The near-religious focus of Electeds on the “middle class” generally isn’t challenged by those in that “class.” Actually, more often than not, it’s cheered. The people who fall below, millions of whom fall way below, even the “lower middle class” level generally get little attention, and when they do, it’s fairly often of the “blame” [...]
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Goldman Sachs Bailout King Blankfein to Powwow with House Republicans, While Obama Rules Out Social Security For Now
GOLDMAN SACHS bailout king CEO Lloyd Blankfein is headed to Capitol Hill to push his ideas for the fiscal cliff scheme in person. The guy who advised that the Social Security “retirement age has to be changed” in an interview with Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes recently, is headed to a meeting with House Republicans [...]
Sean Hannity Hacktacular: Played 2011 ‘Scabs!’ and ‘Scumbags!’ Audio, Called it Post-Sandy Outrage
THE DISGRACE of Sean Hannity, where he inevitably illustrates his spectacular hacktackery yet again, is something I never get tired of reporting. Unfortunately for Tucker Carlson, he let his partisan blinders get caught up in Hannity’s wide web of deceit. UPDATE: The Daily Caller has learned that the audio Sean Hannity played during his Friday, [...]
Top Story: Scandal Erupts as Candy Crowley Reveals She Might Go Rogue [Agreement Leaked]
**Updated** MAKE SURE you tip toe around our elite establishment candidates, Ms. Crowley. They’ve agreed to certain rules, as has “the commission,” so you don’t want to go rogue and actually follow up on their canned answers, because Mr. Cool and Mr. Ice might get thrown off their game. If this doesn’t perfectly encapsulate our [...]
Hours Before Big Debate, Obama Slams Romney’s “Extreme Makeover” [Video]
OBAMA GOES partisan and it sounds great. From TPM: “He’s trying to go through an extreme makeover. After running for more than a year in which he called himself severely conservative, Mitt Romney’s trying to convince you that he was severely kidding. Look. What he was selling was not working. Because people understood his ideas [...]
Keep Tellin’ It, Joe, What You Said About the Middle Class is True
“This is deadly earnest,” Biden said. “How they can justify — how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that’s been buried the last four years. How in the lord’s name can they justify raising their taxes with these tax cuts?” [Fox News] THE FINANCIAL collapse started under George W. Bush and was [...]
Mitt Romney Should Challenge Obama on the Payroll Tax Cut that Tim Geithner Wants on Chopping Block
Independent analysts say that the expiration of the tax cut could shave as much as a percentage point off economic output in 2013, and cost the economy as many as one million jobs. That is because the typical American family had $1,000 in additional income from the lower tax. [New York Times] YOU HAVE TO [...]
Somebody Explain to Obama and Romney What Middle Class Means
PBS DOES the grunt work in “What is the American Middle Class?” As you’ll see from their report, one of the reasons there is little to be excited about right now is that both Obama and Romney are talking about a middle class they’re not even defining correctly. There is no strict definition of the [...]
Voters Believe Romney Would Favor Rich Over Middle Class
“We had a bad week — if the election were going to be held tomorrow that would be a problem, but there’s a lot of ground to cover in the next 42 days…” – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie THE NUMBERS just keep coming in and they continue to add up against Mitt Romney. The [...]
Romney: “Middle Income” is $200,000 – $250,000
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News IN AN INTERVIEW with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, Mitt Romney argued that “middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less.” This was in response to Stephanopoulos citing $100,000 as the cut off, [...]
News Desk: Chicago Sun-Times Reports Registered Voters Backing Teachers
Just under half of Chicago’s registered voters support the Chicago Public Teachers strike in a 500 person poll taken Monday, and nearly three-quarters of those polled say Mayor Rahm Emanuel is doing an average, below average or poor job in handing the labor dispute. – Poll: 47% of Chicago registered voters support teachers in strike [...]
Day Two of Chicago Teachers Union Strike
THE ANSWER to the question asked during the strike’s first day on Monday was answered in Wisconsin by Democrats who fielded an anti-union candidate in Tom Barrett. It was seconded during President Obama’s first term when he put no weight behind EFCA. But it shouldn’t be discounted the support in the jobs act for police [...]
Ann Romney’s Complaining in Interviews Reveals Team Romney Ineptitude
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Anyone else find it odd that Mitt’s pollster put out a state-of-the race memo this morning that was almost entirely devoid of polling data?” – David Axelrod ANN ROMNEY DESERVED better. But after what happened with Sarah Palin, who made plenty of mistakes [...]
Top Story: Democrats Prepare to Celebrate in Anti Union North Carolina
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Labor has no place to go.” – Chris Hayes WHAT WOULD Democrats be without labor? Where would they be? What would the American middle class look like without unions? Before we met, my own husband was in a situation for many years in [...]
Bill Clinton, Shadow Candidate in the 2012 Election
In his stump speeches, Obama frequently credits Clinton-era policies for the strong economy in the ’90s, arguing the country fared well under Clinton because he “understood what it takes for this economy.” “Nobody has a better grasp and understanding of the issues than this man,” Obama said at a June fundraiser in New York. – [...]
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