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Is This Government Working For The People?

March 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Democracy, News, Politics, Republicans, america

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Politicians Use Reconciliation More Than You Think- Just Ask Lamar Alexander

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · News, Politics, Republicans

Hypocrisy Watch:  Health Care Reform
Great information piece done here by Think Progress, deflating Senator Lamar Alexander’s argument against the reconciliation process.  Now while the senator from Tennessee claims that the “senate will come to an end” if the process is used, it did not stop him from using reconciliation on several occasions.  Those included:

– 2003 [...]

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Republicans Had Stimulus Envy

February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · News, Politics, Republicans

Bloomberg’s got it:

Alabama Republicans Jo Bonner and Robert Aderholt took to the U.S. House floor in July, denouncing the Obama administration’s stimulus plan for failing to boost employment. “Where are the jobs?” each of them asked.
Over the next three months, Bonner and Aderholt tried at least five times to steer stimulus-funded transportation grants to Alabama [...]

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Satire Is Only Funny When Sarah Palin Thinks It’s Funny

February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Comedy, News, Politics, america

HYPOCRISY WATCH, SARAH PALIN STYLE
Sarah Palin is either a disingenuous fraud, or just plain idiotic.  I’ll reserve judgment for the sole purpose of debunking her latest transparent crusade. Palin’s defense of Rush Limbaugh– a man made wealthy by stoking the flames of xenophobia, racism, sexism, classism, and any other ism that’s classified as divisive and  [...]

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Hypocrisy Watch: Congressional Black Caucus

February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Democrats, News, Politics

Between 2004 and 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus’s political and charitable wings collected at least $55 million in corporate and union contributions, according to an analysis by The New York Times. These donors also often appeal to caucus members for support for their legislative agendas. This collection shows documents from two C.B.C. groups and letters [...]

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GOP Rail Against Policies They Supported Just To Spite The President

February 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Democracy, Democrats, News, Politics, Republicans

Let me be perfectly clear here.  REPUBLICANS DO NOT WANT TO SUPPORT ANY POLICIES THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION COMES UP WITH, even when those policies are ones that they actually supported before.  They only believe in obstruction, and obstinance. There is no bi-partisanship.  There is only hypocrisy.
Watch Rachel Maddow eviscerate GOP members of congress for taking [...]

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The Tea Party Convention Part II: Birthers, Homophobia, And Black Sharpies

February 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · 2012 Presidential Election, Elections, News, Politics, Racism, Republicans, america

The National Tea Party Convention concluded this past weekend, and  If you’ve already read part one, then you know that the tone of the convention was set very early on.  Racial paranoia wafted heavily in the air over the weekend, dampening the intended message of anti-tax, and anti-government intervention the movement was trying to focus [...]

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Moral Flexibility Is A Pox On Both Our Houses

February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Politics

Religion and politics are a toxic blend.  Who holds the moral high ground?  Political policy is shaped by ideas and innovative minds.  Policy is not formed by religious proselytizing and radical invention.  Yet components of both major political parties– one party more than the other– uses religion and the ensuing fervor behind it, to craft [...]

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Hypocrisy Watch

January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Democrats, Politics, Republicans, america

From Politico:
President Barack Obama got a welcome piece of good economic news at the end of a difficult week for the White House, as the Commerce Department reported Friday that the nation’s economy grew by nearly 6 percent at the end of 2009, far faster than analysts expected.
The gross domestic product rose a seasonally adjusted [...]

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Fiscally Conservative? Maybe Not

January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Democrats, Elections, Republicans, america

Take a peek at this chart and tell me the pattern you see:

It seems that Republican presidents in the last 30 years have played a bigger role than their democratic counterparts in increasing the national debt.  Why is this important?  GOP arguments of “tax and spend liberals who are mortgaging our children’s future” –don’t exactly [...]

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