"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 8th, 2010
Economist’s View: “John Boehner’s Stale ‘Two-Step Job Creation Plan”. 1. Restore spending to 2008 levels 2. Extend Bush era tax cut forevah! As noted: So on the one hand, a measure that will make a small dent in the deficit. On the other hand, a measure that will lead to a huge increase in the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 4th, 2010
They’re Not Embarrassed | Video Cafe. Rachel Maddow points out that the GOP is in strident, table pounding opposition to themselves on cap and trade, the health insurance individual mandate, aid to small businesses, a deficit commission and disclosure of corporate campaign donations. The really astounding part is they seem to get a pass on [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 29th, 2010
The Bush Deficit Bamboozle – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com. OK, even by contemporary standards, this is rich: the official Republican stance is now apparently that Bush left behind a budget that was in pretty good shape. Mitch McConnell: The last year of the Bush administration, the deficit as a percentage of gross domestic product [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 4th, 2010
I don’t agree with GOP party chair Michael Steele’s assertion about Afghanistan being Obama’s war, I do agree that it is a war of choice. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that it’s an unwinable war. We have very little to gain and much to lose in Afghanistan. Three prominent Republican lawmakers on Sunday questioned whether Michael [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 11th, 2010
Not so much: via Junior Florida Republican Party staffer had $1.3 million charged to party credit card – St. Petersburg Times. And: Florida House leaders lived big on GOP plastic – St Petersburg Times. This simply a way for GOP donors to bribe public officials. It’s unlikely that the law will change to knock our [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 13th, 2010
Jon Stewart skewers the GOP line that the invitation to discuss HCR with the President is a trap. It’s only a trap if the discussion reveals you have nothing to say. There’s a 2nd bit included by John Oliver where he highlights the contradiction between the GOP meeting in Hawaii and the working 40 year [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 5th, 2010
Someone in the GOP finally stood up against Dick Cheney. Well sort of, we are talking about Ron Paul. He was never really part of the GOP establishment. Ron Paul, the Texas congressman and upstart 2008 presidential candidate, told CNN’s Larry King Monday night Cheney is in no place to criticize Obama’s handling of the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 15th, 2009
Liz Cheney as the GOP future: A big step up from Palin, at least | Crooks and Liars. I was rather wondering when the speculation would begin. I’ve seen her on many news shows defending dear old Dad’s policies, but is she ready? Hmmm a one time political appointee is the next rising star of [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 28th, 2009
via Specter’s switch underscores the GOP’s weakness | McClatchy. Love the Frank Luntz quote here: With Specter’s defection, it’s all but lost the ability to filibuster legislation in the Senate — it will lose it if Democrat Al Franken is seated from Minnesota, as expected — and with it the power to command attention or [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 4th, 2009
Media Matters – Stewart on Steele’s criticism of Limbaugh: “Incendiary and ugly? How dare Michael Steele listen to the words that come out of Rush Limbaugh’s mouth”. Stewart nails the dysfunction that is the modern day GOP: There’s not a whole lot of steel in Steele’s spine. Limbaugh makes threatening noises and Steele folds like [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 3rd, 2009
Joe the Plumber advises GOP-ers – Alex Isenstadt – Politico.com. Fresh off his stint as a war correspondent in Gaza, Joe the Plumber is now doing political strategy with Republicans. When GOP congressional aides gather Tuesday morning for a meeting of the Conservative Working Group, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher – more commonly known as Joe the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 2nd, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist – Herbert Hoover Lives – NYTimes.com. Frank Rich on the financial crisis, the stimulus bill and the “patriots” in the GOP: The crisis is at least as grave as the one that confronted us — and, for a time, united us — after 9/11. Which is why the antics among Republicans on Capitol [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 31st, 2009
House Republicans “delighted” and “elated” and “celebrating” over their zero votes to save the economy. It’s about the economy stupid. The GOP has no interest in the good of the nation or the economy. They need to be punished for this at the ballot box (again). The only economists that agree that tax cuts are [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 29th, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist – Putting Torture Behind Us – NYTimes.com. Kristoff seems to suffer from the common illusion that Republicans want to work together for the good of the country and putting them in charge of investigating Bush Administration abuse of detainees and blatant law breaking will somehow win them over. They only want one thing: [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 29th, 2009
Liberal critics were right to point out that “bipartisanship” is empty rhetoric. The stimulus bill passed with ZERO Republican votes. The 33% of the $819 billion earmarked for tax cuts is simply one of the least effective means of economic stimulus. Cutting family planning funding was a complete waste of time and won nothing in [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 28th, 2009
Matthew Yglesias » Question to Ponder. Will the press let conservatives get away with simultaneously claiming that we can’t afford large new temporary deficit spending but can afford large new permanent tax cuts? Actually, there’s scarcely any need to ponder. Just prepare yourself to be upset. Yes, Matt the GOP most certainly will try to [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 28th, 2009
What’s that you say? The GOP doesn’t debate policy matters in good faith and place partisanship and ideology above the good of the nation? Oh noes! Say it ain’t so Paul: Paul Krugman – Bad Faith Economics – NYTimes.com. As the debate over President Obama’s economic stimulus plan gets under way, one thing is certain: [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 13th, 2008
Tim F. at Balloon Juice goes off on the significance of the Baghdad embassy debacle as reported in the Washington Post and general GOP mismanagement. Balloon Juice One would expect Republicans to take it worse than anybody that managers of the embassy project handed the project to a firm that never did embassy work before, [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 13th, 2008
dnA riffs on Jonah Goldberg, but I find a more important point in the tail end of the commentary regarding the media’s lack of scrutiny of GOP candidate’s inexperience: I Wonder Who Jonah Goldberg’s Favorite Candidate Is? – The Carpetbagger Report I also feel obliged to note that while Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 11th, 2008
GOP rivals back tax, spending cuts in SC – Yahoo! News I don’t watch the debates, I don’t have a high enough threshold for nausea. Between the inane stupidity from the moderators and the genuinely stoopid answer, I just can’t take it. In the latest dolt-fest that passes for a GOP debate, all candidates promised [...]
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