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“What Boehner’s Lawsuit Really Means”: The One Thing Republicans Hate More...
Thank you John Boehner. The nation truly appreciates you and your fellow House Republicans altruistically devoting your last moments in Congress, before a much-deserved 5 1/2 week vacation (hey, you...
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“All Too Convenient”: Claiming “Obama Is Caesar” Is Sexier Than Saying “Steve...
Ross Douthat premised his Sunday New York Times column on the assumption that President Obama’s expected plan to extend deportation protections to millions of undocumented immigrants would be an...
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“Presidential Leadership Is A Moving Target”: For Republicans, President...
If Ron Fournier’s goal was to generate some discussion with his new column, he succeeded. Putting aside whether readers found his thesis compelling, it’s clearly generated some chatter. Before...
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“Suing The President”: Another Un-American Step For Today’s GOP
Any genuine conservative, any real American patriot should be outraged at the way the Republicans are treating the President of the United States. Our founders did not envision any president being...
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“Losing Their Minds”: Why The Republican Freak-Out Over Obama’s Immigration...
Like it or not, these are the facts: There are 11.7 million undocumented immigrants living in United States. The U.S. Immigrant and Customs Enforcement only has the capacity to remove about 400,000 per...
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“Learning The Hard Way”: House Republicans Can’t Find Anyone To Sue The...
It’s not so easy, it turns out, for Congress to sue the president. Speaker John Boehner is finding that out the hard way after a second law firm withdrew from representing the House in the...
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“Barack Obama Is A Big Meanie!”: John Boehner Already Making Excuses For His...
It only took a couple of days before John Boehner made clear that when it comes to his approach to legislating in the wake of the Republicans’ victory in the midterms, absolutely nothing has changed....
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“Clever Little Deceptions”: Behind The G.O.P.’s Misleading Shutdown Statements
Senator Mitch McConnell said yesterday that he would not shut down the government, over immigration or anything else, after he takes over as Majority Leader in January. On the same day, Speaker John...
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“Routine Partisan Lip Service”: Immigration, Impeachment, And Insanity On The...
Obstructing, denouncing, and demonizing Barack Obama are so central to the existence of the Republican Party today that its leaders simply ignore the real purposes of the president’s proposed...
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“Boehner Wants To Expand Magic Obama Lawsuit”: Another Sign Republicans Don’t...
House Speaker John Boehner’s magic lawsuit against President Barack Obama is back! And he’s considering whether to try to use it to solve his immigration problem. Initially, the suit was intended to...
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“Speaking Of Asses”: Senator Complains About ‘Dumbass Liberals’
I actually remember the way Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) used to be, back when he boasted about being a “square peg” – a label he used as a shorthand to say he doesn’t always fit in. The Utah Republican...
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“Voters Remorse”: The New GOP Congress Americans Do Not ‘Wish They Had’
The man who lost the last (presidential) election round and who goes around talk shows trying to pretend he did not, has some advice for the man who beat him in 2012. Appearing on Sunday’s CBS Face the...
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“Ensuring A Fair Policy”: Reagan And Bush Acted Unilaterally On Immigration,...
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that two previous Republican presidents—Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush—had taken unilateral action to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation, and...
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“Artificial Republican Unity On Immigration”: There’s No Reason For...
The grand irony of the president’s immigration action is that it was to a considerable extent the product of intra-Republican disunity on immigration policy–yet it will unite the GOP in real and fake...
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“Please Proceed Senator”: Ted Cruz Wants To Fight Obama Over Immigration, But...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is calling for congressional Republicans to fight back against President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, saying they should refuse to confirm the president’s...
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“And Has The Legal Authority”: Poll; Americans Broadly Back Obama’s...
Americans are very open to President Barack Obama’s newly announced executive action to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation, according to a Hart Research Associates survey...
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“Busting Another Myth About Immigration Reform”: Conservative “Reality” Just...
Conservatives like to complain that immigrants not only take jobs citizens would otherwise do (mostly untrue), but also constitute a drain on social services. It’s not only an inhumane argument but...
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“Is Obama Bold Enough For You Now?”: Conservatives Derided Him For Timidity,...
Remember when the problem everyone had with Barack Obama was how passive he was? In late October, Charles Krauthammer lamented Obama’s “observer presidency with its bewildered-bystander pose.” Dana...
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“From Dysfunction To Malfunction”: Mitch McConnell And The Limits Of...
As the Senate Republicans’ leader, Mitch McConnell launched an experiment of sorts during the Obama era. It was a strategy without precedent in the American tradition, and it was arguably a historic...
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“How Obama Boxed In Republicans With His Immigration Order”: Revoking It In...
If there’s an elected Republican who thinks it wasn’t a bad idea for President Obama to take executive action on immigration, he or she has yet to make that opinion known. Not surprisingly, the 20 or...
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