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As it was worded last week conservative republican rick santorum's presidential campaign slogan is america again is the update of john kerry's 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 country's 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 lived far to the left of the democratic party. lee fang of think progress caught up with senator sa...

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 didn't know that. the folks who worked on that slogan for me didn't inform me that that is where it came from, if, indeed, it ...

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. >> we're teaching kids as an adult don't smoke, because that's 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 pawlenty has spoken to them. rick santorum, herman king and newt gingrich are all expected to address ...

Want compromise. that's the exact opposite of what boehner has been doing all this time. but 68% of tea partiers don't want compromise. that's who republicans are actually representing. now, that's 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. >> we're trying to score a victory for the republican people -- for the -- for the republican people. trying to score a victory for the american people. >> that was great. the republican...

Keep saying, oh, no, no, no, we don't want a shutdown. it's 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 i've got to tell you, most people in my district say shut it down. >> it's not a great thing. and yet at the same time, it's not something t...