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At first we weren’t so cool with Alvin Greene as a senate candidate. He was unemployed, lived with his parents, didn’t seem too bright, and was oh so awkward. He also won a primary race without campaigning, and had zero dollars in the bank to run against Jim DeMint. After a month of terrible interviews, [...]

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It worked brilliantly in 2006 and 2008, so hey, why not head to the well one more time. Already famous for turning record surpluses into record deficits, starting not one, but TWO wars and overseeing the “largest federal government expansion since Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” the GOP is turning to a man so reviled by the [...]

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What can you say about a man who’s never used an ATM? He’s…uh, probably an old, SO GET OFF HIS LAWN. Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is just that: old. He turned 69 a few days ago (69, dude!) and even though ATMs have been around virtually forever, he still prefers to get cash from a [...]

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Hey you guys! Have you been watching the Senate hearing with Goldman Sachs? If not, you missed Sen. Carl Levin’s (D-Mich.) insane bout of Tourettes in which he said “shitty deal” 9,000 times. To be fair, the Goldman guy thought Levin was leaving out all-important context that would explain why his selling “shitty deals” to [...]

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Hey, remember during the health care debate how Republicans over and over would say “Americans are against this bill”? Remember how they ignored the fact that many Americans opposed the bill because it lacked a public option, and insisted that work on health care stop immediately because of, again, public opinion? Well the public is [...]

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Hyperbole, maybe but Jim Bunning is an abominable prick. Presented without commentary: The federal government Monday began to furlough workers, jobless Americans faced disruption of their unemployment checks and health insurance, and doctors saw Medicare fees decline — all as a result of a one-man roadblock for a Senate spending bill. Bunning, who is not [...]

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