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Santorum: Obama ‘in bed with Muslim Brotherhood’
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that President Barack Obama was “willing to jump in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood” and throw former dictator Hosni Mubarak “under the bus” during Egypt’s 2011 revolution. Speaking to Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Wednesday, the former Pennsylvania senator warned that the…
Firearms group calls Obama ‘greatest gun salesman in America’
Although the nation’s largest gun lobby would never publicly acknowledge it, at least one gun-loving group seems to realize that a Democratic president isn’t always bad for business. In a post published Tuesday by online ammunition supplier Ammo.com, President Barack Obama is hailed as “the greatest gun salesman in America.”…
Gingrich: Defeating Obama a ‘duty of national security’
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told a group of students on Tuesday that it was their patriotic duty to defeat President Barack Obama because he refused to protect the nation from “radical Islamists.” Speaking at Oral Roberts University, the former House Speaker declared that “Barack Obama is the most dangerous…
Bachmann: The GOP ‘is extremely pro-woman’
Despite Republicans hosting an all male panel this week in a House hearing on the White House contraception decision, Rep. Michele Bachmann felt Sunday morning her party was unquestionably in support of women’s rights. Bachmann appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and was asked by host Candy Crowley if…
Congress passes payroll tax cut
Updated, below: Senate passes payroll tax cut, Obama to sign The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Friday extending a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, avoiding proposed cuts to other welfare programs that were favored by Republicans. Negotiators announced last night that they were finalizing the $150 billion…
Santorum attacks media over backer’s ‘bad joke’ on contraception
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum took a page from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s playbook on Friday and lashed out at CBS News for asking him about a major supporter who dismissed the need for contraception by saying women could put an aspirin “between their knees.” “This is someone who…
Televangelist Pat Robertson joins ‘Obama dictatorship’ conspiracy
Even though the claim is wildly inaccurate, President Barack Obama’s critics have for years been calling him a “dictator,” and on Wednesday morning televangelist Pat Robertson joined the conspiracy parade by insisting that Obama secretly “wants to take control of every aspect of this nation by the federal government.” “If…
‘Fox & Friends’ suggests employment numbers were ‘fabricated’
Several Fox News co-hosts on Wednesday continued to suggest that there may be a conspiracy to increase President Barack Obama’s chances at re-election by manufacturing better-than-expected employment numbers. “What does the good economic news — if you believe these numbers — mean for President Obama’s fortunes?” asked co-host Brian Kilmeade.…
Koch Industries: Obama trying to silence private citizens
Koch Industries has accused President Barack Obama’s allies of trying to silence its wealthy executives, David and Charles Koch, following remarks made by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). “We will exercise our First Amendment rights and not be intimidated or silenced by the President’s aides and his allies who criticize private…
Obama plans religious ‘accommodation’ for contraceptives: report
Related: Obama official vows all women will have ‘free contraceptive services’ Under pressure from Catholic bishops, the Obama administration will announce it is backing off a requirement that virtually all health insurance policies provide coverage for contraceptives, administration insiders told ABC News on Friday morning. A member of the administration,…
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