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GOP Congressman: It's Reagan's Fault Obama Was Reelected

Doc_Sarvis — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:01:40 -0400

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) took a stroll down memory lane on Thursday, pointing a finger at a former president for helping Barack Obama get elected.

Restaurant's Extreme Burger Moved to Regular Menu

doc_sarvis — Fri, 24 May 2013 08:45:55 -0400

COLUMBUS, OH - According to staff at Dusty's Kitchen, the local restaurant's extreme burger challenge, formerly described as "an insurmountable mountain of beef and cheese," has recently been moved down to the regular dinner menu.

"When we first started selling the Colossus Burger, we didn't actually think more than a handful of people would attempt to finish it, but now it's our most popular item," said Dusty's shift manager Rachel Ferguson, referring to the 10-pound tower of hamburger patties, bacon, onion rings, and three kinds of cheese, which also comes with five pounds of french fries and which is reportedly now referred to on the menu simply as "The Classic."

The End of Perpetual War

Doc_Sarvis — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:45:27 -0400

President Obama's speech on Thursday was the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America. For the first time, a president stated clearly and unequivocally that the state of perpetual warfare that began nearly 12 years ago is unsustainable for a democracy and must come to an end in the not-too-distant future.

Blacks, Conservatives, and Plantations

Doc_Sarvis — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:28:14 -0400

Why do Republicans keep endorsing the most extreme and hyperbolic African-American voices -- those intent on comparing blacks who support the Democratic candidates to slaves? That idea, which only a black person could invoke without being castigated for the flagrant racial overtones, is a trope to which an increasingly homogeneous Republican Party seems to subscribe.

OK GOPer Sen: OK Tornado Aid "Different" from Sandy Aid

Doc_Sarvis — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:26:26 -0400

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe (R) said on Tuesday that federal aid to tornado-ravaged parts of his home state will be "totally different" than a Hurricane Sandy aid bill he voted against late last year.

Oklahoma Senators Opposed Disaster Aid

doc_sarvis — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:55:51 -0400

As frantic rescue missions continued in Oklahoma following the catastrophic tornadoes that ripped through the state, residents who lost homes and businesses will likely turn to the federal government for emergency disaster aid. The state's senators, Republicans Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, are fiscal hawks who have repeatedly voted against funding disaster aid for other parts of the country. They also have opposed increased funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which administers federal disaster relief. Last year, Inhofe and Coburn both backed a plan to slash disaster relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy.

VA GOP AG Guy: Intro'd Bill - Report Miscarriages to Cops

doc_sarvis — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:14:04 -0400

If a woman in Virginia has a miscarriage without a doctor present, they must report it within 24 hours to the police or risk going to jail for a full year. At least, that's what would have happened if a bill introduced in 2009 by Virginia state Sen. Mark Obenshain (R) -- currently the GOP's nominee for the state's Attorney General -- had become law.

Obama Should Come Clean About Basilisk Project

Doc_Sarvis — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:17:14 -0400

For months now, the Obama administration has chosen to maintain silence on the Basilisk Project, evidently relying on the complacency of the nation's so-called journalistic authorities to allow its machinations to remain out of both sight and mind.

The time has come for President Obama to explain the nature and purpose of the Basilisk Project, and to do so fully and without delay.

Powers: GOP Wanted Leakers Prosecuted

doc_sarvis — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:33:07 -0400

Kirsten Powers: [P]rior to their newfound concern for a free press, the GOP was just last year attacking President Obama for an imagined lack of zeal in pursuing leaks. John McCain even wanted a special counsel outside the Justice Department appointed to investigate national-security leaks about Obama's "kill list," a story about which ended up in The New York Times. The "kill list" strangely wasn't the problem for the GOP. The leaks were.

Former Justice Stevens: Bush v. Gore "Unacceptable"

Doc_Sarvis — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:00:48 -0400

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said Thursday night that he's come to the realization that the rationale behind the court's Bush v. Gore decision that effectively decided the 2000 presidential election "was really quite unacceptable" because it differentiated between so-called "hanging chads" and "dimpled chads." That distinction, he told a gala event for the liberal watchdog group Public Citizen in Washington, "violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution." All votes should have been considered the same way, he explained.

Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor recently expressed regret that the court had taken up the case at all, and Stevens said he was "pleased to hear" about O'Connor's shift. The liberal Stevens wrote the dissent in that case.

Friedersdorf: The Ethics of Extreme Porn

Doc_Sarvis — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:36:21 -0400

Is some sex wrong, even among consenting adults?

Rich: GOP Whitewash

Doc_Sarvis — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:50:24 -0400

The party on the brink of destroying the Voting Rights Act reminds us that Republicans were really the great civil-rights leaders all along.[Hoo-Haw!]

Walsh: Meet the Group IRS Actually Denied...Democrats

doc_sarvis — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:28:58 -0400

Although Tea Party applicants got unfair IRS scrutiny, only one known group had status revoked. They're Democrats.

Cheney Accuses WH of Lying...Cheney?!?!

doc_sarvis — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:15:49 -0400

Dick Cheney has never been short on chutzpah. Jumping aboard the GOP scandal-mongering machine, the former vice president appeared on Fox News (where else?) and declared to Sean Hannity (who else?) that President Barack Obama and his aides "lied" about the attack in Benghazi last September that left four Americans dead. "I think it's one of the worst incidents frankly that I can recall in my career," Cheney huffed -- as if 9/11 had never happened.

Cheney accused someone of lying?

Not just "wow" but "bow-wow."

Bernstein: Want a Scandal? Here's One

Doc_Sarvis — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:33:20 -0400

Jonathan Bernstein: Want a real Washington scandal -- one worse than the (phony) Benghazi scandal and the (apparently real, but apparently limited) IRS scandals combined? Try the continuing, and possibly accelerating, obstruction of executive branch nominees by Senate Republicans. Don't think it's a scandal? It's pretty basic: Republicans, by abusing their Constitutional powers, are -- deliberately, in several cases -- preventing the government from carrying out duly passed laws.