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Just found this spoof of Goodfellas describing today's Rat Party perfectly. Caution: Adult Language

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday he will push a short-term spending bill that funds the government through Dec. 11 and redirects Planned Parenthood funding to other health centers amid controversy over the organization’s abortion practice. Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, set up a procedural vote on the measure for Thursday, or after Congress hears from Pope Francis in a joint session, although Democrats will likely block the GOP bid. “I know Democrats have already blocked virtually every bill to fund the government this year, but I’m asking them to allow the Senate to fund the government now,” Mr. McConnell...

Why do normal people deny that institutional racism still exists in America? President Obama and other liberals are not wrong when they point out this reality. They are simply disingenuous about who’s behind it. Let’s face it. The legacy of the Democratic Party is buried in the Confederate South. Its DNA oozes slavery, bigotry, and discrimination. The nation’s first half-black president even said as much in a recent interview with comedian Marc Maron. Liberal public schools have done a great job deemphasizing the Democratic Party’s mortifying history of racism. The party’s platforms supported slavery from 1840-1860. The Jim Crow...

The controversy over Hillary Clinton's emails and her unconvincing press conference at the United Nations have gotten many Democrats and others thinking the unthinkable: Clinton may not be the Democrats' 2016 nominee for president. And it has many asking the question -- scary for Democrats -- of who else could be. It's not a strong field. Vice President Joe Biden is 72 and has low poll ratings. Elizabeth Warren inspires the Democratic left, but says she's not running -- perhaps for fear of exposure of her dubious claim, when seeking prestigious law school jobs, of Cherokee ancestry. Others are even...

The continued nostalgia for racism on the part of the Democratic Party never ceases to amaze me. Last week, when Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) allowed as how the Tea Party Movement was similar to the KKK, my eyes rolled so far back in my head I almost had to clone a new cranium. Jewish boy to Jewish boy, Steve, that’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard one of our co-religionists say in public. If anything, the Tea Partyers are the antithesis of racist – a collection of wild, freedom-loving quasi-libertarians who could care less about anyone’s color or...

With their signature priority - health care legislation -stalled and voter anger and mistrust of Washington accelerating, House Democrats are moving to Plan B: Introducing a slew of smaller initiatives meant to put Republicans on the spot as incumbents enter a volatile campaign season. Democrats, who return with their Republican counterparts from a weeklong recess tomorrow, expect to take up a limited bill to remove the antitrust exemption health insurers have enjoyed for many years, a move Democrats say will stop collusion during the setting of premiums. Consideration of other tightly focused health care bills, such as allowing parents to...

There are crazy people in this country. We all know it. Reality television normal people move right on past prove to us how many egotistical, shallow, completely uninformed individuals there are in this society. That’s freedom baby. But its interesting to note, in the wake of news that conservatives now outnumber liberals in every state of the union, that it isn’t EVERYBODY who’s crazy in this country. Remember that 35% of Democrats think George W Bush was in on the 9-11 attacks, and 26% are not sure. A MAJORITY of Democrats, not the country, believe the President of the United...

Turn the corner on 145th Street in Jamaica, Queens, and it is as though a cyclone has wheeled through. One resident, Lakisha Brown, a hospital worker and mother of two, snatched her house back from foreclosure last month, if only temporarily. “We need to sell fast,” she says. “I’m just trying to save what’s left of my credit.” Across the street in this black middle-class neighborhood, Patrick Nicholas, a surgical technician in blue scrubs, shakes his dreadlocks and shrugs. He rents but is moving out. “The owner got foreclosed and told us to leave,” he says. Six doors away, past...

Bush didn't intend to insult Democrats: Snow 26 minutes ago President George W. Bush did not intend to insult Democrats by failing to pronounce their party's full name in his State of the Union address, spokesman Tony Snow said on Monday. In his speech last Tuesday, Bush declared to a joint session of the U.S. Congress that "I congratulate the Democrat majority." Some Democrats were incensed he did not say "Democratic." The party's proper name is the Democratic Party. Republicans for years have dropped the last two letters of the name as a slight to the party. Bush's prepared text...

Democratic candidates hope disagreements among Cuban Americans over the Bush administration's new restrictions on travel to Cuba will convince some to abandon the Republican Party. By clamping down on travel and remittances to Cuba last month, President Bush tried to send a signal to Miami's Cuban exile community that he was serious about getting rid of leader Fidel Castro. But some candidates for office are trying to turn the tables and use the policy change to attract Cuban-American votes to the Democratic Party. One Democratic candidate for Congress in South Florida even managed to get more than 150 voters, mostly...

Elizabeth Taylor and Justin Timberlake were the guests of honor at a benefit Elton John gave with Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne Wednesday night in L.A. But the names of two other well-known people were on everybody's lips: Bush and Saddam. "We all discussed whether to move forward with this event tonight," Sharon told the crowd, which had gathered in the garden of her Beverly Hills home to support Elton's AIDS foundation and her own colon-cancer charity. "We decided to continue because, war or no war, we are all fighting the war against AIDS and cancer," she went on. "At the...

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A firestorm was created when Trent Lott made foolish statements at the birthday bash of Strom Thurmond. It cost him his position as Senate leader (thank goodness). Let's take a little quiz on a few elements of racism. MULTIPLE CHOICE: 1. As governor of his state, this man signed a bill that made the celebration of the lives of Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee the same day. __A. Trent Lott __B. Strom Thurmond __C. Ronald Reagan __D. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton 2. As governor for 12 years, this man did nothing to change "Confederate Flag Day" in his...