Patrick Ruffini writing at The Next Right: It could have been like any other of the hundreds of pieces I had seen in the last few months touting Joe’s latest exploits. Joe the Plumber — a one or two day campaign gimmick — has become a poster boy for conservatism. To say that the McCain […]
So it turns out that the big Republican stimulus package, rolled out by the House Republican leadership on the day of the stimulus vote, may have actually raised taxes. A staffer for the House Ways and Means committee email Greg Sargent this: In 2008, 4.2 million Americans had to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). […]
Here is what you get from a Bush run government: The FBI was aware for years of “pervasive and growing” fraud in the mortgage industry that eventually contributed to America’s financial meltdown, but did not take definitive action to stop it. “It is clear that we had good intelligence on the mortgage-fraud schemes, the corrupt […]
We are rapidly losing jobs. The economy is on the brink. This week has been no better, yet Republican leadership continues to play games with the stimulus bill. Here’s how the Democrats need to proceed on it. The stimulus package has strong public support, while the Republican leaders opposing it have some of the lowest […]
Paul Krugman does a hell of a job dissecting the Republican party’s failures and where it has left them. One part of his latest column that really sticks out is this: The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party […]
I got to take a minute and acknowledge someone who helped get my interest in politics some 20 years ago. Wayne Coates has won Hamilton County Recorder after the votes were recounted. When Wayne Coates got the news Monday that he’d won the election for Hamilton County recorder, he exclaimed a word not fit for […]
And he is in the form of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-mn). She wants to investigate Liberals for “hating America”. Seriously – this bitch is totally off the wall. If the Republicans are serious about bringing America back together then the Republican Leadership in the House should quickly distance themselves from Bachmann. The NRCC should also […]
Here is Bushed from last night’s Countdown. There is plenty of outrage to be had in this episode, but I think the most should come from the government’s “no-fly list”, which is supposed to be used to track potential terrorists, but it also contains the names of air marshals. You know – those people who […]
Howie has been doing some digging on Renzi. It looks like the House Republican leadership also wants him to get out of dodge. Question. If the House Republican leadership wanted all the crooks to resign, who would be left?
The House Republicans just stomped their feet and walked out of the House in protest to the FISA bill not being on the floor right now. UPDATE: The Republican leadership is speaking. They are trying to spin this as being the exact same law that is in effect now. No – there wasn’t telecom immunity […]