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Five Reasons Congress Should Oppose the TPP 3 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 2391
Stop The Paul-Boxer Tax Holiday; It May Already Be A Job-Killer 2 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 2318
Attn. Tea Party: ‘How Immigrants (yes, Muslims and Latinos) can save Detroit & other Cities’ 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1694
GOP Pres. Candidates warn Iran Nukes can hit NYC (despite No Nukes, ICBMs) 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1850
'Low-life Scum' vs. 'Great American Villian' as Citizens Arrest Targets Kissinger 2 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 3519
House Resolution 758 - War With Russia 0 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 2387
What's the Current GOP manufactured debt Crisis? Social Security Reform 0 M Kitt Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 1706
The Triumph of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex 0 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1824
Lawmakers: Carrier fleet should be exempt from cuts 1 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 2082
Refinery Lobbyist Invokes WW2-Era Quote, Calls Businesses That Donate to Environmentalists ‘Appeaser 0 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 1994
Blackwater Lobbyist Will Manage the House Intelligence Committee 19 unhappycamper Dec 2014 Dec 2014 32 8043
David Brooks’ latest trick: Exposing the sleight of hand in his defense of the Kochs 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Dec 2014 7 1954
“Don’t Send these Climate Denying Poll-Cats back to Congress: Send them back to Science Class” – Jes 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 2012
Lack of Leadership by Washington and Moscow Undermines Treaties and Norms 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1940
Baby boomers ruined America: Why blaming millennials is misguided — and annoying 7 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 4097
The United States' Middle East policy is in shambles 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1974
Ted Cruz: Obama’s surgeon general pick isn’t a ‘health professional’ because he’s ‘anti-gun’ 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 2243
Big Pharma Lobbies Hard to End India's Distribution of Affordable Generic Drugs 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 2309
An Appeal From Okinawa to the US Congress 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1826
Why do Politicians spend $9 billion a year to Jail the Mentally Ill? 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 6 2224
Why Everyone is Lobbying on the F-35 Fighter Jet 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 2291
The American Voter: Dumb as Dogshit, Nearly as Inert 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 2280
The progressives are coming!: Why the latest attempt to “save” Democrats from populism is so patheti 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1827
America’s flip-flop foreign policy: Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton and the new millennial voter 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1752
Republican senators seek to block funds to combat Ebola 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 9 2283
Louie Gohmert: Obama thought ISIS beheading victim would die from climate change first 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 2452
On the Ropes in Kansas, Roberts Goes Full Anti-Obama 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 2426
Is There a Doctor in the House? 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1654
GOP’s full-blown panic: Why they’re pushing national security again 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 1941
The Precise Percentage of Republicans Who Are Certifiable Assholes 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 7 2110

Congress Continued...

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Potomac Fever: Washington's Insane Clown Posse Rides Again 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1862
So the US Is Single-Handedly at War Again 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1999
Anti-Science Congress cut $600 mn. from Agency Leading Ebola Response 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1983
The Neoconservatives and the Islamic State 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1876
Rep. Louie Gohmert’s Ebola Theory Is Dumber Than He Is 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1960
Seditious Republicans Spend Paid Vacation Instigating Rebellion Among Military Generals 37 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Oct 2014 56 20143
GOP House guts White House’s request for funds to fight and contain Ebola 6 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Oct 2014 7 3434
$22 Billion to Fight ISIL in same Year Congress cut $8.7 bn in Food Stamps 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 2264
Time to Mobilize the Washington War Hawks to Fight ISIS Terrorists 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1936
Pro-Sullivan group gets $500,000 for U.S. Senate race from NFL owner 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1939
Paul Ryan Admits That The GOP Plans To Win The Senate and Take Healthcare Away From Millions 3 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2490
U.S. reps call for better VA access 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1987
Democrats Run Away from Success of Obamacare 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1914
Jon Stewart: Talking to GOP about climate change is like ‘pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mou 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2077
Who's the dude with the hair nowadays in Congress? 13 valerief Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 6840
Buying Back the U.S. Senate 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1822
Does Heidi Hall lack "proper background or intellect"? 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 2037
Rand Paul panders to the libertarians Ann Coulter said she’d ‘drown’ if GOP doesn’t take Senate 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2049
Kansas Democrat asks court to require new US Senate candidate 4 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 2520
Anthony Weiner and the Revolving Door 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1892
Rachel Maddow rips ‘repellent’ Congress for giving itself two more months off 2 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2449
From Tragedy to Farce: How Fox News and the GOP Tarnished Benghazi 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1754
Ted Cruz: ‘Social worker’ Obama wants to fight ISIS with ‘expanded Medicaid’ 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1872
Senate panel: Chinese hackers targeted military contractors and tech firms 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1590
Is the GOP/TP Really Against "Big Government?" Fuhgeddaboudit 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2053
America’s “ground troops” fiasco: Why Congress must straitjacket the presidency 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1698
Superbug fears: Lawmakers want to crack down on overuse of antibiotics in livestock 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1664
Congress includes $29 million in cuts to TANF in proposed CR 2 DeadLetterOffice Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 2372
Deborah Lee James: Air Force to Get ’70-75 Percent’ Of Budget Request Through Congress 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1743
Progressive Democrats Follow Obama to War in Syria 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 2437

Congress Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Congress scrutinizes Obama military strategy 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1626
A constitutional amendment to take Big Money out of politics dies quietly 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1750
What Do Republicans Want? 6 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 3136
MN GOP candidate blames opponent for ‘sleazy, slimy’ Bill Maher’s comedic rant 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1979
Bill Maher levels GOP Rep. Kline: He embodies D.C’s ‘easily-swayed whores and sellouts 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1767
INFLUENCE GAME: Chemical trade tries to shape regs 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1881
GOP congressman: Ted Cruz was playing to Tea Party in ‘self-serving’ speech to Christians 2 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 2812
Why We Need to Prosecute Our Torturers 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1653
WATCH: Ted Cruz storms offstage after getting booed by Christian group he insulted 3 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 2228
Al Franken Drops a Truth Bomb On The Senate: Citizens United Is Money Laundering 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 9 2005
"Wary of a War Vote" 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1998
Ted Cruz: SNL’s Lorne Michaels could be thrown in jail if Dems undo ‘Citizens United’ 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2064
Exposed: Corporate cash is the lifeblood of climate change denial on Capitol Hill 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1703
HASC GOP Leaders Cross Fingers For Senate Elections 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1535
House resolution condemns Obama for Taliban swap 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1859
House tries to rein in EPA, to dismay of conservationists 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1663
Just Say No 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1713
New Email Release Shows: Peter King Demanded an Investigation To Find Journalist's Sources Like Pete 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1668
Elizabeth Warren slams Eric Cantor and ‘revolving door’ linking Congress to Wall Street 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1661
Clean CR, Sequestration Hopes: Fall Hill Predictions 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1934
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