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The Washington Post has a report alleging that:
…some senior Democrats are having second thoughts about raising taxes on the nation’s wealthiest families and are pressing party leaders to consider extending the full array of Bush administration tax cuts, at least through next year.
Here’s the rationale put forward (by the WP, I should point out, not [...]
Did you know that some of the central tenets of Islam are economic beliefs?
For example, Muslims believe that the government can generate jobs. (Whereas the asshole contingent of the Republican Party, the largest contingent by far these days, believes that the government has never created one single job. Yes, whether you [...]
On August 4, the NOAA — which has not exactly covered itself in glory as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill debacle has unfolded — put out an unexpectedly upbeat report that was widely interpreted as celebrating the end of the clean-up phase of the oil spill. According to the report:
…almost three-fourths of the crude [...]
Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston gives Nevada Senator John Ensign the treatment he so richly deserves: he jumps all over him with hobnailed boots. In a column that appeared late Saturday night, Jon skewered John over the letter John sent out last week soliciting contributions to his legal defense fund.
(In a [...]
The Hill posted an item at 6 a.m. EDT today, reporting on an interview with Robert Gibbs. Gibbs threw quite a tantrum, at the “professional left”. (I very much fear that includes liberal bloggers.)
During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal [...]
Once BP managed to cap the well that had gushed millions and millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we started to see media reports that most of the oil had magically vanished. This is the AFP, on July 27:
With BP’s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico finally capped, [...]
Somewhere in between calling Shirley Sherrod while she was on her way to work, and telling her to pull over to the side of the road, right now, and resign, and deciding that they owed her an apology, the Agriculture Department seems to have managed to lose her phone number.
This is Robert Gibbs at yesterday’s [...]
Republicans in Congress have continued to hawk the myth of the fat lazy unemployed, living high on the hog off their extended unemployment benefits instead of lifting a finger to actually seek work, despite all the jobs out there.
Here’s a random sampling:
Sen. Richard Burr:
The wrong thing to do is to automatically today extend unemployment for [...]
AP, yesterday:
With the newly installed cap keeping oil from BP’s fractured well out of the Gulf during a trial run, this weekend offered a chance for the oil company and government to gloat over their shared success — the first real victory in fighting the spill. Instead, the two sides have spent the past two [...]
Originally, the derisive “Party of No” label the Republican Party earned for itself referred to the spectacularly determined display of no-fucking-way obstructionism they have put on since Obama was elected President.
But it’s looking more and more like by the time the midterm elections are over — and the Republicans have gained much fewer [...]
