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MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann calls out Fox News, once again, on their hypocrisy, lies, and unethical journalism. In Daily Show fashion, Olbermann’s Countdown crew often goes to Fox’s own past footage to shed light on the truth, as they do here with Glen Beck. If [...]

The Republicans object to a proposal to put the health care amendments online before being considered. This attempt at transparency is, of course, not want the GOP wants. It would make it more difficult to keep the public fearful of the Democratic health care bill. After all, if the public is informed about what is [...]

Chase Whitestead and Erick Stroll of New Left Media attended a Palin Book signing in Columbus, Ohio, in order to find out what it is, exactly, that her supporters like about her policies. Other than the usual generic answers, they couldn’t seem to really articulate any responses to question about Palin’s qualifications for the Presidency. [...]

Huffington Post calls out Glenn Beck on his Guilt-by-association tactic he has often used against Obama’s advisors. Fox News anchors continue to claim that Obama’s association with a radical “terrorist” and a black “racist” makes him both of those things. This, even after the truth about Ayers and Wright turned out to not exactly be [...]

The Republican answer to the health care problem…
Do nothing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/12/goldman-to-private-insure_n_355998.html
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I’ll let this article speak for itself:

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The Republicans don’t care that the citizens of this country elected the Democrats into office. They don’t really care FOR the citizens of this country, actually. They don’t care if Democratic bills before Congress are needed to help Americans. They only want to “kill the bill”. They have continued to use lies, fear, and slimy [...]

Apparently, Senator Chuck Grassley knows what’s good for us. Not only is he against the decriminalization of marijuana, he doesn’t even want us to talk about it. His bill would prevent a new commission from considering the possibility.
The war on drugs, especially marijuana, is a waste of money. The war on intelligence though, is a [...]

HuffPost – The Republicans have decided to do everything in their power to hold up Unemployment Insurance benefits. This, as 200,00 people are set to lose their benefits before the Christmas holidays.
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At the bottom of a Nov. 3 WSJ story about the Democratic in-fighting over abortion and immigrant access to health care, is John Boehner quoted as saying this about the Republican version of a health care bill they claim to be working on:
“the plan wouldn’t seek to prevent health-insurance companies from denying sick people insurance”
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