Yesterday John Boehner tried to claim that President Obama “doesn’t give a damn about the middle class“. Now let’s look at who really doesn’t “give a damn”. First, get ready. You are going to see your grocery bill go up even more. The cause is something that no party can control, the weather: Corn prices […]
The heartthrob of the Tea Party has a fix for America! Michele Bachmann thinks America blew it by extending a safety net to millions of Americans under President Johnson’s “Great Society.” Her solution? Model the economy after communist China. “The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state,” she […]
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 […]
Last week the Republican’s in the House voted to save the billions a year in tax subsidies to the oil industry, yet providing assistance to the low-income for their heating bills is on the chopping block. This week the House AG committee decided to keep the farm subsidies, which total close to $20 billion a […]
That’s what Ben Nelson and Susan Collins apparently think. Greg Sargent has obtained a memo of the latest round of changes to the stimulus package being proposed by these two: Total Reductions: $80 billion Eliminations: Head Start, Education for the Disadvantaged, School improvement, Child Nutrition, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Prisons, COPS Hiring, Violence […]
When they are let off their leash, some Republicans can’t help but show their inner racism: The spokeswoman for the Republican Party in Nevada’s most populous county was removed from her post Saturday, after she said the Democratic Party made black people “dependent on the government.” Didi Lima, the Clark County GOP communications director, also […]