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Barbour: We’ve got to give Republicans ‘a very serious proctology exam’
Echoing calls for a thorough examination of what went wrong in Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) told an audience on Wednesday that he believes the Republican Party’s “political organizational activity” needs to undergo “a very serious proctology exam.” “The ground game is really important, and…
Bernie Sanders: GOP wants ‘austerity for the middle class’
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Monday night that Republicans in Congress were likely to continue pushing for tax cuts after Election Day, despite the upcoming fiscal cliff. “It is very clear that virtually all of the Republicans are going to fight not only to extend Bush’s tax breaks…
Marco Rubio Helps Demonstrate that the GOP Simply Opposes Paying Women Fairly
Last week, I wrote a post arguing that the angry misogyny with which conservatives use in a (futile) effort to silence questions about equal pay suggests that, protests aside, they really just don’t think women should make as much money as men. Marco Rubio up and volunteered to prove my…
Chris Hayes: GOP now ‘smoking what they’re dealing’ on Romney poll numbers
Saturday on MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes,” host Chris Hayes likened Republican “poll truthers” to crackheads, saying that the GOP is “smoking what they’re dealing.” He invoked the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls)’s “Crack Commandment” Number 4 to prove his point. On the posthumously-released 1997 album “Life After…
‘Cranks and crazies’ have taken over GOP: Australian official
Australia’s foreign minister on Sunday insisted that Canberra had good relations with both US political sides, despite a senior minister labelling Tea Party Republicans “cranks and crazies”. Treasurer Wayne Swan, also Australia’s deputy prime minister, on Friday warned that “extreme” Tea Party elements of Mitt Romney’s Republican party had shown…
Yahoo News chief fired for saying GOP likes partying while black people drown
Yahoo! fired its Washington bureau chief Wednesday after he was caught on a live mic at the Republican convention joking that Republicans were, “happy to have a party with black people drowning.” David Chalian, the now former head of Yahoo News’ DC bureau, was referring to the fact that the GOP…
Joe Biden scraps plan to crash GOP party as Isaac storm takes aim
Joe Biden scraps plan to crash GOP party as Isaac storm takes aim (via The Christian Science Monitor) Tropical Storm Isaac has been a thorn in the side of Republicans for a week as it’s threatened to disrupt the party’s nominating convention in Tampa, which begins on Monday. But as…
Bill Maher: Is the GOP made up of ‘magical thinkers’ who mistake ‘superstition for science’?
HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher ended this Friday night episode with a “New Rules” segment that argued that Republicans positioned issues so that they were easily understood by “children” instead of an epistemology understood by adult, critical thinkers. The grown-up answer to our massive national problems is “Identify them…
The 5 countries the GOP would model U.S. abortion law on with its new anti-abortion platform
Despite the tremendous pressure on the Republican party following Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) comments about “legitimate rape,” supposedly natural contraception and abortion, CNN reported last night that the Republican platform to be affirmed at the convention last week will contain a call for a so-called “personhood” amendment to the Constitution…
Sen. Sanders: GOP’s function in life is to protect the wealthy
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday insisted it was important that the Senate rejected the extension of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, even though the legislation had no chance of passing the GOP-led House. “I think what today is about is educating the American people,” he explained on Viewpoint.…
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