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The Republicans are looking to realign the party’s politics and image as the 2014 mid-term draws near. To call 2013 lackluster for the GOP would be a severe understatement. They have invoked one scandal after another in attempt to discredit the president. Each one has backfired, further damaging the Republicans’ image and credibility. They are preparing for a new year, hopeful, but 2014 doesn’t look like it will be any better. 1. The GOP is Riddled With Scandal and Crime The Republicans have wallowed in scandal and crime. The Bridgegate Scandal involving New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s top aide...

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. This week on Ring of Fire Radio: Senator Bernie Sanders will be here to tell us about his fight for a living wage for American workers. Lori Wallach from Public Citizen will give us the latest on the Trans Pacific Partnership. Best-selling author Cliff Schecter will discuss the CBS Benghazi scandal, and how it is the perfect example of the mainstream media’s incompetence. Rebekah Wilce from the Center for Media...

It doesn’t matter that nothing can get done in Congress because the word compromise remains an extinct part of the Republican vocabulary. Now Senators like Lindsey Graham (R-SC), are turning against everything they were elected to do just to get themselves re-elected.  In an interview on Fox News, Graham told the host, “I’m going to block every appointment in the United States Senate until the [Benghazi] survivors are being made available to the Congress.” Could Graham possibly believe that reopening these old wounds will make Congress work more efficiently? ThinkProgress reported that,“Graham is aligning himself with many of the...

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio: former Florida Governor Charlie Crist will tell us how the Republican Party became a movement of dangerous extremists. Media Matters Senior Fellow Ari Rabin-Havt will discuss his new book “The Benghazi Hoax.” Investigative journalist David Dayen will talk about the proposed fraud settlement between JP Morgan and the Department of Justice. Attorney Justin Martin will tell us how the poor are disproportionately affected...

By enacting the first government shutdown since the Clinton Administration, the GOP has seen fit to take a situation they saw as bad for themselves and make it worse. A running analogy among Americans and pollsters condemn Republicans as “spoiled children.” Several recent polls indicate that the Republicans are solely responsible for the government shutdown. A CNN/ORC poll that released yesterday showed that 46 percent would blame Republicans in Congress, whereas only 36 percent would blame Obama. Six out of 10 completely reject the Republicans tactic to trying to stop the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A poll released by...