January 2012
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With his daughter's condition improving, Rick... →
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Santorum got to his home in Virginia around midnight Friday for a quick break to do his taxes, but found his daughter “was not doing well.”
“I was up with her a lot of the night,” he said. “By the end of the day, it was really, really clear she was struggling.”
Saturday evening, Santorum aides announced Bella had been admitted to the hospital and they canceled his morning...
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Ron Paul will never be president.
Ron Paul, well known as a physician, congressman and libertarian , has also been a businessman who pursued a marketing strategy that included publishing provocative, racially charged newsletters to make money and spread his ideas, according to three people with direct knowledge of Paul’s businesses.
The Republican presidential candidate has denied writing inflammatory passages in the pamphlets...
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Newt Gingrich Compares Gay Marriage To Paganism →
invisiblegaymen:
Newt Gingrich has three marriages and repeated instances of infidelity under his belt, but that doesn’t stop him from sounding off about the sanctity of male-female marriage.
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Obama myth #4
Obama is a weak leader.
When stumping for Romney, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has a familiar theme: “We need a leader who will lead us to the moment . . . not to be cautious and safe and sit back and wait for someone else to do the hard work,” as he said in December. Then he attacks Obama for health-care reform and for not endorsing the work of the Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission.
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Obama myth #3
Obama’s stimulus failed.
This has become a GOP talking point, repeated by everyone from John Boehner to Karl Rove to Romney. It isn’t true.
Objecting to various provisions of the stimulus or believing that it worsened the deficit isn’t the same as deeming it a failure. When the Obama administration was little more than a year old, three of the best-known economic research firms — IHS Global...
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Obama myth #2
Obama is a tool of Wall Street.
It’s true that the president bailed out banks and let their executives resume making millions without using the leverage he had in early 2009 to restructure financial institutions and hold them accountable for wrecking the economy. He also hired Clinton-era retreads such as Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers, despite their roles in the 1990s deregulatory...
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FINALLY!
we officially have a winner . same guy who won the debate last time, and the time before that, and before that, and i’m sure he’ll win the next debate too. congrats barry!
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FEEDING TUBES!
Because talking about Terry Shiavo is important.
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only 50 minutes into this debate
COME ON
can we skip to newt bashing the NAACP or romney addressing the seamus incident or SOMETHING
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“I’m not like the others, I don’t sit around day-dreaming about being in the...”
– Ron Paul.
Good. Please walk off the stage. You just acknowledged you’re delusional. That’s the first step.
(via thesoapboxschtick)
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Obama myth #1
He is a socialist.
This myth began with a 2008 campaign stop in Ohio, when then-Sen. Obama was caught on tape telling Joe Wurzelbacher (“Joe the Plumber”) that we needed to “spread the wealth around.” Sen. John McCain said that “sounded a lot like socialism” and cited the quote often during the campaign.
Conservatives have echoed the charge throughout Obama’s presidency. Writing in...
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Tennessee Tea Party aims to keep their state...
The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove from history textbooks any incidents of slavery and genocide linked to the founders of the U.S. - they are afraid those references would ‘tarnish’ the image of the Founding Fathers.
“The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of...
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a creepy newt creeping up on an even creepier...
Gingrich drops names of the intellectual and political elite he has known and boldly lays claim to a major share of the legacy of two presidents, Reagan and Clinton. He brags that his candidacy is so historically significant and so utterly different from any other that it is nearly incomprehensible to the dullards in the media. In front of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, after...
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Libertarianism is freedom.
paxamericana:
The freedom to have all sorts of horrible shit happen to you.
GOP debate
Mittens: I'm the biggest and richest douche bag up here!
Frothy: Oh yeah, well I hate brown people more than you do!
Newty: *Something unintelligible*
Sound money: You've read the newsletter, right?
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Did Romney really just say he didn't want to...
stfuconservatives:
Chickenshit.
-Joe
Romney is choking on his own bank account & ‘success’ right about now. He is digging himself into a giant hole and I like it.
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SO
….when Bill Clinton was having a grand ol’ time with Monica , was Newt railing against the ‘elite’ media for covering it then……..?
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“I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that… I...”
– Newt Gingrich, leading off the South Carolina debate with a rebuke to moderator John King, who asked Gingrich about his ex-wife Marianne’s claims he asked for an “open marriage” while leading the impeachment charge against Bill Clinton. He was met with thunderous applause.
More debate...
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we should be allowed to pester Newt Gingrich
Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich in 1999 asked his second wife for an “open marriage” or a divorce at the same time he was giving speeches around the country on family and religious values, his former wife, Marianne, told The Washington Post on Thursday.
The day after Newt asked his wife Marianne for a divorce in 1999, he gave a speech titled “The Demise of American Culture” -
“When a...
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Okay, so, I feel the need to say this
kirkwoodisinoregon:
SOPA is technically dead. It’s been killed in the House, shelved away, gone to die like so many other bills. Eric Cantor himself killed it, meaning it’s a big deal.
The White House itself said it would veto it, and anything along the lines of it.
Yes, PIPA still exists in the Senate, as the Senate’s half of the bill. And I’m not saying that people shouldn’t still be...
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When we talk about wealth inequality, that is just...
On the question of whether any concerns about Wall Street, inequality, and economic unfairness are legitimate and are about something more than “envy,” -
ROMNEY: You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class warfare. When you have a president encouraging the idea of dividing America based on 99 percent versus one percent, and those people who have been most successful will...
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Santorum staff member says women shouldn't be...
In an article about the reasons Rep. Michele Bachmann’s campaign fizzled, the Des Moines Register points to “sexism among conservatives,” singling out an offensive email written by a staffer to Rick Santorum:
Rival presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s Iowa coalitions director, Jamie Johnson, sent out an email saying that children’s lives would be harmed if the nation had a female president....
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Huntsman drops out, endroses Mitt Romney
Huntsman lamented today that, the race “has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks not worthy of the American people” and called on all candidates to “cease attacking each other.” Yet despite the fact that one of his campaign themes was to stop the divisiveness in politics, he launched as many negative attacks on his rivals as any other campaign.
But the...
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mitt romney
is very worried about poor people
very worried that poor people might go out and vote in november
and he should be
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