March 2011
“I’ve been telling conservatives for about two years, this guy is bad for...”
– Joe Scarborough: Glenn Beck Is ‘Losing It Before Our Eyes’ (VIDEO)
The Conservative Movement is dead. Beck is just the court jester making his money off scaring the confused, used and abused aging white demo.
squashed:
I heard that the Wisconsin unions are greedy. I also heard that the greed of the rich is what makes capitalism function. Could somebody remind me how much you need to make a year before self-interest becomes a virtue instead of a vice?
To The GOP, The Poor Have Too Much And The Rich Not Enough.
February 2011
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"Anonymous" Open Letter To Koch Brothers
“Hello, Anonymous calling for the enemies of democracy. Are the Koch Brothers in?” This warms my Trotskyite heart: After posting the following “open letter” to Koch Industries, effectively putting them on notice and asking the American and European population to stop buying their products, the politically motivated hackers of “Anonymous” have already begun to make good on their threat,...
Seventeen Small Business Tax Cuts and Counting
Here’s the list of 17 small business tax cuts that President Obama has signed into law —
From the Recovery Act, HIRE Acts, and Affordable Care Act:
1. A New Small Business Health Care Tax Credit
2. A New Tax Credit for Hiring Unemployed Workers
3. Bonus Depreciation Tax Incentives to Support New Investment
4. 75% Exclusion of Small Business Capital Gains
5. Expansion of Limits...
“A unionized employee, a Tea Party member & a corporate CEO are sitting at a...”
– Dialogic (via azspot)
Pictures, 1000 Words, And Media Bias
New media’s role in Egypt was a little overrated – how much tweeting and facebooking was actually done when the dictator could just shut off the internet?
But could new media’s role in Wisconsin be underrated? From which news organization do you think I’m cribbing this most impressive shot most fully capturing the impact of the latest 70,000+ protest in the snow in Madison? ABC? CNN? FOX?
...
Sunday Morning Bias
Three Sunday Shows Fail To Include Democrats As Featured Guests
Last Sunday also tilted heavily toward GOP voices. This Sunday the trend continues. Three Sunday shows — Fox, CBS, and NBC — locked out Democratic voices as featured guests:
Fox News Sunday: Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN), former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR)
CBS Face the Nation: Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)
NBC Meet the...
"Job Killing": The GOP Has A Bo{eh}ner For It
The budget fight is frustrating in identical ways. The discussion has generally focused on what House Republicans want (their $61 billion in brutal spending cuts), why they want it (they allegedly want to address the fiscal mess they created during the Bush years), and what they’re prepared to do to get their way (shut down the government). But the discourse rarely gets around to that...
“Tripoli is a civil city no weapons here; we just fight with stones, even the...”
– an al Jazeera source, descibing the purest kind of tyranny now fighting for its life in Tripoli.
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Krugman: 2011 Wisconsin A Lot Like 2003 Baghdad
As many readers may recall, the results were spectacular — in a bad way. Instead of focusing on the urgent problems of a shattered economy and society, which would soon descend into a murderous civil war, those Bush appointees were obsessed with imposing a conservative ideological vision. Indeed, with looters still prowling the streets of Baghdad, L. Paul Bremer, the American viceroy,...
Fox News Chief, Roger Ailes, Urged Employee to Lie
It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation, had encouraged her to lie two years earlier to federal investigators who were vetting Bernard B. Kerik for the job of homeland security secretary. Ms....
“I was wrong on this. I also apologize for it…I’ve always told you to...”
– Glenn Beck, apologizing for comparing Reform Judaism to “radicalized Islam,” saying on his Thursday radio show that he had made “one of the worst analogies of all time.”
Beck said that his comments had been “ignorant.”
File this under: Same shit, different...
Massive List of Phrases That Shakespeare Created... →
thegoodmixer:
“As a Member of the Judiciary Committee, it is my intention to introduce...”
– Sen. Dianne Feinstein: House Dems To Push Legislative End To DOMA (via corruptpolitics)
Complete side note: This creates real jobs in America, too. Marriages and marriage planning are big business. Travel and lodging will also benefit.
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“In fact,” the complaint said, “a senior executive in the News Corporation...”
– Records Say Fox News Chief Told Employee to Lie - NYTimes (via brooklynmutt)
Fox News Narrative lives up to their name.
Watch
“In case you haven’t noticed, the state of Wisconsin has been making some noise of late. Yet somehow, a week-long fight over collective bargaining rights for union workers has morphed into a politically polarizing smack down between opposing voices with the landscape of American media.”
If you listen to the Right Wing, they’d have you believe these Unions are out to...
Obama Administration Will No Longer Defend Defense...
President Obama has instructed the Justice Department to no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, the legal prohibition on federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement that the department will stop defending the policy because it has now been challenged in the Second Circuit, “which has no established...
“The director of MassHealth — the state-run Medicaid plan that insures...”
– The Washington Monthly
Something to keep an eye on.
“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller...”
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via bringtheruckuss)
Power To The People
It’s not just Wisconsin:
“Protestors packed into Ohio’s State Capitol building and several thousand more gathered outside on Tuesday, as its legislature planned new hearings on a bill that would effectively end collective bargaining for state workers and dramatically reduce its power for local workers, like police officers and firefighters.”
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Tripoli Is A War Zone
By all accounts, the streets of Tripoli are a war zone: “Libya appeared to slip further into chaos on Tuesday, as Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi vowed to ‘fight until the last drop of my blood’ and clashes intensified between rebels and his loyalists in the capital, Tripoli. Opposition forces claimed to have consolidated their hold over a string of cities across nearly half of...
“So they wanna cut everything from family care to prenatal care to child...”
– JON STEWART, on the GOP’s wholesale attack on women, women’s health programs, reproductive rights and, again, women, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
Obama 2012 Victory
thesmithian:
‘He’s going to have a clear ride through to the Democratic nomination, because no one is going to oppose him or challenge him. He’s going to start out with a billion dollars, no opponent, so he can save his money to the last four months. He’s got a huge social network and he has the power of the incumbency. People underestimate how sweet it is flying on Air Force One with all...
Why is Fox News covering the Middle Eastern...
If it does not fit the pre-existing Fox narrative, it is not news, it is Fox opinion. Their viewers can’t tell the difference.
"What The GOP Said To Me"
pantslessprogressive:
ilyagerner:
Three months ago, I remember being told that Americans making $250,000 a year were just salt of the earth types, barely scraping by in lower-middle-class existence. The value of the dollar must have skyrocketed in the meantime, because now I’m told Wisconsin teachers (starting salary: $25,222; average: $46,390) are lazy, overpaid parasites.
Ah yes, like...
“…[W]hat’s happening in Wisconsin isn’t about the state budget, despite Mr....”
– Wisconsin Power Play (via ryking)
WatchGlenn Beck trying to figure out who the shadowy puppet master is, from his show on Fox, owned by Right Wing billionaire Rupert Murdoch, is just too funny.
Speaking about Beck, [George] Soros told [CNN’s Fareed] Zakaria, “I would be amused if people saw the joke in it,” adding that he thinks Beck is “projecting” the views of Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News, and...
“House Republicans are making brutal spending cuts to domestic and foreign...”
– Steve Benen
FACT: the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office delivered a revised estimate on what repealing the Affordable Care Act would do to the federal budget: the federal budget deficit would go up $210 billion in the first decade, and roughly $813 billion in the second decade.
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Beck v Google
“Who are they? Are they right? Are they left? Are they clean? Are they dirty? Are they front groups? I don’t know. May I recommend if you’re doing your own homework, don’t do a Google search. It seems to me that Google is pretty deeply in bed with the government.
“Remember, maybe this is explaining why Google is being kicked out of all the other countries. Are...
The Childish "Pro-Family" GOP Rhetoric
Michelle Obama has said breast-feeding helps combat childhood obesity, and has pointed to the fact that breast pumps and related supplies are tax-deductible as designated medical supplies.
Tucker Carlson on Hannity:
“Why would you want to raise your own kids when Michelle Obama will do it for you? In fact, she will do it at gunpoint.”
Michele Bachmann:
“I mean, you want...
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The Pitiful Republican Field
“The Republicans have two candidates in Ms. Palin and Mr. Gingrich whose net favorability ratings are actually in the double-digit negatives, something which since 2000 had only been true of Pat Buchanan and Al Sharpton.” - Nate Silver
via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Obama 2012.
“Meanwhile, the group has failed to file a timely tax return indicating how much...”
– Tea Party Patriots Investigated: The Tax-Dodging Moneyman | Mother Jones (via tinfoilandtea)
“Some question whether donations to the organization, Tea Party Patriots, have gone to advance the movement, or just the careers and jet-setting lifestyles of its leaders.”
The man managing...
