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GOP Death Watch: Day 39,023

November 3, 2009 – 1:46 pm

So here we have Louisiana Senator David Vitter being asked by a consituent about Vitter’s “no” vote on an anti-rape clause in a defense appropriations bill that passed, 68-30, last month. The clause/rider — the first authored by Frosh Senator Al “I Can’t Believe I’m A Senator” Franken — would prohibit funding to military contractors [...]

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GOP Death Watch: Day 36,041

October 20, 2009 – 11:48 am

I like numbers. Although I often don’t understand them, they can be helpful little things, especially when they are used to make “polls.” In this case, we have an ABC/Washington Post poll, which shows that only 20 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans — the lowest GOP party ID in over 25 years.
Only 20 [...]

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GOP Death Watch: Day 10,203

May 29, 2009 – 4:40 pm

Whenever G. Gordon Liddy opens the fetid, bile-stained maw that is connected to the shining globular den of evil that is his head, only bad things will happen.
… [T]here’s a real split on the right between elected officials, particularly in the Senate, who have jobs to keep, and radical figureheads in the conservative movement who [...]

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GOP Death Watch: Day 8,317

April 3, 2009 – 5:26 pm

 
Right. So primordial Republican throwback Newt “My Sister’s Gay” Gingrich is positioning himself to be some sort of GOP oracle and potential 2012 presidential candidate. How can we tell? If The New York Times Magazine runs a cover story saying Gingrich is important because he’s one of the Right’s few think tank-grade Pols whose brain [...]

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