Author: LOLGOP

Want to reduce abortions? Stop electing Republicans

Want to reduce abortions? Stop electing Republicans

We all make a choice at the ballot Unless you’re going to lock pregnant women up like a calf doomed-to-become-veal and investigate every miscarriage as a murder, abortions will always happen — and probably even then. The fact is: even making abortion illegal won’t make it go away. At least one study has shown abortion rates are higher in countries […]

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The deficit is falling! The deficit is falling!

The deficit is falling! The deficit is falling!

Somebody tell America The day President Obama stepped into office he inherited a record projected $1.2 trillion deficit that turned out to be $1.4 trillion by the end of fiscal year 2009. This year the projected deficit is $759 billion, down from a projected $973 billion. That means the deficit of the president’s first year of his second term is […]

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What do the corporate capture of America, voter suppression and NSA spying have in common?

What do the corporate capture of America, voter suppression and NSA spying have in common?

Chief Justice John Roberts, the man who appointed ALL of the judges to the FISA court Even before this session the Supreme Court, the Roberts “Citizens United” Court had already demonstrated an frightening willingness to rule on the behalf of corporations whenever possible. Senator Elizabeth Warren recently noted the 70% win rate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — America’s […]

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If you want to know what actual tyranny looks like, ask poor women in Texas

If you want to know what actual tyranny looks like, ask poor women in Texas

As some debate whether this country has become more like George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, keep in mind that for millions of Americans who have no time to debate such a lofty question, actual oppression exists. This oppression isn’t a overwhelming fear of the Thought Police or even a steady drugging that manufactures consent. It isn’t […]

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Why Chris Christie is just about as extreme and even more dangerous than Rick Perry and Scott Walker

Why Chris Christie is just about as extreme and even more dangerous than Rick Perry and Scott Walker

If you’re a worker, a gay or lesbian couple, a teacher or a woman, Christie isn’t your boyfriend Charisma is a powerful thing, especially in politics. It can give you the appearance that you’re always trying to do the right thing, even when you’re just trying to save your ass or do your donors’ bidding. Governors Scott Walker and Rick […]

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When Republicans say they don’t trust ‘government,’ they mean women — and voters

When Republicans say they don’t trust ‘government,’ they mean women — and voters

By ‘small’ government, we mean ‘ruthless and petty’ The “people’s filibuster” that has — at least temporarily — blocked Texas Republicans from closing nearly every women’s health clinic in the state has crucial connection to another big story from Tuesday. State Senator Wendy Davis, the woman who spoke for more than ten hours to block the bill from passing before […]

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NSA revelations haven’t slowed the House GOP’s attacks on civil liberties

NSA revelations haven’t slowed the House GOP’s attacks on civil liberties

They can’t pass a farm bill but they can pass indefinite detention In the weeks since Edward Snowden released classified details about the NSA’s programs, the House GOP has reaffirmed the indefinite detention of American citizens, blocked the president’s plan to close Guantanamo Bay prison and held a hearing to defend the NSA. Meanwhile, Speaker Boehner joined Dick Cheney and […]

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5 Things Republicans Won’t Tell You About Obamacare Rates

5 Things Republicans Won’t Tell You About Obamacare Rates

The biggest problem Democrats have  had in selling the Affordable Care Act is about to become its greatest strength. Approximately 85% of American adults are insured through their employer or the government. The vast majority of the insured will barely notice when Obamacare goes into effect in January of 2014. That doesn’t mean they won’t benefit from the law. Obamacare […]

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The most pressing threat to our liberty is the continuing loss of our economic freedom

The most pressing threat to our liberty is the continuing loss of our economic freedom

Those who would give up essential liberty to give corporations more ‘freedom’ deserve aren’t that interested in freedom Three months after Senator Rand Paul’s super-important, epoch-changing 13-hour drone filibuster, more than 90% of House Republicans voted to continue the policy of indefinite detention and to keep the Guantanamo Bay prison open. But a small group of Republicans actually joined the […]

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Senate votes to kill 56,243 jobs with $4.1 billion in cuts to food stamps, House GOP would like to cut $135 billion

Senate votes to kill 56,243 jobs with $4.1 billion in cuts to food stamps, House GOP would like to cut $135 billion

Austerity is supposed to be dead but Tuesday night the Senate voted to cut $4.1 billion from the “Heat and Eat” programs that supplement food assistance for seniors and those with disabilities. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) offered legislation last month that would block any cuts to the SNAP program. It was soundly defeated after Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), chair of […]

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What do you get when you vote Republican? In Michigan, you get 150,000 fewer people with health care

What do you get when you vote Republican? In Michigan, you get 150,000 fewer people with health care

For the last three decades Republicans have bet on a proposition that has mostly paid off: Poor people don’t vote. As a result, they’ve championed an unprecedented transfer of wealth from workers to those who possess capital. And though they’ve lost 5 out of the 6 popular votes in presidential elections, they were able to use dark money and a […]

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