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Blame Obama Please

Remember when Obama negotiated with the GOP over an extension of the Bush tax cuts and allowed the GOP to take the budget hostage? This phony debt ceiling crisis is directly related to that. If he let the tax cuts expire we wouldn’t be in this mess as the GOP would have been discouraged from… Continue reading Blame Obama Please

Maybe Someone Should Do Something

A major Bronx water supply line burst this morning just before 6:30 a.m., flooding Jerome Avenue for several blocks near 177th Street, halting traffic, disrupting subway and bus service, and damaging two nearby gas mains. The water flow was capped by 9:20 a.m., officials said. Speaking at a news conference, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said… Continue reading Maybe Someone Should Do Something

Conservative Origins of Obamacare

Romneycare, is a three-legged stool of regulation and subsidies: community rating requiring insurers to make the same policies available to everyone regardless of health status; an individual mandate, requiring everyone to purchase insurance, so that healthy people don’t opt out; and subsidies to keep insurance affordable for those with lower incomes. The original Heritage plan… Continue reading Conservative Origins of Obamacare

House Republicans Psyche Themselves Up By Watching Ben Affleck Prepare To Beat Some Guys Up

The actual line from the scene is “I need your help. I can’t tell you what it is. You can never ask me about it later. We’re gonna hurt some people.”

Is it nilhism yet?

Bill O’Reilly’s Christianism – And Breivik’s

it is obvious that Christians can commit murder, assault, etc. They do so every day. Because, as Christian orthodoxy tells us, we are all sinners. To say that no Christian can ever commit murder is a sophist’s piffle. Did Scott Roeder stop being a Christian when he assassinated a man repeatedly demonized by Bill O’Reilly,… Continue reading Bill O’Reilly’s Christianism – And Breivik’s

Two ways to call the GOP bluff

The Stop Socialist Redistribution act. A one page bill that simply states that no state can receive more in money from the Federal Government in the form of payments, credits and subsidies than it pays in taxes. Those surpluses would go to deficit reduction and the states would be on the hook to make up… Continue reading Two ways to call the GOP bluff

Beck: Youth Camp Attacked In Norway “Sounds A Little Like The Hitler Youth” | Media Matters for America

Union thugs found not guilty of assault on Tea Party hero

Apparently SEIU and Media Matters for America and George Soros and the Tides Foundation and Eric Boehlert and the city of Montclair, N.J., acting on orders from the White House, all used their wizard powers to convince a jury in St. Louis that Kennedy Gladney was not actually assaulted. And that is how the vast… Continue reading Union thugs found not guilty of assault on Tea Party hero

Debt and Forgetfulness

Between 1993 and 2001, federal debt held by the public fell from 49.2 percent of GDP to 32.5 percent of GDP. What stopped the paydown of debt wasn’t liberal big spending; it was demands from conservatives that the surplus be used to cut taxes. George Bush said that a surplus means that the government is… Continue reading Debt and Forgetfulness

The dangers of being wrong on Keynes

Keynes — and others who later elaborated on his work, like Hyman Minsky — taught us that although markets are usually self-correcting, they occasionally enter destructive feedback loops in which a shock to, say, the financial system scares business and consumers so badly that they hoard money, which worsens the damage to the system, which… Continue reading The dangers of being wrong on Keynes