Archive for 'myth busting' Category

Responding to Stupid. Republicans ‘correcting’ Democrats need a clue

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Special post-SotU Edition Listening to Bush’s Budget Director… Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels… lecture President Obama on the size of the deficit was like [...]

Boehner Called out on “Do-Nothing” Congress. “Jobs” Plan is exactly what you think it is… and less.

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. When will these people figure out they’re not fooling anyone? Speaker of the House John Boehner appeared on Fox “news” Sunday [...]

The unspoken subtext of Gingrich and Perry’s attacks on Romney: THEY KNOW Cannibalistic Capitalism is Wrong.

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. They KNOW. And it’s clear now that they’ve always known but didn’t care. In an all-out effort to stop Mitt Romney from [...]

Romney said WHAT about Insurance? This one will make you angry. (video)

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Sometimes someone says something so bizarre… so disconnected from reality… that it makes you stop dead in your tracks and shout [...]

The List II: The Strange Case of Dr. Ron Paul.

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. It is extremely difficult to summarize the very complex platform of Texas Rep. Dr. Ron Paul without getting too deep into [...]

History Professor Newt Gets It Wrong Again. (UPDATED)

I love listening to former history professor Newt Gingrich lecture others about “history” because… as I’ve pointed out before… he gets it wrong so often. And not just “wrong”, but 100% BACKWARDS wrong. He did so again during last nights’ CNBC GOP debate in Rochester, Michigan:     Gingrich, in an answer regarding the “Occupy [...]

ATTENTION WHITE HOUSE: Regulations CREATE jobs. Stop believing the RW lie.

MYTH BUSTING This week, the Obama Administration angered a LOT of Progressive Democrats by announcing that they would delay pending new EPA clean-air regulations until 2013 in the name of “jobs”. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) even encouraged environmentalists to sue the White House over it. Conservatives hailed this as a victory for business, declaring that “finally, President Obama [...]

Can I stop shaking my head now? A return to GOP Bizarroland

After the week we’ve just had, if I shake my head anymore, I fear it might fall off. The Rick Perry Myth-a-palooza continued for another week as Sunday-show after Sunday-show continued to repeat the “37%” jobs-claim as “fact”, Congressman Weiner… who committed no crime other than being a Douchebag… was hounded out of office by [...]

The New “Texas Miracle”? GOP pushing questionable Perry job-creation meme (UPDATED)

(Authors Note: I need to recompute these numbers using data going back to January of 2009 and not just April of 2010, so please do not reference my estimates for 2009 until I’ve done so in a later post. Also, please check the bottom of this post for UPDATES. In the meantime, here are some [...]

President Bush called for Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders.

This weeks update is short & sweet. President Obama took a lot of heat from Republicans this past week for suggesting that Israel consider a modified return to their pre-1967 borders (prior to the 1967 Arab/Israeli War) when attempting to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinians. As President Obama noted, what he said publicly [...]

Paul-bearer. An eulogy for three ideologies.

Last week was a bad week for Republicans named “Paul”. The Libertarian Dynamic Duo of Rand & Ron Paul once again showed the world why the term “Libertarian” is just a convenient label for people that want to take already bad Conservative principles and push them to their most absurd extremes. And Republican wunderkind “Paul [...]

Why Crediting Bush for OBL’s capture is dead wrong

If you’re like me, you just spent the better part of the past week listening to Right-wingers dismiss President Obama’s great achievement of finally getting Osama bin Laden, and give most of the credit to President Bush. Their arguments for doing so are filled with wingnut torture fantasies and baseless assumptions, not a single one of which holds [...]