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Boehner's TEA House

December 19, 2011

Elections matter. Nowhere has that been more apparent than in the House that Boehner built. The House of Tea. While discouraged progressives and moderates stayed home November, 2010….the TEAs rallied in hatred of all things Democratic, all things Obama…and took back the House of Representatives. The TEAs did it fair and square. They deserve a [...]

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GOP Agrees To Release Hostages

April 9, 2011

For the second time in less than 4 months, Republican officials have agreed to release hostages in return for ransom demands. Late last evening, Speaker Boehner went before cameras and announced that his thuggish band of Young Guns would release the 5 million American women they have been threatening to deny access to reproductive health [...]

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Shut 'Er Down

April 7, 2011

President Obama met late last night with Harry Reid and John Boehner in yet another attempt to stave off a federal government shutdown. No agreement was forthcoming. Just as a drunk-on-power group of Republicans shut down the government in 1995, so too the looming shutdown of 2011. What I hear from every Republican who can [...]

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Hurt Economy, Hurt Obama

March 1, 2011

"Making Obama a one term president." That's the line loudly announced every week day marking the start of Sean Hannity's daily propaganda-radio program. Senate Minority Leader, Droopy Dawg McConnell detailed his top priority last November….“the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." McConnell is as [...]

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"So Be It"

February 16, 2011

Since the midterms, Republicans and Republican voters have been taunting Democrats and progressives over their landslide win in the House and gains in the Senate, state legislatures, and governorships. That's fine and all…..politics ain't beanbag…..winners deserve to celebrate while losers need to contemplate. Well, we're into the Republican Afterglow Party now approximately 6 weeks. How's [...]

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America Rewards Reckless Irresponsibility

January 3, 2011

Huge banking, insurance and real estate interests played fast and loose with their industry's rules. Due diligence was discarded as old fashioned. Recklessness and irresponsibility were rewarded handsomely as hyper-greed encompassed the paper shuffling industries. When the recklessness and irresponsibility became evident even to the irresponsible….when Lehman Bros. went down….it was too late. The poison [...]

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Contradictions In Anger

October 28, 2010

The conventional wisdom this year has been that "real Americans" are mad as hell at their government and are not going to take it any more. These mad-as-hell Americans are mad as hell…..after 22 months of change in D.C…..because national deficits are high. For almost two years, I have been told by all the Usual [...]

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John Boehner Is A Liar

September 9, 2010

In 2001, John Boehner (R-OH) voted for George W. Bush's first round of tax cuts to expire in 2011. As Paul Krugman puts it…. Back in 2001, when the first set of Bush tax cuts was rammed through Congress, the legislation was written with a peculiar provision — namely, that the whole thing would expire, [...]

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Coming To The Defense Of John Boehner

July 5, 2010

The austerity gods are effing ignorant….or duplicitous…or perhaps both….. From one of the co-chairs of Obama's highly touted, yet still total bullsh*t, Deficit Commission….. Are you willing to recommend cuts to Social Security? ALAN SIMPSON: We’re not going to cut Social Security—we’re going to stabilize it. None of the ideas that have been presented will [...]

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Boehner: "Where Are The Jobs?"

May 8, 2010

Job losses and gains over the last 2 years…. Simple question: Considering the severity of the recession which began in December of 2007, has the trend in job growth since Obama took office been going in the right direction, or not? Let's ask the Great Tanned One of Ohio…. The GOP House Minority Leader and [...]

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