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Topic: The Tea Party

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The GOP is destroying itself

Bob Cesca
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2015, file photo, House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., demands answers of witnesses from the State Department and the CIA, as it holds its third public hearing to investigate the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where a violent mob killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sidney Blumenthal will testify in closed session June 16, 2015, about frequent emails he sent about Libya when Hillary Rodham Clinton served as secretary of state. Blumenthal worked in the White House under President Bill Clinton and is a longtime friend and adviser to the Clinton family. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

The GOP's chaos caucus reigns

Heather Digby Parton
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The GOP's nihilistic playbook

Heather Digby Parton
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Beck vs. Trump: The reckoning

Matthew Pulver
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How paranoia poisoned the GOP

Paul Rosenberg
Scott Walker, Jeb Bush (AP/Cliff Owen/Reuters/David Manning/Photo montage by Salon)

GOP's raging identity crisis

Sean McElwee
Scott Brown, Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis (AP/Jim Cole/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Photo montage by Salon)

Christian right's illegal ploy

Heather Digby Parton
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Poll: Tea Party brand is toxic

Ian Blair

Spare us your monogamy speech

TOM GUALTIERI - The Weeklings
Alan Grayson (Reuters/Larry Downing)

Grayson: GOP aides are fools!

Josh Eidelson
Sarah Palin (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

New birther insanity explodes

Brian Beutler
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Alex Seitz-Wald
Rand Paul, Michele Bachmann (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/AP/Stacy Bengs)

Tea Party vs. the Constitution

John D'Amico
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Tea Party aims at McConnell

Alex Seitz-Wald
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Jillian Rayfield
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Robert Reich - RobertReich.org