In 2003 Congress passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which later became known as Medicare Part D. Remember that? A lot of wonks point to it as a critical piece of legislation that helped Bush win his re-election in 2004. Of course the law didn’t go into effect until 2006 and for […]
How many gay and lesbian couples have had to take pledges to not commit adultery in their marriages? I don’t know of any, but I do know of one Republican Presidential front runner who has.
This story at the New York Times has me ready to kick kittens: The share of income received by the top 1 percent — that potent symbol of inequality — dropped to 17 percent in 2009 from 23 percent in 2007, according to federal tax data. Within the group, average income fell to $957,000 in […]
Gallup has a new poll out showing Americans fear big government more than anything else. Here’s the results: Needless to say this poll is making its rounds on the right, but I would like to see a further breakdown of this poll, asking what fears. It’s no secret that many people don’t know what laws […]
Ever wonder why we call them “right wing nut jobs”? It’s because they are nuts! They are little conspiracy theory, Dale Gribble, paranoid nuts! The latest chapter into the mind of these tinfoil hat wearing lunatics comes from John Hinderaker of Powerline: BAMA ADMINISTRATION COORDINATING WITH LEFT-WING GROUPS ON VOTER FRAUD? I wrote yesterday about […]
You got to give it to Media Matters. These guys can catch anything. Today it was this chart on Fox News: Notice something there? It’s funny how on a graph 8.6% is somehow higher than 8.8%. I know. I deal with charts and numbers all the time being a computer guy. I make charting software […]
Newt Gingrich’s tax plan does give almost everyone a tax break, but some more than others. Can you guess which ones? People earning more than $1 million a year would receive an average tax cut of $613,689 in 2015, compared with what they pay now. That change would boost their after-tax income by 28.7 percent […]
Everyone in politics is guilty of spin and the American people are tired of it. It becomes even more painstaking when the spin involves unemployment, which affects the very livelihood of many Americans. Today on Fox News, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz did just that type of spinning that I, like so many others, is […]
A new CBS poll asks who the blame should fall on for the economy and the numbers are very interesting (PDF): Has President Obama Made Real Progress Fixing the Economy? Total Rep. Dem. Ind. Yes 28% 9% 52% 23% No 68% 89% 42% 72% That question right there is rather loaded. I’m not sure […]
Quick quiz. Who said the following: If you’re against him [Obama] but you’re for this guy [Gingrich], it must be about race Certainly you are thinking it must be some crazy leftist making this assertion. Of course thinking that would make you wrong. That quote is from none other than Glenn Beck, the very man […]