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• Open Thread: GOP Shocked to Learn American People No Longer Trusts them on National Security May 14, 2013
  Did you know that this is the Month of ScandalsTM that will once and for all bring down the evil Obama conspiracy? Neither does most of America. PPP's newest national poll finds that Republicans aren't getting much traction with their focus on Benghazi over the last week. Voters trust Hillary Clinton over Congressional Republicans on the issue of B […]
  Spandan C
• The last play in the playbook May 14, 2013
  Cross-posted on The Obama Diary. You will have to have been under a rock for the past two weeks to have missed the feeding frenzy being engaged in by what passes as the other major political party and its enablers in the press. Between BENGHAZI!!! and IRS-gate, it seems that nothing at all of importance has been happening in the world. The GOP and the press […]
  Liberal Librarian
• How Citizens United Came Back to Bite Teabaggers in the Ass May 13, 2013
  That's the way the story about the IRS giving extra scrutiny to Tea Party groups sounded to me. For all the concerns about the IRS' Cincinnati office's higher-than-usual scrutiny of Teabagger groups, here's something that's gone unnoticed in all the reportage about the story: The appendix of the inspector general’s report — which was […]
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