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Harvard or not, Chris Christie is much smarter than Ted Cruz. Do Republicans...
Ted Cruz always thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. Jason Zengerle wrote in GQ that the senator from Texas "has come to the reluctant but unavoidable conclusion that he is simply more...
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'Will you serve your full six-year term as U.S. senator?' Absolutely, said...
Earlier this week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren stated unequivocally that she would not run for president in 2016: "I am not running for president and I plan to serve out my term." That's it, then, right? No...
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Christie on bridge/traffic scandal: "I'm ultimately responsible, but not...
This really is the gift that keeps on giving. Christie finally speaks: "Mistakes are made and when mistakes are made people have to be held accountable for them," Christie said. OK. Go on. But the...
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If you believe Chris Christie still has a chance to be president, I've got a...
I assume you've all heard about this by now: A series of newly obtained emails and text messages shows that Gov. Chris Christie’s office was closely involved with lane closings on the New Jersey side...
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Priorities USA embraces Hillary, Obama 2012 campaign manager takes...
This is some pretty interesting news for 2016:The largest liberal “super PAC” in the country has begun raising money to elect Hillary Rodham Clinton president, formally aligning itself with her...
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Dear Hillary: Don't worry about 'Obama's third term' nonsense. Run on...
Hillary can compare the record of these two presidents to George W. Bush and ask voters which made us stronger. Some people just wanna party like it's 2008. There's apparently some "concern" out there...
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She may not want to, but we need Elizabeth Warren to run for president
The country needs her to run. So does our party. And so does Hillary Clinton. The midterms didn't go so well. As I said about a week ago, the Democrats should have run on economic populism. They should...
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Paging Mr. Romney 2016: New study shows the poor pay MORE in state/local...
Forty-seven percent of people think I'm a liar. The other 53 percent know it. Read it and weep (really). Here's what a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found:According to...
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Obama has set the parameters for 2016: Middle-class economics vs....
Apparently, John Boehner doesn't want to see how this plays out. Barack Obama won his two elections for president, as he reminded the American people (and congressional Republicans) during Tuesday...
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Bobby Jindal advocates unholy alliance of fundamentalists and big business to...
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. And not in the fun way, like in Harry Potter. Bobby Jindal wants to be relevant. Yes, he wants to be president, but given where the soon-to-be former governor...
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GOP presidential candidates blow their 'Sister Souljah' moment to denounce...
Some states are red, others are blue. The GOP candidates are too yellow-bellied to say what they ought to. George W. Bush had one in 1999 when he criticized the fundamentalist right, as personified by...
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Jeb shooting himself in the W. means that 'ultra-hawk' Rubio will be the GOP...
The picture tells the story. No separation. Just call them Jebya. As bad as you may have thought this week was for Jeb Bush, it was actually worse. This is the week Jeb Bush lost the Republican...
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David Brooks: Hillary can have 'bipartisan governing coalition' if she just...
David Brooks also believes in rainbow unicorns, and his next piece of advice for Hillary will focus on them. David Brooks isn't always wrong about politics. Sometimes he doesn't even write about...
View ArticleWhere They At, Jeb?
The people who instilled your belief systems and ideas are not there on your biggest day? What the fuck is going on? Where is your Huggy Brother??
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Sanders, Clinton, and the Democratic Party should thank #BlackLivesMatter
They'll both learn the lesson and be better candidates for it. This has been a very good week for the Democratic Party and for its two leading presidential candidates. And no, I’m not kidding. Right...
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2013 GOP: Need 'welcoming, inclusive message' to attract Hispanics. 2015 GOP:...
It doesn't get much more welcoming than this, does it? I do feel something for Republican National Committee Chair Reince Preibus. Maybe there's a sliver of pity—mixed in with pure glee, of course....
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These aren't scare tactics. A Republican president will take away your...
Republican president plus Republican Congress equals repeal. Period. It's hard to get 17 people—especially 17 people with egos big enough to think they should be president of the United States—to come...
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Two months after Netroots Nation, should Bernie Sanders be thanking Black...
He got the message, and is a stronger candidate for it. It's been two months and two days since Netroots Nation, where Black Lives Matter activists disrupted a town-hall meeting featuring Martin...
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Jeb! flat wrong on 'creeping multiculturalism'—today's immigrants are...
He can stand in front of the flag, but that doesn't mean he's got a clue what this country is supposed to stand for. Maybe Jeb has been paying attention. He just dipped his Bush silver foot into the...
View ArticleHypocrite Rubio abandoned immigration reform, saying ‘secure the border...
I assume you all remember that, in 2013, Marco Rubio helped craft a comprehensive immigration reform bill—one that included a path to citizenship for the undocumented—and then voted against it. Now,...
View ArticleNow I'm 100 percent convinced—Trump doesn't want to be president
There’s no other logical way to explain him saying this:"The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families....
View ArticleThere's no such thing as 100 percent safe. By pretending there is, GOP makes...
It’s still all about Dick Cheney. When it comes to the Republican approach to national security and terrorism, it is his philosophy that governs. As quoted in Ron Suskind’s book The One Percent...
View ArticleGOP must lie to make Democrats sound extreme. Their ideas are extreme enough...
This week President Obama announced a series of actions on guns. The word that journalists most often used to describe them was “modest.” Obama clarified exactly who is “in the business” of selling...
View ArticleEvery voter needs to know this about Ted Cruz
Given how closely I follow politics and the news, I can’t believe this is the first time I’m hearing this story about Ted Cruz. Kudos to David Brooks for bringing it to light:In 1997, Michael Wayne...
View ArticleTed Cruz: 'I'm a Christian first, American second.' Imagine if Muslim or...
xEmbedded ContentHis Christianity is probably the last thing Ted Cruz ever thought would give him problems. However, a new ad produced by Americans United for Values attacks him for being, get this, a...
View ArticleDemocrats once resisted 'liberal' label, now fight to claim 'progressive'...
Remember when “liberal” was a dirty word? Democrats used to run from it faster than Marco Rubio runs from his support for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. In 1988, when George Bush...
View ArticleVoting for Bernie. Ready for Hillary.
I’m not undecided anymore. I’ve wrestled for a long time with this decision, which I won’t even have the opportunity to make (officially, at least) until April 19. When the New York Democratic primary...
View ArticleHow's this for in your face? Trump speaks 200 yards from where racists...
I grew up on Long Island, just a few miles from Patchogue, the town on the South Shore where Donald Trump spoke on Thursday. My parents moved out there in the 1970s, and my mother is still there. Plus,...
View ArticleYes, Hillary must attack Trump. But every Democrat should run against the GOP...
Let’s start with the obvious: The person at the top of the ballot is going to get the most attention in any presidential election year. Donald Trump being what he is only exacerbates that reality. The...
View ArticleScott Baio, hand-picked by Trump for RNC stage, retweeted Hillary meme with...
Campaign ActionScott Baio is speaking at the Republican National Convention on Monday night. He’s part of the “Make America Safe Again” lineup for the evening. (You can insert your Charles in Charge...
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Here come da bounce!: LA Times tracking poll showing movement toward Hillary.
The LA Times tracking poll is giving us a preview of the Hillary bounce. Yes, the topline number is awful, but one poll’s measurement of the race doesn’t mean very much. What is meaningful is that this...
View ArticleA woman president? Ha! The Cubs will win the World Series first.
Cubs fans only waited 108 years to get their prize. We’ve been waiting 227 years for a woman president. Let’s make this a truly historic November.
View ArticleRace & jobs statistic that needs correction
People are making a big deal of this front page article:Without this data on race, place, and jobs we cannot fully understand how Trump eked out a wine.g., see this diary:The data on race, place &...
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