Posts filed under “Depends on the Definition of”
Depends on the definition of tax cuts, maybe?
Jon Kyl (7/11/2010): “You should never raise taxes in order to cut taxes. Surely congress has the authority and it would be right, if we decide we want to cut taxes to spur the economy, not to have to raise taxes in order to offset those costs. You do need to offset the cost of [...]
Depends on the Definition of Accessible
A few days ago, Politico ran an article that detailed how many Republican Congressmen are opting out of holding open Town Hall forums and instead are charging their constituents upwards of $35 to attend private gatherings. For however much Congressional Republicans proclaim that the American people gave them a mandate to enact their right wing [...]
Depends on the Definition of Submission
Michele Bachmann (10/15/2006): …My husband said, “now you need to get a post-doctorate degree in Tax law.” Tax law? I hate taxes. Why would I do something like that? But the Lord says, “Be submissive wives; you are to be submissive to your husbands.” Michele Bachmann (8/11/2011): “I’m in love with him. I’m so proud [...]
The Party Of Super-sized Sleaze
(1) The Republican Party is not only head-over-heels in bed with lobbyists that it is not legally married to, but it no longer even cares to draw a veil over who is doing what and to whom. They’ve long since figured out that there is no political downside to flaunting their unnatural relations with lobbyists. [...]
If Size Matters, How Big Is Small?
For months and months (and months), everyone in the Republican Party claimed that if the Bush tax cuts — expiring by Republican design (that is to say, as a result of legislative games played by Bush, et al) — were not extended for the top tax brackets, economic recovery would be jeopardized because small businesses [...]
Depends On The Definition Of “Hit Hardest”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell yesterday, on the possibility (brought up by House Minority Leader John Boehner on Sunday) of giving up on extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans: We can’t let the people who’ve been hit hardest by this recession and who we need to create the jobs that will get [...]
War Profiteering Inc.
That “Inc.”, by the way, is short for “incarnate”. The company in question seems to embody the very highest traditions of war profiteering. Two and a half weeks ago, Mission Essential Personnel, LLC, (MEP) proudly put out this press release: Mission Essential Personnel, LLC, (MEP) is pleased to announce it has been included again on [...]
Being Out-Of-Attune
If you think you might have some money left over in your Christmas gift budget this year, would you please consider making an early Christmas gift to the Associated Press? They are badly in need of some dictionaries. It is currently the consensus of their headline writers and editors that the word attuned means “holding [...]
Meditations On The Mehlman Revelation
(1) Ken Mehlman, President Bush‘s campaign manager in 2004 and former chairman of the Republican National Committee, came out of the closet yesterday, and announced that he is gay. He gave the scoop to Marc Ambinder, who duly wrote up a very sympathetic post. I don’t have any problem with that. I do have a [...]
Leader? Come On!
Yesterday, Steve Benen had this sarcastic sentence in a post he wrote about House Minority Whip Eric Cantor following the extremists and lunatics who seem to dictate the Republican Party’s public position on every single issue these days in condemning Cordoba House, the Islamic community center that a moderate Islamic cleric wants to build in [...]