Archive for 2010
Was the September Jobs Report a Preview of a Teabagger Congress?
Last Friday, the White House released the disappointing unemployment figures for the month of September, with unemployment stuck at 9.6% following a net loss of 95,000 jobs. I stress “net” because even though the private sector gained jobs, the number was offset by the elimination of hundreds of thousands of government jobs (as columnist EJ Dione […]
October 11, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Money, Politics
Under President Obama, Bush’s $700B TARP will cost ONE TENTH as much
In October of 2008, President George W. Bush passed the $700 BILLION dollar “Troubled Asset Relief Program” (TARP) to rescue an economy on the brink of collapse. Last night (Sunday, 10/3), that program drew to a close. In less than two years under a Democratic president with Democratic Congress, the economy recovered to the point […]
October 4, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Money, Politics
Special Edition: Report of Mass Voter Fraud in Houston full of holes (Update 2)
Breaking News (story will be continually updated throughout the day/week as information is uncovered.) The rightwing blogs are all a twitter with a story on Fox “news” that “an SEIU (Service Employees International Union) employee, “Steve Caddle” (later corrected as “Sean Caddle”) was behind an attempt at rampant voter fraud, attempting to register “23,207” fraudulent […]
September 29, 2010
Posted in: Election, myth busting, Politics
Republicans PLEDGE to Do Nothing New (Turd polish edition)
Last week, Republicans released their “Pledge to America” (or as Keith Olbermann calls it, a “Lemon Pledge”). Longer than Gingrich’s 1994 “Contract On With America” (thanks to about 14 hilarious full page photo inserts and eight mostly blank divider pages), yet shorter on details, answers, and even leaving many (Conservative) “problems”, like “earmarks”, left totally […]
September 27, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Money, Politics
Tea Party nominees are Evangelical nuts with no economic solutions
The Tea Party appears to be scoring some major victories in the Republican Primaries this year, challenging & defeating a series of Republican incumbents across the country… not via mass popular appeal, but thanks to heavy Teanut turnout matched with anemic GOP turnout on Primary Day in races that attracted on average fewer than 19% […]
September 20, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Politics, Religion, Right-Wing Insanity
The “Proud to be an American” Test
How any times have you heard some lunatic on national television say something that made you roll your eyes and mutter out loud to no one in particular, “Makes you proud to be an American”? We all have at one time or another. And I had several such moments listening to all the feigned Right-wing […]
September 13, 2010
Posted in: Politics, Racism, Religion, Right-wing Facism
Remembering the (REAL) world after 9/11 (with photos).
Special 9/11 Edition A tiny group of “Christian” Extremists in Florida plan on going through with their “Burn a Koran Day” to protest a tiny group of Islamic Extremists that attacked America on 9/11. There are (reportedly) fewer than 50 members of the Florida church planning this event, yet the Muslim World is already painting […]
September 9, 2010
Posted in: General, myth busting, Right-Wing Insanity, Terrorism
CEOs: “Reinvest those profits or we’ll tax your bonus!”
(Update: It was pointed out to me that I probably should have titled this Op/Ed: Corporations: “Reinvest those profits or we’ll tax them!” Because the real problem are Corporations paying NO taxes vs. CEO’s whose priority is Corporate Profits over their own. I apologize for any confusion. – Mugsy) While some may question my sanity, […]
September 6, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Money, myth busting, Politics
Name ONE thing the Tea Party stands for that helps People more than Corporations
Last Saturday was Glenn Beck’s “I Have a Scheme” rally (credit to Wonkette for the pun). Though it was dubbed “not a political rally”, no question that the 99% white crowd consisted almost entirely of Tea Party teanuts with politics on their mind. The theme of the rally was “Restoring Honor”. Restoring honor? This is […]
August 30, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Energy Independence, Environment, Healthcare, Money, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity
Katrina devastation five years later shows folly of relying on Corporate America for recovery
Five years ago next Sunday, Hurricane Katrina made landfall just East of New Orleans. Despite warnings, the levees protecting the city gave way (thanks in part to the Bush Administration slashing funding for levee reconstruction). The city was devastated. Five years later, the New Orleans suburbs look like a ghost town, vacant lots overgrown with weeds & brush. […]
August 23, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Money, Politics, Seems Obvious to Me
Anatomy of a One-term President. A cautionary tale.
A litany of dumb moves, failures of leadership, kowtowing to Conservatives while fighting with his base, a military situation with no end in sight, a stalled economy, high unemployment where no ones job feels safe, and an inability to convince people of the urgency to get off foreign oil. A good man elected to replace […]
August 16, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, General, Politics
More “Party of Jeff Davis” evidence: Move to Repeal/Rewrite “GOP’s” 14th Amendment.
Credit where credit is due, last week the DailyKOS’s Jamison Foser pointed out the over-looked fact that the 14th Amendment that Republicans are suddenly so hot to repeal/rewrite was a Republican Amendment (passed in 1866, the year after Lincoln’s assassination and the end of the Civil War) that the GOP website proudly touts touted as […]
August 9, 2010
Posted in: Election, Politics, Racism, Right-Wing Insanity, Unconstitutional
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