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  • Idiot Quote of the Day: The “Gayer” Obama

    Idiot Quote of the Day: The Gayer Obama

    Rand Paul: Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his [Obama's] views on marriage could get any gayer. We won't call Rand cynical. Ignorant, bigoted asshole is more fitting. An adult using ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

    Happy Friday. The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor. "President Obama came out with approval of same-sex marriage. He said that over the years, he has ...

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  • What The Hell Is The Problem With Gay Republicans?

    What The Hell Is The Problem With Gay Republicans?

    I've never understood Log Cabin Republicans - gay conservatives who give their support to a homophobic political party that derides their sexuality and refuses to grant them equal rights under ...

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  • Obama – Same-Sex Marriage and Doing The Right Thing

    Obama - Same-Sex Marriage and Doing The Right Thing

    Finally. “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own ...

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  • Another Day, Another Vote – Indiana, NC and Wisconsin

    Another Day, Another Vote - Indiana, NC and Wisconsin

    Election roundup: Indiana. As polls forecast, the Tea Party's efforts to cleanse the GOP of any impure conservatives has Dick Lugar out and teabagger Richard Mourdock in. Mourdock is the new Republican ...

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  • ‘Romney – The Man Who Saved The Auto Industry’ and Other Fairy Tales

    'Romney - The Man Who Saved The Auto Industry' and Other Fairy Tales

    There are lies...and then there are lies. My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that’s finally what ...

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  • A Madman and Fox News

    A Madman and Fox News

    From the papers captured last year at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout comes this. Like any public figures, bin Laden and his advisers were mindful of the media. Adam Gadahn, one ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

    The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor. Happy Friday. "Today Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed ...

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  • New GOP Logo

    New GOP Logo

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  • Can Obama Be Swift-Boated?

    Can Obama Be Swift-Boated?

    It happened to Kerry. Can it happen to Obama? Nope says Margaret Carlson. Obama’s belief system -- in that hopey-changey business and the post-partisanship thing -- has been altered by reality. ...

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  • Quote of the Day: The Gay Republican

    Quote of the Day: The Gay Republican

    Sullivan: What do Republicans call a gay man with neoconservative passion, a committed relationship and personal courage? A faggot. Exactly right, but then could one expect anything different from a political party that ...

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  • Christian Pastor: Fixing Gay Is Like Squashing a Cockroach

    Christian Pastor: Fixing Gay Is Like Squashing a Cockroach

    And they claim that atheists are immoral? The ugly side of religion shows its face once again. The words below were spoken at a Sunday sermon by Sean Harris, a pastor ...

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  • GM Alive, bin Laden Dead

    GM Alive, bin Laden Dead

    It's been fun watching conservatives and Romney twist themselves into pretzels trying to undo Mitt's past words on GM and bin Laden. Romney, April 2007: It’s not worth moving heaven and earth ...

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  • Republicans Are The Problem

    Republicans Are The Problem

      In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, a couple of scholars from liberal and conservative think tanks, discuss the state of American politics. We have been studying Washington politics and ...

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  • Marco Rubio – Just Another Weasel

    Marco Rubio - Just Another Weasel

    Romney's VP-in-waiting, Marco Rubio, is perfecting the conservative sleaze play. He has proposed his version of the Dream Act in which people who entered the country illegally as children will be ...

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  • Obama’s Move Forward

    Obama's Move Forward

    Beyond the rhetoric, the political BS, the lies - that is, the concerted effort by the right-wing noise machine to distort and misinform at every opportunity - is the very ...

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  • Romney’s Etch A Sketch Fun Time Has Arrived

    Romney's Etch A Sketch Fun Time Has Arrived

      It was never a matter of 'if'...only of 'when'. Two constituencies that President Obama is holding onto about as strongly now as he did four years ago are voters under 30 ...

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  • Romney’s Weirdness

    Romney's Weirdness

    I'm not sure what one does with information of this sort but I thought it important you know. From Alex Pareene's new ebook, The Rude Guide To Mitt. Every good Romney ...

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  • Newsmax and Me

    Newsmax and Me

    Guess whose illustration made the May cover of a national magazine? Mine!   I'm quite sure there isn't much Stephen Moore/Newsmax and I share in common as far as politics goes but ...

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  • Catholic Bishop Spews Right-Wing Garbage

    Catholic Bishop Spews Right-Wing Garbage

    Jesus (c. 30 CE): Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's. Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of the Catholic diocese of Peoria, Illinois (2012 ...

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Vice-President Hillary Clinton?

I think I like this.

My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position he’s apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President.

So the Democratic ticket for 2012 is Obama-Clinton.

Why do I say this? Because Obama needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of a Democratic base that’s been disillusioned with his cave-ins to regressive Republicans. Hillary Clinton on the ticket can do that.

Interesting.  An Obama-Clinton ticket is a positive on so many fronts, I can’t see a downside to it.  The economy will still be a drag come November so what better way to rev up voters than by adding some juice to the ticket.  But I doubt it’ll happen.

Clinton has already stated she plans on leaving the Secretary of State post and has no interest in the VP job.  But hey, this is the daffy world of politics where yesterday’s hard held belief is today’s easy-bake flip-flop…so you never know.

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Will Anthony Weiner Survive His Folly?

Anthony Weiner once tweeted during an election campaign that “it takes a great man to build a barn. Any jackass can kick it down.” How ironic (and prophetic) that a brilliant political career painstakingly built over the course of fifteen years has been kicked down by the same jackass who built it – and all for the sake of a momentary titillating sensation in sending his crotch shot to women over the internet.

Weiner was somewhat of a hero for many progressives who saw in this politician what they wished they could see in all Democrats – a tough, in your face, no BS, speak-your-mind, take-no-prisoners sort of attitude so lacking in the majority of politicians of a liberal persuasion. Weiner was a rare breed – a Dem with a spine willing to stand toe to toe with Republicans and speak from the heart in an intelligent and articulate manner. Now, after a week of lies and denial, much of that spark and magic has been lost.

It’s hard to say at this point whether Weiner can rebound from his folly and carry through with his dream of becoming New York’s next mayor and a strong proponent of liberal causes. Probably so but it will take some time for him to regain the respect and trust of those who helped elect him to office seven consecutive times. For all his many talents, in the end Weiner showed himself to be but yet another man of power and influence succumbing to the same weaknesses found in mere mortals.

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Quote Of The Day

Jimmy Kimmel:

“We have a new governor in California. Jerry Brown replaces Schwarzenegger.
I don’t know if I trust a governor who’s never done steroids.”

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Mirror, Mirror – Who Is The Fairest In the Land?

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It’s not all bad news

His party just suffered staggering losses, his no-drama West Wing is besieged and a few outlier Democrats are even demanding he surrender to fate, assume the fetal position and embrace a one-term presidency.

But when President Barack Obama meets with Speaker-to-be John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in the White House next week, he’ll walk in as the most popular politician in the room — which still counts for something.

And what trifecta of events do some view as necessary for a Democratic victory in 2012?  Strong messaging from the President, an economic turnaround and a presidential run by Sarah Palin.  I don’t believe the last one is a necessity.  If the first two get done, then a Palin run would simply be icing on the cake.

The other determining factor for 2012 is the fact that Republicans have won back control of the House.  Being the Party of No was an easier task when they held no legislative power.  Now that the dynamics have changed, justifying their obstructionist ways to a public yearning for change has just gotten a bit more difficult.

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Charlie Rangel – Guilty On 11 Charges

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Reason #9382 for introducing term limits.

Rep. Charles Rangel, once one of the most influential House members, was convicted Tuesday on 11 counts of breaking ethics rules and now faces punishment.An ethics panel of eight House peers deliberated over two days before delivering a jarring blow to the 20-term New York Democrat’s career. The 80-year-old Rangel was charged with 13 counts of financial and fundraising misconduct.

Someone needs to convince Charlie to resign.  He tried and lost.  Two million dollars later he’s doing little more at this point than making an ass of himself.  He broke ethic rules he helped write.  End of story.

After twenty terms in Congress, it’s time for Charlie to go.

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