Much of our current stalemate in Congress is due to the anti-tax pledge created by Grover Norquist, who believes that even closing crazy tax loopholes for large corporations is a tax increase. © August Pollak
Civil war is breaking out between the more moderate, responsible Republicans and the “Tea Party” Republicans over the debt ceiling debate. Today, John McCain stood up on the Senate floor and accused conservatives of “deceiving” (i.e., lying) to their constituents and called their position “bizarro”. Even worse, House Republicans today called for the firing of […]
On his show, Bill O’Reilly takes strong exception to calling Anders Behring-Breivik, the man who has admitted to mass murder in Norway, a Christian (even though Breivik calls himself a Christian). According to O’Reilly “Breivik is not a Christian. That’s impossible. No one beliving in Jesus commits mass murder.” I just have one thing to […]
I didn’t think the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations could get any more bizarre. The Democrats now are to the right of the Republicans, but they must have missed each other in passing because they still can’t agree. Unbelievable.
“An audio recording from five years ago has been released of Michele Bachmann predicting the end of the world. Her exact words were, ‘I’m going to run for president in 2012.’” – Conan O’Brien “It was so hot presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was fanning herself with pornography. So hot Charlie Sheen was snorting actual snow.” […]
© Lee Judge I guess the only freedom that matters to some people is the freedom to consume. UPDATE: And no, the government did not ban incandescent light bulbs.
Two articles give potential solutions to some of our political problems. Both attempt to limit, or at least modify, the power of our currently gridlocked political parties. In the New York Times is an article “Make Way for the Radical Center” that talks about a new startup called “Americans Elect” that is attempting to use […]
© Ruben Bolling I think Bush Sr. had it right when he called it “Voodoo Economics”. But he too fell sway to the dark side.
I get annoyed any time some pundit trots out the statistic that the corporate tax rate in the US is higher than most countries. The actual tax rate is not very meaningful when there are plenty of ways to shelter corporate income from taxes. Indeed, the US has one of the lowest effective tax rates […]
© Mike Stanfill Deficits Don’t Matter? Shouldn’t Republicans recuse themselves from the deficit negotiations? After all, they created most of the problem in the first place, and stand to gain from making things worse.
© Tom Tomorrow According to Tom Tomorrow, a reader of his says that this cartoon was reported as “offensive content” and blocked on Facebook.
“We are having in this country, America, supposedly a first world nation, an argument about whether we should pay our bills. And the Republicans – the conservative party – says no. Paying bills is for squares, man. That whole ‘money’ thing is a trap. Their economic plan is like, we’re hitchhiking to a Phish concert, […]
Speaking of things that aren’t Obama’s fault, Texas governor Rick Perry (who is making noises about running for president) criticized President Obama for canceling the Space Shuttle Program (which will cost jobs at the Johnson Space Center in Houston). There’s just one problem — it was Bush who cancelled the Space Shuttle. In fact, Obama […]
[Reposted from Truthout, written by Greg Palast] Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” gave debtors’ prison a bad rap. Too bad. I’d say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea. Let’s talk about how we ended up in this pickle, bucking up against the “debt […]
Rupert Murdoch humbly throws his employees under the bus, but still remains defiant, clueless, and sleepy:
