May 2012
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Why Vote? Here's Why.
Tea Party favorites such as Stephen Fincher of Tennessee were swept into Congress on a wave of anger over government-funded bailouts of banks.
Now those incumbents are collecting thousands of dollars for re-election campaigns from the same Wall Street firms whose excesses they criticized. They have taken no significant steps to curb them or prevent future taxpayer-financed rescues.
Read more.
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Always Choose Wealthy Parents
Steve Benen gets to the heart of the matter, as always.
Mitt Romney’s latest gem comes with a larger significance.
“Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.”
… If you’re a young person who can’t afford rising college tuition rates and/or don’t have the resources to launch...
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Watchbarackobama:
jessicavalenti:
Rachel Maddow owns Republican pundit who says women don’t actually make less money than men.
This was pretty beautiful. (If you’re wondering what the president’s done for equal pay, Lilly Ledbetter can tell you.)
Did you see Alex Castellanos laughing when Rachel was making her point? That is, when he allowed her to speak? That is exactly the kind of...
April 2012
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“No. The American people don’t want to vote for a loser. They don’t want to vote...”
– John Boehner on Mitt Romney.
Politicalprof: Because if there is one thing one can say definitively about Barack Obama, it’s that as the son of a single mother who worked unspeakably hard to get her son the opportunity to get an education that then got him the chance to win scholarships to Columbia...
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“This contraception fight in particular was illuminating. It was like being in a...”
– President Obama speaking at the DNC’s Women’s Leadership Forum on Friday.
A vote for Mitt Romney means a vote for an extremist Republican GOP. As they say, buyer beware.
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So was the auto bailout Romney’s idea or not?
From Ezra Klein:
Mitt Romney, Feb 4, 2012:
“The president tells us that without his intervention things in Detroit would be worse. I believe that without his intervention things there would be better.”
Eric Fehrnstrom, senior adviser to the Romney campaign, April 30, 2012:
Romney’s “position on the bailout was exactly what President Obama followed. I know it infuriates them to hear that. The...
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Mitt Romney’s aides point to candidate’s lighter...
Pressed to reveal the lighter side of Mitt Romney, his advisers on Saturday recalled the time when the former Massachusetts governor had a laugh over a prank involving the purported firing of a chambermaid.
Yes, really
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Student Loans and the Healthcare Prevention Fund
How are the two related? They aren’t, but the House Republicans are trying to tie them together in an unholy alliance. House Republicans want to use money earmarked for the health reform’s Prevention and Public Health Fund to hold down interest rates on student loans. The White House has threatened to veto the bill.
Is the Prevention and Public Health Fund, a “slush” fund, as...
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“Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat...”
– Mayor Cory Booker
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Welcome to class warfare, Republican style
Steve Benen has a great post on this topic. While it is universally believed by everyone, especially the Right, that Republicans oppose tax hikes on anyone, by any amount, there is a pesky exception to this rule… they support tax increases on the poor.
Steve writes (highlight mine)… the House Republican budget plan, as written by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), actually increases the tax...
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Why, Barney?
Earlier this week, Barney Frank spoke with the New York magazine and one of the things he said was that it was a strategic mistake for President Obama to push through the Health Care reform because “ ”When you tell [people with health insurance] that you’re going to extend health care to people who don’t now have it, they don’t see how you can do that without hurting them.”...
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Newt Gingrich Bitten By Penguin At St. Louis Zoo
HuffPo: The Republican presidential candidate is sporting a small bandage on his finger after getting nipped by a small penguin during his tour of the zoo on Friday. Gingrich was in St. Louis to speak during the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting.
Hope the penguin’s okay!
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Buffet Rule fails in Senate 51-45 in a filibuster...
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas were the only politicians to cross party lines.
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Barney Frank Says Obama's Health-Care Push Was a... →
theatlantic:
(via New York)
In the interview Barney Frank says this:
You think Obama overinterpreted his mandate with health care? The problem with health care is this: Health care is enormously important to people. When you tell them that you’re going to extend health care to people who don’t now have it, they don’t see how you can do that without hurting them. So I think he underestimated,...
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“The United States is getting accustomed to a completely crazy level of...”
– For Economists Saez and Piketty, the Buffett Rule Is Just a Start - NYTimes.com (via wonklife)
Truer words were never spoken…
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Americans Favor "Buffett Rule" by 60% to 37%
According to Gallup, “Six in 10 Americans favor Congress’ passing the so-called “Buffett Rule,” which would mandate a minimum 30% tax rate for Americans with a household income of $1 million or more per year. Majorities of both Democrats and independents favor the policy, while a majority of Republicans oppose it.”
As Steve Benen says: “
As for why...
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President Obama Has a Higher Tax Rate than Mitt... →
Should add:
“President Obama’s Federal income tax rate is 20.5 percent, which is actually higher than Mitt Romney’s 15.4 percent despite making around $20 million less than the Republican frontrunner. Obama and his team have released his 2011 Federal income and gift and tax returns today.”
So there you go. Mittens is making out big time.
