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“There were numerous Republicans that voted against the sequestration because we knew all of these calamities were in the future. And so it reminds me of the Shakespeare line: ‘Thou protestest too much.’” — Michele Bachmann http://buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com/video/2013/04/26/bachspeare-502×376.mp4Video available at: http://buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com/video/2013/04/26/bachspeare-502×376.mp4. Via mediaite.com Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/dorsey/michele-bachmann-tries-to-quote-shakespeare-thou-protestest

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DdsVCaDNNk]Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2DdsVCaDNNk. youtube.com Progressives are launching a new social media-based marriage equality campaign aimed at building national support for key state ballot initiatives across the country. The site, TheFour2012.com, is funded in large part by Jason Goldberg, the CEO of Fab.com and targets marriage equality ballot initiatives in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and…

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKALmCzKJBo]Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YKALmCzKJBo. Via Twitter: @hunterw Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/nycsouthpaw/the-cnn-debates-zany-anti-union-ad

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http://buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com/video/2013/08/24/booker12-Broadband-320×240.mp4Video available at: http://buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com/video/2013/08/24/booker12-Broadband-320×240.mp4. C-SPAN Newark mayor and U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker gave a stirring address to tens of thousands on the National Mall Saturday at the rally marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Booker’s five-minute speech focused on what he called his generation’s responsibility to carry on the commitment to…

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“Alex lived a huge life and he lived it his way. He hated compromise in politics and he didn’t tolerate it in his own life. Alex was my pal, my mentor, my comrade. We joked, gossiped, argued and worked together nearly every day for the last twenty years. He leaves a huge void in our…

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AIz8vpO66w]Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_AIz8vpO66w. youtube.com “In an ideal world there would have been a lot more testing,” Sebelius told reporters about the botched rollout of the HealthCare.gov site where millions of Americans are expected to enroll in President Obama’s signature health care reforms. “We did not have the luxury of that with a law…

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F2AolBZaRI]Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_F2AolBZaRI. 2. Biden admits he gets distracted by Rabbi Julie Schonfeld. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7STKdOwXaHk]Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7STKdOwXaHk. View this image › Rabbi Schonfeld. Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/provincialelitist/the-rabbis-joe-biden

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR6Z_BOjkWM]Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PR6Z_BOjkWM. youtube.com Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/clinton-and-obama-caught-on-a-live-mic-at-memorial

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myYEb15AyPk]Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=myYEb15AyPk. youtube.com Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/at-2008-obama-promised-first-term-entitlement-ref

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGyl2LRbEfM]Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=AGyl2LRbEfM. youtube.com Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/rick-santorum-i-lost-independents-by-40-points

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View this image › J. Scott Applewhite / AP WASHINGTON — Outgoing Rep. Barney Frank Monday denounced the idea of former Sen. Chuck Hagel being considered for secretary of defense, arguing the Nebraska conservative has demonstrated a clear pattern of bigotry and and a track record of being “against fairness for LGBT people.” Hagel’s 1998…

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View this image › Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File / AP President Obama is getting close to the donors to a group founded from the remnants of his 2012 campaign this week. But the White House says that doesn’t mean he’s selling access. Obama is scheduled to give a speech at to an Organizing For Action…

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View this image › Mario Tama / Getty Images Anthony Weiner admitted Tuesday that transcripts of sexually charged correspondences between him and an unnamed woman were at least partially authentic. In a statement, Weiner wrote: “I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have. As I have said…

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1. President Obama and the first family visited the apartheid-era prison on Robben Island, South Africa, Sunday where Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders were jailed as political prisoners. View this image › SAUL LOEB / Getty Images 2. The trip was Obama’s second and the first with his family. He previously toured the prison…

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View this image › Seated beside canidates Christine Quinn and Bill de Blasio, Anthony Weiner checks his phone during a mayoral debate Monday at the law firm, Kirkland & Ellis. Ruby Cramer When it wasn’t his turn to speak at the New York City mayoral debate Monday night, former congressman Anthony Weiner could be seen…

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1. Obama in 2006: I have had enough of using terrorism as a wedge issue in our politics [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIrwgRNCwHo]Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oIrwgRNCwHo. youtube.com 2. Obama in 2007 on 9/11: A tragedy meant to united us is being used as a political wedge issue used to divide us [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLNMi3PneMk]Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lLNMi3PneMk. youtube.com 3.…

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