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CNN Takes The Tea Party Express

September 13, 2011

I remember listening last week to Fox radio while driving in my car. The topic at the time was how weak President Obama was for changing the date of his speech to a Joint Session from Wednesday evening, where it conflicted with NBC's GOP candidates debate, to Thursday evening where Obama's speech would be just [...]

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The Quest For A Candidate

June 9, 2011

Many might see the Republican Party's frantic scurrying around to find a viable candidate to run against President Obama next fall as a genuine exercise in democracy. Perhaps. But then again, it could be just an act of desperation by a political party which is on it's way to becoming totally irrelevant in America. Ask [...]

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Rush Drags Jesus Through Streets

April 26, 2011

Every so often religious topics make their way into the news. An example is today's Beacon reprint of Ross Douthat's totally undecipherable and nonsensical column about Hell. Hell has to exist, says the round mound of the New York Times, because otherwise Tony Soprano would be in heaven. Yeah, I don't get it either. Since [...]

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Wasted Words of Wisdom

April 14, 2011

My liberal comrades will not like what I have to say today. Hell, I don't like it either…..but I must tell the truth as I see it…so here goes. President Obama gave his deficit speech (transcript) in the middle of the afternoon yesterday so that people like you and I, who are politically engaged, could [...]

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Leaning Forward, Falling Backward

December 28, 2010

Perhaps you've seen MSNBC's new slogan…."Lean Forward." A year ago on the Blog of Mass Destruction…. December 19, 2009…. With corporately-compromised Democrats leaving potential Democratic voters despondent because of their refusal to get tough and do the will of the majority of Americans, it is conceivable that the…..Republican Party TeaBaggers could rise to snatch the [...]

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GOP Fables

December 21, 2010

During the tense Republican hostage taking crisis that Americans experienced over the last number of weeks, a pseudo-argument popped up from the conservative side which asserted, repeatedly, that tax cutting doesn't cost the government anything. Tax cuts are not spending. That pseudo-argument has been sticking in my craw, not because it is compelling, but just [...]

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Stupid Is As Stupid Does

December 13, 2010

NY Times… Mr. Goolsbee said the White House was betting that after a two-year extension of tax policies of President George W. Bush, it would be far harder for Republicans to defend the tax cuts for the wealthy in 2012, when the economy is expected to be stronger, thereby weakening their argument that allowing tax [...]

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Obama: No, We Actually Can't

December 7, 2010

I have no idea if Congress can pass the tax cut-extension package agreement announced yesterday by President Obama. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has already threatened to lead a filibuster if the compromise provisions Obama announced come to the Senate as is. In the deal, Republicans get the Bush-era tax rates extended on America's richest for [...]

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Freeze This

November 30, 2010

President Obama has had a difficult time with the midterm election results. I don't much blame him for having difficulty. The Sister Sarah Cult voters and the Fox-crack addicted voters all marched to the polls clueless, disinformed and brainwashed….but in perfect timing with King Rushbo's racist and hate-filled drumbeating. The outcome, for reality-based Americans, has [...]

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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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