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By Tom Hayden
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AP/Rainier Ehrhardt
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Yes, the same Mark Sanford who as governor of South Carolina in 2009 blew off Father’s Day for a love jaunt to Argentina just persuaded the state’s Bible Belt voters to give him another chance.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 6, 2013
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The wealthy failed GOP presidential candidate doesn’t want them worrying about getting a job and making money, because who needs those things to support a family?
Posted on May 5, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an ex-Mitt Romney intern is arrested on suspicion of sexually extorting women and Mark Sanford debates a cardboard cutout of Nancy Pelosi.
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Libertarians, whom the Republican National Committee has largely shut out, assumed a more energetic role at CPAC this year, using the failed election as evidence that the GOP should return to their philosophy’s ideals.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — At first glance, last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference looked like a hot mess. On closer inspection, it looked even worse.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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The 38-year-old Florida bartender who secretly filmed Mitt Romney’s infamous “47 percent” remark that negatively impacted the GOP presidential nominee’s campaign revealed in his first interview why he felt obligated to release the video.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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By Joe Conason — Someone needs to tell Paul Ryan that his party—and the economic platform of austerity and plutocracy he crafted for it—lost a national election last year.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the House votes to avoid a government shutdown and Gabrielle Giffords makes a plea for gun control at the place where she was shot two years ago.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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The twice-beaten presidential contender will return to the national stage with a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference next month, the National Review reports.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the true meaning of Presidents Day revealed and Mark Sanford airs his first South Carolina congressional campaign ad.
Posted on Feb 18, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans shouldn’t worry that President Obama is trying to destroy the GOP. Why would he bother? The party’s leaders are doing a pretty good job of it themselves.
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
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AP/Julio Cortez
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By Juan Cole — It is vital for the president and his allies in Congress to remember that those Americans most defenseless against extreme weather and natural disasters form the backbone of the Democratic Party.
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Flickr/Talk Radio News Service
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Two of the top conservative commentators on Fox News saw their ratings plummet after Barack Obama’s re-election victory in November.
Posted on Jan 1, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
Before the electoral year of 2012 slinks into history, it is worth a comparative glance back to the electoral year of 1912 to give us some jolting perspective on how degraded our contemporary elections, voter performance and election expectations have become.
Posted on Jan 1, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a marriage milestone in Maryland and Politics Today’s pick for the 2012 video of the year.
Posted on Dec 31, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the late Sen. Daniel Inouye’s last political wish and the worst pundit predictions of this year.
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker’s personal connection with gun violence and the surprising information revealed by the FBI’s internal records on the Occupy movement.
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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AP/Narciso Contreras
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By Bill Boyarsky — Politicians are still terrified of the NRA, even though analysis shows that the organization’s power is greatly exaggerated.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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By Jeremiah Goulka, TomDispatch —
Do any of the GOP’s proposals exhibit a willingness to make the kind of changes it will need to attract members of the growing groups that it has spent years antagonizing, such as Hispanics, Asian Americans, unmarried women, secular whites, and others? You’ve heard the expression “putting lipstick on a pig,” haven’t you?
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” revealed and Bill O’Reilly responds to news of a “war on Christmas” victory.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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By Robert Reich — I keep hearing that the billionaires and big corporations that poured all that money into the 2012 election learned their lesson. They lost their shirts and won’t do it again. Don’t believe that for an instant.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The biggest problem the Republican Party faces is not uninspiring candidates or unsound tactics. It is unpopular ideas.
Posted on Dec 10, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Newt Gingrich’s 2016 presidential election prediction and the big political decision Cory Booker is weighing.
Posted on Dec 9, 2012
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The two major candidates took in the equivalent of the GDP of Sierra Leone in their quest for the White House—and that doesn’t count super PAC fundraising.
Posted on Dec 7, 2012
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AP/Mark Lennihan
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By Robert Scheer — Reports in the business press tout a prime participant in the great banking hustle as a possible candidate to be the next Treasury secretary.
Posted on Dec 7, 2012
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By Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch —
In election 2012’s “foreign policy” debate, Iran came up no less than 47 times. Americans got virtually nothing substantial about Iran, while its (nonexistent) WMDs were hawked as the top U.S. national security issue. Now, with the campaign Sturm und Drang behind us but the threats still around, the question is: Can Obama 2.0 bridge the gap between current U.S. policy and Persian optics?
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Over the long run, the most important impact of an election is not on the winning party but on the loser.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a major backer of Mitt Romney’s failed presidential campaign lashing out at voters and what a new poll on gay marriage shows.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
Hurricane Sandy not only failed to arouse a heightened sense of moral outrage and call for justice, it has quickly been woven into a narrative that denied those larger economic and political forces, mechanisms and technologies by which certain populations are rendered human waste.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Joe Conason — The opposition to Susan Rice is cobbled together from the remnants of a failed “October Surprise” election gambit, and has left President Obama little choice but to move ahead with her nomination.
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Rick Perry’s announcement about a major announcement and Gennifer Flowers’ latest allegation about Bill Clinton.
Posted on Nov 28, 2012
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AP/Gerald Herbert
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By Bill Blum — The justice has expressed contempt for the sitting president and is ready for a leading ideological role.
Posted on Nov 27, 2012
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Mike Licht (CC-BY)
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The New York Times reports that there is internal strife within the administration about the willy-nilly use of drones to kill people abroad (2,500 since President Obama took office) and, fearing defeat at the polls, the Obama administration was working overtime to lay down a set of rules governing robotic assassination.
Posted on Nov 25, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — I hope the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops contemplating the future of the church’s public and political engagement notice how the good deeds of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Francis de Sales have inspired people far beyond the confines of Catholicism.
Posted on Nov 25, 2012
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