The Financial Times lays out what has been talked about for months and months, with Pres. Obama set to deliver a speech on deficit reduction on Monday. It begins with the way the U.S. government measures inflation, which would deliver “a less generous chained-consumer price index,” to quote FT. This decision alone would devastate elderly [...]
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Bachmann Draws Blood on Perry, Romney Stays Steady
It was a brawl. A beautifully ugly Republican battle. The Tea Party audience loved Rick Perry. …right up until he made the case for “illegal immigrant” children to get in-state tuition. “I didn’t mind the vaccine, social security is a ponzi scheme, but the illegal immigration issue is killing Perry.” – Ann Coulter The boos [...]
Don’t Worry, Jon, Rick ‘Ponzi’ Perry Will Not Be Our Next President
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Even a mention of Abraham Lincoln, “a Republican president who mobilized government to build the transcontinental railroad,” brought no applause from the GOP side. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) yawned. One Republican backbencher, Jeff Landry of Louisiana, [...]
Rick Perry’s Thug Politics
**UPDATED** Pictures sometimes don’t require a script. Things reportedly got testy during a commercial break, when Rick Perry confronted Ron Paul. I don’t know about Ron Paul, though I’m certain his supporters will go nuclear over this one, but when a man puts his hands on another man, pointing a finger in his face for [...]
Romney Scores Big: 21st Century Man v. 20th Century Tough Guy
“The issue in the book ‘Fed Up,’ governor, is you say that by any measure, Social Security is a failure,” Romney said. “Our nominee has to be someone who isn’t committed to abolishing Social Security, but who is committed to saving Social Security … I will make sure that we keep the program and we [...]
Team Obama Yearns to Recapture 2008 ‘Spirit’
He is frustrated — particularly at Republicans on Capitol Hill, but also at some of his own aides, according to people who have spoken to him recently — that he has been unable to rise above the morass of Washington and recapture the spirit that helped him win election. – Jeff Zeleny Pres. Obama’s “job [...]
Progressive Notes: Must See Save SS Vid, Shea Porter on Government, Nurses Storm Congressional Offices, and Other Doings
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Strengthen Social Security, the umbrella organization devoted to protecting SS, Medicare and Medicaid, has launched a fantastic easy to understand video explaining what Obama is proposing and how it will directly impact you and your family. I urge you to email this video to everyone you [...]
Obama: ‘Give me my little 10 percent’
Maureen Dowd uses the quote that explains why Democrats now find themselves on Republican turf: In Cannon Falls, Minn., the president compared negotiating with House Republicans to negotiating with his wife. “In my house,” Obama noted, “if I said, ‘You know, Michelle, honey, we got to cut back, so we’re going to have you stop [...]
Romney Gets Into it in Iowa
“If you don’t like my answer, you can go vote for someone else,” he said. “If you want someone who will raise taxes, you can vote for Barack Obama.” – Romney gets in heated exchange with hecklers at Iowa State Fair The exchange came on the same day as what’s being billed as a big [...]
Republicans Plummet in Popularity After Debt Ceiling Debacle
This isn’t easy to do: have a lower approval than Republicans during Pres. Bill Clinton’s impeachment. So, the Tea Party, who gained in 2010, through Obama and Democrats caving on the Bush tax cut extensions last December, but also through the White House’s cut-cut-cut 2011 austerity budget, then the debt ceiling negotiations, have finally brought [...]
A Friendly Rebuttal to David Sirota (from the ultimate outsider – a former Clintonite)
David Sirota has taken up the multi-dimensional chess argument for Obama, though in a different way than his loyalists and fan boys. David begins by excusing the results we’ve had so far as simply being that he isn’t a liberal. Well, that’s an understatement, but then he says Obama is a “bizarro FDR.” Sirota is [...]
What Would Teddy Think Today?
Depends on which Edward M. Kennedy you’d ask. Teddy Kennedy of 1978, who stood up to challenge Jimmy Carter no matter the cost, he might have one opinion of Barack Obama’s presidency. I remember that Kennedy, while I stood in gas lines in New York City and watched how helpless America looked during the Iranian [...]
Pelosi: Give me a ‘Satan Sandwich’ with ‘Satan Fries on the Side’
BREAKING… HOUSE PASSES ‘SATAN SANDWICH’ It was 1978 and Jimmy Carter was on his way down, down, down, and Donna Summers, disco and Reaganomics was on the way in and up. So, if in the 21st century we’re going to revisit Republican economics of the ’80s, we might as will bring back disco too. Democratic [...]
NBC Analysis: Democrats in ‘Retreat’
NBC’s “First Read” has a devastatingly blunt headline on the Democrats this morning: “in retreat.” But Democrats contend they will win the “longer-term war.” But when you take a step back from the hour-by-hour movements in this debate, it’s obvious how much ground the White House and Democrats have conceded. First, they retreated on their [...]
Clueless in Washington
The poll showed support for Obama’s economic agenda has begun to slip in the past nine months. The percentage of people who said Obama has made the economy worse jumped six points since October to 37 percent. That creates a bigger opening for Republican attacks as the presidential campaign begins to heat up. The latest [...]
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