Jim DeMint To Heritage Foundation: Senator To Leave Position To Run Think Tank

[singing in Buggs Bunny's voice] "Overture. Dim the lights! This is it!..." He is leaving. America and especially the Senate are all the better for it. Although SC is a perverse state and can indeed send to the Senate an even worse yokel than De Mint , I dare hope that America catches a break and someone who loves America more than money or party will be sent in his place.
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Sheryl Nuxoll, Idaho GOP State Senator, Tweets Out Bogus 'Last Chance' For A President Romney

I have never in my whole life seen such a huge boatload of bad losers. Geez, y'all lost...get over it! A bunch of whiners! I never wanted nor did I ever vote for Reagan, Bush I, or Bush II. They won. I waited out their terms to elect someone better. Killing yourselves or your significant others is just nuts. 53% of America said no to Romney. Unless you are a rich investment banker or hedge-fund manager it doesn't matter much. You should be hunkering down and waiting for the next election. You have four years to lose the hate. You'll survive just fine...I did.
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Get Your War On: The Aftermath (VIDEO)

Dear GOP:



You NEVER should have disrespected my President! Feeling humiliated? Shocked? Good! Underestimate people of color, angry women and young people again if you want to continuously lose.
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Melissa Harris-Perry Delivers Open Letter To Richard Mourdock On Rape (VIDEO)

You have got to be a guy. To simply pass over what Miss Harris-Perry and other rape survivors have said to promote your anti-abortion view is disgusting. Rape is v i o l e n c e. It is the most personal kind of violence where you no longer feel safe in your self. Rape is not sex it is pure violence. It is used in order to make its victim feel powerless. Rape is about power and control and if you cannot fathom that then you have no right to condemn any woman who cannot bear her rapist's child. It is not for you nor me to determine what terms any rape survivor should take to maintain her sanity and heal. The monster is the rapist.
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Mitt Romney Offers Full-Throated Attack On Obama's 'Redistribution'

Sad. That 47% crap is going to bite Gov. Mitt square on the rear of his pants. Whether or not your parents pay Federal income tax they pay taxes like EVERYBODY in the country does. They pay real estate taxes. They pay sales taxes (and in some places they are very steep). When they fly to see you they pay a whole array of taxes with their ticket. Every place local and state governments can they are taxing citizens. So, if you aren't paying Federal income taxes you are still paying taxes.



This 47% stuff makes me sick!
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Rick Santorum: 'Smart People' Will Never Be On Our Side (VIDEO)

30 years in the literacy movement...Rick is why reading and comprehension are tools for our national defense. I shall teach people to read as long as I live. Readers really are leaders.



If the Tea-people would stop watching Fixed News and read for themselves they too would be smart and not need Rick (oh just Google him) Santorum to try to make ignorance into a good thing.
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Jeb Bush: It's Time For Obama 'To Move On' From Blaming George W. Bush

And we should care about his brother's feelings because...? Frankly, the mess we are in is expressly because of George Bush II's supply side economic voodoo nonsense first employed by Ronald Reagan and expanded upon like out of control RNA by Bush that caused massive debt and and an historic shift of wealth from everybody else to the 1%. Add to that there was the banking scandal that nearly collapsed the world's economy. So, I guess we all should still be blaming George W. Bush for the economic mess we are still struggling to climb out of without the benefit of a working Congress. The country is so broken now but the choice is quite clear. We can return to the failed economic policies of one party with a secret plan or we can side with the other party that was productive for the first two years of President Obama's term. In the mean time why let George off of the hook...he baited it.
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Tom Head, Texas Judge: Obama Reelection Could Lead To 'Civil War,' I'm Ready To 'Take Up Arms'

That brick load is shy of many more than one brick. Please Texas start teaching United States of America civics. And it would help if folks stop watching that Fox News it is really making y'all nuts.



Finally, it all boils down to race and that is what is sad about such prehistoric crazy thinking on the part of people like Tom Head. Sad.
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Todd Akin On Abortion: 'Legitimate Rape' Victims Have 'Ways To Try To Shut That Whole Thing Down' (VIDEO)

Just when you think that we have moved forward as a society we are reminded by those who have been left behind. It astonishes me when some 19th century blowhard recites a spiel of made up science to justify their backwards thinking. The guy just needs to go away...far away in the past where they belong.
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Mitt Romney Walks Back London Olympics Criticism (UPDATE)

Well, this is it for me. I'm voting for the Arab, Kenyan, Muslim, foreign born in Hawaii guy. At least he can go to foreign lands and not tick off folks like Gov. Mitt.



For the interested reader go to the blog: We are the dog, and read the last three entries. Excellent!!
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Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Trial Set To Begin As State Concedes It Has No Proof Of In-Person Voter Fraud

The matter would be settled in there were one voting requirement...a federal ID which all would have that be used for voting, registering for medicare, medicaid, SNAP, the military, government jobs (all levels), driver's license, school (all levels), and travel (no more passports!) so that we face the truth...there is no hiding place in the country and privacy is moot. Why not have one ID photo fits all product and eliminate the propensity of state and local governments harassing their people by nickel and diming them with fees, hard to reach centers and archaic rules designed to disenfranchise citizens. A Federal ID would mean that I do not need an absentee ballot I can voting any where in any US state or territory. Voter turnout would probably rise too.
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John Sununu: 'I Wish This President Would Learn How To Be An American'

If you believe in America so much and desire the bankers who have wrought havoc on our economy to be without restrictions then why Mitt do you have money parked in offshore banks? Also, why do you want to be in charge of a government you and your party seem to hate? Finally, Gov. when will you address the needs of the 99% since we have a rather clear picture of what you are offering your 1% friends when is it our turn?
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Slams Allen West As 'Unhinged'

I was going to pass up this article because the Broward County Congressman may well be unhinged but I cannot fathom why the media promotes his utterings? It is not as if he espouses great ideas yet they print his every word. Only my respect and empathy for people who live with mental health illnesses I do not use a phrase that truly applies to him. Too bad he has no empathy for us.
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Obama Singing Mocked By Mitt Romney Campaign

The difference is that one campaign speaks on substantive issues an another campaign is just dangerously silly. This will be a hard uphill battle for President Obama. The electorate must decide between moving forward progressing or most of becoming serfs and regressing. I know for whom I'm voting but wonder about my fellow citizens.



P.S. The President can sing.
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Chris Rock 'White People's Day' July 4th Tweet Sparks Controversy

Chris is funny and making a pI rather like what Dr. Cone says about those people who are marginalized:

"Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury."- Dr. James H. Cone
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House Republicans Fail To Hold Promised Hearing On Drug Testing The Jobless

Your experience mirrors my own. Unemployment insurance just barely keeps you going while you furiously search for a job. Searching for a job WAS my job until I got one. I really missed my diet coke during that time but it fell way low on my list of needs.



It makes me sick how they (our Republican Congress) can got after people who paid into a fund so that when they are without are now scapegoats for a bunch who have no sense of shame.
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Miami Heat Win 2012 NBA Championship: LeBron James Leads Way Over Oklahoma City Thunder

KING JAMES! The first in what will become a few championship rings. Congratulations King and the mighty Miami Heat.
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Trayvon Martin Case Protests Across Nation Culminate With Show Of Strength In Florida

Although there are many people to thank for bringing Trayvon Martin's case to public attention it has been Trymaine Lee who has been consistently on point. Thanks for the excellent work Mr. Lee. I had severely cut back on my Huff-Post reading bot you are essential reading since I want to stay current with the movement to get justice for Trayvon Martin's family.



It's a sad day when I agree with Joe Scarborough but I do, "What are they waiting for?"
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Trayvon Martin Killing's Youngest Witness, 13, Still Can Hear The Screams

My heart breaks for the parents. I have 16 year old and I am like most parents terrified that something like this would happen to him. Where is the justice? A child minding his business is gunned down by a gun toting wannabe play cop? I am angry. The Martin family needs justice. We all do.
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New Mexico Mayor David Lansford's Obama Remarks Lead City Official To Resign, Consider Recall Effort

Good Lord! These folks are crazy as all get out. So, let me see...President Obama was recruited in his 20's to seek the Presidency, and he waited until the guy preceding him screwed up the economy so bad we nearly spun into a depression (not that the recession has been painless), handed two failing wars, an aging population, crumbling infrastructure and screaming teabaggers who want stuff for them and nobody else. Yet, two years into cleaning up the mess left by the Republican President he gets a rabid House of Representatives and an unending bunch of birthers to boot. I surely think that if this is a CIA plot we all should be deeply afraid since that CIA is a chock full of a bunch of bumblers.



The sad fact is that this guy is the mayor of anywhere is a shame to the nutty citizenry who elected him.
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