An article in the NY Times with the innocuous title “Lines Blur as Texas Gives Industries a Bonanza” brings up one of my pet peeves. The article is about how Texas gives out billions of dollars in tax breaks to entice companies to open factories in the state. Where does this money come from? Last […]
Republicans now say that they are willing to “compromise” by raising revenue in addition to cutting services, but they want to raise revenue by closing tax loopholes rather than raising tax rates. This is a hypocritical smokescreen rather than an honest proposal. Politico has an interesting article “Tax loopholes alone can’t solve fiscal cliff“, which […]
© Lee Judge Despite embarrassing themselves by jumping the gun attacking Obama over the Libyan Embassy attack, the Republicans don’t have any hard facts so they keep throwing innuendo around. This is beyond hypocrisy. Just a few months ago at the Republican convention, they were trying to rewrite history by saying that George W. Bush […]
Republicans are claiming that the reason why they were defeated in the election was because Obama and the Democrats gave out “extraordinary financial gifts” like free healthcare and green cards to Blacks, Hispanics, young people, and other members of their base and then mounted an aggressive turn-out-the-vote effort to get them to the polls. You […]
Florida’s Republican Secretary of State Rick Detzner cut the number of early voting days from 14 to 8, in a fairly blatant attempt to reduce turnout for Democrats. Former Republican governor Charlie Crist said “the only thing that makes any sense as to why this is happening and being done is voter suppression.” Even former […]
The conservative organization “True the Vote” was trying to place election observers at precincts in central Ohio, mainly “focusing on African American districts”. But the local election board discovered that they had forged the candidate signatures that are required to allow observers to gain access to polling stations. One election board member said he was […]
What I find ironic about all this is that even though Mitt Romney claims to be a good businessman, even businesses are waking up to the fact that they have to do something about climate change. Take the recent cover article from Bloomberg Businessweek, which quotes an insurance company warning that there has been “a […]
Well, either that or blackmail. Remember when gangsters would extort money from business owners in exchange for “protection”? I’m not sure that is so much different from what Mitt Romney gave today as his self-described “closing argument” as to why he should be elected president: He is saying that if you don’t elect me, then […]
He might just have reached the limit:
© Matt Wuerker Finally! A comic that voices something that I’ve been wondering about. I keep hearing Republicans ripping into Obama for not preventing the attack that killed the US Ambassador in Libya. Should they have had more security? Were there clear warning signs? Give me a friggin break! You have to be kidding me. […]
The big question on election day is whether you can buy any election with lots of money. If you can, then we’re doomed.
This billboard has suddenly appeared in black, Latino, and university areas in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Ohio: It is a blatant attempt to suppress the vote among groups that tend to vote Democratic. So you might be wondering who is behind the ads, which only say they are from a “private family foundation”. […]
© Clay Bennett Why would anyone believe that Republicans want to “save” Medicare? © Mike Luckovich I guess this is why. © Mike Thompson
Does anyone know where Mitt Romney actually stands on abortion and choice? It seems to change every day. Last week, Romney told an Iowa newspaper that abortion legislation would not be part of his agenda if elected. “There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.” […]
We now take a short break from moaning about the sorry state of US politics to see that things are just as interesting in the rest of the world. Here’s an interesting video of the Prime Minister of Australia opening a can of whoop-ass on the opposition leader on the floor of their parliament. What […]
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