One of the tools terrorists always try to employ is economic terrorism. Find ways to destroy an economy to help push their agenda. Now a U.S. Senator is pushing that very tactic here at home: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) called on government contractors to put employees on layoff notice before November’s election as […]
Mitt Romney still loves mandates and even universal health care. Here’s what he said on his Israel trip: “Do you realize what health care spending is as a percentage of the G.D.P. in Israel? Eight percent,” he said. “You spend eight percent of G.D.P. on health care. You’re a pretty healthy nation. We spend 18 […]
Steve Benen picked up on something interesting: Mitt Romney sat down with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, and made a curious observation. He said voters who want a strong economy should vote for him, but Americans “ought to give, whichever president is going to be elected, at least six months or a year to get those policies […]
What does the GOP have against lowering taxes and bringing jobs back to America? Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the No.1 item on the president’s congressional “to-do-list,” refusing to allow a vote on a bill that would give tax breaks for companies that “insource” jobs to the U.S. from overseas while eliminating tax deductions for […]
I was just reading something really interesting: Facebook users in Washington state will have something else to brag about to their online friends: that they registered to vote on Facebook. The secretary of state’s office said Tuesday it will have an application on its Facebook page that allows residents to register to vote and then […]
Last month a $50,000 per couple fundraiser was held in Hollywood for Barack Obama. The right went crazy, decrying him as an “elitist”. If $50,0000 per couple makes one an elitist, what does $75,000 per couple make one? An extremist elitist? Perhaps we should ask Mitt Romney, who is doing just that. At the evening […]
Last week news broke that Jonathan Krohn gave up conservatism at the ripe old age of 17. If you don’t know Krohn, he took the political world by storm in 2008, when at the age of 13 he addressed the CPAC conference talking about conservatism. The right jumped all over him and made him their […]
It turns out that Mitt Romney invested in a firm that disposes of aborted fetuses: Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed in a politically perilous controversy when the Huffington Post reported that in 1999 the GOP presidential candidate had been part of an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal […]
We hear stories all the time of GOP candidates using music without proper permission. Apparently they believe the IP laws they have pushed and enacted shouldn’t apply to them. Well now it goes beyond music. First off we have this perfect example of thievery from Wonkette: So, you know that painting by David Bugnon of […]
There has always been something about Republicans and their circling the wagons around the younger George Bush.But you would think that even the “fiscally conservative” members of America’s right would cut their loses when it comes to Bush’s economic performance. Instead they have constantly defended him and even attempted to rewrite history making the current […]