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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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Ben Nelson Sticking It To The Unemployed…Again

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Millions of unemployed searching for nonexistent jobs suffer as their benefits end.  Meanwhile, back at the zoo

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) last night prevented his fellow Democrats from finally passing legislation to extend needed unemployment insurance benefits to out of work Americans. It was the third time the legislation, which has been repeatedly pared down and reshaped in the hunt for votes, has failed to overcome a filibuster. But it was the first time that success or failure rested on a single deciding vote. And because Nelson, the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, joined Republicans and blocked the bill, it will likely not pass until mid-July, after the Senate returns from Independence Day recess. By then Robert Byrd’s replacement will be seated, and Dems will have the votes they need to pass their jobs bill.

That’s assuming Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins once again side with Dems on this one.  Don’t bet on it if Mitch McConnell has anything to say about it.

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Comments

  1. Tommy Pane says:

    How is paying people not to work a “jobs bill”?

  2. Arthur L. says:

    Pay attention Tommy. It’s not a jobs bill. It’s legislation to extend benefits for the unemployed during the worst economic depression of the last 60 years.

  3. Denny says:

    Umm, let’s see here. According to the latest stats, there are 4.77 applicants for every job position. (national averages).
    Doesn’t that mean that a whole bunch of folks can’t get work, let alone find it?
    At the same time, we have 50% of the population sharing just 2.6% of the economic wealth of the nation (U of C, Santa Clara).
    Shouldn’t we reconsider whether to starve ‘em out or extend unemployment benefits given the depth of this depression?
    Or, is the “social contract” no longer valid??

  4. E.A. Blair says:

    To paraphrase the man you’ve caricitured: “Any man who hates the unfortunate and dogs must be a conservative”.

  5. @E.A. I liked your version better. Take credit for the change in the illustration.

  6. Jack Diamond says:

    From the land of Bring a Chicken to the Dr. now John Boehner wants to raise Retirement age to 70. If you are unemployed you are spoiled if you do not want to work for minimum wage.

    Those that advocate Drill baby Drill should head for the gulf and bring a big straw to suck up that free oil to fuel their global warming mouths to facilitate spouting more hot air.

    Defeat John Boehner 2010

    As a concerned American I have questioned the direction the Democratic party has taken in the 2010 Mid-term elections.

    I specifically want to know why the DNC, DCCC and Team Obama have not made unseating Representative John Boehner a #1 2010 election priority?

    Ohiodailyblog conversation w/ Justin Coussoule

    http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/content/conversation-justin-coussoule-part-three

    What is wrong with you people? Are you stuck on stupid?

    John Boehner is the General of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives. He needs to be defeated in 2010.

    A national contribution campaign needs to be started to support Justin Coussoule the Democratic candidate running against John Boehner. A $5 donation is all that is required from every person on your mailing list.

    Let’s defeat all of the Republicans this November starting with John Boehner.

  7. chuckUfarley says:

    Boner is only pissed because on July 1 they started taxing tanning salons. Boner is as fake as his “I look like I just got back from Hawaii” spray on tan.

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