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After all, they didn’t start the Afghani or Iraqi wars, did they? They diligently fight tooth and nail the rising costs of health-care. Lord knows they’d all stroke out if one more governmental function becomes privatized.
An atmosphere of bamboozlement and deceit. Nope, that’s not republican territory at all.

A Backlog Of Cases Alleging Fraud
Whistle-Blower Suits Languish [...]

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And it will only get worse.

US politicians find ways to play on racial fears
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Republican congressional candidate in a majority-white Mississippi district runs ads trying to tie his Democratic rival with Barack Obama’s former pastor, seen by some as an anti-white firebrand. Democrats distribute fliers accusing the Republican of wanting a [...]

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“I think associations are fair game.” As they should be.

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GOP chief vows to go [...]

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They disfranchised voters in Florida in 2000, and now they’re doing it in Indiana. I am so fed up with the fucking republican party.
Are you fucks so hard up for control that you will lie, cheat and steal your way to the top? You have no qualms about stepping on other people to get [...]

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(Don’t believe your eyes?Then click HERE for the real thing!)  

That’s what you would have to have to make the following statement:

Counters JOHN A. BOEHNER spokesman MICHAEL STEEL: “Liberals’ sad obsession with scape-goating President Bush, and their conspiracy theories regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will not bring us any closer to our [...]

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Note to McCain: People are tired of political shit like this. It’s so Rove and it’s so yesteryear.
But I can see some good coming from this. Whomever gets the nomination between Hillary and Barack, stories like the one here will be sure to regroup the democratic party.

McCain Campaign: Associating Obama [...]

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“There is not a conflict, there is not an appearance of a conflict,” Mr. Ashcroft told a House Judiciary Committee hearing this morning.
Not even the appearance of one, huh? Yep, that’s gall.

Nice Work If You Can Get It: John Ashcroft’s Big Payday
John Ashcroft, the former Attorney General, insisted today that there was nothing wrong with [...]

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Well no wonder Republicans are so bitter and self-destructive!

Science, Bible Agree: Giving Is Better
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bible counsels misers that it’s better to give than to receive. Science agrees. People who made gifts to others or to charities reported they were happier than folks who didn’t share, according to a report in Friday’s issue [...]

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Turns out John McCain went looking for Rev. bigot John Hagee’s endorsement.
Also, turns out Hagee is a much nicer man than we first thought:

Interviewed by Deborah Solomon, Hagee refused to discuss his statement that Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for a gay rights parade in New Orleans, calling it “so far off-base.” He claims, “Our [...]

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That’s how Peter Sprigg, vice president of policy at the Family Research Council, explained the conservative group’s opposition to the Uniting American Families Act, which would allow gay Americans the same right straight Americans have to sponsor a foreign partner for citizenship here.
(HT: ThinkProgress / Citizen Crain)

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