February 2012
4 posts
“When the Occupy movement and the tea party agree on something, maybe the rest of...”
– Stop bothering the Fed, you peasant taxpayers! (via unspy)
How to Listen for Racism on the Campaign Trail →
Here are some things you could learn about black Americans from the recent statements and insinuations of Republican presidential candidates, Republican congressmen and Republican-friendly radio personalities:
Black people have lost the desire to perform a day’s work. Black people rely on food stamps provided to them by white taxpayers. Black people, including Barack and Michelle Obama,...
January 2012
15 posts
RNC Research: Corzine Missing Money “Vaporized” →
rncresearch:
More bad news for those who lost their money in MF Global’s bankruptcy just days before the House Financial Services Committee conducts another hearing.
It Is Unlikely The $1.2 Billion Missing From MF Global Customers Will Ever Be Recovered. “Nearly three months after MF Global Holdings Ltd….
Newt Gingrich's Poverty Code →
Larry Wilmore analyzes Newt Gingrich’s janitorial solution to America’s poverty problem.
and this is my problemo with the Newtster- he is really smart, so he thinks everything he comes up with is genius.
“I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the...”
– Boston Bruins all-world netminder Tim Thomas
“One of my proudest possessions is the flag that the SEAL Team took with them on...”
– Obama (via kateoplis)
“Hi, I’m Tom Bodette, and I’ll leave the light on for you.”
E-CON-OMY
Who is Sheldon Adelson and What Has Newt Promised...
robertreich:
Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino owner, is now the poster boy for what’s terribly wrong with our campaign-finance system. Adelson, you may recall, had, before the South Carolina Republican primary, donated $5 million to the pro-Gingrich Super Pac “Winning Our Future” – giving Newt a pile of money for negative advertising against Mitt Romney in South Carolina.
Adelson has done...
“People bear responsibility for the media they consume. Voters ultimately own the...”
– Conor Friedersdorf (via azspot)
and the same could be said of Al Franken, George Stephanopoulos, Carville and the majority of the mainstream media.
Only difference is that globally ”liberalism” has the upper hand.
What are Newt Gingrich’s big ideas? →
On Saturday’s edition of “Up With Chris Hayes,” Gary Johnson brought up an old Newt Gingrich idea I hadn’t heard before: Putting individuals who brought more than two ounces of marijuana into the United States to death. That sounded extreme, even for Gingrich. So I looked it up. And sure enough, there it is: “The Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996.” What makes the bill even more amazing is...
“In addition, the Energy Department granted loans to two small electric-vehicle...”
– The Wall Street Journal (via I did make three amazing boys with on fantastic wife, however.
rncresearch)
Don’t forget about the electric car scam “Coda” which directly takes American jobs and gives them to the Chinese, compliments of our dwindling tax dollars.
I guess I can be...
“The real joke is on the rest of us. After the biggest financial meltdown in 80...”
– Mike Lofgren (via azspot)
Which is why so many are adamant about Ron Paul. But the problem with Mr.Paul is that he has no solutions, and cannot seem to cheer-lead what is right about America.
Frankly IMO, Gingrich still has a big chance at this, not only is he cuddly, but he is retro, from the...
1 tag
The next time I interview for a job, I'm going to...
Interviewer: What interests you about our company?
Me: I hate it and think it should be dismantled.
Interviewer: What are your primary qualifications for the job?
Me: I would systematically destroy your company.
Interviewer: Why do you want to destroy our company?
Me: Your company has a successful and diverse market line and a global presence. But when it was incorporated, the founders had envisioned a little mom and pop operation. I think we need to return to their vision.
“In the wake of the Tea Party, the Occupy movement, and a dozen or more episodes...”
– Matt Taibbi (via azspot)
December 2011
4 posts
The Tea Party’s “utopian market populism”
Salon: You write that after Obama took office, “market populism was the only utopian scheme available to disgruntled Americans.” There was no liberal utopian scheme that said, “Here’s how we get out of this.”
Tom Frank: There wasn’t even a Rooseveltian scheme, which was not utopian but very practical. Just to talk about Roosevelt would have been fantastic. One of the research points in the book that I thought was really interesting … was the history of the bailouts in 1932 and 1933 — when the Hoover administration did a lot of bailouts. We don’t remember that. [These bailouts] were massively unpopular for the same reason they were unpopular this time around: really blatant cronyism. We don’t remember that a big part of Franklin Roosevelt’s campaign [in 1932] was to be against these bailouts. There were maybe five newspaper articles in 2008 that mentioned this pre-history of the bailouts. It just never came up.
Salon: It was like the party’s muscle memory of the New Deal was lost. With Obama the muscle memory of the Democratic Party is the Clintonian technocracy of the 1990s.
Tom Frank: That’s exactly right. Their message was: The technocratic way is going to solve our problems. Just leave it up to the experts who are going to figure a way out. [Obama and the Democrats] seemed to think they didn’t need to dirty their hands by making a populist appeal. They did a lot of good things — the stimulus package of 2008 was good thing — but they didn’t realize you have to sell something like that. They were like, “We know what the answer is: Keynesian stimulus. So let’s just do it.” They didn’t understand that this nation only adopted Keynesian stimulus spending back in the 1930s amidst this terrible wrenching experience, the Depression, and an enormous campaign [by FDR] to tell the nation why this was necessary.
If you don’t sell it — if you just do this spending — well, people have a lot of suspicion of government handouts. Government debt bothers people for very obvious reasons. [Obama] didn’t make any effort to make the argument. It was just “listen to the experts.” I have a quote from [Obama economic advisor] Christy Roemer where she says, “Things would be better if we listened to the experts.” And she’s one of the good guys, one of the best people in the Obama administration. That’s their view.
Obama for America: "Today, your voices made all... →
barackobama:
President Obama’s statement on this afternoon’s payroll tax cut agreement:
For the past several weeks, I’ve stated consistently that it was critical that Congress not go home without preventing a tax increase on 160 million working Americans. Today, I congratulate members of Congress for ending…
Nice. Seems a lot more non-partisan. Now about the indefinite containment of...
“Last week, virtually every Senate Republican voted against that tax cut. Now, I...”
– —President Obama, in a statement today urging Republicans in Congress to extend the payroll tax cut (via barackobama)
And as a non-partisan i need government to require big corporations to pay thier share, and not raise taxes in the worst financial crisis in history. Stop with the partisan...
November 2011
6 posts
“Are liberals really more discontented with Obama’s failure to reverse the Bush...”
– Conor Friedersdorf (via azspot)
“VP Biden’s own hometown newspaper, the News Journal, reported that Mr. Biden was...”
– washingtontimes.com
“You don’t deserve a home, that is for the government and the rich, just be...”
– Obama #TheRiseOfTheVirtualCitizen
October 2011
2 posts
Obama for America: Veterans and civilians →
barackobama:
Why Bryana can’t wait:
I am a college student at Humboldt State University (HSU), and I am married to a Navy veteran who is also attending HSU. We both dream of the day when we will be able to help others. We intend to be teachers, foster parents, and animal rescuers. There are so many…
I think it is lame that instead of real solutions or words of hope you draw the...
“In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via azspot)
June 2011
4 posts
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives....”
– G. K. Chesterton (via azspot)
May 2011
1 post
“The liberal class, despite becoming an object of widespread public scorn,...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
Classism no matter what flavor (liberal or conservative) is unsavory, equality is what true Americanism is built on.
April 2011
2 posts
“Worst of all, this is a vision that says even though America can’t afford to...”
– President Obama
Wow. Our president sounds like Senator Bernie Sanders.
(via pantslessprogressive)(via nefariousnewt)(via randomlancila)
It’s easy to talk. I need to see a little (a lot) more action before I believe again.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. (via...
March 2011
1 post
“You can’t simultaneously fire teachers…and tomahawk missiles.”
– Jon Stewart (via heroes-and-cons)
February 2011
2 posts
My sentiments exactly: libertarians: “Only 5... →
libertarians:
“Only 5 percent of families in the bottom fifth of the income distribution in 1975 were still there in 1991. More than three fourths of them had made their way up to the two highest income quintiles.
The poorest families made the largest gains. Those who started in the bottom…
this an important observation. (current stats would be nice)
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
3 posts
with a few exceptions
I voted almost purely for independents.
October 2010
4 posts
Walking away from church →
Throughout the 1990s and into the new century, the increasingly prominent association between religion and conservative politics provoked a backlash among moderates and progressives, many of whom had previously considered themselves religious. The fraction of Americans who agreed “strongly” that religious leaders should not try to influence government decisions nearly doubled from 22% in 1991 to...
September 2010
3 posts
"Ghastly Stalinist ideas" in Britain
sds:
Peter Hitchens:
Do you know, if you’re in the public services in Britain now, your contract of employment will contain a commitment to support two things called equality and diversity. Therefore, you’re actually officially obliged to support the political theory of egalitarianism. And diversity is just a polite name for political correctness. Everybody in the British public services –...