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Scare Tactics? What About Scary Candidates?

Ramona, my fiancee’s mother, lived 55 years by the rules. She worked sixteen-hour days. Disabled now by a car accident, she cannot be covered by Alabama’s state-run Medicaid program because SSI disability payments are too much income. They barely cover … Continue reading

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Morning Awful: Voter Caging

It’s when someone targets Democratic voters for ballot-challenges: A coordinated plot by the Republican Party of Wisconsin, Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin and organizations in the so-called Tea Party movement targeting minority voters and college students in a possibly illegal “voter caging” … Continue reading

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How To Spot A Republican

From Captain Coolaid. A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend … Continue reading

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Morning Awful: Terror Babies

Actual journalistic inquiry into Republican’s insane talking point sparks Angle-like whining for the press bias they prefer:

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Atlas Shrugging Off Tea Party, Republicans

What was that I was saying about the Republican Party going bankrupt? From the website-that-must-not-be-linked: With $11 million on hand at the end of June — and about $2 million in reported debt — the RNC’s paid get-out-the-vote (GOTV) effort … Continue reading

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Morning Awful: Republican Voters

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When ‘No’ Is All You Have

I’ll call upon the Beastie Boys for a hymn to GOP sabotage: The president wants to turn $30 billion of borrowed federal money into $300 billion of small business lending to unfreeze the credit markets. Of course, the GOP says … Continue reading

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