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How GOP Extremism Shut Down the Government
The government shutdown shows the consequences of the GOP’s changing political tactics in recent years. So the great shutdown of 2013 is upon us and everyone is throwing their two cents in as to who...
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Will the Republicans Just Give In?
The Republican Party is in disarray in the wake of the shutdown it created. The only question that remains: How soon until they cave? As the government shutdown heads towards the weekend the...
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The U.S. Congress Just Doesn’t Wanna
Anup Samanta learned a lesson from his mom: Sometimes you have to say “Move on!” Let’s look to 2015 and make things happen. —- I have been very smitten with someone for the past two-and-a-half...
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The Coming Republican Blame Game
Republicans need to look beyond their usual suspects to see how they lost the shutdown fight so badly. It looks like the end is in sight for our two week long government shutdown and we might even...
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Goodness and the Sliding Scale of Time
“Yesterday’s goodness isn’t good enough”, says Jackie Summers. —– RSVP for #StopRacism Weekly Calls “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by...
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Special Elections Aren’t Very Special
Next week’s special election in Florida won’t tell us what will happen in the future. — While much of the media is focusing on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, a number of political observers are...
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John Boehner Isn’t Going Anywhere
Despite all the talk about ousting the current Republican Speaker of the House, his position is pretty secure. — A piece by Tim Albert recently published in National Journal about an emerging plot to...
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Immigration Reform Is All About The Republican
When it comes to passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill President Obama just doesn’t matter that much. — Politico had a piece yesterday highlighting problems with the stalled effort to pass...
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Our Post-Policy House Of Representatives
Republicans in the House seem to think that Beltway spin wars are more important than governing. — Paul Waldman had a great find about the current state of the House Representatives yesterday in USA...
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John Boehner’s Epic Fail
The Republican failure to pass their own bill to address the border crisis shows GOP dysfunction at its worst. The big news yesterday, along with the three-day cease fire in Gaza, had to be the House...
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Bipartisanship Is No Utopia
Washington gridlock can be annoying, but that doesn’t mean bipartisan consensus produced outcomes that are necessarily more popular. —- Kevin Drum made a great observation yesterday about the mammoth...
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We Don’t Need New Blood In Congress
Structural factors, not a lack of “new blood”, is what’s driving American politics right now. —- One of the persistent myths in American politics is that we need “new blood” in politics or limiting...
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28 Black People Who Should Inspire You — Andrew Young
He marched with Dr. King, disobeyed a U.S. President, and broke the color barrier in Georgia politics. Andrew Jackson Young (1932- ) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Young is, perhaps, most well...
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Trump Declares War on Trans Service Members
Embed from Getty Images — “After consideration with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow…… ….Transgender individuals to serve...
View ArticleThe Vultures are Circling Over Possible Ryan Replacement
> Source: 30dB.com – Kevin%20McCarthy-vs-Paul%20Ryan According to The Weekly Standard, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said at a Colorado conference on Sunday that House Speaker Paul Ryan...
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How To Raise Black Boys to Men
— Dr. Vibe asks a Black male thought leader about the importance of Black men raising Black boys Dr. Vibe asks Melvin Lars for his comments on the following stories: The Dr. Vibe Show™: ‘Surviving R....
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“WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN”-The “Notorious AOC” claps back at critics quoting...
Let me try and save folks some time here.You cannot rein in Latinas. They rein you in. #YearOfTheLatina #FutureIsLatina.-civil rights lawyer Cristobal Alex Last Friday morning, Politico reported...
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Republicans Unleash Their Inner Jim Crow
By Jim Hightower If you’re a rich Republican who’s done nothing in the House of Representatives for so long that you’re essentially seen as a piece of furniture, what do you do when faced with a...
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It’s Time to Take a Page From the Young in Politics
When Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) appointed me a congressional page in 2001, I was an idealistic teenager. But living and working in our nation’s capital transformed my political beliefs and...
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Congressional Chaplains Violate James Madison’s “Non-Establishment” Clause of...
By Warren J. Blumenfeld Right-wing anti-LGBTQ extremist, Rev. Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, California, served as guest chaplain of the House of Representative Tuesday, January 30....
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