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Just in via email: Today, People For the American Way will deliver 178,000 petitions to House Speaker John Boehner urging him to remove Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann from the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 113th Congress. Bachmann earned rebukes from Boehner, John McCain and others last year when she launched a smear campaign against Hillary Clinton aide Huma …

People For The American Way has launched a petition demanding that John Boehner remove crackpot conspiracy nutjob Rep. Michelle Bachmann from the House Intelligence Committee.

How entirely shocking that Breitbart and Daily Caller totally got it wrong! Even more amusingly, there were two votes for ousted teabagger Allen West, one of which came from freakazoid wingnut Rep. Louie Gohmert.

“This is why the American people hate Congress.”

Posted with glee by Breitbart. Infighting!

The Republican House secretly raised their budget to defend DOMA by $500,000 according to September documents just revealed. House Administration Chairman Dan Lungren, R-Calif., signed off in September on a $500,000 increase in the maximum value of the contract with the firm, Washington-based Bancroft. Republicans have raised the cap of the contract twice: first on Sept. 29, 2011, from its …

After the GOP purged some its most hard-right members from key congressional committees, Tea Party sites are backing a campaign to depose House Speaker John Boehner. American Majority Action (AMA) is launching a #FireBoehner campaign. If 16 members of the Republican Party abstain from voting for Boehner as speaker in January, he will be one vote shy of the 218 …

More from ACT UP New York: “As the US Congress and President begin negotiating on the so-called fiscal cliff, ACT UP/NY ACT UP/Philadelphia, Housing Works and Student Global AIDS Campaign plan to give Congress a pre-World AIDS Day Message that AIDS Budget Cuts Kill.” UPDATE: Mediaite has a few more photos.