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The Daily Banter » The Truth About the President and the Deficit

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 10:06 PM EDT (The Daily Banter)

Arguably the biggest lie coming from the Republicans and the Romney campaign is that President Obama is a tax and spend liberal who’s responsible for record deficits and a crushing national debt. Not only is Mitt Romney telling his supporters that President Obama contin …

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REVEALED: The Racist GOP Campaign To Smear The President | ThinkProgress

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 7:43 PM EDT (Think Progress)

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A front-page New York Times story today exposed a shocking $10 MILLION racist campaign to smear the president that was prepared by GOP operatives and was merely awaiting final sign-off from a politically active right-wing billionaire. The campaign was to focus on t …

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Ed Klein, Author Of New Anti-Obama Book, Suggests Obama Is Secretly A Muslim | ThinkProgress

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 7:33 PM EDT (Think Progress)

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Ed Klein, the author of a new, thinly-sourced book attacking President Obama and Michelle Obama with gossip and innuendo, went on far-right talk show host Dana Loesch’s radio show today to suggest to listeners that the president is a secret Muslim.

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Little Green Footballs - Breitbart Editor John Nolte Calls for Right Wing 'Twitter War'

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 3:04 PM EDT (Little Green Footballs)

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There is no such thing as right-wing violence. Not at all. Teachers who take kids to protests without parents’ permission should be murdered. — John Nolte(@NolteNC) November 5, 2011

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Right Proven Wrong: Lack of Consumer Demand Not Regulations Causing Slow Growth

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 2:51 PM EDT (Politicususa)

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The Philly Fed came out this morning with their report on manufacturing and it has turned south. Get ready for the Republican talking points trying to spin this to President Obama’s policies. Unfortunately for them, the facts don’t weigh heavily in their favor.

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Daily Kos: Mitt Romney tries to erase his Jeremiah Wright attack

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 12:53 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

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I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they've described. [...] I think what we've seen so far from the Obama campaign is a campaign of character assassination. [...] I hope that isn't the course of this campaign. So in regards to that PAC, I …

politics, joe-ricketts, super-pacs, jeremiah-wright-mitt-romney

Obama Surging Ahead Of Romney In Fox News Poll That Fox News Ignores

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 12:48 PM EDT (NewsCorpse)

Seeded by anti-status quo

What makes this particularly interesting is that Fox News just released its own poll that showed the President pulling away from Romney. Obama leads in the Fox poll by 46% to 39%. But there was no mention of it on Fox Nation, and barely a mention of it on Fox News. So even wh …

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House and Senate Unanimously Reject Obama Budgets — Or Do They?

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 12:14 PM EDT (ABC News)

Seeded by James Andre

While the Sessions and Mulvaney bills put forward the same topline numbers as those in the president’s budget, neither offered any specifics. The Sessions legislation was 56 pages long; actual budgets are closer to 2,000 pages long. Thus, a White House official said, the …

budget, politics, gop, vote, lies

Paul Krugman: Why We Regulate

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 12:14 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by thisbusymonster

Why, exactly, are banks special? Because history tells us that banking is and always has been subject to occasional destructive “panics,” which can wreak havoc with the economy as a whole. Current right-wing mythology has it that bad banking is always the result of …

politics, regulation, paul-krugman, right-as-usual

How the Christian Right's Homophobia Scares Away Religious Young People | Belief | AlterNet

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 11:07 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

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In response to the latest gay-bashing vote in North Carolina, evangelical writer and speaker Rachel Held Evans wrote an impassioned plea to her fellow Christians to just cut it out. She points to statistics showing how much damage the church has sustained because of i …

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