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Obama to GOP: “No, you can’t drive!”
Thursday evening, at a political fundraising dinner held by the held by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), President Barack Obama compared the GOP to a bad driver, telling his audience of the GOP, “After they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want to keys back. No! You can’t drive. We don’t want to have to go back into the ditch. We just got the car out.”
Oklahoma GOP, Tea Party to Start State-Run Militia
According to multiple reports originating from the Associated Press, it would seem that some members of the Oklahoma State GOP, as well as leaders within that state’s Tea Party organization, are working together to form a state-sponsored militia to counter what they claim is “the over-reaching of the federal government,” most notably the recent health care legislation.
Supreme Court Removes Campaign Spending Limits on Corporations
This effectively ends democracy, as one person one vote becomes one dollar one vote, with corporations holding trillions of dollars to sway any election their way. Look to Haiti to see how this will effect those who are not wealthy, and the Peoples Republic of China to see how the government will operate in relation to the governed.
Brown Defeats Coakley, End of Obama Agenda
Whatever hopes the Democratic Party had for getting things done just went right out the window, since now the GOP has a firm block for filibustering anything they don’t like. I guess the only upside for many Democrats is the Joe Lieberman just became politically irrelevant to both the Democrats and the GOP, barring some unlikely defection from the GOP.
Texans Ban Marriage, in 2005?
It would appear, in the race to add constitutional amendments to prevent LGBT persons from becoming equal with their heteronormative counterparts, that Texas, as usual, took some fairly extreme measures. Because, in that effort to keep inequality legal, 22 words brought LGBT Texans much closer to equality than heteronormative Texans would have guessed, or wanted. [...]
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