'll have to take uncomfortable questions on Paul's "unorthodox views," as Salon reports them, "including a desire to abolish both the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education."
Republicans have no choice but to get behind Paul if he wins, and doubtless most prominent Republicans will praise him...
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20 May 2010

Paul’s Views on Civil Rights Cause a Stir

On Tuesday night, Rand Paul stood as the victorious symbol of the Tea Party after capturing the Republican nomination for senator in Kentucky by defeating an opponent who had the backing of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate minority leader.
On Tuesday night, Rand Paul stood as the victorious symbol of the Tea Party after capturing the Republican nomination...
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17 May 2010

The G.O.P. – Going to Extreme

Utah Republicans have denied Robert Bennett, a very conservative three-term senator, a place on the ballot, because he s not conservative enough. In Maine, party activists have pushed through a platform calling for, among other things, abolishing both the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education. And it s becoming ever more apparent that real power within the G.O.P. rests with the ranting talk-show hosts.
Utah Republicans have denied Robert Bennett, a very conservative three-term senator, a place on the ballot, because he s...
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23 Mar 2010

An Absence of Class in the G.O.P.

Some of the images from the run-up to Sunday s landmark health care vote in the House of Representatives should be seared into the nation s consciousness. We are so far, in so many ways, from being a class act.
Some of the images from the run-up to Sunday s landmark health care vote in the House of Representatives should be...
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27 Feb 2010

Conservatives target their own fringe

After months of struggling to harness the energy of newly engaged tea party activists, the conservative establishment - with critical midterm congressional elections on the horizon - is taking aim for the first time at the movement s extremist elements.
After months of struggling to harness the energy of newly engaged tea party activists, the conservative...
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17 Jan 2010

The Great Tea Party Rip-Off

Both Steele and Palin claim to be devotees of the tea party movement. I m a tea partier, I m a town-haller, I m a grass-roots-er is how Steele put it in a recent radio interview, wet-kissing a market he hopes will buy his book. Palin has far more grandiose ambitions. She recently signed on as a speaker for the first Tea Party Convention, scheduled next month in Nashville even though she had turned down a speaking invitation from the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, the traditional meet-and-greet for the right. The conservative conference doesn t pay. The Tea Party Convention does. A blogger at Nashville Scene reported that Palin s price for the event was $120,000.
Both Steele and Palin claim to be devotees of the tea party movement. I m a tea partier, I m a town-haller, I m a...
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30 Dec 2009

Maddow: GOP and lobbyist attempt to hijack tea party movement

Rachel Maddow talks with Libertarian political consultant and blogger Stephen Gordon about the effort by Republicans and corporate interests to take over the actual grassroots Libertarian anti-tax, small-government movement. This video is from MSNBC’s News Live, broadcast Dec. 29, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com
Rachel Maddow talks with Libertarian political consultant and blogger Stephen Gordon about the effort by Republicans and...
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2 Oct 2009

GOP supported public option for property insurance

Countdown’s Keith Olbermann talks about the senators who expressed their opposition to socialized health insurance, yet voted for socialized property insurance. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast Oct. 1, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com
Countdown’s Keith Olbermann talks about the senators who expressed their opposition to socialized health insurance,...
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