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Club for Growth, Debt Ceiling, Gop, Joe Wilson, John Boehner, Koch Brothers, National Debt, Politics, Republicans, Scott Walker, Sharron Angle, Tea Party, Union-Busting, Unions
In 2011, Big Insurance, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Corporatocracy, Eric Cantor, Federal Government, George W. Bush, GOP, Joe Wilson, John Boehner, Koch Brothers, Neo Conservatives, Politics, Religious Right, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, Tea Party, The Congress, The House, The Senate, Totalitarianism, Wall Street on July 29, 2011 at 3:35 am
Even though, in the hours following the Monday pitches to America by President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, the Congress was flooded with phone calls and emails that locked up the House’s web servers for a time, Tea Party Republicans are ignoring voters and listening to shadow groups like the “Club for Growth,” saying the “economy is too fragile” to raise taxes on the rich.
Who is the Club for Growth? Union activists in Wisconsin will recall their ad campaign to keep union workers from protesting at the state capitol. Who backs them? Why do they wield more influence than the American people?
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In 2011, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, GOP, Ideologies, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Neo Conservatives, Politics, Religious Right, Republicans, Tea Party, The Congress, The House, The Senate, Years on July 26, 2011 at 3:32 pm
“Your Constitution or your life!”
The Tea Party Teahadis are trying to radically rewrite the government in their image, using the drop dead date of the debt disaster as their weapon. While the mainstream media turns the debt ceiling mess into a numbers tennis match, they are missing the core of what is at stake: The Tea Party’s wholesale rape of the process of governance is the core stumbling block in the current budget fight.
The Tehadis see this as their shining moment to remake government in their own image. They want to cram a Constitutional Amendment through Congress in less than ten days. Their blind moral high ground trumps fiscal responsibility and the protection of millions of Americans livelihoods, lifetime savings and their futures. Read the rest of this entry »
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In 2011, Barack Obama, Democrats, Federal Government, GOP, John Boehner, Politics, Republicans, The Congress, The House, The Senate, The White House on July 26, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Ok, so you would literally have to have been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks if you haven’t heard the words debt and ceiling together in the same sentence.
For those of you who may not know, the debt ceiling is one of the exercises of Congress’ Constitutional duty and power of the “purse”. Congress must approve spending; The President is not given, nor may he be given,the power to allocate money of this magnitude on his own. Read the rest of this entry »
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Anders Behring Breivik, Anders Breivik, Breivik, Christian, Christians, Cnn, Culturual Marxism, Fox News, Jeff Sharlet, Knights Templar, Muslim, Muslims, Norway, Oslo, Oslo bombing, Oslo massacre, Politics, Roger Ailes, The Family
In 2011, Christianity, Corporatocracy, Faiths, Fox News, Ideologies, International, Islam, Media, Neo Conservatives, Patriotism, Racism, Religious Right, Roger Ailes, Tea Party, Totalitarianism on July 24, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Over 70 people were killed and more than 90 injured by a Right-wing terrorist in Oslo, Norway, and CNN played a rerun of a special with Dr. Sanjay Gupta on celebrity crime. No live coverage. No tight-t-shirt-clad Anderson Cooper actually blending in with his news subjects for a change. Fox News stopped screaming headlines once the rumor that it was Muslim extremism proved to be unfounded. The man captured had ties to a European or global white Right-wing extremist organization. He is not alone. White fear of multiculturalism is not only driving our gridlock, it is arming itself for battle. If these unyielding, dogmatic radicals do not get their way in Congress, could we see another Timothy McVeigh here in the U.S.?
Count on it.
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In 2011, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Democrats, Elections, Fox News, GOP, John Boehner, Media, Mitch McConnell, Politics, Republicans, Roger Ailes, The Congress, The House, The Senate on July 21, 2011 at 4:48 pm
James Bond at the baccarat table. James Garner bluffing his way through a crooked poker game in a dusty Western saloon. We love the idea of the hero knocking out the bad guy in a good game of chance. Why, then, are Liberals so up in arms about Mr. Obama’s latest big gamble?
You don’t have to be much of a poker player to know that Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell are coming to the table without any chips. Thanks to many deals with the Devil that they have made with everyone from the Religious Right to the absolute lunatic fringes of society, their bankers are now the Tea Party. Think of them as that psychotic, weazly little guy in those casino or saloon scenes who just wants to shoot up the room, set fire to the tables, and be done with it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Balanced Budget Amendment, Barack Obama, Cap Cut and Balance, Congress, Constitution, Constitutional Amendment, Debt Ceiling, Debt Ceiling Debate, Eric Cantor, Gop, John Boehner, National Debt, Politics, Republicans, Tea Party, Tea Party Movement
In 2011, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Constitution, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, George W. Bush, GOP, Ideologies, John Boehner, Mid-Term 2010, Mitch McConnell, Politics, Republicans, Tea Party, The Congress, The House, The Senate, Years on July 19, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Now I know why they call it the Tea Party. It isn’t for their links to American history in Boston Harbor. It’s their lineage to the delusional Mad Hatter and his pals from Alice in Wonderland.
With just days remaining before the debt ceiling disaster, which they are engineering to back the government into a corner, and leads to a second global melt-down, the latest Teahadi proposal, called “Cap Cut and Balance” is straight out of Fantasyland. One element makes the whole proposal a DOA as a matter of the time window, if nothing else.
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Barack Obama, Congress, Debt Ceiling, Debt Ceiling Debate, Economy, Gop, House Of Representatives, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Politics, Politics News, President Obama, Senate, social engineering, U.S. Economy
In 2011, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Bureaucracy, Campaign 2012, Corporatocracy, Elections, Federal Government, Ideologies, John Boehner, Koch Brothers, Liberals, Mitch McConnell, Neo Conservatives, Politics, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, Special Interests, Tea Party, The Congress, The Federal Reserve, The House, The Senate, Timothy Geithner, Treasury Department, Unions, Voter Registration, Wall Street, Years on July 15, 2011 at 1:11 pm
The debt ceiling needs raising! The debt ceiling needs raising! Everyone on TV, on the radio and print clamoring like Chicken Little. Freak about the world coming to a financial end. It is exactly what the people who engineer stuff like this do to you. Guys like Karl Rove are the Chriss Angels of political theater. While you’re out there wringing your hands, and the clowns on TV are talking deficit doom, the GOP continues to do what it is really out to do: Socially re-engineer America in its backward-looking world view. Read the rest of this entry »
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In 2011, Auto Bailout, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Three Auto Makers, Bureaucracy, Campaign 2012, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, George W. Bush, Legislation, Mid-Term 2010, Neo Conservatives, Patriotism, Politics, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Tea Party, The Congress, The Federal Reserve, The House, The Senate, The White House, Timothy Geithner, Treasury Department on July 12, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Be honest: You and most people are affected by the economy, but you only have a glimmer of an idea why it’s screwed up. There is the massive disinformation campaign put on by the billionaires who control millions spent by companies’ lobbyists, Astroturf grassroots activist groups, and propaganda outlets like Fox News to make the common thinking on the economy their thinking. Here’s a 101 on the economy, and why the fear-narrative on debt ceiling talks and cries of America going broke are a lot of hooey. Read the rest of this entry »
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Abc, Casey Anthony, Casey Anthony Trial, Caylee Anthony, Cbs, CBS News, Cnn, Dr. Drew, Dr.G, Dream Team, HLN, homicide, Johnny Cochran, JonBenet Ramsey, Justice, Law, lawyers, Media, MSNBC, Nancy Grace, News, Orange County Florida, Robb Todd, Susan Smith, the law, Tot Mom, truTV
In 2011, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, Law, Media, Media News & Criticism, MSNBC, NBC News, Radio News, Television, Television News on July 9, 2011 at 2:27 am
The Casey Anthony case is over. Hours will be spent by the nauseating Nancy Graces and dishwater dull Dr. Drews of the world rehashing why Ms. Anthony missed her place on death row. How does the media circus affect the outcome of a case? Did your fascination with the trial contribute to the verdict? Is there a better way to get justice for victims like two-year-old Caylee Anthony? Read the rest of this entry »
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Barack Obama, Congress, Deficit, Democrats, Economy, Eric Cantor, Gop, House Majority Whip, Mitch McConnell, National Debt, Politics, Politics News, Republicans
In 2011, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Elections, Eric Cantor, Federal Government, Fox News, Ideologies, Keith Olbermann, Koch Brothers, Mitch McConnell, Neo Conservatives, Political Punditry, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Republicans, Roger Ailes, Tea Party, Television News, The Congress, The House, The Senate, Years on July 1, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Eric Cantor’s shorts were exposed earlier this week. No, the Republican Congressman from the 7th District of Virginia isn’t having a Weiner moment. He’s doing something far worse: Betting against the Treasury Bond prices that he, as the GOP’s chief debt ceiling negotiator, influences. Yet another in the long line of incidents where Republicans put self-interest, party, and their partisan backers ahead of country.
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