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 […]
Yesterday the right-wing blogosphere erupted with posts of the greatest scandal of the 21st century: Last Thursday evening at Montclair State University, with a video camera rolling, Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had written the acclaimed Barack Obama memoir, Dreams from My Father. Unprompted, Ayers also noted that while Dreams deserves its praise, […]
Erick Erickson on CNN: here is not in any way, shape, or form any rational explanation for the United States engaged in Libya to do nothing except for one I can think of — Barack Obama’s re-election. … Suddenly Obama can look Presidential again — all through manufacturing the need for American involvement where there […]
The two top contenders for the 2012 GOP Presidential nod are facing increased hostility in the GOP electorate a new poll from PPP finds. Here’s some of the interesting numbers: 20% find that Romney’s Mormon religion is a problem. 30% Believe that Newt’s three divorces are a disqualifier. 61% won’t vote for Romney because of […]
There has been a lot of talk that President Obama might be open to some sort of deal to cut Social Security benefits. Well that is a very bad idea: President Barack Obama’s apparent willingness to consider cuts in Social Security benefits may be winning him points with Washington elites, but it’s killing him with […]
This guy has absolutely no morals at all: Speaker John Boehner will host a cocktail party for the Republican National Committee at the same time that President Barack Obama will be addressing the nation at the memorial service for victims of the Tucson shooting. The Ohio Republican is holding a 7 p.m. cocktail reception Wednesday […]
Can’t say I’m surprised by this: A federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday that the individual mandate contained in the health care law passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama this year is unconstitutional. The judge found in favor of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who brought this suit separately from the other […]
Remember when the right thought Stephen Colbert was the real deal? They believed he was really a right wing comedian/commentator and couldn’t seem to understand that his whole routine is making fun of the right. Well those righties haven’t become any smarter since then: Fox News’ opinion website Fox Nation and their readers don’t seem […]
Not a big shock, but disappointing none the less: President Barack Obama’s top adviser suggested to The Huffington Post late Wednesday that the administration is ready to accept an across-the-board, temporary continuation of steep Bush-era tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest taxpayers. That appears to be the only way, said David Axelrod, that middle-class […]