To prove this is a meme of the Republican Party just take a look at this blog post by Robert Stacy McCain (wingnut extraordinaire!): Let me explain something to you, David Axelrod: Obama and the Democrats didn’t “cut taxes” in a way that will stimulate economic growth. They didn’t reduce or eliminate the capital gains […]
It looks like the Texas House is not all too happy with Rick Perry and his talking of leaving the union, so they gave Perry his own secession – the removal of his office from the state budget: House members virtually wiped out Gov. Rick Perry’s office budget Friday in order to help veterans and […]
Their is still furor on the right over that DHS report. I particularly like this line: Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, said Wednesday he was offended that veterans were characterized as potential domestic terrorists Yeah – how could we assume military veterans would become domestic terrorist! Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, […]
Steve Schmidt, a former top advisor for the McCain Campaign, is going to urge the GOP to get behind gay marriage: “I’m confident American public opinion will continue to move on the question toward majority support, and sooner or later the Republican Party will catch up to it,” Schmidt plans to say according to excerpts […]
I think back to a time so long ago, when states were upset over the federal government using their national guard troops for a war in a foreign land. In a time when a small town in California didn’t want military recruiters there, so that town would quickly be labeled as some sort of traitor. […]
Rasmussen has put together another one of their idiotic polls. This one they ask if you think the U.N. is an ally of the United States: Just 27% of U.S. voters regard the United Nations as an ally of the United States, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Seventeen percent (17%) say […]
It’s funny that even with the entire Blago debacle going on in Illinois and Republicans trying to paint Democrats in the state as the epitome of corruption, the people still want Democrats to lead them: Democratic Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley claimed victory tonight in the 5th District race to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress. […]
Meghan McCain’s latest piece exemplifies the problems of the GOP that I have been talking about for years: It is no secret that the Republican Party, for all its faults, consistently displays party unity. But Democratic leaders seem more concerned with their own personal agendas than supporting President Obama and the future of their party. […]
Something we aren’t used to seeing; oversight of an administration, being conducted by the administration’s own party: A congressional oversight committee opened an investigation yesterday into whether the Obama administration is circumventing a law that limits lavish pay for executives at firms benefiting from the $700 billion federal bailout. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of […]