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McConnell and Boehner: (1) backed the Bush/Cheney agenda that added $5 trillion to the debt; (2) decided they no longer liked raising the debt ceiling; (3) held the nation hostage, threatening to hurt the country on purpose unless they got their way; and (4) rejected a White House offer to reduce the debt by $4 trillion.


Nothing says ‘grown-up behavior’ like the antics of an elementary schoolyard bully.

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From “Adults don’t hold the nation hostage” by Steve Benen, who closes the article with: GOP leaders aren’t just comfortable deliberately holding the country hostage, they’re lacking in self-awareness, seeing themselves as responsible ‘adults’ who aren’t doing anything wrong.”

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"If we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit again and we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating."

Then Vice President Dick Cheney, in September 2004, on the stump fearmongering campaigning for Bush/Cheney eight weeks before the 2004 Presidential election.

Nah, the Republicans never politicized 9/11.

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John McCain tweet: “Shame on Obama for diminishing the memory of 9/11 and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad”

Pictures of the Republican 2008 Convention, John McCain candidate:

Mittens Romney in 2007, commenting that it wasn’t worth spending American resources to continue to pursue bin Laden: “It’s not worth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”

Mittens Romney whine today: “sad to see the Obama campaign seek to use an event that unified our country to once again divide us.”

See the above-referenced Obama ad here. I think it’s genius and 100% appropriate considering people are electing their Commander in Chief and past, wrong judgements matter.

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Republican math:

think-progress:

think-progress:

Affordable: $1 TRILLION per year in tax cuts for the rich

Unaffordable: $6 BILLION per year to help millions of students

And more math-ish thinking:

Affordable: 1 year of tax cuts for 3,340 multimillion dollar estates

Unaffordable: 10 years’ worth of school lunch for 280,000 low-income kids

(Source: The New York Times, via silas216)

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"Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive."

— American Vice President Joe Biden, kicking ass on the campaign trail.

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Why does almost every Republican back the “Ryan budget?”

(a) They’re stupid and uninformed

(b) They want the U.S. economy to go back into recession, hurting Obama’s reelection chances, or

(c) They’re just heartless dickwads

(d) All of the above.

The correct answer is D.

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"I love the fact that there are women out there who don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. And sometimes life isn’t easy for any of us."

— Ann Romney, who has four houses, dressage horses and an elevator for her cars.

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Wake the fuck up, Cantor. I fail to see why any Jew, woman, Black or Hispanic person would be a member of a club that uses racist dog whistles as a campaign strategy. 

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MUST BE REBLOGGED because you have the Foxholes, Karl Rove and Reinz Pubis going around saying the Democrats are making up this fictional War on Women.

destroythegop:

teleological:

The GOP would have you believe there’s no war on women after they started the war on women. The first opportunity they had to deflect attention away was when Hilary Rosen, off the top of her head, made the comment that Ann Romney never worked a day in her life. We all know what she meant but it gave the right ammunition to turn it into the war on moms. Just so we’re clear, there is no war on moms. That’s just plain malarkey and everyone, including Republicans know it.

The Guttmacher Group compiled fascinating research, proving without a doubt, the war on women in America is indeed real. Since taking over the House in 2010, Republicans have introduced 916 anti-women Bills related to reproductive rights.

Some of these Bills include:

Mandated pre-abortion ultrasounds.

Revised sex education laws to require schools districts to provide abstinence-only sex education.

57 measures that would restrict abortions in all insurance plans.

Full list here.

Perhaps most astonishing is the fact that Republican women are so lost in their own delusions, fear and racism that they don’t get they are voting against their own best interests. Much like a battered woman defends a physically abusive relationship.

It’s Romney’s War on Women now, and he’s got the YouTube Problem to prove it. In only one of hundreds of video-bytes of Romney discussing the rights he will take away from women, below is the Right-Wing Extremist Mittster expressing his absolute support for a Constitutional amendment to override Roe v. Wade — with the extra added bonus of expressing his absolute support for “Personhood” amendments that would outlaw some forms of birth control and could send women to prison for the crime of miscarriage.

Huckabilly: Would you have supported a Constitutional amendment that would have established life at conception?

Romney: Absolutely.

(via silas216)

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If the GOP had been in charge of the Titanic

  • they would have denied the ship was sinking
  • they would have blamed the iceberg on government regulation
  • no lifeboats because they were cut by Paul Ryan’s budget
  • they would not have changed the part about the third class poor passengers being locked in steerage.
  • they would have censored the sex scenes in the movie version of the Titanic, replacing those with gun violence

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A walking fiscal disaster

You have to be impressed with an ego so grandiose, and supporters so blind, that bouncing campaign checks on the heels of bankruptcy filing of his health care PAC doesn’t automatically disqualify Gingrich from managing a 7-11, let alone the United States of America.

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If you’re a happy clappy liberal, you probably don’t hear people using the vile term that slipped out of Santorum’s mouth. But it is most definitely used among America’s dog-whistlin’ “good Christians.” And remember, Santorum also said he didn’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them money, then lied about it the next day and said he actually meant to say “blah people.” 

governmentnillawafer:

I don’t know if any of you grew up with a racist mom, but I’ve DEFINITELY heard the term “government nigger” before. It means someone who relies on welfare, does drugs or engages in some kind of questionable activity, and is bad at managing money (also a popular quote at my place, “spending like a nigger”) and bad at parenting. they’re those people FOX News went around interviewing and trying to outsmart to prove that Obama’s voters only wanted a black President.

So like, don’t tell me “government nigger” doesn’t make sense. It makes sense. I instantly knew what Santorum was talking about. And it’s fucking disgusting. And I can not wait until the day this man is hawking a reality show because he’s been kicked out of the sphere of national fucking relevance.