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Former Sen. Phil “Mental Recession” Phil Gramm Endorses His “Protege” Rick Perry
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) yesterday jumped in the 2012 GOP presidential primary, saying that “it is time to get America working again.” “I will work every day to make Washington, DC, as inconsequential...
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“The Rising”: Return Of The Big GOP Medicare Lie
The participant’s in last night’s GOP presidential debate once again took the opportunity to pretend that the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) put a massive dent in Medicare by cutting $500 billion...
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The Candidates Weren’t The Only Ones On Display In Tampa
The point of presidential candidate debates is to offer the public a chance to scrutinize and evaluate those seeking national office. Occasionally, though, voters get the chance to scrutinize and...
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“The Last Nutball Standing”: Dancing With The Mitt That Brung Ya
Conservatives picked him, and now they have to live with him. In the early days of the 2012 Republican primaries, many thoughtful commentators took the position that it was simply impossible for Mitt...
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“Divorced From Reality”: Fewer Debates Won’t Save The GOP From Itself
Jonathan Martin reports in the New York Times that the RNC has moved aggressively to reduce the number of debates Republican candidates for president will have to endure. The Republican National...
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“King v. Burwell And Jindal’s Real Leverage”: Interfering With The Signals...
Well, fate may have given Bobby Jindal his heart’s desire: a way to exert real leverage on the GOP via his aborning presidential campaign. He sure needed some help. His efforts to be a...
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“An Unexploded Ordnance”: Why Republicans Secretly Hope The Supreme Court...
Because a Supreme Court decision for plaintiffs in King v. Burwell would impose extreme hardship on Affordable Care Act beneficiaries in 34 states and leave President Obama’s signature achievement in a...
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“McCain And Graham As Obama’s “Lapdogs”: Rand Paul’s Media-Bait Of The...
If Lindsey Graham is indeed entering the 2016 presidential race to make sure the military-industrial complex’s concerns about Rand Paul are fully and loudly and at every moment placed within sight and...
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“The Swaggering Idiot Returns”: George W. Bush Emerges From Artistic Exile To...
Arguably the best thing George W. Bush ever did for his party was to keep quiet in the years following his presidency. Winning elections in a political environment shaped by Bush’s legacy – a bloody...
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“The Mainstream Media’s Bernie Sanders Trap: Deranged Clinton Hate Turns Them...
If only the great Michael Harrington had lived to see this. So many brave Americans fought in vain to spread socialism in the United States, but it’s advancing in the summer of 2015 thanks to an...
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“He’s Got Himself A Regular Tent Revival Going”: Is Cruz Winning The...
While Donald Trump has had us all mesmerized, and we’ve also watched former co-front-runners Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Marco Rubio lose some altitude, and Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina get their...
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“Sarah Palin All Over Again”: Ben Carson’s Fall Is A Damning Indictment Of...
Ben Carson’s popularity among conservatives has been marked by their imperviousness to questions about his honesty and fitness. Carson has made dozens of statements about federal policy that have...
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“The Lives Of America’s ‘Others'”: Requires A Reassessment Of American Values...
American discourse often splits along enduring fault lines: Republican and Democrat; majority and minority; citizen and foreigner. Yet our newest fault line is more troubling, intractable, and toxic....
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“Bankrolling Ted Cruz”: Inside The Anti-Gay Church That Loves Kim Davis And...
Right outside this little town, there’s a tiny church that wants to change the world. And, thanks to the billionaire pastor’s backing, it just might be able to get that done. The church is the Assembly...
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“Palin Is A Loser—But A Potentially Useful One”: Sarah Palin Backs Donald...
Failed reality-television star Sarah Palin joined former reality-television star Donald Trump in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday evening, not for a taping of Celebrity Apprentice or a casting for Dancing With...
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“McCain’s Loyalty To Palin Goes Unrewarded”: The Loyalty And Respect Appears...
After Sarah Palin announced her support for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign late yesterday, it was hard not to wonder: what does John McCain have to say about this? The answer, apparently, is not...
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“The Christian Candidate”: The Republican Formula To Snag Christian Votes Is...
Mike Huckabee is not happy. Once a rising star in the Republican Party who successfully leveraged his background as a pastor for political advantage, Huckabee’s 2016 presidential run has proved a...
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“Not The America Of The Future”: GOP A Bridge To 1960, When 90 Percent Of The...
It’s hardly news to observe that partisan polarization in this country is reinforced by sharp divisions in the demographic composition of the two major parties. But National Journal‘s Ron Brownstein...
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“The Classier Of Two Evils”: Cruz Is The Leader Of A Faction; Trump Is A...
With less than two weeks till the Iowa Caucus, the shape of the Republican race could hardly be more frightening for the Republican establishment. Both of the two leading candidates, Donald Trump and...
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“And They Can’t Seem To Shake It”: The GOP’s Conception Of The Republican...
Ever since Donald Trump vaulted to the top of Republican presidential primary polls, GOP strategists have clung to the view that he could be defeated the same way so many other insurgent candidates...
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