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The GOP's Delusions
Today's Republicans are hardly the first party to spend more time worrying about betrayal from their colleagues than from their opponents on the other side; it's a dynamic nearly as old as politics itself. But they truly have created not just a politics of anger, but a politics utterly removed from any substance at all. Policy goals may be the nominal justification for all the anger, but in truth nobody bothers figuring out how they might be achieved. The performance is its own end.
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The Blackmail Caucus, a.k.a. the Republican Party
The Republican Party in the Boehner era has had little understanding of economic or political facts, and it will probably get worse.
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Powell: I stay Republican 'because it annoys them'
Powell said the "party has shifted much further right than where the country is."
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The Art of Speaking Like Donald Trump, in 10 Easy Steps
Make your inflections great again.
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Alabama to stop issuing driver’s licenses in counties with 75% black registered voters
The state of Alabama, which requires a photo ID to vote, announced this week that it would stop issuing driver’s licenses in counties where 75 percent of registered voters are black.
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Virginia Republicans Admit They Rigged The State’s Congressional Districts To Elect GOP Lawmakers
The GOP's goal was to render congressional elections little more than political theater, an annual ritual that would produce the same 8-3 delegation every single time.
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Paul Davis files lawsuit against Kris Kobach over purging of suspended voters list
Paul Davis and Will Lawrence, an attorney who worked on Davis’ campaign for governor, are representing two Douglas County residents, Alder Cromwell and Cody Keener, who are on the list. They assert that removing their names from the list violates the National Voter Registration Act.
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Why the Washington Post’s Attack on Bernie Sanders is Bunk
The Washington Post just ran an attack on Bernie Sanders that distorts not only what he’s saying and seeking but also the basic choices that lie before the nation.
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The Power of Precise Predictions
Is there a solution to this country’s polarized politics? Consider the debate over the nuclear deal with Iran. Like all policy debates, it was, at its core, a contest between competing predictions.
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How Fear Drives American Politics | David Rothkopf | TED Talks
Does it seem like Washington has no new ideas? Instead of looking to build the future, it sometimes feels like the US political establishment happily retreats into fear and willful ignorance. Journalist David Rothkopf lays out a few of the major issues that US leadership is failing to address — from cybercrime to world-shaking new tech to the reality of modern total war — and calls for a new vision that sets fear aside.
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The 3 most important things to know about John King, the next education secretary
King will take over for Arne Duncan, who steps down January 1.
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5th October 1947 - First presidential speech on TV
On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House, asking Americans to cut back on their use of grain in order to help starving Europeans.
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Dems on GOP's Benghazi committee start to play hardball
As the Benghazi committee is exposed as the partisan exercise it has always been, the politics surrounding the scheme are clearly intensifying.
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No, John Kasich, I don't want Taylor Swift tickets
My hand was raised, my body half-way out of my back-row seat, when Gov. John Kasich finally acknowledged me. "I'm sorry, I don't have any Taylor Swift concert tickets," he said, his eyes meeting mine. The older members of the audience chuckled as my friends' jaws dropped to the floor. It was astonishingly clear that Gov. Kasich did not come to Richmond for my vote.
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McCarthy Quits Speaker’s Race, Leaving G.O.P. in Disarray
Mr. McCarthy’s candidacy was damaged when he suggested in an interview on Fox News last week that the House committee investigating Benghazi had the political aim of damaging Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign.
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Texts From Trump
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Mark Takano Posts Spoof Craigslist Ad For House Speaker
Shared on his Facebook Page.
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Democrats want special panel on gun violence
House Democrats are intensifying their effort to check gun violence.
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Democrats: GOP chair hiding Planned Parenthood footage
Oversight Chairman Chaffetz has said he will set up a “viewing room” for Democratic members and staff to view the videos. Republicans have not yet hosted a screening, the aide said, calling the move a "direct violation" of the Democrats' recent subpoena of Daleiden's unedited footage.
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Ben Carson says guns may have stopped Holocaust
"The likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed," he told CNN on Thursday. An anti-Semitism monitoring group says linking US gun control to the Holocaust is "historically inaccurate".
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