Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt ...
No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the ...
Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
Story 1:
North Korea punishing those who 'didn't display enough sadness over Kim Jong Il's death'
North Korean authorities are reportedly punishing citizens who did not display enough sadness over the death ...
Judd Gregg thought he could do it but at the end of the day, he realized he was unable to.
Gregg, Obama’s Republican pick to be his commerce secretary, faced the political issues as well as the political realities at hand and withdrew his name. He felt that the differences in fiscal philosphy between himself and Obama would have been a conflict which he would be unable to resolve. “I should have focused sooner and more effectively on the implications of being in the Cabinet versus myself as an individual doing my job“, he said.
Gregg’s decision to withdraw becomes yet another problem for the Obama administration in their ongoing attempt to fill out the Cabinet. Even more important is the further damage to Obama’s grand plan to forge a new bipartisanship era in Washington. Gregg’s decision along with the solidarity Republicans have displayed in fighting the stimulus bill have greatly tarnished the president’s early attempt in finding common ground between the two parties. While Gregg has taken full responsibility for his actions, Republicans will no doubt hope to turn it into a victory for their side.
If nothing else, Gregg will lose the RINO (Republicans In Name Only) tag which Reps had begun to throw his way when he first accepted Obama’s invitation to become commerce secretary. As for President Obama, it might be time to put bipartisanship temporarily on the back burner and focus instead on reviving the economy with or without Republican support.
The clash between fiscal and political issues is real but it is imperative that the former take precedent at this time of economic crisis.
Fox News is such a farce it’s not even funny anymore. Watch the video below for another example of Fox spreading lies and misinformation to their unknowing audience. I’ll explain further down why everything you hear in this video is a blatant lie.
There is no salt water harvest mouse provision calling for an expenditure of 30 million in the stimulus bill. It’s a lie. The story started via an email from a GOP staffer who claimed he had heard from an unnamed California agency that they would obtain $30 million from the stimulus package which they’d use for wetland restoration in the San Francisco area. The restoration would preserve the Salt Water Harvest Mouse in the area.
None of it was true. The GOP staffer admitted as much. But the email story was picked up by the conservative rag, The Washingtom Times which ran the story yesterday. Even after the story was found to be false, Fox News spent a day speaking about it and mocking Pelosi. The clowns on the morning show, Neil Cavuto’s show, Mike Huckabee and the supremely ignorant Glen Beck…the entire gang of lying scum all carried the story with their snickering “Nancy’s mouse” lies.
Now just imagine some Fox News fan, watching this crap. They hear about $30 million being spent to save a mouse in the San Francisco area and they start fuming. They begin snorting smoke and fire and pound the table with cries of “%*$(@& liberals!!!!” as they ignorantly start believing that the stimulus bill is all about pork. And this, my friends, is just another day in the ever ongoing smear and lie campaign of Fox News.
BTW, did I mention that Fox News is ‘fair and balanced’?
Few of us are economists and therefore to make an assessment of how well a certain ‘idea’ would help stimulate the economy, is often nothing more than repeating what we have heard an economist say. And as we all know, 100 economists will give you a 100 different thoughts on what will or will not work.
But this much I do know…whether the Obama recovery plan is successful or not will determine his fate in 2012. That said, I have no doubt he is consulting the best minds available and has put together a compromise plan which he believes will stimulate the economy.
For anyone to suggest that Obama has no real desire to truly fix the economy and wishes only to push ahead a liberal agenda, as many on the conservative side have argued, is nonsense. It is difficult to imagine Obama wishing to be a one term president.
As Obama has noted, he did not ask for this financial crisis. He inherited it and now he’s forced to do something about it. As to why anyone would think that he’d resort to measures which were tried for 8 years and which had much to do with the crisis at hand, is beyond me.
So disagree with specific measures but to suggest that President Obama has anything but the welfare of the nation in mind, is pure partisan lunacy. As he noted today in a town hall meeting, he will be judged solely on the results he obtains.
The recovery will not happen overnight. As to how patient the population remains as the nation ventures into unchartered territory, is yet to be determined.
I watched Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Congress, this Sunday being interviewed by George Stephanopolous. Steele just reiterated all of the Republican talking points in denouncing the stimulus bill. What caught my attention, though, was this lovely little exchange between Steele and Stephanopolous.
STEELE: You’ve got to look at what’s going to create sustainable jobs. What this administration is talking about is making work. It is creating work.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But that’s a job.
STEELE: No, it’s not a job. A job is something that — that a business owner creates. It’s going to be long term. What he’s creating…
STEPHANOPOULOS: So a job doesn’t count if it’s a government job?
STEELE: Hold on. No, let me — let me — let me finish. That is a contract. It ends at a certain point, George. You know that. These road projects that we’re talking about have an end point.
As a small-business owner, I’m looking to grow my business, expand my business. I want to reach further. I want to be international. I want to be national. It’s a whole different perspective on how you create a job versus how you create work. And I’m — either way, the bottom line is…
STEPHANOPOULOS: I guess I don’t really understand that distinction.
STEELE: Well, the difference — the distinction is this. If a government — if you’ve got a government contract that is a fixed period of time, it goes away. The work may go away. That’s — there’s no guarantee that that — that there’s going to be more work when you’re done in that job.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Yes, but we’ve seen millions and millions of jobs going away in the private sector just in the last year.
STEELE: But they come — yes, they — and they come back, though, George. That’s the point. When they go — they’ve gone away before, and they come back.
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Interesting. Mr. Steele, if I may, I think the idea is to get the economy back to a place where the small business owner can actually go out and expand and therefore create ‘jobs’. That’s what the recovery bill will attempt to do…and that’s why it’s called STIMULUS!
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted Yesterday didn’t happen today. Laurence J. Peter
Economics is an imprecise science. This we know. That said, a majority of economists, both liberal and conservative, agree that something needs to be done to stimulate the economy. US jobs are being lost at a frightening rate – 1.9 million lost in 2008 and 600,00 lost in January of this year alone. The Dow has dropped 40% in the last year. The current economy, by any standard or definition, is in a crisis.
So while economists might (and do) quibble about what exactly an economic stimulus plan should look like, one would think that the general population would now be aware that an economic stimulus plan must be put in place. And so, one might wonder, what would a poll look like if people were asked the following question, “How important do you think it is that the government pass an economic stimulus plan?”
Hey, you’d think, that would be a no-brainer, right?
Well guess what, it’s not a no-brainer…at least not if you’re a Republican. And it’s not if you listen to your elected conservative politicians and it’s not if you spend your time listening or reading conservative news media. Here’s the results of a Gallop poll which came out today:
Only 29% of Americans who call themselves Republican believe that passing an economic stimulus bill is critically important! And another 31% of Republicans are of the belief that it’s not important at all.
I don’t know what that tells you but it says to me that if you wish to live in a fog of ignorance, then become a card carrying Republican.
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