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Last week, Congresswoman Suzan Delbene (D-Wash) slam-dunked the GOP and their infamous Trump/GOP Tax Plan that allowed much of America to witness the hypocrisy and dishonesty behind the plan, and an opportunity to realize to whom that plan would...
by Leslie Salzillo
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on Tue Nov 14, 2017 at 01:57 AM PST
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Roy Moore has burned a lot of bridges the past few days, if editorials in Alabama are to be believed:
Roy Moore is poison in the bloodstream of the Republican Party. If he isn't stopped, he will kill it.
And if you take any joy from that...
by ursulafaw
154 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 08:15 PM PST
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Mitch McConnell was just asked this morning for his reaction to Steve Bannon’s recent comment to the New York Times that McConnell would no longer be Senate Majority Leader this time next year. McConnell’s response, “Ha, ha.” Now billionaire and GOP...
by ursulafaw
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on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 06:55 PM PST
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Short of having sex with a lawnmower, the support for Roy Moore makes every attempt to stay together, even as news of his being banished from the local shopping mall for trolling teenage girls now ...
by annieli
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on Tue Nov 14, 2017 at 12:02 AM PST
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D. MA) re-election campaign:
For 30+ years, the Republican Party has been trying to sell us snake oil. “Cut taxes for billionaires and giant corporations, and all of us will do...
by poopdogcomedy
5 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 06:19 PM PST
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D. NV) in support of U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr.’s (D. PA) re-election campaign:
Democrats CAN take back the Senate in 2018, but not if Senator Bob Casey loses in...
by poopdogcomedy
3 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 06:03 PM PST
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In 1988, the same decade when Roy Moore’s predations against minor girls occurred, America’s most watched Christian televangelist was Jimmy Swaggart whose home megachurch was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Swaggart, a Pentecostal preacher had got into a...
by LeftOfYou
21 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 04:53 PM PST
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by brooklynpaul
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on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 01:58 PM PST
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The leader of the Senate GOP campaign arm Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), has called for embattled Senate candidate Roy Moore’s expulsion from the Senate in the event that he wins the December special election. The Hill:
"I believe the individuals...
by ursulafaw
96 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 01:15 PM PST
with 91 Recommends
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Received this e-mail today from Randy “Ironstache” Bryce’s (D. WI-01) campaign:
Thanks to your support, our campaign against Paul Ryan keeps making history, and today, Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed our campaign.
I'm a union ironworker, a...
by poopdogcomedy
31 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 01:00 PM PST
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Trump-Russia is NOT a surprise to GOP leadership. We know because they told us themselves, remember? You know, it's funny how often people tend to forget the old Walter Scott line, "O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive." Or, if they do remember it, they tend to just ignore it. It's also funny to see that in a group as...
by Murfster35
13 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 12:38 PM PST
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich’s (D. NM) re-election campaign:
In New Mexico, we are blessed with some of the most beautiful national parks and monuments anywhere in the United States. They are sites to which...
by poopdogcomedy
3 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 12:02 PM PST
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While celebrating our multi-cultural differences, and honoring all of the nuanced intricacies of humanity we created a void in acknowledging the most important of similarities. Stripping away the layers, and understanding the collective “we” is the...
by mforte1970
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on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 12:24 PM PST
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FYI:
A Republican U.S. Senate primary in Ohio that's barely registered with the public suddenly has a dividing line: Roy Moore.
Josh Mandel, the 40-year-old state treasurer considered the front runner, declined to state a position on whether...
by poopdogcomedy
22 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 10:35 AM PST
with 6 Recommends
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Received this e-mail today from VoteVets:
With control of the Virginia House of Delegates up for grabs, Republicans are refusing to count military ballots in an ultra-close race that could flip the chamber to Democrats.
Republicans say the...
by poopdogcomedy
74 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 10:12 AM PST
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Received this e-mail today from former Secretary of State, veteran & U.S Senate candidate, Jason Kander (D. MO), on behalf of his group, Let America Vote, in support of Doug Jones’ (D. AL) U.S. Senate campaign:
We have a...
by poopdogcomedy
3 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 09:56 AM PST
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by brooklynpaul
5 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 09:38 AM PST
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The GOP has a long and storied history of pandering to corporate interests especially when it comes to repealing legislation that protects consumers. During the 1980s, Reaganomics became a religion where conservatives preached that unfettered...
by BWestbrookAZ8
4 comments
on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 08:52 AM PST
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Corey Stewart (R. VA) continues to prove he is a terrible human being:
Outspoken Virginia Republican Corey Stewart this weekend defended Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused of initiating sexual contact with a teenage girl....
by poopdogcomedy
7 comments
on Sun Nov 12, 2017 at 05:44 PM PST
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Hey,
So, my high school student democrats club really wants to support Doug Jones and help him win on December 12th, but we weren’t sure what exactly would be helpful. We’ve donated some money, but beyond that, we are rather stuck. I was...
by benshiwan
28 comments
on Sun Nov 12, 2017 at 02:32 PM PST
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- There are currently three diaries on the rec list touting Charles Bethea’s New Yorker piece in which Bethea collected “stories” and “rumors” that then-DA Roy Moore had been banned from the mall in Gadsden, Alabama for stalking teenage girls. That is,...59 comments 51 Recs
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- They spoke off the record, but two retired cops told The New Yorker's Charles Bethea…. ...two officers I spoke to this weekend, both of whom asked to remain unnamed, told me that they have long heard stories about Moore and the mall. “The general...324 comments 340 Recs
- Whoa. Here we have an old fashioned Republican not only decrying the likes of Trump and Moore, but actually ENDORSING A DEMOCRAT. This is a beautiful editorial actually, which not only describes the qualifications of Jones, who is clearly worthy of...151 comments 244 Recs
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