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As it was worded last week conservative republican rick santorums presidential campaign slogan is america again is the update of john kerrys presidential campaign slogan let america be america again, which was taken word for word from the title of a 1938 poem by langston hughes, one of the many works that inspired this countrys civil rights movement. think progress.org was the first to report on the oddity of a right wing republican using a slogan that was derived from the words of a poet who li...

The more you can save. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. ha! back to "hardball." now to the sideshow. first of all, the politician versus the poet. rick santorum has a new slogan on his campaign website. fighting to make america america again. sound familiar? a take on the 1938 poem by langston hughes who is a known activist for liberal causes. think progress confronted santorum with a disconnect at a campaign event. >> is this a coincidence? >> i didnt know that. the folks...

Today she spoke to the iowa family leader, an extreme antigay group, the head of this group recently told think progress, he thinks homosexuality isç a public heah risk comparable to smoking. >> were teaching kids as an adult dont smoke, because thats a risky health lifestyle, the same can be true, too, with the hock osexual lifestyle. >> can you also catch it that way? you never know with these crazy people what they think. >> bachman is no the only hopeful cozying up to that group. tim pawle...

Want compromise. thats the exact opposite of what boehner has been doing all this time. but 68% of tea partiers dont want compromise. thats who republicans are actually representing. now, thats a tiny sliver of the population, obviously, not the entirety of the american people as the gop claims. mike pence even slipped up and accidentally admitted it the other day. check out this video from think progress. >> were trying to score a victory for the republican people -- for the -- for the republic...

Keep saying, oh, no, no, no, we dont want a shutdown. its the democrats who are talking about that. but then listen to what they have been saying about it. they have been promising a shutdown since before the midterm elections. they ran for office in november in part by saying they would shut down the government. they love talking about this. this is a montage recently put together by the website, think progress. >> or should i shut down government? and ive got to tell you, most people in my dis...

Elections. they ran for office in november in part by saying they would shut down the government. they love talking about this. this is a montage recently put together by the website, think progress. >> or should i shut down government? and ive got to tell you, most people in my district say shut it down. >> its not a great thing. and yet at the same time, its not something that we can rule out. it may be absolutely necessary. >> and the american people can see, life would go on without the fede...

They ran for office in november in part by saying they would shut down the government. they love talking about this. this is a montage recently put together by the website, think progress. >> or should i shut down government? and ive got to tell you, most people in my district say shut it down. >> its not a great thing. and yet at the same time, its not something that we can rule out. it may be absolutely necessary. >> and the american people can see, life would go on without the federal governm...

Looks to me like they already have a lot of parking available. but the point is, issas on record admitting that earmarks are of value. which is admitting bus stops, parking lots, will be of value to his business, just like it would be to yours. if issa were willing to do for you what he does for himself, in fact, think progress reports that issas earmarks would improve access to two other issa properties on that street. how about that. including this one. gee, i wonder why mr. issa wants to impr...

Times. he has ignored the very laws that he said were so vital when he was a senator. >> oh, yeah. well, now youd think that issa would be squeaky clean, right, with all that righteous indignation. and when it came to fighting the health care bill, the congressman sat up on his ethical high horse and said that earmarks are bribes. and that congressmen get something of value in return. >> mr. speaker, i make the point of order that an earmark is tantamount to a bribe. an earmark to receive a vote...

Pay for adding parking lots. looks to me like they already have a lot of parking available. but the point is, issas on record admitting that earmarks are of value. which is admitting bus stops, parking lots, will be of value to his business, just like it would be to yours. if issa were willing to do for you what he does for himself, in fact, think progress reports that issas earmarks would improve access to two other issa properties on that street. how about that. including this one. gee, i wond...