Archive for 'myth busting' Category
The Budget. Conservatives LOVE Welfare (but hate the poor)
Two weeks ago, I finally created a Twitter account for the blog: @MugsysRapSheet. When you first create your account, you are given the opportunity to add people based upon your interests. As a self-described Conservative watchdog, I decided @KarlRove was among the people I should follow. The first “tweet” I received from “Turd Blossom” was: Did [...]
The Mind of a Conservative: a personal aside
I am pleased to announce that there are no more “Republicans” in the state of Texas. None. Nada. Zip… at least, not among the general public. The governor, Rick “Good Hair” Perry is a Teabagger that has become a national embarrassment every time he opens his mouth with talk of “succession”, and the Texas state Legislature [...]
Understanding “Global Warming” in 30 seconds.
Happy New Year! You may have noticed that precious little attention has been paid to the subject of “Global Climate Change” since the Obama Administration took office. A few minor policies here and there. But where is that desperately needed “Green Jobs Program” when unemployment is pushing 10% and the nations weather patterns are going [...]
Don’t Be Surprised If Democrats Don’t Lose Big
Two wars that weren’t paid for. Huge tax cuts for the rich that weren’t paid for. TARP bailout that wasn’t paid for. Medicare Part-D that wasn’t paid for. Then they point and say, “Look at this huge deficit Obama created!” For months now, the “fact” that Democrats “will lose big” this election has been repeated [...]
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 [...]
Remembering the (REAL) world after 9/11 (with photos).
Special 9/11 Edition (Breaking News: This update is also now in question. More information as it develops: It is now being reported that the Florida pastor threatening to burn 200 Kor’ans on the anniversary of 9/11 has agreed to cancel his offensive stunt after meeting with the leader of the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in NYC, [...]
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, [...]
The Party of Lincoln has become The Party of Jefferson Davis
Two years ago next month, I wrote one of my most referenced Op/Eds: “Time to put this ‘Party of Lincoln’ nonsense to bed.” I pointed out at the time that present day Republicans take enormous pride in reminding minority voters that Abraham Lincoln… the founder of their Party… “freed the slaves”… the most intrusive, anti-big [...]
Mainstream Racism, part 1 – the Bush/Obama/Hitler false-equivalency
This past week, the NAACP passed a resolution demanding that leaders of the Tea Party denounce all the racists signs, statements and activity that appear at Tea-bagger events on a regular basis. Not only have Tea Party leaders (and most Republicans) denied that there are any racists involved with the Tea Party movement, but the former chairman [...]
Conservatives Conflate Immigration with Drug War
Supporters of Arizona’s draconian new Immigration Reform bill (pdf) repeatedly cite ONE reason for the need to clamp down on illegal immigration: Drug crime. And so, they target ALL immigrants (or people who just look Hispanic) in fighting America’s failed “War on Drugs”. This is like passing laws against “automobile passengers” to fight “getaway cars”. [...]
Who’s Better at Running The Economy? A look at the numbers.
One of the greatest stumbling blocks when comparing how well the U.S. economy does under Democrats vs. Republicans is the four years of the Carter Administration. Republicans like to point to the economic “failure” of Jimmy Carter and the economic “success” of Ronald Reagan. Democrats point to the economic “success” of Bill Clinton and the [...]
If Obama were a Republican, they’d be singing his praises by now.
I am NOT one of those people that thinks President Obama is a “closet Republican”, nor a full-blown Conservative. I lump people who say things like that in the same group of Tea-nuts that call President Bush “a Liberal” (yes, those people really are out there), and those who, during the 2008 presidential campaign, called [...]
