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GOP's Junk Food Bill Targets Future Conservative Voters

By MuddyPolitics on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:09pm |

Cook ’em a free pizza and they will come.

No, it’s not a Herman Cain campaign motto. It’s the Republican Party’s new strategy for molding the next generation of conservative voters. And it begins in elementary school.

Fighting back against the Obama Administration’s increased restrictions on unhealthy, high sodium and fatty foods in school cafeterias, Republicans this week proposed a bill to re-designate pizza sauce, ketchup and fries as “vegetables” and overturn the administration’s push for more whole grain and (actual) vegetable options in schools.

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Are Liberals to Blame?

By MuddyPolitics on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 11:10am |

 

Subtitle: Another stand-alone piece on another subject that isn’t appropriate for dagblog and is of high-school rough-draft quality.

 

A recent poll shows that the now historically low (34 percent) public support of Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act was most affected by a 13-point drop in support from Democrats specifically.

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A liberal Mein Kampf?

By MuddyPolitics on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 11:12pm |

A wise man accused of drafting the liberal version of Mein Kampf once wrote:

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New Rule for Radical Lefties: Mottos Don’t Matter

By MuddyPolitics on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 10:44pm |

After a year of failures, Republicans have been so desperate to draft a bill that had a chance of becoming law that they chose something they knew wouldn’t be defeated, a bill they knew Americans would support, and a bill that would show the electorate that they actually are quite busy earning their $174,000-a-year salaries.

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It’s not PC to be candid about candidates

By MuddyPolitics on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 2:55pm |

Just as Hillary Clinton wasn’t a woman when she ran for president in 2008, neither is Herman Cain black nor Mitt Romney Mormon.

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