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I'm Young, Conservative And Couldn't Give A DAMN About Your Medicare

From CNN: But Ryan also said Republicans need to continue to explain how their proposal will impact Medicare. "Americans want the truth. They want facts. And so we have a year and half to get the...

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BREAKING: Mitt Romney Announces PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN!

From HP: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is expected to formally launch a campaign for president of the United States next week in the key early primary state of New Hampshire, the Union...

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McConnell: NO Debt Limit Vote Without Medicare Cuts

From TPM: "To get my vote, for me, it's going to take short term [cuts, via spending caps]... Both medium and long-term, entitlements.," McConnell said. "Medicare will be part of the solution." To...

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A Party Too Stupid To Know It's DESTROYING America

As the country pulls toward the middle, the GOP willfully pulls further to the right. From HP: If anything, "mainstream Republican leaders are pushing the party too far to the left," said Sid...

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Why Are All Democrats Jumping On Weiner?

From HP: On Thursday, Sen. Patrick Leahy became the most senior Democrat yet to join calls for Weiner, D-New York, to quit over his "sexting" scandal. Leahy "supports Minority Leader (Nancy) Pelosi's...

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On Weiner: Are Democrats Fair-Weather Friends?

Insightful comment on HP: The Weiner fiasco teaches us something unfortunat­e about Democrats: if you help them, they'll be your friends. But the minute you're in trouble, they will pretend they don't...

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Michael Reagan Selling "Conservative" Email Addresses

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Historical Gas Prices. Guess Who's Getting Scr*wed.

Had a discussion the other day with a friend about gas prices. I complained how they've ballooned in the last decade. He claimed that prices have only increased, on average, around a dollar per decade...

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Stupid People With Simple Minds Are The Enemy On Debt Ceiling Debate

Bernanke made a very valid argument as to why politicians (read GOP) should stop holding the debt ceiling issue hostage: "I fully understand the desire to use the debt limit deadline to force some...

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Man Robs Bank To Get Healthcare

A man walks into a bank and slips a note to the teller. The note reads: “This is a bank robbery. Please only give me one dollar.” From CNN: Then the man tells the bank employees, “I’ll be sitting...

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Conservative Stupidity: The Real Economic Terrorist

From NYT Community: It is becoming clearer by the month that it was a grave misjudgment to expend huge energy, money and political capital on Obamacare when the real problem all along has been the...

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Reid Folds On Debt Crisis - Of Course

From DailyBeast: World markets began to fall Monday after debt talks in Washington fell apart once again, with Japan and Hong Kong falling nearly 1 percent and the Shanghai Composite Index tumbling 3...

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I Will Have To FIRE My 5 Gardeners If There Are New Taxes

This comment on CNN just irked me: My parents are rich and they employ 5 gardeners, 3 housekeepers and 1 car washer. A tax increase will force my parents to fire most or all of them in order to still...

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Tea Party Ignorance Now Rules America

Make no mistake. We are in a terrorist hostage crisis. A crisis so terribly unnecessary and vile it makes me sick to my stomach to think about it. And the only conclusion I can come to - the only one...

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There Will Be No Compromise. That's Their ENTIRE Plan.

Daily Beast discussion with Tea Party head Mark Meckler: DB: Is there any scenario where you think it would be OK to raise the debt ceiling? MM: No. DB: If you wake up on August 3rd and the debt...

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Boehner: Downgrade Of U.S. Credit Rating 'Beyond My Control'

From HP: House Republicans are attempting to wash their hands of the debt limit on Thursday, claiming the Senate will be responsible for a default if it does not pass a House plan to raise the debt...

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Washington. Go F**K Yourself.

From HP: "The people who do fundraisers are the people who don't want to pay taxes," Johnson said. Politicians "spend an awful lot of time calling people with assets," said Robert Borosage,...

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Congressional Benefits. The REAL Entitlements.

Free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days...and these millionaires, most of whom don't NEED these benefits, have the gall...

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This Is No Longer About The Republicans.

From The Hill: “The real problem for our country is not the short-term debt. We can deal with that. It's the long-term debt. It's the structural debt of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid measured...

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The Least Controversial Way To Tax The Rich

From Guardian UK: Buffett, a long-time critic of the US tax system, has calculated that he handed over 17.4% of his income as tax last year – a lower proportion than any of the 20 other people who...

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