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Jim Newell covers politics and media for Salon.

Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Midterm campaigns’ silver lining: Simpson-Bowles gets toxic!

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(AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Salon)

Democratic blame game begins: Campaign staffers point finger at White House instead of their own flimsy strategies

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George Will (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

George Will, master troll: Why his new screed about dignity and the GOP cannot be serious

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Scott Brown (AP/Alex Brandon)

Scott Brown’s latest Obamacare fantasy: We can repeal the ACA but keep all the good ACA stuff, with magic

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John Boehner (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP’s Hispanic neglect: How Boehner can keep majority with no Latino support

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(AP/Susan Walsh)

Dem candidates’ awkward balancing act: Needing black voters while trashing first black president

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(AP/Molly Riley)

Ted Cruz’s surgeon general lunacy: How he’s resorted to embarrassing lies

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Rand Paul (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Rand Paul’s worthy goal: Why we shouldn’t laugh off his attempt to woo African-American voters

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(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

GOP calls for Ebola Czar, gets Ebola Czar, hates Ebola Czar

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Ron Klain (C-Span)

Obama names “Ebola czar,” immediately gets new attack from the right

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(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Wingnuts’ “incompetent” irony: Why they’re hollering nonsense at another bureaucrat

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott (AP/J Pat Carter)

Rick Scott’s “fan” disaster: Just the sort of trivial thing he deserves to lose over

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Scott Brown (AP/Alex Brandon)

Scott Brown’s very bad omen: What his dopey campaign says about Democrats’ prospects

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(AP/Susan Walsh/Chris Usher/Janet Van Ham/Photo montage by Salon)

Old men clamoring for war: Why pressure for ISIS escalation is rising

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David Perdue (AP/Phil Sears)

The right’s Georgia disaster: How outsourcer David Perdue could really blow it

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Neel Kashkari (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

GOP’s most desperate ad of 2014: Why this pathetic gem takes the prize!

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Chuck Todd (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Chuck Todd, the Disqualifier: When journalists borrow from the flack’s lexicon

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U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (Reuters/Samantha Sais)

John McCain’s new humiliation: Why his “Ebola Czar” idea is particularly ludicrous

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Rick Weiland (AP/Dave Eggen)

Democrats’ next big hero? Why you should back South Dakota’s Rick Weiland now

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Barack Obama (AP)

White House’s runoff quandary: How a longer election season could delay executive action on deportations

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

GOP’s scheme to frighten America: 4-point plan of Ebola, Secret Service, Border, ISIS

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Barack Obama (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Stop punting on immigration! There’ll never be a perfect time, so just get it done already

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Greg Orman and his wife Sybil (AP/Charlie Riedel)

Centrists’ clueless obsession: Why do so many want to cut Social Security?

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(AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Bobby Jindal’s foreign policy farce: Inside a dopey pre-presidential routine

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