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Rep. Johnson: You don’t need an AK-47 to go deer hunting
On the House floor Tuesday, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) called for reasonable gun control legislation in the wake of the Colorado theater massacre. “While we are healing, we have work to do in this Congress,” he said. “You see, the assault weapons ban in place for a number of years…
Gov. Haslam: Internet sales tax ‘an issue of fairness’
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) on Tuesday urged Congress to pass an Internet sales tax, which he said would allow states to level the playing field for local businesses. “Let me be clear – I am a Republican governor that does not believe in increasing taxes,” he said at a…
Gohmert to ‘numbnuts’ McCain: Shut up about Bachmann’s anti-Muslim attacks
Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert on Tuesday lashed out at Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and other Republican “numbnuts” who have criticized Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) for suggesting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin, had infiltrated the U.S. government on behalf of radical Islamists in…
Romney: Obama’s philosophy ‘foreign to the American experience’
Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of having a philosophy that is “in some respects foreign to the American experience type of philosophy” during an appearance on The Kudlow Report on Monday. According to The Daily Kos, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate went on the show Monday to discuss Obama’s…
Newt Gingrich defends Michele Bachmann’s controversial anti-Muslim campaign
While many Republicans have been rushing to distance themselves from Minnesota Congresswoman Rep. Michele Bachmann’s recent campaign to root out what she believes are Islamic infiltrators in the U.S. government, one former presidential primary rival is coming to her aid. Former Speaker of the House Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) said…
O’Reilly defends NRA: Bill Moyers is ‘so dumb it hurts’
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday blasted PBS host Bill Moyers who after a deadly shooting that left at least 12 dead in Colorado, accused the National Rifle Association (NRA) of turning the Second Amendment into a “cruel and deadly hoax.” “The killer in Colorado waited only for an…
‘On his own’ Romney ad star took over $1 million in government loans
The up-by-his-bootstraps businessman who stars in an ad for Republican hopeful Mitt Romney seems to have built his business through government-sponsored loans, putting a dent in the campaign’s attack on President Barack Obama’s saying to business owners, “you didn’t get there on your own.” “My father’s hands didn’t build this…
Kilmeade asks little girls if government built their lemonade stand
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Tuesday offered definitive proof that President Barack Obama was wrong to say that government played a part in building businesses: a lemonade stand own by two 4- and 7-year-old girls. Kilmeade began his segment with the Sutton sisters by playing a clip of Obama…
Evangelical radio host blames Colorado shooting on ‘the liberals’ way’
The director of issues analysis of a conservative fundamentalist Christian organization on Monday blamed the massacre that left at least 12 dead in Aurora, Colorado on “the liberals’ way” of teaching evolution in schools instead of prayer and the Ten Commandments. On his daily radio show, the American Family Associations’s…
Colbert ‘regrets’ missing out on media’s partisan Aurora speculation
After pausing Monday night to offer his sympathy to the community of Aurora, following Friday’s multiple theater shooting, Stephen Colbert expressed regret on The Colbert Report – that he couldn’t join in on the rampant partisan speculation around media circles. “There was a ton of inaccurate information I did not…
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