Author - SK Ashby

Poll

You’re Doing Great Republicans!

via The Washington Post Approval of congressional Republicans is in total free-fall, while approval of President Obama is swiftly rebounding from a low experienced over the summer during the height...

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Economy

Procedural Circle-Jerk

House Republicans are jumping through hoops to avoid holding an up or down vote on the Senate-approved, bipartisan, two-month extension of payroll tax-cuts and unemployment benefits. However House...

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Open Thread

Sad Millionaires

Artist - David Fitzsimmons In other news, according to a new report from USA Today, nearly one third of all youths will be arrested at some point before they reach age 23.

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Civics

Our Last Exit Ramp

Bachmann actually said something accurate last night during her appearance on a Tea Party tele-forum, but she said it for the wrong reasons. No stranger to hyperbolic rhetoric, Bachmann suggested...

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Epic Fail

Newt’s Latest Endorsement

No, this isn't an article from The Onion. This is real. A website that promotes adultery has endorsed Newt Gingrich for president, and even erected a giant billboard in Pennsylvania to announce it...

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Open Thread

Which Way to Iran?

Artist - Bob Englehart In other news, while endorsing Mitt Romney for president, the Des Moines Register said Romneycare is "strikingly similar" to Obamacare, but then went on to apologize for...

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Open Thread

The Dickens 99

Artist - David Fitzsimmons In other news, according to Korean news agencies, North Korea has agreed to suspend uranium-enrichment in exchange for food aide while also agreeing to implement stricter...

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Comedy

Can’t Tell If Serious

I really can't. Mitt Romney speaking today in South Carolina: “I believe on the issues as well, that I line up with [Tea Party supporters]: a smaller government, a less intrusive government...

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Congress

There Is No Poison Pill. Yet.

Since this is inevitably going to be the next outrage-cow to be milked in the name of faux-accountability, it makes sense to get out ahead of it. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate voted on Saturday...

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Comedy

An Easy Mistake

“It's an easy mistake. They have the same popularity among Republicans.” The frequency at which Fox News makes these kinds of "mistakes," where an R is replaced with a D, where 8.6 percent...

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Congress

SOPA is Dead. For Now.

Congressional debate of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been delayed until sometime after the new year. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the Republican behind a controversial piece of legislation that...

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