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Tag Archives: Tea Party

The GOP has Become a Party of Endless Protest, with No Interest in Governing

September 18, 2014 Conservative Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Policy Republicans Tea Party 2 Comments

The Republican Legislature is Trying to Run out the Clock, Don’t let Them

August 2, 2014 2014 Election Congress extremism Obstruction Partisan Fighting political candidates Tea Party Voting 4 Comments

Boehner’s Lawsuit and the Rumblings of Impeachment

July 28, 2014 2014 Election Democrats extremism Impeachment Insane Republicans Obama Partisan Fighting Prediction Republicans Tea Party 1 Comment

Republicans Trade Short-Term Economic Gains for Long-Term Losses

July 14, 2014 Austerity Economic Crisis Economics education Health Policy Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Policy Republicans Tea Party Trickle Down Economics 1 Comment

The Short Political Memory of Americans: Approval Ratings of Recent Presidents

July 7, 2014 Democrats Elections Media Obama Partisan Fighting Republicans Tea Party 1 Comment

Blame the Corporate Media for the GOP Frankenstein

June 18, 2014 Accountability Corruption extremism Fox News Insane Republicans Media Republicans Tea Party 1 Comment

The Tea Party Takeover of the GOP and “The Thing”

May 31, 2014 christian right Conservative Elections Insane Republicans Republicans Tea Party 5 Comments

The GOP’s Stances on Climate Change and Corruption Disqualify them to Rational and Informed Voters

May 28, 2014 Campaigns Conservative Corporatism Corruption effects of climate change Environment extremism global climate change Insane Republicans Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Republicans Supreme Court Tea Party Wolf-PAC 4 Comments

Asymmetric Partisan Warfare in US Politics, Americans in the GOP’s Crossfire

May 15, 2014 Congress Conservative Corporatism Corruption Obstruction Partisan Fighting Policy Republicans Tea Party 9 Comments

The Yearly Death Toll from the Republican Refusal to Expand Medicaid is the Equivalent to Nearly 1500 Benghazi Attacks

May 9, 2014 Benghazi Conservative Defense Policy Foreign Policy Health Policy ObamaCare Partisan Fighting Republicans Tea Party Terrorism 2 Comments

The Bundy Ranch Stand-Off: Free Riders, Armed Extremists and Federal Agents

April 18, 2014 2nd Amendment Conservative Criminal Justice extremism Gun Control guns Libertarian Tax Policy Tea Party 83 Comments

The Looming Electoral Disaster in 2014

March 31, 2014 2016 Election Campaigns Elections Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Tea Party Voting Voting Rights Wolf-PAC 4 Comments

Stop Calling Obama a Liberal

March 20, 2014 Conservative extremism Fox News Media Obama ObamaCare Partisan Fighting Progressive propaganda Republicans socialism Tea Party 5 Comments

Magic Thinking and the GOP

March 19, 2014 Conservative Environment Gun Control Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Policy Republicans Social Conservative Tea Party Voting 3 Comments

What do Schrödinger’s Cat and the GOP Policy Platform Have in Common?

February 7, 2014 christian right Democrats Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting political candidates propaganda Republicans Tea Party Leave a comment

The Real ObamaCare Scandal: GOP Governors Who Reject the Medicaid Expansion

November 9, 2013 Conservative extremism Insane Republicans Obama ObamaCare Partisan Fighting Tea Party 3 Comments

Partisan Differences in the Definition of “Big Government”

November 6, 2013 Civil Rights Conservative Democrats Libertarian Partisan Fighting Policy Progressive Regulation Religion in Politics Republicans Tea Party 5 Comments

The Modern GOP is the Political Equivalent to a Meth Addict

November 4, 2013 Conservative extremism Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Republicans Tea Party 4 Comments

The Price of Extremism

October 18, 2013 brinksmanship Debt Debt Ceiling Economic Crisis Economics extremism Government Shutdown Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Republicans Tea Party 2 Comments

Video: The GOP Debt Limit Insanity and a Proposed 14th Amendment Solution for Obama

October 15, 2013 Economics extremism Insane Republicans Obama ObamaCare Republicans Tea Party 3 Comments

The Debt Limit Deadfall

October 7, 2013 Conservative Debt Debt Ceiling Economic Crisis Economics extremism Government Shutdown Insane Republicans Republicans Tea Party 3 Comments

The Republican Plan: Shutdown and Nullify

October 2, 2013 Conservative Constitution Current Events Economics extremism Government Shutdown Health Policy Insane Republicans Legislature Obama ObamaCare Partisan Fighting politics Republicans Tea Party 4 Comments

How Individual Radical Politicians Cause Real Problems

August 30, 2013 Egypt extremism Foreign Policy Partisan Fighting Republicans Tea Party 1 Comment

How the GOP Weaponized Ignorance

June 19, 2013 Conservative Elections Partisan Fighting Policy Republicans Tea Party 5 Comments

Partisanship and the “Faith Gap”

June 5, 2013 2012 Election Democrats Partisan Fighting propaganda Republicans Tea Party Leave a comment

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