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Bachmann’s un-revolutionary gaffe
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronSo, it’s common knowledge by now that Tea Party proponents kind of take offense to the words “tea bagger” because of the sexual connotations of the term. Rep. Michele...
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Shutdown averted
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronCutting it down to the wire, Boehner and Reid have apparently sold their fellow lawmakers on a compromise deal that would cut some $38.5 billion from the federal...
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Bachmann signs pledge
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronBecause signing your name to a document automatically makes you a better candidate and person: (Michele) Bachmann’s latest attention-getting move came Thursday when...
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Debt ceiling bill, ctd. What now?
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronAs of Sunday evening, the White House and leaders of Congress have agreed upon a new deal that would raise the debt ceiling and avoid a government credit default. But,...
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Bachmann’s gaffe about earthquake
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronI didn’t think it would take long for one of our numerous obscurantist presidential candidates to make some silly claim about the recent earthquake on the East Coast....
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So much for that
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronPOLL: Tea Party, Occupy Movements Fail to Capture Americans’ Hearts: WASHINGTON (RNS) In a war between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement to capture the...
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The death of the Tea Party?
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronI think New York Times’ Nate Silver may be onto something when he writes that the next GOP presidential candidate may not actually be Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney or any...
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Tea Party: the Euro-version
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronFar right wing fringe candidates may be gaining influence in Europe, and that is good news for no one, except the crazies of course. It’s definitely bad news for poor...
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Life without taxes
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronHere is a little something for those who spew that crazy Tea Party talk about neutering government to the point that it collects few, if any taxes. 100 things these...
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CBO: Fed tax rates at 30-year low
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronAccording to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the federal tax rate across all income brackets has reached a 30-year low from 1979 to 2009. Meanwhile:...
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Hijacking of GOP now complete
Rep. John Boehner has now effectively lost control of his own party in the U.S. House in what Paul Krugman has called an “unprecedented” level of partisanship on Capitol Hill amid the Tea Party’s...
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Grand Old Party of Irony
If the Republican’s aren’t that good at maintaining any level of credibility or even relevancy here in the year 2013, at least members of the House do one thing well: irony. The same party that touts...
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Tea Party post Obama
I wonder what will happen with the Tea Party when Obama leaves office and none of the over the top alarmist warnings come to fruition about impending doom and an American socialist state. Will they...
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The failed Tea Party experiment
I’ve been writing about the Tea Party’s lunacies on here since the spring of 2009 (Here is my first substantive post about it). As I’ve tracked the trajectory of this experiment in political unrest, I...
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The Grand Old Tea Party
Here is Grover Norquist speaking in a Los Angeles Times article about the Tea Party: Once there were Republicans who voted for tax increases, but they aren’t here any more.… The Republican Party has...
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Last call for the Tea Party?
As I have said more than once in newspaper columns the last couple years — most recently here — if the Republican Party is going to continue to be a viable political option for voters in the future, it...
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Politics of ‘radical Islam’
Peter Beinhart, a contributing editor with The Atlantic, argues that while the United States is not at war with “radical Islam” anywhere and everywhere, as people like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham might...
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One less headcase in the asylum
Hell, I think Republicans should be gleeful that Glenn Beck has decided to leave the Republican Party, but this shift in the GOP should have happened the other way around. Now that members of the...
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I plan to jump back on this site after I get the holidays are behind us. I’ve recently been entrenched with the aforementioned “War and Peace,” and now, I’m reading a book titled, “Nixon’s Piano,”...
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