Tag: Republican Bamboozlement
On the Vast Unemployment of the US Government
So not only do we have a lack of basic economic fluency by Republicans, their New Day leadership hasn’t a clue about job creation — Michael Steele yesterday AM on ABC: STEELE: You’ve got to look at what’s going to create sustainable jobs. What this administration is talking about is making work. It is creating […]
On Boosting Congressional Financial Literacy
Steven Pearlstein, a business columnist for the Washington Post writes a scathing column asking for a Personal Financial Trainer for every Representative and Senator in Congress. Pearlstein isn’t concerned about overheated rhetoric — he is pointing out the real deficiencies in knowledge here, deficiencies (no matter the policy differences) are actually pretty scary. He finds […]
Talking Point Smackdown — Honeybees!
One of the resident wingnuts brought up a portion of the recovery package that is supposed to support honeybees — of course, you consider the source and presume that you are dealing with more manufactured outrage over something silly. Little did I know. Yesterday evening, I found out exactly what she was talking about (column […]
Meet the Clowns Getting Your Tax Dollars
No, this is not another bank post. This is about Derek Dye — Abstinence Clown. Mr. Dye apparently hauls his clown shoes all over Ohio to tell kids that pre-marital sex will destroy your dreams and that pre-marital sex is just like juggling machetes. I.Kid.You.Not. This guy is part of the failed abstinence-only program, which, […]
Different Day…
…same bullshit. Take a look: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpRK42W9st4[/youtube] If you could mask the time markers here, you’d swear you were listening to CNN this week. It is the same GOP script, with many of the same hacks, saying exactly the same things — and they were spectacularly wrong then. And the new hacks haven’t found anything new […]
Wingnut Talking Points Smackdown — The Recovery Program
This edition outsourced to Tommywonk. Read the whole thing, but here is an interesting bit: Left out of that argument is the question of how we got to the largest deficit in history. Hundreds of billions spent on a six year war in a foreign country have not provided much economic benefit here at home. […]
And the Media Gets Played By the GOP Again
Remember that recent CBO report that media types and Republicans have been breathlessly citing as an analysis as to why the stimulus package won’t work? Well, it turns out that no such report exists: Reports of a recent study by the Congressional Budget Office, showing that the vast majority of the money in the stimulus […]
BushCo Retrospective in Political Cartoons
Ben Sargent is a political cartoonist at the Austin American-Statesman, and his paper put together a select group of Sargent’s work over the past 8 years that is meant to be a summing up of what we’ve had to live through. And it is just about brilliant. Make sure you go see them, there are […]
Trillion Dollar War
or, how Republicans screwed the pooch on their war estimates: Click anywhere directly on the graphic above to see the entire, utterly brilliant thing (it is huge). It tracks how Rumsfeld’s original 60 billion estimate in 2003 escalated to its current estimate of 3 trillion complete.
Talking Point Smackdown — Omnibus Lands Bill
You may have heard that Harry Reid called the Senate to some business on Sunday to vote for cloture on S.22 — an omnibus public lands bill. Reid won this round — the vote was 60 – 12, with 17 repubs AWOL. Why AWOL? Well, it was a Sunday vote and everyone is pretty much […]
GOP Hypocrisy Watch — Mark Sanford
A month or so back, Gov. Mark Sanford (SC) was working on burnishing his party bones by sounding off on bailouts and fiscal stimulus: South Carolina’s Gov. Sanford is resisting the urge to propose or accept raising taxes. Faced with a shortfall, Gov. Sanford reconvened the state Legislature in October, and it made $488 million […]
Florida 2000 Redux
Here we go again. So just as the massive Minnesota Senate race recount starts the GOP sets up their patented smear campaign. The recount in the Minnesota Senate race hasn’t even begun yet, but already the GOP is working to delegitimize it in advance, by smearing the man who will run it as a partisan […]
The Sound of Wingnut Heads Exploding
Judge throws out PUMA challenge to Obama qualifications to be President. In a 34-page memorandum and opinion, the judge said Berg’s allegations of harm were “too vague and too attenuated” to confer standing on him or any other voters. Surrick ruled that Berg’s attempts to use certain laws to gain standing to pursue his claim […]
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