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We're Going To Hurt Some People

July 28, 2011

It was a Friday night in the fall of 1965. There was a high school dance that night but football players were prohibited from attending because we had a game the next day. The coach didn't want anyone distracted over, you know, girlfriends. He wanted everyone focused and rested. So he made us attend a [...]

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Pining For Barry's Insurgents

July 22, 2011

In December it was a threat to increase taxes on all Americans if the top 2% didn't have their tax cuts extended. Down to the wire both sides went in that earlier ransom situation….and President Obama and his very weak band of Congressional Democrats agreed to pay the ransom. In return for paying that ransom, [...]

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"Cut, Cap…and Pretend"

July 19, 2011

Slogans are great, aren't they? "Things Go Better With Coke", "We Bring Good Things To Light", "15 Minutes Can Save You 15%",…..slogans must suffice when substance is lacking and branding is the only goal. President Obama issued a new slogan shortly after the midterms that he entitled, "Winning the Future." A stupid slogan…it was. But [...]

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Toothless Droopy Dawg Rolls Over

July 13, 2011

How humiliating. After barking and snarling about no debt increase deal without Medicare cuts, yesterday, the Dawg who can only bark, Senate GOP Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, rolled over and surrendered his soft and paunchy political underbelly up to Democratic President Barack Obama. Droopy Dawg Mitch McConnell anticipated the political pain coming his way if [...]

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The Plan All Along

July 11, 2011

For over 2 years I have been asking myself why it is that Barack Obama hasn't used his excellent oratory skills to inform and educate Americans about the massive failure of conservative economics and how that failure brought the nation to the threshold of a new Great Depression. 30 years of supply side economics imposed [...]

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Bleeding Us To Good Health

June 20, 2011

For 2000 years, the most common medical practice performed by doctors was bloodletting. Bloodletting was based on an ancient system of medicine in which blood and other bodily fluid were considered to be "humors" the proper balance of which maintained health. "Bleeding" a patient to health was modeled on the process of menstruation. Hippocrates believed [...]

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GOP Double Dip Plan To Oust Obama

June 10, 2011

The GOP ransom note comes into focus…. …this week 103 House Republicans told party leaders, Speaker John A. Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a negotiator in the Biden group, that they want immediate spending cuts of at least $380 billion for 2012 to halve the projected deficit, as a condition of their support for [...]

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The Crazy On Steroids

May 20, 2011

It's kind of like watching the slow onslaught of Alzheimer's on a family member. It's sad. Today's Republican Party….no exaggeration….is losing it's collective mind. Not raising the credit limit of the United States is now being explained as "not that big of a deal" by some leading Republicans. Arch-conservative Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey tells Americans [...]

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Boneheadedly Playing With Fire

May 10, 2011

House Republicans are playing with fire and their Tea Party constituents are supplying them with the matches. Yesterday, House Speaker, John Boehner found himself between a Tea Bag and a hard place. Boehner chose the Tea Bag. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday laid down an aggressive new marker in the debt limit fight, [...]

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Stunt Team At Standard & Poor's

April 19, 2011

Yesterday morning there was a political stunt pulled by the financial ratings agency, Standard & Poor's. S&P didn't actually downgrade the AAA credit rating of the U.S. government as several teevee talkers hysterically claimed, instead they "downgraded their outlook" of the credit worthiness of the U.S. government from "neutral" to "negative." The S&P said the [...]

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