“It is disgraceful that President Obama’s campaign has launched his re-election with the stated goal to ‘kill’ his opponent with an onslaught of negative and personal attacks,” Romney said in a statement. From Romney Irked By Democrats’ Prepared Attacks No fair, he is fighting back! Googling “romney attacks obama” returns 57k hits. “obama attacks romney”… Continue reading Romney Irked By Democrats’ Prepared Attacks
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Putin says U.S. is parasite on global economy
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means “like a parasite” on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets. From Putin says U.S. is parasite on global economy | Reuters Putin is an awful proto-despot that is holding back both political… Continue reading Putin says U.S. is parasite on global economy
Medicaid Spending In New York State
If you have a program that delivers services, and the expense of providing the services seems disproportionate to the benefits, and if the reason the expense seems disproportionate is something that unionized public workers have gotten out of the political process, then it’s easy to get conservatives hopping mad about it. But if you have… Continue reading Medicaid Spending In New York State
Supercongress
Anyone else notice the idiocy of attacking the alleged problem of government being too big, too wasteful and too out of touch by creating a new layer of government that doesn’t answer directly to the people, would introduce a whole new arena of horse trading and doesn’t actually have any authority under the constitution to… Continue reading Supercongress
How to end GOP economic hostage taking
Obama should announce that there will be no new drilling permits issued until the house passes an energy bill that works to reduce US consumption of foreign oil. This could be done without congress and will have the oil companies put pressure on the house to pass some watered down bill. The president should then… Continue reading How to end GOP economic hostage taking
GOP101
The overall governing strategy for the GOP from the mid 1990s to today seems to be Create a problem via inaction, negligence or partisanship grandstanding. Blame the problem on the democratic party and liberalism in general Insist on solution that doesn’t actually address the problem, but does benefit the tiny minority of wealthy families and… Continue reading GOP101
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
House Republicans Psyche Themselves Up By Watching Ben Affleck Prepare To Beat Some Guys Up
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?
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
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