David Frum has a very lengthy piece in the New York Magazine in which he asks “When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?”. One part that really stuck out at me was this: It was not so long ago that Texas governor Bush denounced attempts to cut the earned-income tax credit as “balancing the […]
There has been a lot of talk over a new poll that shows Americans would pick Ronald Reagan to fix the economy over FDR. The poll is really interesting: Ronald Reagan beat out Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the former president Americans would like to see in the White House during these trying economic times, a […]
A new report by the Congressional Budgeting Office finds the following: CBO finds that, between 1979 and 2007, income grew by: 275 percent for the top 1 percent of households, 65 percent for the next 19 percent, Just under 40 percent for the next 60 percent, and 18 percent for the bottom 20 percent. Actually […]
Republicans have been lobbing that “class warfare” meme at President Obama ever since he said that the wealthiest should pay their fair share in taxes. It’s pretty funny, considering the idol of the GOP, one Ronald Reagan, also thought the same way. We’re going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the […]
When you have one of the best known conservative writers on economics go after the standard GOP talking points that we need more tax cuts for the rich, you know that the right is in trouble. On Bill O’Reilly, Ben Stein did just that: Dave Edwards offers this awesome outtake from this confrontation: O’Reilly went […]
For two years we have heard Republicans complain that the stimulus didn’t spark any projects in Ohio. Even John Boehner repeated this claim over and over again. So then why this legislation? A measure banning signs that tout federal stimulus spending along Ohio’s roadways cleared the Republican-led Ohio Senate and is expected to pass the […]
Time for some more intrigue out of our nation’s capital: A man who fought to get the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built and served in two Bush administrations was murdered, Delaware police say. John P. Wheeler III, 66, was found dead in a Delaware landfill, and his death has been ruled a homicide by Newark, Del., […]
I love it. Every time some new big outrage rips through the nation, politicians take to the airwaves to whip it out and see who has the biggest. Take Mike Huckabee for example: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says execution is the appropriate punishment for the leaker who provided thousands of State Department documents to […]
The craziness of Tea Party hero Joe Miller has taken to new heights this week when he was giving his solution for securing our borders: Most of what he said, he’s said before. I’ll try to post more on this later. But the comment that caught my attention most was one he made was in […]
MSNBC’s First Read has a really good round-up of what last night means for the Republicans: How do we make sense of Christine O’Donnell stunning Mike Castle in Delaware, Carl Paladino crushing Rick Lazio in New York’s GOP gubernatorial primary, and Kelly Ayotte and Ovide Lamontagne still running neck-and-neck in New Hampshire’s Senate GOP contest? […]