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Supercommittee Co-Chair Patty Murray Accepts Award from Defense Industry As She Mulls Cuts To Pentagon Budget

Nick Turse, AlterNet. October 5, 2011.

Why won’t the mainstream media or supercommittee member Patty Murray talk about her award from the defense industry?

Will Ties to Pentagon Contractors Push 'Supercommittee' Democrats to Cut Entitlements?

Nick Turse, AlterNet. September 21, 2011.

AlterNet teams up with Salon and Brave New Foundation to document how Dems on the Congressional "supercommittee" get far more military campaign money and contracts than the GOP.

Meet The GOP's Not-So-Super Committee: 6 Members Of Congress Shaping Your Economic Future

Alex Seitz-Wald, Pat Garofalo, Tanya Somanader, ThinkProgress. August 10, 2011.

One of the caveats of the debt ceiling deal was a 12-member bipartisan committee charged with finding $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction. Here are the six Republicans.

Hard-Right GOP Senators Throw Kiddie Tantrums on Christmas, Forgetting Our Founders' Heroics During the Holidays

John Nichols, The Nation. December 24, 2010.

Ruin a Republicans' Holiday shopping schedule, and bizarrely you'll be told must be a very poor Christian indeed.

Tea Party Republicans Go Over the Cliff in Opposing Nuclear Arms Treaty Their Traditional Allies Want

Russ Wellen, AlterNet. December 1, 2010.

Jon Kyl and other Republican senators opposing New START are bucking the national defense establishment to which traditionally they've been joined at the hip.

GOP Lawmakers Accuse Holder of Being a Terrorist Sympathizer

Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2009.

Holder literally burst out laughing when confronted with this absurd line of questioning.

Jon Kyl Says Unemployment Benefits Haven't Run Out ... They Have

Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Politics. October 29, 2009.

I guess Kyl thinks these lazy bastards should just tap into their trust funds. Isn't that what everyone does?

Anti-Immigrant Hardliners Offer Bad Amendments to Health Bill, Get Shot Down

Jackie Mahendra, America's Voice. September 30, 2009.

As youâ€™d expect, anti-immigrant organizations are calling on their members to light up the phones.

Number Two Senate Repub Proves Absolutely Everyone Wrong About Health Debate

Susan Wallace, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. August 20, 2009.

The conventional wisdom explodes!

Memo to the Media: "Puerto Rican" Is Not a Race

Alisa Valdes, Alisa Valdes Diary. July 16, 2009.

There is no more a Puerto Rican race than there is an American one.

The 10 Dumbest Things Republicans Have Said About the Sotomayor Hearings

AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. July 15, 2009.

A list of the most ridiculous questions, jabs and rants by GOP lawmakers and other conservatives.

Sotomayor Confirmation Circus: Jeff Sessions Says Baffling, Stupid Things About Race

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. July 14, 2009.

If I didn't know better, I might think Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has a preoccupation with issues related to race and ethnicity.

The GOP's Pathetic Wailing Against Sotomayor's Confirmation

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 14, 2009.

Sotomayor will be confirmed. But the drama stirred up by Republicans reveals some interesting things about race in the age of Obama.

GOP Responds to Cheney's Concealment of CIA Program with Strawmen and Shrugged Shoulders

Matt Corley, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. July 13, 2009.

On the Sunday shows, several Republican lawmakers attempted to defend or divert attention away from the revelation about Cheney.

"Cheney's Fondest Pipe Dream" Passes in The Senate

Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. September 26, 2007.

Steve Benen: The Kyl-Lieberman amendment, which calls Iran's armed forces a terrorist organization, just passed overwhelmingly, 76-22.