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• Mitt Romney's Neocon War Cabinet

  Fri May 18, 2012
  • That said, Romney’s malleability is an advantage for his neocon advisers, giving them an opportunity to shape his worldview, as they did with Bush after 9/11. Four years after Bush left office in disgrace, Romney is their best shot to get back in power.

• Republicans Will Never Admit that America's Economic Woes Are Solely Their Fault

  Thu May 17, 2012
  • Logic dictates that additional taxation plus spending cuts are the most reasonable approaches to expedite the cutting of our national deficit. To imply that spending cuts alone are adequate to address our deficit equates to a severe miscalculation of the magnitude of our dilemma.

• Demographics and right wing panic

  Thu May 17, 2012
  • The escalating attacks on contraception, for instance, are fed by right wing myth-making about how white women are abandoning their God-given duty to marry young and get to baby-making, instead choosing to have casual sex and pursue careers that put them in competition for jobs that used to be …

• The Truth About the President and the Deficit

  Thu May 17, 2012
  • Don’t let the Republicans get away with their ignorant lies about the deficit and the debt.

• Obama Surging Ahead Of Romney In Fox News Poll That Fox News Ignores

  Thu May 17, 2012
  • This is the way a public relations firm behaves on behalf of their client. And that is the best description of the relationship between Fox News and the Republican Party. It is 24/7 spin for GOP interests. And they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.

• Republicans Will Never Admit that America's Economic Woes Are Solely Their Fault

  Thu May 17, 2012
  • Boehner promised that Republicans would offset any debt limit increase with larger spending cuts, and to make sure the deficit continues growing, reject letting the Bush-era tax cuts expire or increase taxes on the wealthy.

• Jeremiah Wright Is Not a Silver Bullet

  Thu May 17, 2012
  • A Pew study in 2008 found that a majority of Americans (including 50 percent of Republicans!) felt the media overcovered the Jeremiah Wright story.

• G.O.P. 'Super PAC' Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama

  Thu May 17, 2012
  • "Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr." is so 2008. Mr. Ricketts attempt to rehash a four year old headline will have little to no effect on Obama supporters. Discussion of Rev. Wright equates to a Fox News talking point and will only appeal to the right-wing base who wouldn't vote for Obama to begin with. Mr.

• Coming This Summer: For $24.95, George W. Bush Will Share His 'Strategies For Economic Growth' | ThinkProgress

  Wed May 16, 2012
  • So the book is going to offer Bush's advice on boosting economic growth? Look for it at Barnes and Noble under 'satire'.

• Strategic Madness: How Being 'The Party of No' Is Working for the GOP

  Tue May 15, 2012
  • "The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition."