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And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.

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Robert Reich
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: June 24
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Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.
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