© David Horsey UPDATE: ProseBeforeHos weighs in on this cartoon and points out the hypocrisy of the Senate Republicans who filibustered unemployment benefits as fiscally unwise (cost: $34 billion) but all voted for extending Bush’s tax cuts (cost: $200 billion per year, or a grand total of $2.2 Trillion if extended the proposed ten years).
© Matt Davies Billions of dollars to bail out the banks, but nothing for the unemployed who lost their jobs because of the financial crisis brought on by the banks. What makes this doubly ironic is that the Republicans claim that extending unemployment benefits would only encourage people without jobs to avoid looking for work. […]
Yes, the Republicans do have a plan for reducing unemployment: © Ed Stein One of the things I really like about Ed Stein’s comics is that he has a blog where he comments on them. His comments on this one are better than anything I could add: I’ve been accused of blindly blaming the Republican […]
© Tom Toles Many pundits credit the economic collapse as the primary reason Obama and the Democrats swept the elections in 2008, and believe that our ongoing economic problems will definitely help spur Republicans to victory this November. Given the rather direct and obvious relationship between the economy and electoral results, you might think that […]
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© Stuart Carlson So the question is, by blocking the extension of unemployment benefits, which will almost certainly hurt the economic recovery when 1.2 million unemployed lose their benefits, will Republicans gain votes because a bad economy will reflect poorly on the Democrats? Or will voters get angry at the Republicans for killing benefits and […]
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Dick Cheney famously said “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” Cheney was presumably talking about the political implications of deficits, because Reagan won reelection even though he blew up the deficit more than all of his predecessors combined (while continuing to claim to be a fiscal conservative). But now, economist James Galbraith claims that deficits don’t […]
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John Cole has a revolutionary idea — let’s let the free market take care of things. His brilliant idea? Make the oil companies responsible for the total clean up cost of their oil spills. If they can’t pay, they go bankrupt. That might make them a bit more safety conscious. After the Exxon Valdez disaster, […]
© Tom Tomorrow Best summary of what happened with financial derivatives, EVAR!
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© Dan Wasserman If the Tea Party wants to protest socialism, they should start with all the corporate welfare handed out by our government. Like federal subsidies to agribusiness and defense contractors, and local tax breaks to big businesses for “creating jobs” (when it is small businesses that create jobs).
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© Tom Toles Billions and billions.
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© Drew Sheneman Thirty-three employees of the SEC have been punished for watching pornography online, including during the time when the economy was crashing. Of course, the Republicans were quick to use this to try to block financial reform, saying “This stunning report should make everyone question the wisdom of moving forward with plans to […]
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© Jack Ohman Best argument against Financial Reform yet!
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© Joel Pett The best politicians money can buy.
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