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August 31, 2010 3:01 pm | By Ben Betz
FL-Senate: Tea Party Candidate Marco Rubio Trumpets the GOP’s Backwards, Orwellian Anti-Logic on Deficits and Bush Tax Cuts
Thank you, Heather at Crooks and Liars:After Dick Cheney famously told us that "deficits don't matter" and the Bush administration broke the bank with their tax cuts for the rich and military occupations, Marco Rubio in this week's Republican Weekly…
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August 31, 2010 1:55 pm | By Ben Betz
NV-Senate: Sharron Angle, like Michele Bachmann, believes there are “domestic enemies” in Congress (among other things)
Sharron Angle, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Nevada, has said that if Republicans can’t take back Congress, they may resort to "Second Amendment remedies." She has expressed support for eliminating the Department of Education, and like several other Tea…
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August 31, 2010 1:45 pm | By Ben Betz
AK-Senate: Palin protégé Joe Miller is standing by his most extreme positions
Joe Miller, a Palin-backed Tea Party candidate who is on the verge of upsetting Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Republican Senate primary in Alaska, has said some pretty wild things... indicating support for ending both Social Security and Medicare, and…
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August 31, 2010 1:43 pm | By Ben Betz
“Restoring Honor” Draws 87,000 … Or a Million, Depending Who You Ask
CBS News hired experts to help it estimate that the crowd at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally this weekend was roughly 87,000 strong. An impressive number to be sure.Beck told the crowd he heard it was "between 300,000 and 500,000."…
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August 31, 2010 1:39 pm | By Ben Betz
Exposing the Tea Party’s Benefactors
On Saturday, Frank Rich did a great job picking up on Jane Mayer's now-famous article in the New Yorker on the Koch brothers and drawing some very important historical parallels between the corporate tycoons and extremist libertarians who are funding…
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August 31, 2010 1:35 pm | By Ben Betz
Krugman: It’s Witch-Hunt Season
Paul Krugman's Sunday column in the New York Times lays out what we're in store for if the Right can capture control of at least one chamber of Congress this fall:The last time a Democrat sat in the White House,…
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August 30, 2010 11:34 pm | By Brian
More Conservative Demagoguery on Obama’s Faith
Right-wing leaders continue to feed into the increasingly-held belief that Obama is not a committed Christian, a view now held by one-fifth of Americans. From a Republican National Committeewoman to the RNC’s new media director and even Senate GOP Leader…
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August 30, 2010 10:00 pm | By Brian
Focus on the Family’s New Target: Anti-Bullying Policies
Maintaining that “activist groups that want to promote homosexuality in kids” seek to violate the “innocence and purity of children,” Focus on the Family has launched the “True Tolerance” campaign to prevent “homosexuals” from capturing “the hearts and minds of…
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August 30, 2010 8:02 pm | By Brian
Joe Miller’s Dangerous Views on Women’s Rights
After his dramatic upset win, Alaska Republican Joe Miller took a stunningly distasteful route when tweeting about his opponent: Senator Lisa Murkowski. Rumors in Alaska were flying that Murkowski, who is trailing Miller with vote totals without absentees and early-votes…
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August 29, 2010 1:47 pm | By Ben Betz
Can you imagine the Right’s reaction if a left-leaning or progressive group used this poster?
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August 28, 2010 8:42 pm | By Ben Betz
This is what a “non-political” event looks like?
Glenn Beck has said repeatedly that his "Restoring Honor" rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial today would be "non-political." To people who showed up in the crowd or listened to any of the speeches… well, let's just say…
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August 28, 2010 7:11 pm | By Drew Courtney
Claiming the Dream: Notes from Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Event
I wasn't able to stay for all of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally today (I missed Sarah Palin) but I was able to stop by for a significant chunk of the event. And what an event it was.There were a…
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August 27, 2010 7:28 pm | By
Glenn Beck: Educator? Prophet??
God is speaking through Glenn Beck... or so he and many other Religious Right figures would have us believe. Despite an historical animosity towards Mormons like Beck from the evangelicals who control the Religious Right, his efforts to become the…
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August 27, 2010 6:09 pm | By Ben Betz
So-called ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ — Mayor Bloomberg on Daily Show says it’s all about the elections
"This is plain and simple people trying to stir up things to get publicity, and trying to polarize people so that they can get some votes." (Discussion of Cordoba House project begins around 2:00 mark.) The Daily Show With Jon…
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August 27, 2010 4:35 pm | By Miranda Blue
48 Congressional Candidates have signed the Pledge to Protect America’s Democracy—Find Out Where Your Candidates Stand
Last month, we started asking candidates for Congress to sign a pledge to support a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, and stop unlimited corporate spending in elections. Today, we’re announcing the first batch of…
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August 26, 2010 10:15 pm | By Ben Betz
Right-Wing Front Group Attacks Iowa Congressman with Vicious Anti-Muslim Ad
This is sick. Hatemongering against Muslims has reached the airwaves big time with the Right despicably promoting the view that Muslims exercising their constitutional right to religious freedom is tantamount to military conquest by terrorists. The Atlantic reports: The American…
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August 26, 2010 4:22 pm | By Miranda Blue
When Will it Stop Being Cool to Be an Anti-Gay Republican?
Last night, Ken Mehlman, the man who orchestrated George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign--including, we can presume, its electorally popular anti-gay positions--came out as gay himself. Mehlman says he’s now working with American Foundation for Equal Rights to advocate for…
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August 25, 2010 10:26 pm | By Miranda Blue
The Lingering Injustice of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
The Don’t Ask, Don’t tell policy has been denounced by a vast majority of Americans, rejected by the leaders of the military, and, if Republicans decide not to filibuster, will be finally on its way out in this year’s Defense…
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August 25, 2010 9:05 pm | By Ben Betz
Tea Party Candidate Ken Buck Leading in CO-Senate
Ken Buck, one of a handful of Senate candidates this year riding a wave of Tea Party support to victory in his Republican primary, is no stranger to extremism. Yet the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll in Colorado shows him leading Sen.…
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August 25, 2010 7:56 pm | By Miranda Blue
The Long-Term Consequences of Hateful Politics
Suhail A. Khan, who served as a liaison to faith communities in George W. Bush’s White House, writes this week in Foreign Policy that he finds himself increasingly alone as a Muslim Republican. Many American Muslims have conservative values, Khan…