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By Cormac McCarthy
By Richard Shelton
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a GOP candidate once trying to criminalize not reporting a miscarriage to police and Bob Woodward delivers some bad news for Republicans.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including three whistle-blowers testify before a House panel on September’s attacks in Benghazi and Michele Bachmann sees more trouble related to her 2012 presidential campaign.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the husband of an Arkansas Republican Party official suggests shooting GOP lawmakers over Medicaid expansion and a New York state lawmaker advocates torturing the Boston bombing suspect.
Posted on Apr 21, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Apr 6, 2013
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It’s been more than a year since she stopped her White House run, but the disastrous, slow-moving train wreck that constitutes the congresswoman’s failed 2012 presidential bid is still going.
Posted on Mar 25, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the latest efforts by Congress to avoid a government shutdown and Michele Bachmann tries to run away from a reporter.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why the assault weapons ban has already failed and Vice President Joe Biden meets Pope Francis.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why House Republicans now want to ignore the debt ceiling and Michelle Obama’s epic reaction to John Boehner.
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Jamie Dimon’s “punishment” for a massive trading loss and Jimmy Kimmel spoofs the gun control debate.
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the company that would rather pay a daily $1.3 million fine than fund contraceptive coverage and a news magazine’s accidental posting of an obituary of an ex-president who is still alive.
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Tea party darling and former presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann squeaked to a fourth term in Minnesota when her victory over Democrat Jim Graves was confirmed Wednesday morning.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces his endorsement and another GOP political candidate says something dumb about rape.
Posted on Nov 1, 2012
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Although many seekers of elected office are mulling over the connection between climate change and the deadly and destructive superstorm Sandy, there are a few candidates in the U.S. who won’t be following suit.
Posted on Oct 30, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the 21st-century version of prohibition and Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s comment about women that sounds like it’s straight out of the 1950s.
Posted on Sep 13, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a DNC apology to Ann Romney and a new political attack ad that focuses on a bar called The Horny Toad and a stripper.
Posted on Jul 19, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why John McCain deserves (gasp!) major props and new estimates on disenfranchisement due to state voter ID laws.
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
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Mr. Fish
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By Mr. Fish — Is there no more convincing proof that there is nothing like a presidential campaign to demonstrate just how profoundly detached we are as a nation from recognizing why ours is a functioning democracy in reputation alone?
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 5, 2012
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AP / Jim Cole
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The contest for the Republican presidential nomination just got a little less kooky with the subtraction of Michele Bachmann from the mix. On Wednesday, after the previous night’s Iowa caucus results found Mitt Romney in the top spot, the Minnesota congresswoman and staunch anti-socialist announced she was bowing out of the race.
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The GOP’s remaining presidential candidates had yet another debate on Saturday night, just in case there was anything any of them still needed to comment about at length that might tip the balance in their quest for the Republican nomination.
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By Eugene Robinson — Maybe Jon Huntsman will be the next candidate to see a meteoric rise and fall in his poll numbers. Pretty soon, though, we’re going to run out of meteors.
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Nov 27, 2011
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To set the stage for the latest media-made kerfuffle of Campaign 2012, what happened was that GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann paid a visit Tuesday to “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” for which she was no doubt prepped to come off all hip and stuff, but her performance was undermined ... (more)
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
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Wikimedia Commons / Carlos Latuff (CC-BY)
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Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain, you’re on notice. John McCain took to Twitter on Monday, being a cyber-savvy senator and all, to disapprove of the two GOP candidates’ pro-waterboarding stance, as stated at Saturday’s Republican presidential debate.
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Nov 5, 2011
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MTV is developing reality shows inspired by Occupy Wall Street; the tea party turns its back on Michele Bachmann; and a British cleric resigns rather than retract his support of the Occupy London protests. These discoveries and more, after the jump.
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AP / Chris Carlson
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Is there anything substantial, in the way of political mettle, that Herman “9-9-9” Cain can offer Americans who don’t have a repetition compulsion? According to this breakdown of Tuesday night’s GOP debate in the hotbed of conservatism that is Las Vegas, not so much. (more)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Senate Republicans sent a signal in voting as a bloc against President Obama’s jobs bill: Don’t just do something, stand there. But doing nothing is at least preferable to the ideas coming out of their party’s presidential candidates.
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Sep 24, 2011
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AP / Mike Carlson
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Doctors, public health officials and academics spoke out this week in support of the HPV vaccine after Michele Bachmann thoughtlessly railed against it. (more)
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AP / Erich Schlegel
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By Bill Boyarsky — While Rick Perry was denouncing the federal government at Wednesday’s debate, he was also accepting all the financial assistance President Obama could offer his burning state.
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By Richard Reeves — So far the pundit (for now) has taken on three of the 8 1/2 (Palin has not declared) of his party’s candidates.
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AP / John Bazemore
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By Bill Boyarsky — Republican spending knows no limits when it comes to going into debt for failed and useless wars. But it’s another story when it comes to providing federal assistance for victims of Hurricane Irene or other catastrophes we may face in the months ahead.
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By William Pfaff — It now seems a necessary qualification for the Republican nomination, at least at the present primaries stage, to be a born-again fundamentalist Protestant. Yet in the United States the majority of the electorate is not fundamentalist, evangelical or Protestant.
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Flickr / Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a staunch conservative and evangelical Christian from the right side of the Mason-Dixon Line, may just be the most “electable” candidate the Republican establishment can nominate for president.
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Michele Bachmann’s press secretary said the candidate was obviously speaking in jest when she attributed the recent earthquake and storm afflicting the East to an angry God. Well, as long as she was only joking about events that killed at least 35 people. ....
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AP / Bela Szandelszky
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By Ellen Goodman — Our one-woman panel prepares in good spirit to hand out the Equal Rites Awards to all those who did their best to do the worst for women in the past year. The envelopes please.
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Israel’s Zionism turned capitalism is getting out of hand; Postmodernism is dead, leaving many to question what it was in the first place; meanwhile, the Americas are projected to replace the Middle East as the energy capital of the world. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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In an unfortunate mishmash of Spanish and Jersey Shore lingo, Michele Bachmann coined a new word while on the campaign trail: hombre-ette. (more)
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
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AP / Charlie Neibergall
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By Juan Cole — A review of Michele Bachmann’s messianic and irrational foreign policy statements reveals a potential president looking for other conflicts, especially with Iran.
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AP / Charlie Neibergall
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By Eugene Robinson — The Iowa Straw Poll has shifted the GOP contest sharply to the right. This may fire up the Republican base, but it may also turn off independents who have made clear their distaste for uncompromising partisanship.
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