Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		The Republican party platform of 1956. How times have changed  (dailykos.com)	(578)

Think Washington is full of people with the class of used car salesmen already? Well don't look now but the Republican Party is recruiting used car salesmen to run for office this year  (online.wsj.com)

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Michael Steele once again outdoes himself: "Trust me, after taxes, a million dollars is not a lot of money"  (bostonherald.com)

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Fractures emerge as Tea Party factions can't decide to destroy The Republican Party from the inside or the outside  (cnn.com)

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(Some Guy)

2008 GOP: We're going by what General Petraeus tells us. 2010 GOP: Who is this Petraeus guy?  (washingtonmonthly.com)

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		Chris Matthews compares the RNC's efforts to support Conservative candidates to the Khmer Rouge reeducation camps in Cambodia  (newsbusters.org)	(174)
		"Many people ask me whether the Democrats are in as much trouble as they were in 1994. The numbers suggest they are in much deeper trouble"  (washingtonexaminer.com)	(435)

Top ranking Republican admits they have no interest in bipartisanship. Congressional Dems will still grovel for approval  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)

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"Why do people often vote against their own interests?" Democrat African-Americans and gay Republicans unavailable for comment  (news.bbc.co.uk)

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		Pelosi on the health bill: "If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we will parachute in." What if the chutes won't open?  (news.yahoo.com)	(79)
		Barack Obama is Scott Brown's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate  (nydailynews.com)	(63)

		Conservatives are born scared of their own shadow. Liberals don't scare as easily. Here is the science proving what everyone has inuitively known for years  (wired.com)	(426)
		Maureen Dowd has a new crush  (nytimes.com)	(94)

Salt Lake County GOP bumps James O'Keefe from giving keynote address at annual fundraiser after his arrest. "He doesn't necessarily represent the Republican Party."  (sltrib.com)

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RNC is meeting this week in Hawaii (not a real state), to consider adopting a 10-point purity test  (guardian.co.uk)

(169)

		Republican about RNC "census" mailer, "Of course, duping people is the point. That's one of the reasons why it works so well"  (politico.com)	(73)
		If you were the one guy who actually thought this was going to be the year we quit with the gerrymandering, well, bad news  (washingtonpost.com)	(21)

45 to 44. Hey, that is a change  (hotair.com)

(236)

In the wake of Obama's failure to stop a Massachusetts senate seat from going red, Daily Kos asks if it's too late to ask to have Howard Dean back  (dailykos.com)

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		Keith Olbermann calls Massachusetts GOP Senate candidate "homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman"  (newsbusters.org)	(374)
		As expected, GOP fully embraces TEA party activists and solidifies the party's base. Just kidding, RNC isn't returning their phone calls  (thefoxnation.com)	(89)
		Republicans lecturing the country about fiscal responsibility, economic recovery, governing - or anything else, for that matter - would be like Mick Jagger lecturing Mother Teresa about excessive promiscuity  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)	(243)

		Just in case Martha Coakley hadn't screwed up enough yet, add one more insanity to the resume of the man about to beat her: Scott Brown is a birther  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org)	(384)
		The GOP is finding out that going with Palin and Steele to Tea Partyvile will only get them a lousy T-Shirt  (nytimes.com)	(147)

The GOP finds their "Obama". A first term Senator with no real experience or leadership history.... this should end well  (news.yahoo.com)

(202)

Summing up the whole Reid/Lott brouhaha in one sentence: "One guy is talking, perhaps inelegantly, about why he's wholeheartedly supporting our first black president; the other is wishing the country had elected a racist."  (salon.com)

(254)

Michael Steele thinks it would be best for everyone if Reid would just step down as Senate Leader, and go away, and stop doing stuff  (washingtonpost.com)

(149)

		Chris Matthews: "What has the Republican Party done for the country in the last 20 years?" GOP Strategist: "WHARRGARBL"  (videocafe.crooksandliars.com)	(462)
		Upset over criticism of his running of the RNC, Michael Steele says "STFU or fire me". Countdown to replacement at T-minus 10, 9, 8  (crooksandliars.com)	(106)

		First Obama gives himself a B+, now GOP chairman Michael Steele gives himself a solid B. Who the hell is accrediting these guys, anyway?  (blogs.abcnews.com)	(56)
		Today's talk radio poutrage? President Obama commissions 1984 style billboard in Times Square. Book it. Done  (foxnews.com)	(183)

Senator Chris Dodd to announce he's retiring ahead of re-election  (msnbc.msn.com)

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		Michele Bachmann (Retarded-MN): "GOP should allow themselves to be re-defined by the tea party movement."  (thinkprogress.org)	(280)
		The resurrection of Howard Dean might lead to Dean 2012. Progressives who wanted a public option said to comment "YEAAAAARGH"  (realclearpolitics.com)	(112)

		Democrats plan to run against George W. Bush in 2010 and 2012  (msnbc.msn.com)	(251)
		Problem: You're a Blue Dog Democratic Congressman from Alabama. Solution: Switch parties. Problem: You're a Republican Congressman from Alabama and your entire staff has resigned because you switched parties  (dailykos.com)	(115)

Rachel Maddow tears into Dick  (dailykos.com)

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Politicians and the media are tougher on Obama's terrorism responses than they were on Bush. "This hypocrisy demonstrates Republicans are playing politics with issues of national security and terrorism."  (azcentral.com)

(140)

Police in Texas looking for murder suspect described as a white supremacist named Bubba who drives a pickup with Republican party stickers. This shouldn't be difficult    (chron.com)

(185)

Some GOP members upset that Chairman Steele is working the professional lecture circuit getting as much as $20,000 per speech; think he should forego personal profit for the greater collective good of the party  (news.yahoo.com)

(80)

(Some Guy)

"We lost real health care reform not because we don't have a 'real' filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. We lost health care reform because we don't have a real leader anywhere in our party."  (americablog.com)

(305)

John McCain is getting angry. You won't like him when he's angry  (news.yahoo.com)

(159)

Conservative activists want the Republican party to deny funds to any candidate who agrees with fewer than eight of their ten conservative positions. It is being called a "purity test," and it is a mistake  (article.nationalreview.com)

(201)

Judd Gregg (cR-Ybaby) distributes "obstruction manual" to fellow Republican senators  (huffingtonpost.com)

(318)

O'Reilly to Huckabee for commuting suspected cop killer's sentence: "It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault"  (huffingtonpost.com)

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		There will be a maelstrom of crazy in Nashville in early February  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)	(261)
(Charlotte Obs)		Billy Graham thinks God was using Sarah Palin "to wake America up," presumably to witness John McCain's godawful decision making skills  (charlotteobserver.com)	(92)

GOP's Angry Frothing Could Result in Good. -Santorum  (nytimes.com)

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GOP Freudian Slip Theater presents: Representative Chris Buttars  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)

(49)

Rep Louie Gohmert (P-yle) warns that terrorists will strike NYC if the terror trials are held there. Then, just in case the terrorists are having trouble coming up with ideas on their own; helpfully provides them with a list of targets  (politico.com)

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What happened to the party of Goldwater and Reagan? You betcha you know the answer  (reason.com)

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		Fla. Governor Charlie Crist's political career may be in jeopardy because of a picture that has surfaced of him passionately embracing another man  (politico.com)	(145)
		The same political wizards who brought you Doug Hoffman now want to be in charge of picking ALL the GOP candidates for next fall's election  (politico.com)	(163)