What a joke.

For thirty years, we've witnessed a staggering concentration of wealth from among the very top earners.

This is spelled out in compelling detail in Jacob Hacker's and Paul Pierson's recent book, Winner Take All Politics, and David Cay Johnston has been doing some in depth reporting on wealth transfer for many years.

To take one ( Read more... )

The right wing echo chamber is impervious to facts. As journalists they are perpetuating a fraud of the first order on their audience, good for votes, terrible for our Democracy!

The RW is self sourcing it's own talking points and presenting them as facts in subsequent reports. The most recent is the ludicrous assertion that the administration is ( Read more... )

The right call Obama a divider, since he does not follow their ideology. They claim he is purposefully angering Republicans, and refusing to work with them, or as I see it, kowtow to their agenda.

Republicans have done everything in their power to denigrate Obama for two years! The right wing punditry labeled him a Communist/Socialist/Fascist/ ( Read more... )

Today, Republicans will discuss their “Pledge to America,” the political agenda they plan to campaign on as they attempt to take control over the House of Representatives. The agenda is supposedly the culmination of a project GOP lawmakers launched - America Speaking Out - which was designed to give the public a virtual platform to submit ( Read more... )

Check out this graphic from today's Washington Post showing the difference between the Democratic and Republican tax plans!


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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional ( Read more... )

Beside Iowa, being one of the 14 states that teaches specific mythology as science, there is a movement among some Iowa Republicans to ratify the ORIGINAL 13th Amendment passed by both houses in 1819.

The text:

"If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall without the ( Read more... )

Recessions, how long they lasted, and who was POTUS at the time.

June ’53 to June ’54 Eisenhower (Republican January ’53 to December ’60 ( Read more... )

What is it about FOX, conservatives and ratings?

They seem to put a great deal of "Faith in the fact that 3 million people are misinformed daily by FOX and that gives them a sense of superiority?

No one is fooled by FOX anymore, except those same 3 million slavish viewers.

Yet the put such stock in their ratings, as if that somehow validates ( Read more... )

Sen. Lieberman, putting the con in Connecticut, has magically voted against his Democratic constituency since he came to the Senate!

A consummate liar, and corporate whore, he votes for whatever lobby group pays him the most ( Read more... )