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Big Pharma Lobbies Hard to End India's Distribution of Affordable Generic Drugs 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1995
An Appeal From Okinawa to the US Congress 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1583
Why do Politicians spend $9 billion a year to Jail the Mentally Ill? 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 6 1822
Why Everyone is Lobbying on the F-35 Fighter Jet 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 2046
The American Voter: Dumb as Dogshit, Nearly as Inert 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1880
The progressives are coming!: Why the latest attempt to “save” Democrats from populism is so patheti 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1522
America’s flip-flop foreign policy: Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton and the new millennial voter 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1508
Republican senators seek to block funds to combat Ebola 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 9 1940
Louie Gohmert: Obama thought ISIS beheading victim would die from climate change first 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1851
On the Ropes in Kansas, Roberts Goes Full Anti-Obama 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 2099
Is There a Doctor in the House? 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1399
GOP’s full-blown panic: Why they’re pushing national security again 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 1684
The Precise Percentage of Republicans Who Are Certifiable Assholes 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 7 1768
Potomac Fever: Washington's Insane Clown Posse Rides Again 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1598
So the US Is Single-Handedly at War Again 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1632
Anti-Science Congress cut $600 mn. from Agency Leading Ebola Response 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1631
The Neoconservatives and the Islamic State 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1632
Rep. Louie Gohmert’s Ebola Theory Is Dumber Than He Is 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1664
Seditious Republicans Spend Paid Vacation Instigating Rebellion Among Military Generals 37 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Oct 2014 56 15926
GOP House guts White House’s request for funds to fight and contain Ebola 6 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Oct 2014 7 2841
$22 Billion to Fight ISIL in same Year Congress cut $8.7 bn in Food Stamps 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1900

Congress Continued...

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Time to Mobilize the Washington War Hawks to Fight ISIS Terrorists 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1625
Pro-Sullivan group gets $500,000 for U.S. Senate race from NFL owner 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1689
Paul Ryan Admits That The GOP Plans To Win The Senate and Take Healthcare Away From Millions 3 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2040
U.S. reps call for better VA access 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1680
Democrats Run Away from Success of Obamacare 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1653
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 1820
Who's the dude with the hair nowadays in Congress? 13 valerief Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 5545
Buying Back the U.S. Senate 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1554
Does Heidi Hall lack "proper background or intellect"? 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1764
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 1685
Kansas Democrat asks court to require new US Senate candidate 4 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1967
Anthony Weiner and the Revolving Door 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1619
Rachel Maddow rips ‘repellent’ Congress for giving itself two more months off 2 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2050
From Tragedy to Farce: How Fox News and the GOP Tarnished Benghazi 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1496
Ted Cruz: ‘Social worker’ Obama wants to fight ISIS with ‘expanded Medicaid’ 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1571
Senate panel: Chinese hackers targeted military contractors and tech firms 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1349
Is the GOP/TP Really Against "Big Government?" Fuhgeddaboudit 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1742
America’s “ground troops” fiasco: Why Congress must straitjacket the presidency 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1443
Superbug fears: Lawmakers want to crack down on overuse of antibiotics in livestock 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1404
Congress includes $29 million in cuts to TANF in proposed CR 2 DeadLetterOffice Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1901
Deborah Lee James: Air Force to Get ’70-75 Percent’ Of Budget Request Through Congress 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1483
Progressive Democrats Follow Obama to War in Syria 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 2069
Congress scrutinizes Obama military strategy 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1375
A constitutional amendment to take Big Money out of politics dies quietly 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1484
What Do Republicans Want? 6 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2447
MN GOP candidate blames opponent for ‘sleazy, slimy’ Bill Maher’s comedic rant 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1729
Bill Maher levels GOP Rep. Kline: He embodies D.C’s ‘easily-swayed whores and sellouts 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1512
INFLUENCE GAME: Chemical trade tries to shape regs 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1557
GOP congressman: Ted Cruz was playing to Tea Party in ‘self-serving’ speech to Christians 2 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 2421
Why We Need to Prosecute Our Torturers 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1400

Congress Continued...

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WATCH: Ted Cruz storms offstage after getting booed by Christian group he insulted 3 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1734
Al Franken Drops a Truth Bomb On The Senate: Citizens United Is Money Laundering 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 9 1694
"Wary of a War Vote" 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1676
Ted Cruz: SNL’s Lorne Michaels could be thrown in jail if Dems undo ‘Citizens United’ 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1742
Exposed: Corporate cash is the lifeblood of climate change denial on Capitol Hill 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1396
HASC GOP Leaders Cross Fingers For Senate Elections 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1302
House resolution condemns Obama for Taliban swap 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1463
House tries to rein in EPA, to dismay of conservationists 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1397
Just Say No 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1449
New Email Release Shows: Peter King Demanded an Investigation To Find Journalist's Sources Like Pete 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1400
Elizabeth Warren slams Eric Cantor and ‘revolving door’ linking Congress to Wall Street 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1400
Clean CR, Sequestration Hopes: Fall Hill Predictions 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1609
We’re gonna need a bigger boat — Most vulnerable House members — Coakley’s 2010 redux? 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1666
The 6 Strangest Libertarian Ideas 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1750
In Senate-CIA fight on interrogation report, another controversy 3 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1671
Will Republicans Block Action On Corporations Abandoning The U.S.? 4 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1929
House GOP candidate: Female senators are “undeserving bimbos in tennis shoes” 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 3 1919
Congress is next stop for Iraqi refugees 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1462
Lockheed contributions follow F-35 contract (xpost from NSD) 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 0 1482
In Washington, little appetite for a vote on Iraq 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1410
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