IT’S BECOMING clear that since President Obama gave in once on extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest that McConnell and Boehner think he will again. The Hill reports: “We’re insisting on keeping tax rates where they are, first and foremost, to protect jobs and because we don’t think government needs the money in [...]
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Is Grover Over?
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive “I think we ought to take the 98 percent deal right now,” [Republican Rep. Tom Cole] said of freezing income tax rates for all but the top 2 percent of earners. “It doesn’t mean I agree with raising the top 2. [...]
AFSCME, the National Education Association, and SEIU Target Democrats in “Jobs Not Cuts” Ads
THERE’S A campaign not so quietly growing in volume, with Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh the loudest, that has Republicans having a hissy fit over Obama’s proposed tax increases for the wealthiest. Rush is using the Santa Claus line, a take off on O’Reilly’s people want stuff belch, but both are focused on making people [...]
AARP Survey: No Last-Minute Lame Duck Deals on Social Security and Medicare
THE AARP November survey delivers facts that few who study the subject would find surprising. The respondents included 34% Democrats, 33% Republicans, 24% Independents, 7% none of the above, along with some obstinate stragglers. Here’s a snippet: Survey Findings No Last-Minute Deals on Medicare and Social Security: The majority of 50+ adults (70%), across [...]
Top Story — Obama’s 2011 Grand Bargain Detailed in Documents Obtained by Bob Woodward
“He is, in his gut, a fiscal conservative. There is a Blue Dog Streak in him.” – David Plouffe in The Price of Politics, by Bob Woodward IF YOU haven’t read Bob Woodward’s latest book, The Price of Politics, you may not appreciate the documents below fully. We’re about to see Obama’s “excessive pragmatism,” as [...]
Ronald Reagan: “Social Security has Nothing to do with the Deficit” [Video]
FOR ALL those people who worship at the feet of Ronald Reagan. As grand bargain fever whips up, keeping Social Security out of the mix should be a priority, something Senator Bernie Sanders and others have been preaching for a long time. The numbers are on the side of Democrats and progressives. From Democracy Corp: [...]
Top Story: Obama’s Winnings and the Unreasonable Liberal
“If you want to pull the party, the major party that is closest to the way you’re thinking to what you’re thinking, you must, you must show them that you’re capable of not voting for them. If you don’t show them you’re capable of not voting for them they don’t have to listen to you, [...]
Paul Ryan Sees Himself as the Next Dick Cheney, While Trying to Avoid the Sarah Palin Curse
DELUSIONS OF Darth Vader dance in Paul Ryan’s head. The New York Times tells quite a different story from the recent AP item that dripped of desperation of what to do after a Mitt Romney loss. That is why some of Ryan’s biggest boosters are considering whether it wouldn’t be better for Ryan to resign [...]
Obama’s Grand Bargain is Not a “Betrayal,” It’s What He Believes In
“It is safe to say many groups are very concerned that a grand bargain will be foisted on the Congress that goes against what Democratic candidates promised on the campaign trail,” said Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future. “And it is clear the president is considering making the grand bargain that he [...]
Tommy Thompson’s Son: Send Obama Back “to Chicago or Kenya!” [Video]
IT MAKES you root for Tammy Baldwin all the more. From Daniel Brice: Jason Thompson, the son of former Gov. Tommy Thompson, was caught on video Sunday suggesting at a Republican event that voters this fall could send President Barack Obama back “to Kenya.” “We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago [...]
After Shaky Start, Joe Biden Owns Debate
**Updated** A CBS News/GFK poll of 500 uncommitted voters gives Biden 50% edge to Ryan’s 31% [CBS News] AT THE start Vice President Joe Biden was shaky, smiling nervously, which was distracting. Once the stimulus conversation was engaged he became grounded and took charge of the time and the issues. Paul Ryan seemed to have [...]
Top Story: It’s Up to Joe
“Let’s just take a look at Paul Ryan’s convention speech. It was packed full of lies…” – Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for Barack Obama [The Rachel Maddow Show] JOE BIDEN knows how to deliver a one-liner. Remember way back what he said about Rudy Giuliani? A little flash back with the video above. Everyone [...]
Mitt Can’t Fire Big Bird Even If He Wants To [Videos]
“I’m sorry Jim. I’m gonna stop the subsidy to PBS. I’m gonna stop other things. I like PBS, I like Big Bird, I actually like you too.” – Mitt Romney THE PLANS Mitt Romney aggressively put forth last night are meeting with strong fact-checking headwinds. As I stated after the debate, the chutzpah it took [...]
Top Story: Romney’s Best Debate Hope, Gear Up the Old Etch-a-Sketch
TAKING A PAGE from the playbook on his late move on young immigrant visas, Mitt Romney needs to unload his wingnuttery and embrace his alter ego, Governor Mitt from Massachusetts, then offer a mea culpa for falling off the right-wing cliff. Don’t worry about Barack Obama in the debate. The troubles Romney has are real [...]
Plan for Entitlement Cuts Continues on Course
THE WRITING has been on the Democratic wall since President Obama created his own austerity commission known as Simpson-Bowles. It’s true that Republicans might do worse, but then at least Democrats could blame them for cutting a massively popular program like Social Security, instead of doing it themselves and destroying the Democratic brand forever. From [...]
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