September 2011
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“When viewers in the UK attempt to watch videos of the protest, they are met with...”
– Paul Watson on YouTube’s new partnership with the UK government over protest videos • The British government is hoping the removal of certain protest images from the popular video sharing website will prevent copycat demonstrations from forming in the future. The British government isn’t the only...
Did the Baby Boomers Break Government?
CNN: “Could it be that the reason our government is broken is because of which generation is running things?” “Authors Morley Winograd and Michael Hais think so, insisting that the problem is that power is now firmly in the hands of self-righteous baby boomers who have spent their entire lives convinced that anyone who disagrees with them is morally inferior. Boomers...
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“Look, dear GOP: Mitt Romney will be your nominee and, truly, there is nothing...”
– The Rude Pundit (via therealsamuraifrog)
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Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed
American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the public face of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has been killed in Yemen, CNN reports. “The U.S. regards al-Awlaki, who was believed to be hiding in Yemen, as the biggest threat to its homeland security. Western intelligence officials believe al-Awlaki is a senior leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the most...
Republicans Falsely Claim Obama Seeks Biggest Tax...
When Republicans call Obama’s plan the biggest tax increase in history, they’re using a “current policy baseline.” In other words, they assume today’s tax rates are fixed, and complain that Obama’s plan would raise revenue thereupon by quite a bit — $1.57 trillion over 10 years. By this measure, as a percentage of GDP, Obama’s “tax hike” is smaller than Reagan’s 1982 Tax Equity and Fiscal...
Real History vs GOP Fantasy
It’s a record Republicans find terribly inconvenient, but “no peacetime president has raised taxes so much on so many people” as Reagan.
Reagan was The Great Taxer.
GOP Regulatory Myth Busted
“An examination of current economic trends, and especially what employers are doing in terms of hiring and investment, debunks this story [which conservatives tell] about regulatory uncertainty as the cause of our dismal job growth.” - Lawrence Michel of the Economic Policy Institute
Another Republican talking point DEAD.
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“Buffett’s sin is that he spoke a truth that conservatives want to keep covered...”
– Why [right-wingers] hate Warren Buffett (via ryking)
A Call To End Disastrous Mandatory Sentencing
“The American Bar Association, the Judicial Conference of the United States and every major organization focusing on criminal justice opposes mandatory minimum sentences. The federal and state governments should get rid of them — and the injustices they produce.” - NYT Editors
The rise in mandatory minimum sentences has damaged the integrity of the justice system, reduced...
Anita Perry: Texans Are Hungry For Lowest Paying...
Anita Perry, the wife of presidential contender and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), took to the campaign trail in Iowa today.
While parroting her husband’s jobs claims, she also conceded that not all the jobs Texas has created during her husband’s tenure are high-paying jobs — in fact, Texas has the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs in the country. But Perry says that’s the sort of job...
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“The American dream cannot survive if we keep telling the dreamers to go...”
– Mayor Bloomberg Delivers Keynote Address at Immigration and American Competitiveness Conference Sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Partnership for a New American Economy
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Watch“There is no such thing as a self-made person” - E. J. Dionne
We all benefit from our complex society. Don’t let the rich try to dismantle aspects they know helps the masses, and that requires them to fairly pay back into society, now that they used and gained their wealth from it.
Governing The Republican Made Crisis
“… the country will probably be wrung through several more near-shutdowns as the 2012 budget process stumbles along, all prompted by conservatives in the House who will use any choke point to achieve their obsessive goal of shrinking government.
Republicans should think of the broad American public, rather than catering to the extreme elements of their base, the next time ...
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Economists Say Obama Plan Would Prevent Recession
A Bloomberg survey of economists concludes President Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan “would help avoid a return to recession by maintaining growth and pushing down the unemployment rate next year.”
The last thing Republicans want is for Obama to be able to take credit for improving the lives of American voters so close to an election. They would rather see more people...
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WatchLimbaugh: Obama “Talks Honky Around White People”
Is he serious? If Obama talks without inflection and passion, he talks “honky”? Rush is such a complete lowlife and his dullard “dittoheads” eat it up.
I really like when Rush spews about hearing someone say “they even talk about chickens coming home to roost” in his Jeremiah Wright comparison to...
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Third Party "Centrists" Already Exist
“Calling for a third party is a quick and easy way to get yourself booked for a round of cable TV appearances. But many of those calling for a third party are refusing to reckon with an inconvenient fact: One of the two parties already occupies the approximate ideological space that these commentators themselves are describing…. That party is known as the ‘Democratic...
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“You know what, Republican base?… Have you ever considered the possibility that...”
– Jon Stewart
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(via stfuconservatives)
“From the moment I took office what we’ve seen is a constant ideological pushback...”
– President Barack Obama (via azspot)
Blue State Math Gives Edge to Obama
Gerald Seib: “Amid those dark political clouds overhead right now, President Barack Obama can console himself with this silver lining: The electoral map remains stacked in favor of him and his Democrats.” “Specifically, there are 18 states plus the District of Columbia that have voted Democratic in all five presidential elections since 1992. Combined, they carry 242...
That Wind Is The Republican Party
“We don’t have the wind at our backs this election. We have the wind in our face because the American people have the wind in their faces. This is going to be a titanic struggle.” — Obama strategist David Axelrod, quoted by the Boston Globe.
One could say if they change course, took a more progressive stance, they could fly with the winds at their backs again.
“I don’t see anything in the Constitution that supports you.”
– –Laurence Silberman, a Reagan-appointed senior judge on the D.C. circuit court of appeals, speaking to an attorney for plaintiffs seeking to overturn Obama’s health reform law on grounds that it oversteps federal powers under the Commerce Clause.
Rick Perry's Sarah Palin Problem
Dave Weigel explains why Rick Perry failed so miserably in this weekend’s Florida straw poll:
Walking through the walls of the Orange County Convention Center, you hear these words and phrases over and over again.
Perry. Immigration. Illegals. Tuition. Illegals. He didn’t do as well as he could have. Why?
Almost every conversation I walked into was on the question of why Rick...
New Alabama Program: Go To Church Or Go To Jail
This week, the Alabama town of Bay Minette will implement a bizarre and unconstitutional way of keeping minor offenders in check — go to church or go to jail: Operation Restore Our Community or “ROC”…begins next week.
The city judge will either let misdemenor [sic] offenders work off their sentences in jail and pay a fine or go to church every Sunday for a year. If...
Republicans Echo 1964
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater, Republican candidate, in 1964
Frank Rich: “Whether Perry snares the big prize or not, he could prove a shock to the system tantamount to Barry Goldwater in 1964 — and just as misestimated now...
Obama In Campaign Mode
“Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It’s true. You’ve got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don’t have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they’re gay.” — President Obama, quoted at a Sunday night fundraiser, ...
“Whether you can win or not in a fight that’s worth fighting, get caught trying.”
– Bill Clinton
Perry's Demise: Rational Immigration Policy
With a single phrase implying his opponents are heartless, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas plumbed a profound divide between his views on illegal immigration and those of many grass-roots conservatives, who up to now have been the core of his support for the Republican nomination.
Mr. Perry summoned the phrase in a debate on Thursday night to justify a Texas law that lets some children of illegal...
Women Will Vote in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah said that “women in the conservative Islamic kingdom will have the right to join the advisory Shura Council as full members and participate in future municipal elections,” Reuters reports.
However, women are still barred from traveling, working, or having medical operations without the permission of a male relative, and cannot drive.
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“Republicans claim to be deeply worried by budget deficits. Indeed, Mr. Ryan has...”
– Paul Krugman (via blissandzen)
“Sure, we cherry pick evidence, we spin world events, and we impose our worldview...”
– Kevin Drum (via blissandzen)
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