Top Bush aide to GOP: ‘It’s time to panic’ | TheHill
“The time for whispered criticisms and quiet snickering is over,” Gerson writes. “The time for panic and decision is upon us. It is no longer possible to safely ignore the […]
Thrashing around in a rage, Trump unleashes a new volley of threats – The Washington Post
Are you tired of all the winning yet? Trump is exhibiting the traits of “dictatorial leaders throughout history and in illiberal societies throughout the world.” “He is showing clear signs of […]
Why Trump is really angry: Mueller is following the money
this will set the stage for a major federal RICO case against Trump and the gop as well, with evidence ultimately showing and proving that both took foreign money in […]
Trumpcare Has Lowered Health Insurance Costs Already!!
All I can say to this is Oh My god!!! If this is the level of intelligence of the voters there is no hope for this country. a woman in […]
Being “better than” is not sufficient
Being “better than” is not sufficient A Kaiser Health News article titled “Preexisting Conditions And Continuous Coverage: Key Elements Of GOP Bill” lays out the pitfalls that the Trumpcare snake oil […]
“Perverted” Sex with Russian prostitutes, kickbacks, bribes and other Trump follies revealed
we’re all doomed. Seriously. You can’t control, let alone govern a society in which the very idea of norms or standards is non-existent. In a way, it is the triumph […]
North Carolina’s Democracy Ranked On Par With Cuba | The Huffington Post
“it adds up to a deep atrophy of democracy that is no longer worth its name,” Reynolds said. “We claim to be the greatest democracy in the world, but if […]
GOP congresswoman gets surprise on Facebook after asking constituents for Obamacare horror stories
just a small sample of the hundreds or even thousands of comments left on her Facebook page. It is damn clear that her constituents are loving the Affordable Care Act. […]
Washington Monthly | The Right’s War on Unions Will Finish Us Off
The Republicans never have been a friend to miners, and they’re only perceived that way right now because the entire industry is collapsing and the gop says that they can […]
Democrats, Don’t Repeat Obama’s Biggest Mistake | New Republic
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters last week.: “Once you say that everybody should be covered, can’t be denied coverage because they are sick—which most Americans would agree with that—you […]
KING: How Trump is leading transformation to turn GOP into KKK – NY Daily News
This isn’t what might happen if we’re not careful. It’s a done deal. They aren’t sneaky about any of this. It’s happening right in front of our faces. Conservatives like […]
The 2016 election had some bright spots for progressives, too, and that’s where our future starts
In Nevada, Catherine Cortez-Masto will become the first Latina to serve in the Senate, and in Illinois Tammy Duckworth will become the first Thai-American senator. In California, Kamala Harris is […]
Donald Trump may be acting crazy, but it’s keeping the news away from the one story he wants to bury
Donald Trump has frequently expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin, viewing him as a “strong” leader who Trump “admires.” Trump has also given wildly differing statements on his personal relationship with Putin. Trump […]
The President-elect faces court date in fraud case | MSNBC
Trump faces significant open litigation tied to his businesses: angry members at his Jupiter, Fla. golf course say they were cheated out of refunds on their dues and a former […]
The GOP screwed themselves: The brilliant gerrymander that gave Republicans the Congress — and created Donald Trump – Salon.com
In 2012, Democratic candidates for Congress received more votes than Republican candidates. For the first time in 40 years, the party that received the most votes failed to take control of […]
The poorly educated made a poorly-informed decision
On the heels of his Nevada caucus victory on Feb. 24, 2016, Donald Trump famously said “I love the poorly educated.” As it turns out, he had very good reason to, […]
Rand Paul for president:?
Why the libertarian candidate doesn’t stand a chance in today’s GOP
The party of Jefferson Davis, not of Lincoln
one of America’s most fundamental problems is that the alliance between the current form of Southern labor and the current form of New York finance is with us still. The Southernization of the Republican Party and the increasing domination of Wall Street’s over the nation’s economic life have combined to erode both the income and the power of U.S. workers. Unions are anathema to Wall Street and the GOP.
Arthur Laffer – supply-side plans for GOP
Laffer’s theories are so far detached from mainstream economics that “there is no point of contact,” said Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist … “This is not a wing of professional economic thought, … This is not at all the same kind of enterprise as what even conservative economics professors do.”
Republicans love Laffer, Krugman said, not because his message is simple but because it conforms perfectly to a preexisting limit-the-government worldview: “The point is, he’s telling them what they want to hear.”via
Arthur Laffer has a never-ending supply of supply-side plans for GOP – The Washington Post.
A major party gone mad?
There was never any evidence to support strong supply-side claims about the marvels of tax cuts and the horrors of tax increases; even freshwater macroeconomists, despite their willingness to believe foolish things, never went down that road.
Since the 1970s there have been four big changes in the effective tax rate on the top 1 percent: the Reagan cut, the Clinton hike, the Bush cut, and the Obama hike. they predicted dire effects from the Clinton hike; instead we had a boom that eclipsed Reagan’s.
GOP A-hole charged with domestic violence
Former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party, Todd Kincannon arrested for criminal domestic violence. You might remember his thoughts on ebola. (He wanted ebola victims executed.) Or his thoughts on transgender people. (He thought they should be put in “camps.”) Or his strangely racist and homophobic and drunken tweets during the superbowl. (WARNING: a lot of triggers) Something is very wrong and angry and mean deep down inside of Mr. Kincannon.
Lawmaker Discloses She Was Raped
I dare any one of you to judge me,” she added. “I dare you to walk in my shoes.”
Fedor’s disclosure is just the latest personal admission from a female lawmaker who has determined she cannot remain silent about her own experience while her colleagues debate issues of reproductive rights on the floor.
Earlier this month, Arizona State Rep. Victoria Steele (D) made a similar speech during a legislative debate over a measure that would make it harder for women to get insurance coverage for abortion services.
“This is health care.
Ted Cruz Isn’t an Idiot
Extracts from Ted Cruz Isn’t an Idiot — He’s Delusional and That’s Far More Dangerous By Sophia A. McClennen / AlterNet April 1, 2015
for those who think like Cruz, there is virtually no amount of data, reality checks or facts that can persuade the deluded citizen to give up their false ideas. This is the mindset of the Tea Party, the Koch brothers, and many on the far right. Nyhan and Reifler refer to this as “motivated reasoning.” What they find is that people who are attached to falsehoods perceive any correcting information as partisan and flawed. So conservatives don’t perceive science as information.
Reagan Adviser to GOP
“I think he probably would be booed out of the crowd,” Bruce Bartlett
Reagan adviser to GOP – ‘They are really rather stupid and not very well read’
Last week at CPAC potential Republican candidates were invoking President Ronald Reagan ad-nauseam….
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Worst Voter Suppression Bill In The Nation
“if it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that wants the government to give them everything, so be it.” “the law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt.”
Don Yelton was a precinct chair in the Buncombe County, North Carolina
NY Daily News Denounces GOP Senate as "Traitors
The NY Daily News is a reactionary paper, owned by a neo-conservative, which endorsed George W. Bush and Mitt Romney.
“… 47 Republican U.S. senators engaged in treachery by sending a letter to the mullahs aimed at cutting the legs out from under America’s commander-in-chief. … We strenuously condemn their betrayal of the U.S. constitutional system …
The Republican Plan To Sabotage Food Stamps
“It’s not a sincere attempt to give power to the states. It’s a smokescreen to find … way to protect tax breaks for the rich,” … the mechanism GOP lawmakers used to effect … cuts in early 2014 relied on taking program control away from state officials.
“They’re for more Washington control when it takes money away from poor people, and they’re for more state control when it takes money away from poor people. That’s the only …
This is not about politics
This is not about politics. If there were a Republican President doing the same thing, I would feel just as strongly.
Bleeding Heart Liberal Fox News
June 27 2014
Note that this was FOX NEWS, that bleeding heart liberal news network!
Fox Host Yells At Michele Bachmann For Trying To Sue Obama: ‘You’re Being Silly’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPNr4oZ9_gM
thinkprogress.org
Neil Cavuto calls the GOP’s latest tactic “an enormous waste of effort.”
According to the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, President Obama ranks second from the bottom to every other president after World War II. At 168, Obama has issued two more executive orders than George H.W.
the devil is in the details
From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/republican-jobs-bills_n_1687647.html.
Economists say Republican Jobs Bills won’t Actually Create Jobs. They are narrowly targeted and are really special interest driven. Jobs are a second or third-order effect, not the main priority of the bills in the package.
At the heart of the GOP jobs package is a push for rolling back regulations … gutting environmental laws that regulate clean air and water … (ie.