In a recent interview, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) declared that the Tea Party movement is unsustainable and will eventually "die out." What the senator fails to realize (or at least won't admit publicly) is that successful grassroots efforts such as the Tea Party movement end when their goal has been achieved and it is the political careers of so-called moderate Republicans such as Senator Graham that are unsustainable.

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Meet Mike Niecestro, the self-proclaimed "disgusted Republican" who is planning to enter the race for US Senate in Illinois as an Independent. With the filing deadline to run less than a week away, the conservative Mr. Niecestro says he already has the 25,000 signatures needed to get on the ballot, will spend at least a million of his own dollars on the campaign, has raised an additional $100,000 and has a website to promote his candidacy.

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As the oil spill disaster in the Gulf goes on causing both an environmental and economic crisis, President Obama is sticking with his tried and true play-the-victim-then-blame-others approach. In an interview on Friday, he claimed that criticism of his handling of the situation is unfair because if he had tried to prevent the spill from happening, his political opponents would not have let him. Of course the criticism he's getting is not about preventing the spill, it's about how he's dealing with it now (a majority of Americans believe he is doing a poor or very poor job handling the crisis). But when did reality ever get in the way of a baseless Obama diversionary tactic?

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I wanted to watch Kentucky's Republican Senate Candidate Rand Paul on Meet The Press today. After a week of sound bytes from and about Dr. Paul and his confrontational appearance on Rachel Maddow's program, I was hoping an interview on the more mainstream Sunday morning staple would allow the candidate to give a clearer impression of his views on civil rights and, specifically, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Unfortunately, he refused to show up.

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Republican Charles Djou has increased his lead in Hawaii's First Congressional District with less than three weeks before the mail-in, winner-take-all special election. In a new poll, Honolulu City Councilman Djou leads with 36% while former Congressman Ed Case (D) has 28% and state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa (D) trails the pack with 22%. 13% remain undecided. (source)

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