Archive for the ‘The Party of Fiscal Responsibility’ Category
The abortion mill that conservatives just love. They can’t get enough of funding THIS abortion mill!
Now, after a few days, here’s my contribution to the ongoing Komen-foundation-shooting-themselves-in-both-feet-after-putting-both-feet-in-their-mouths-gate. I’d like to take a moment to discuss the abortion mill that conservatives love with all their heart. That organization that they want to force every American to support that kills tens of thousands of the pre-born every year. Ladies and gentlemen, I [...]
February 5, 2012
· 
Soonergrunt · 
58 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Open Thread, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Greek Fire: Burninating The Countryside
As the EU drops the hammer on Greece this weekend saying that the country has to go along with brutal austerity measures including minimum wage and pension cuts or else no bailout and and a default, Irish economist David McWilliams offers this clever 10-minute explanation of the European debt crisis. Please note that the EU’s [...]
February 5, 2012
· Zandar · 34 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, The Money Party, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Yes We Can-Can
Charles Krauthammer is mad enough to stomp bunnies, a man consumed with the type of bitterness that can only come from being thwarted by putative allies when a cherished goal is in sight. Things were going so well. With an assist from elderly social conservatives in patriot drag,* the GOP had successfully rebranded the economic [...]
January 21, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 154 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, Daydream Believers, Election 2010, Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Kochsuckers, Media, Politics, Schadenfreude, Sociopaths, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility, The teabagger's apprentice, Vouchercare
Blowing Emissions Up Your Ass
Power utilities companies in Kansas are warning of Armageddon in 2012, saying Kansans will face rolling blackouts, millions in lost productivity, staggeringly high power bills and even complete outages in the summer months due to Evil Job-Killing EPA Pollution Regulations™. These brave souls are suing the EPA in a DC appeals court to…umm, what do [...]
December 6, 2011
· Zandar · 28 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, C.R.E.A.M., The Dirty F-ing Hippies Were Right, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Score Another One For The Blockheads
The GOP has refused to allow President Obama’s Medicare/Medicaid program head to even get a vote in the Senate, threatening to filibuster every attempt, and that means a year after his recess appointment, Donald Berwick is out. Brian Beutler: In reality Berwick is a casualty of the ongoing partisan fight over social insurance. Nominally this [...]
November 25, 2011
· Zandar · 18 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Decline and Fall, Republican Venality, Teabagger Stupidity, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Town Hall Attendees Heckle Paul Ryan and His Very Serious Budget (Again)
He haz a big sad. Paul Ryan was booed (again) at a town hall meeting in Kenosha, Wisconsin last week, after one of his constituents pressed him about the GOP budget. As you may recall, Paul Ryan’s Very Serious Budget would turn Medicare into a voucher program, and amounts to little more than a decimation [...]
November 1, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 66 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, The Money Party, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Majority of Millionaires Want Their Doggone Taxes Raised
This just in… again. This must have pained the Wall Street Journal to report: Warren Buffett isn’t the only rich guy who wants to higher taxes on the rich. A new survey from Spectrem Group found that 68% of millionaires (those with investments of $1 million or more) support raising taxes on those with $1 [...]
October 27, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 64 Comments
Posted in: The Math Demands It, The Money Party, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Paul Ryan: The First Rule About Income Inequality is “Don’t Talk About Income Inequality.”
Refocusing the national conversation It’s hard to deny that the first nine months of the 112th Congress saw this country transfixed by Republican demands for austerity. Indeed, President Obama was met with a lot of criticism from the left for seeming to give in to this Republican-framed national conversation. Many on the left were frustrated [...]
October 26, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 52 Comments
Posted in: Tax Policy, Teabagger Stupidity, The Money Party, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
The “Worst Governor In America” Contest Rolls On
Looks like Ohio Republican John Kasich is not only the new most hated governor in the land (surpassing Florida’s odious GOP Jackass-in-Chief, Rick Scott) but he’s now giving Scott a solid run for his money in the outright worst in the nation category. MoJo’s excellent Mac McClelland: While we’re all at being (rightfully) mad at [...]
October 4, 2011
· Zandar · 55 Comments
Posted in: Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Republican Venality, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
It’s Not The Size Of The Man In The Fight…
I honestly don’t understand the media obsession with Chris Christie’s weight. Yeah, he’s a big guy, so what? If you’re going to go after Christie, he’s got a long record of wingnuttery and semi-ethical New Jersey political nonsense to shine the spotlight on. One of the most persistent stories that dogged Christie in his 2009 [...]
October 3, 2011
· Zandar · 130 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, Our Failed Media Experiment, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
A grifter is gonna grift
Earlier this week the Des Moines Register reported that Sarah PAC has sent out a fund raising letter to supporters asking them to “..send your best, one-time gift to … show her that we support her if she decides to run.” They even included a link to the letter. I think the Quitta from Wasilla [...]
September 24, 2011
· Dennis G. · 55 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Good News For Conservatives, Starbursts, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
RINO Patrol
The almost-party-line vote in the Senate that killed off the stern resolution of disapproval for the $500 million billion increase in the debt ceiling is kind of interesting. I know that Scott Brown is running for his life and has to play Democrat when he thinks he can get away with it, but Bob Corker? [...]
September 10, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 70 Comments
Posted in: The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Won’t Get Fooled Again…and Again.
As readers of this blog know all too well, the debt ceiling “cuts” just passed are, for the most part, much less than meets the eye, particularly in the immediate future. But, of course, the debt isn’t the issue and never was.* No. Not even in a little bit. Rather, all of the last month [...]
August 3, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 148 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Fools! Overton Window!, Our Failed Political Establishment, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Who’s Taxing Whom?
Fair warning: what follows is a bit of a rant and contains nothing particularly new. But the fiscal follies of our overlords are unhinging me, and as misery loves company, I hope to share my derangement. —————- I’ve been a little obsessed with light bulbs lately, as regular readers know. I continue to be dumbfounded [...]
July 18, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 62 Comments
Posted in: Overton Window, Tax Policy, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Obama is not going to slash Medicare or Social Security, so CTFD already
He’s got this. Check out this interview Obama did with Jean Enersen in Seattle. [via The Obama Diary] [cross-posted]
July 11, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 261 Comments
Posted in: OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
