April 10, 2012

I know hes not a Dem; but, we’re adopting Abe.

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April 7, 2012

March 29, 2012
In Health Care Case, Lawyers Train for 3-Day Marathon

Practice sessions for the lawyers debating President Obama’s health care law in Supreme Court arguments this week have stretched the supply of colleagues willing to play the justices.

March 15, 2012

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March 7, 2012

Checking in: 

Its been a while since I’ve kept up with this blog so I’ll fill you all in on what you’ve missed and how the Dems are playing lately.

The economy is rebounding.
Unemployment is down.
Iraq is in Iraqi hands and costing us nothing. Republicans respond by starting a politically unilateral war with Iran (despite the Syrian human rights catastrophe).
Mitt still hasn’t emerged as his party’s candidate. (the RNC convention will most likely be brokered:more on that later.
and
Republicans are at war with women and fighting to implement their version of christian shariah law. They are also still making asses of themselves in congress.

and so…

we slowly move toward November.  

January 24, 2012
thanks gabby!!!!

thanks gabby!!!!

January 24, 2012

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January 24, 2012
shitrepublicancandidatessay:

“The tax payers shouldn’t have to have money taken out of their pay checks to pay people in government who are our servants who are making a lot more money than we are.” -Mitt Romney, November 2011. (Video.)
Mean annual earnings of full-time private sector American workers in 2010.
Mean annual earnings of full-time federal, state, and local government employees in 2010.
“Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney earned $21.6 million in 2010 and paid 13.9 percent of that amount in income taxes.” -Bloomberg Businessweek, Jan. 24, 2012.

shitrepublicancandidatessay:

“The tax payers shouldn’t have to have money taken out of their pay checks to pay people in government who are our servants who are making a lot more money than we are.” -Mitt Romney, November 2011. (Video.)

Mean annual earnings of full-time private sector American workers in 2010.

Mean annual earnings of full-time federal, state, and local government employees in 2010.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney earned $21.6 million in 2010 and paid 13.9 percent of that amount in income taxes.” -Bloomberg Businessweek, Jan. 24, 2012.

January 24, 2012

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January 24, 2012
con-tem-plate:

CHART: What Romney would pay under his own tax plan. Via Greg Sargent
The column to the left represents what Romney would pay under  current law — if we did nothing and allowed the Bush tax cuts to expire.  He’d pay $5.5 million out of $21.7 million, or around one-fourth.
The column in the middle represents what Romney would pay if Obama’s  2011 proposals pass. He would pay less than if we did nothing and just  let the Bush tax cuts expire, because Obama would raise taxes on capital  gains and dividends from 15 percent to just 20 percent (letting the  Bush cuts expire would hike taxes on dividends to 39.6 percent). Under  Obama’s plan, then, Romney would pay just under $5 million in taxes —   around 23 percent.
And the column to the right represents what Romney would pay under  his own proposals to keep the Bush tax cuts for the rich, retain the 15  percent tax rate on investments, and repeal the Medicare tax in health  reform. His tax burden would remain at just over $3 million out of 21.7  million.
As you can see, the amount Romney pays drops substantially as you move from left to right.
…
In his State of the Union speech today, Obama will not name Romney.  But he will advance an argument that is all about Romney and the rest of  his class. As Robert Borosage put it so well today:
Mitt Romney argues that the president wants to transform  America into an entitlement society, whereas he wants to return it to an  American opportunity society.
The president would be well advised to take this on. Make  the case that the entitlement crisis America faces comes from the sense  of entitlement by the wealthiest Americans that they can pocket all the  rewards of growth, and use their wealth to rig the rules so they don’t  pay their fair share back to society.
And then argue forcefully that opportunity requires  investment in rebuilding the country, and in people – in education and  training, in early childhood nutrition, in affordable health care and  retirement security, in a safety net when things go bad. Those who would  shred public investments in our future would destroy the broad middle  class that, in fact, is the triumph of American democracy.
No one is a better personification of that argument than Barack Obama. No one a better foil than Mitt Romney. Let’s get that on.

con-tem-plate:

CHART: What Romney would pay under his own tax plan. Via Greg Sargent

The column to the left represents what Romney would pay under current law — if we did nothing and allowed the Bush tax cuts to expire. He’d pay $5.5 million out of $21.7 million, or around one-fourth.

The column in the middle represents what Romney would pay if Obama’s 2011 proposals pass. He would pay less than if we did nothing and just let the Bush tax cuts expire, because Obama would raise taxes on capital gains and dividends from 15 percent to just 20 percent (letting the Bush cuts expire would hike taxes on dividends to 39.6 percent). Under Obama’s plan, then, Romney would pay just under $5 million in taxes — around 23 percent.

And the column to the right represents what Romney would pay under his own proposals to keep the Bush tax cuts for the rich, retain the 15 percent tax rate on investments, and repeal the Medicare tax in health reform. His tax burden would remain at just over $3 million out of 21.7 million.

As you can see, the amount Romney pays drops substantially as you move from left to right.

In his State of the Union speech today, Obama will not name Romney. But he will advance an argument that is all about Romney and the rest of his class. As Robert Borosage put it so well today:

Mitt Romney argues that the president wants to transform America into an entitlement society, whereas he wants to return it to an American opportunity society.
The president would be well advised to take this on. Make the case that the entitlement crisis America faces comes from the sense of entitlement by the wealthiest Americans that they can pocket all the rewards of growth, and use their wealth to rig the rules so they don’t pay their fair share back to society.
And then argue forcefully that opportunity requires investment in rebuilding the country, and in people – in education and training, in early childhood nutrition, in affordable health care and retirement security, in a safety net when things go bad. Those who would shred public investments in our future would destroy the broad middle class that, in fact, is the triumph of American democracy.
No one is a better personification of that argument than Barack Obama. No one a better foil than Mitt Romney. Let’s get that on.

January 24, 2012

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January 24, 2012
Thank you for everything Gabby!

Our nation is in debt to you Ms. Giffords; and through it all you came back to keep giving to us.

Good luck as you recover!

January 20, 2012
Jewish Republican Group Disassociates Itself from Ron Paul

January 20, 2012
ron paul racism cntd.

  • The Ron Paul Political Report newsletter stated the public should bear arms to protect themselves against carjackings by “urban youth who play whites like pianos.” Note that the terms “black” or “African American” aren’t used in this newsletter sample. However, the racially coded term “urban” and reference to “whites” makes it easy for the reader to ascertain what skin color the youth in question have. The newsletter, written in the first-person, continued on this topic with the following assertion: “I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self-defense. For the animals are coming.” Now these animal wouldn’t be blacks, would they?
  • In another newsletter, Paul described most black men in Washington, D.C., as “semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
  • Talking Points Memo reported that in December 1990, Paul suggested that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sexually molested girls and boys, remarking: “And we are supposed to honor this ‘Christian minister’ and lying socialist with a holiday that puts him on par with George Washington?” 
  • In a 1993 Ron Paul Survival Report newsletter, alarm was raised about “The Disappearing White Majority.” The newsletter referenced the growing birth rate of people of color and expressed a pro-segregation stance with this comment: “It is human nature that like attracts likes. But whites are not allowed to express this same human impulse. Except in a de facto sense, there can be no white schools, white clubs, or white neighborhoods. The political system demands white integration, while allowing black segregation.”
  • In May 2011, Paul told MSNBC that he would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended Jim Crow. He questioned the act because it took authority away from property owners. Evidently, Paul values the rights of racist property owners over those of African Americans whose housing, employment, schooling and leisure activities were all dictated by Jim Crow.

January 19, 2012
Remaining GOP candidates’ most hated.

Rick’s Santorum - Gays. (Dan Savage).

Newt Gingrich - Blacks. ex-wives.

Ron Paul - Jews/Banks/Gays/Blacks/The Media

Mitt Romney - Himself as Massachusetts Governor.