Drunk And Disorderly: How Republican Extremists Are Shredding Every Principle The GOP Claims To Uphold
October 3rd, 2013By Washington standards, the current government shutdown is an everyday disaster – of a kind we are gradually learning to expect whenever the Republican Party controls Congress. The impending breach of the nation’s credit, however, when those same Republicans refuse to raise the debt limit to cover the funds they have spent, threatens a singular
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Over 100 House Members Urge Obama To Get Congressional Authorization For Syria Strike
August 28th, 2013A bipartisan coalition of 116 U.S. Representatives has signed a letter insisting that President Barack Obama consult with Congress and receive its authorization before taking any military action against Syria. The letter, which was written by Representative Scott Rigell (R-VA) on Tuesday, asserts that using U.S. military force against Syria without receiving authorization from Congress
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WATCH: Oklahoma Senator Says Obama Is Close To Impeachment
August 23rd, 2013Another day, another Republican pandering to the right-wing base of the party. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) said at a town hall meeting in Muskogee, Oklahoma on Wednesday that the president is “getting perilously close” to impeachment. It’s a move that puts him in what former Pennsylvania Democratic governor Ed Rendell calls the “wacko faction” of the Republican
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The Third Political Branch
June 27th, 2013WASHINGTON — We prefer to think of the Supreme Court as an institution apart from politics and above its struggles. In the wake of this week’s decision gutting the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, its actions must now be viewed through the prism of the conservative movement’s five-decade-long quest for power. Liberals will
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Amid Tightening Senate Polls, Georgia Republicans Seek Repeal Of 17th Amendment
February 20th, 2013In the latest example of the GOP’s selective reverence for the Constitution, six Georgia Republicans are trying to end the election of U.S. senators by popular vote — just as a new poll shows that the GOP’s footing in the state’s upcoming Senate election is less secure than previously thought. The Douglas County Sentinel reports
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