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Rice Drops Bid for Secretary of State, Citing Opposition
Susan E. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, has withdrawn her name from consideration for secretary of state, in the face of relentless opposition from Republicans.

Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Republican Titanic
Is the GOP going the way of the Whigs and the Dodo?

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Don’t Follow Republicans Into the Wilderness
Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Democrats created Medicare - and it's up to President Obama to save it from the Republicans' knives.

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One Party Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A heartfelt plea to the few intelligent and thoughtful Republicans left: itu2019s up to you to inject sanity back into your Party.

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The New Republicans: Weighed Down By Plutocrats and Preachers
Paul Krugman: Today's Republican Party is an alliance between the plutocrats and the preachers.

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Schizophrenics, Psychopaths Holding America Hostage
The greatest threat to the United States will never be Al Qaeda, Russia, China or Iran. It will be our failure to wrest control of public policy from the …

On the News With Thom Hartmann: A Movement in the US Senate Aims to Abolish Indefinite Detention, and More
As the so-called fiscal cliff nears, Republicans will likely hold things like extended unemployment benefits hostage.

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Ignore Grover…and Learn from Him
Washington, DC - Here's the first lesson from the early skirmishing over ways to avoid the fiscal cliff: Democrats and liberals have to stop elevating Grover Norquist, the anti-government …

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Bungee-Jumping Over the Fiscal Cliff
Extending the Bush tax cuts for the middle class while ended them for the rich requires an audacious move on the part of the President and the middle class.

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Santa Claus Faces the Democratic Firing Squad?
What Bernie Sanders and other Progressives understand is Democrats havenu2019t been playing Santa Claus for the last 80 years just to win elections. Theyu2019ve been playing Santa Claus to …