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Article/Video: “Must-Reads: The Late, Great Molly Ivins on Rick Perry”

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As Texas Gov. Rick Perry embarks on his Obama-bashing, evangelical-courting, tea party-outdoingcampaign for the presidency, we miss Molly Ivins more than ever. The late and celebrated liberal columnist was known as a writer of sparkling political commentary infused with a trenchant wit and copious shots of zero-bullshit humor. She was the consummate Texan, a ferocious populist critic of the American right-wing, and a sorely missed Mother Jones contributor.

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Article: “Tea Party= Religious Right= Unpopular”

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“The new Tea Partiers set to come to Washington aren’t avoiding challenging the religious right just because they need it to form a coalition—they are it…” “Among the more than 8-in-10 (81%) who identify as Christian within the Tea Party movement,” the survey found, “57% also consider themselves part of the Christian conservative movement…” And today, in an interesting piece in The Awl, Abe Sauer, who spent two years with the Tea Party, concludes: “I finally know what the Tea Party wants: A Christian nation.”

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Blog Post: “Why Obama and Democrats are Less Trustworthy than Bush and Republicans”

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[…] Republicans can generally be trusted more than Democrats to do what they say they are going to do. He won the Presidency by a healthy margin and had overwhelming popular support. He had the backing of 60 Democrats in the Senate and a similarly strong contingent in the Congress. Furthermore, he had the people and the facts on his side on so many fronts.

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