Top Ten Tuesdays: Why are we leaving the Republican party?

10) Found walking upright and breathing through nose so refreshing, we decided to do it permanently.

9) "Supermajority" sounds so bitchin'.

8) Constant whining about religious persecution got on our last goddamned nerve.

7) Tired of consoling drunk, sobbing Newt Gingrich at 3am about the future of the Republican party.

6) Was only using conservatism for the tax cuts.

5) Wanted to join a party that would support our fetish for having a dominatrix bash our groin with a gavel while reading dirty-sounding words from Robert's Rules of Order.

4) Couldn't shake the feeling we were being watched when using the GOP men's room.

3) Three words: Palin in 2012.

2) Obama is just so dreamy.

1) Have you listened to these guys?
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The Health-Care Time Warp
by Paul Waldman
With the health-care debate underway once again, Republicans are dusting off the same rhetorical playbook they used during the Clinton years.

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Cheney and the Iraq-Torture Link
By Joe Conason —
Defending their record in office these past eight years, figures from the last administration seem especially touchy on the subject of torture. Led by the former vice president, Dick Cheney, they have argued that there was no torture, preferring more vague and delicate terms such as “enhanced interrogation” or simply “the program.”

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Cheney's War Against Obama
by Jacob Heilbrunn

Cheney presented himself as a simple, plainspoken fellow who had no office left to seek, no grudges to settle. But by the end, his mask slipped and the culture warrior appeared

Playing the Pelosi card

What? CIA operatives concealed the truth about torture from a San Francisco liberal? No!
By Gene Lyons

Porter Goss Won't Go On Record on Pelosi/CIA Story

Pelosi or Cheney? Who's the Torturer in Chief?

by Laura Flanders

Our unending war of terror

Bush's embrace of torture was horrific, but it was hardly the first time Americans have acted like terrorists.
By Noam Chomsky

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The Torture 13
These key Bush administration officials authorized it, decided how to implement it and crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it
By Marcy Wheeler

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BUSH'S BIBLE BRIEFINGS
An exclusive slideshow of never-before-seen Pentagon documents that mixed faith and the Iraq war…

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Sam Stein: Bush Critics Frustrated As Torture Debate Shifts To Pelosi

As attention shifts toward the extent to which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi oversaw the authorization and use of waterboarding, some are asking: Aren't we missing the forest for the trees?

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Old Faithful of Nonsense

By Eugene Robinson —
Can’t we send Dick Cheney back to Wyoming? Shouldn’t we chip in and buy him a home where the buffalo roam and there’s always room for one more crazy old coot down at the general store? For the final act of his too-long public career, Cheney seems to have decided to become an Old Faithful of self-serving nonsense.

Social Security is going broke again!
You are about to be hit by another wave of disinformation about how Social Security needs reforming (meaning, your benefits must be cut). It's not true
By Michael Lind
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An Honest Brawl Over the Court
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
The coming battle over President Obama's first Supreme Court nomination could be an enlightening debate over what direction the court should take. But it could also be a nasty and hypocritical fight that obscures more issues than it clarifies.

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