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Total Flop

Friday, August 25, 2017

This has to be the flip-flop of the year. Is Donald Trump really going to hold the federal budget hostage just because he is a terrible negotiator?

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Much Ado About Nothing

Friday, October 2, 2015

The Republican threat to shut down the government unless the budget took away all funding for Planned Parenthood was even weirder and stupider than you can imagine. And even more amazingly, this news was pointed out by Republican Congressman Tom Cole, and even weirder, it was done on Fox News. So what’s the news? There […]

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All In The Family

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

© Barry Deutsch I’ve often commented about the idiocy of comparing the federal budget to a typical family budget. But I had to post this comic because of the last panel. Indeed, some politicians are proposing exactly that — to steal our elders’ Social Security insurance money. Who would ever suggest such a thing?

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The Race to the Bottom

Friday, April 6, 2012

Kevin Siers Why are the Republicans still pushing “trickle down” economics? And why are people letting them get away with it?

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Biggest Turkeys Survive Another Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 24, 2011

©Keith Tucker Bruce Mirken of the Greenlining Institute applauds Committee members who refused to accept a bad deal: Ordinary Americans should breathe a sigh of relief because we dodged a bullet,” said Greenlining Institute General Counsel Samuel S. Kang. “The committee was looking at cuts to vital programs for the elderly and other vulnerable Americans […]

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The Not-So-Fine Art of Backpedaling

Friday, August 5, 2011

Who says you can’t have it both ways? After spending the last few months insisting that we drastically cut all social programs (like Medicare, Social Security, etc.), the Republicans have figured out that voters might not like that very much. So I guess it is no surprise that now that the debt ceiling deal is […]

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A Trap of Their Own Making

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

If you think the Republican budget proposal written by Paul Ryan was bad — gutting Medicare and giving tax breaks to the rich — consider that it could have been worse. The Republican Study Committee (RSC) wrote an alternative budget that was Ryan on steroids, all but destroying the social contract and giving even larger […]

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“It’s a good deal, but some poor people remain oddly unfucked”

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Want a quick update on the budget wars? Or just surprised that the government didn’t shut down after all? Jon Stewart explains it for you:

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Budget Cut Tsunami

Friday, March 11, 2011

Buried in the budget cuts the Republicans are demanding is a 28% cut to the National Weather Service, including the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Inconveniently for the GOP, nature seems to be drawing attention to what these cuts may actually mean. In addition to saving lives when something like today’s Japanese tsunami occurs, accurate weather […]

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