Us on the left have been saying this all along and now the man in the spotlight of the “War Against Labor” has admitted it – eliminating collective bargaining does not save money! Like a dog going at a bone, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, didn’t stop until he got the answer he was looking […]
The House has just passed the Ryan budget plan: The House has passed a Republican budget blueprint proposing to fundamentally overhaul Medicare for future beneficiaries while combating out-of-control budget deficits. It would impose sharp spending cuts on social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid. The GOP proposal passed 235-193, with every Democrat voting […]
The blindness of the right is mindboggling at times. Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey has a post up entitled “Taxpayers to Obama: Keep your hands off our deductions”. Here’s what Ed says: In his speech on Wednesday, Barack Obama suggested that eliminating some tax deductions might be necessary to close the budget deficit, at […]
The Economic Policy Institute has released a chart showing the average overall tax rates in 1979, 1992 and 2007. The picture isn’t pretty. While the tax rate for you, me and the other 99% of this country has remained pretty much the same over the years, the tax rate for the top 1% has seen […]
Again, the IOKIYAR syndrome strikes: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has vowed to bring the Senate to a standstill unless congressional leaders agree to allocate $40,000 for a federal study on deepening the Port of Charleston. Graham says one out of five jobs in South Carolina stem from trade through Charleston’s busy port, and he warns […]
I wonder what this Tim Pawlenty exploratory committee person was trying to explore? A 15-year-old girl found a campaign worker from Alabama banging on her Ankeny family’s back door early Wednesday morning. Chloe Steward told KCCI she heard her dog barking around 3 a.m. and went to investigate. She said she found a man trying […]
Mother Jones: Send a public records request seeking documents from his 12-year stint as Arkansas governor, as Mother Jones did recently, and an eyebrow-raising reply will come back: The records are unavailable, and the computer hard drives that once contained them were erased and physically destroyed by the Huckabee administration as the governor prepared to […]
Rep. Scott Randolph (D-FL) is in trouble with Florida House Republicans for saying a new dirty word on the House floor: At one point Randolph suggested that his wife “incorporate her uterus” to stop Republicans from pushing measures that would restrict abortions. Republicans, after all, wouldn’t want to further regulate a Florida business. Apparently the […]
Want to know why Democrats keep having problems? Because on every single issue they play this game of “kick the can”. It’s the procrastination party!. Here’s the latest example: Democrats want to take the offensive and propose higher tax rates for millionaires, companies that move factories overseas and wealthy people who make charitable contributions. But […]
A new CNN poll shows the favorability rating of the Tea Party in decline: The approval rating for the 2-year-old movement fell to 32 percent in a CNN/Opinion Research corporation poll released Wednesday, the lowest it’s been since CNN first polled on the tea party in January 2010 That’s compared to a 46% approval for […]