September 20, 2011
Lest you think Michele Bachmann’s ignorance and inanity have no bearing on people’s lives.
What an irresponsible asshole.
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October 19, 2011
From last night's GOP debate, in which Herman Cain talks out his ass and Ron Paul just plain fucking gets it and the Republican crowd, again, goes apeshit with applause for the wrong thing.
- ANDERSON COOPER (to HERMAN CAIN): Two weeks ago you said "Don't blame Wall Street; don't blame the big banks; if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself." That was two weeks ago. The (Occupy Wall Street) movement has grown. Do you still say that?
- CAIN: Yes I do still say that -- and here's why.
- (Loud applause and whistling from the Republican audience.)
- CAIN (continues): ...I still stand by my statement and here's why: they might be frustrated with Wall Street and the bankers, but they are directing their anger at the wrong place. Wall Street didn't put in failed economic policies. Wall Street didn't spend a trillion dollars that didn't do any good. Wall Street isn't going around the country trying to sell another 450 billion dollars. They oughta be standing in front of the White House taking out their frustration. So I do stand by that!
- (More loud applause from the Republican audience.)
- COOPER (to RON PAUL): Congressman Paul, you've been critical of Governor Romney for holding fundraisers with Wall Streeters. Do you think he understand what the protests are about? Do you understand?
- PAUL: Well, I think Mr. Cain has blamed the victims. There's a lot of people that are victims of this business cycle. We can't blame the victims... but I'd go to Washington as well as Wall Street -- I'd go to the Federal Reserve! They create the financial bubbles, and you have to understand that. You can't solve these problems if you don't know where these bubbles come from.
- (Mild smattering of applause from the Republican crowd.)
- PAUL (continues): But then when the bailout came, and supported by BOTH parties -- you have to realize, '08, the Republicans were still in charge, so the bailouts came from BOTH parties -- guess who they bailed out? The big corporations, the people who were ripping off the people in the derivatives market! And they said "The world is going to come to an end unless we bail out all the banks! So the banks WERE involved, and the Federal Reserve WAS involved! But who got stuck? The middle class got stuck! They got stuck, they lost their jobs, and they lost their houses! If you HAD to give money out, you should've given it to the people who were losing their mortgages -- NOT to the banks!
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October 21, 2011
i feel like this line repeats over and over in the heads of all republicans in congress.
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November 19, 2011
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November 29, 2011
December 7, 2011
Mitt Romney Quote
“I should tell my story. I’m also unemployed.” —GOP presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), speaking in 2011 to unemployed people in Florida. Romney’s net worth is over $200 million.
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Newt Gingrich Quote
“There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.” —GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, explaining why he cheated on his first two wives. He carried on the first affair while his wife was suffering from cancer, and the second while he was busy orchestrating Bill Clinton’s impeachment.~~~~~~~~~~~
Rick Perry Quote
“Texas is a unique place. When we came in the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that. You know, my hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We’ve got a great union. There is absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what may come out of that?” —Texas Gov. and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, raising the prospect of Texas seceding while speaking to a reporter after a Tea Party rally, April 15, 2009
(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
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January 20, 2012
The GOP is based on outdated morals and failed policies that have broken under the strain of time. I don’t think I could find a more accurate photo to describe it.
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February 3, 2012
(Source: thingsmittromneysays, via inothernews)
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February 21, 2012
Are Republicans talking about jobs, climate change, the economy, health care, education…etc.?
Nope.
The Republicans are concerned about birth control.
Birth Control.
That’s the most pressing issue to the Republican Party in 2012.
(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
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February 29, 2012
Sadly the propaganda campaign launched in the 1960s has taken root. The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.
They’re just good for heterosexual sex, making babies and cleaning up the house, right, Rick?
Amazingly, about half of half of the country is nonetheless prepared to vote for this spiteful dick.
(via the New York Times)
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March 8, 2012
For women, obviously birth control is not a religious topic: it’s a health topic, and 99 percent of women in America use it. And at Planned Parenthood, we provide birth control to millions of women every single year, so yeah — I think they’re kind of mystified by what the ‘controversy’ is all about.
…I think we’re seeing in this presidential primary this sort of, like, race to the bottom, where every presidential candidate on the Republican side is trying to say ‘I would be absolutely the worst for women.’
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We begin tonight with Zeno’s Paradox, which postulates that to get your destination, you must first travel half the distance towards it, (and) from there, half the remaining distance, and so on, so on, ad infinitum, ipso facto, et al, ergo, vis a vis, c’est la vie, one can never actually arrive at the end point.
Which brings us to the race for the Republican nomination for president.
JON STEWART, The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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March 28, 2012
[T]he CEO of the radio company that distributes Limbaugh’s show, Clear Channel, says he’s sticking with the conservative talk show host, calling him the “king” of radio.
Bob Pittman told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that the outrage over Limbaugh’s comments last month was “part of the normal day-to-day of talk radio.” He also noted that Limbaugh apologized for the first time in 30 years.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the controversy erupted late last month, Pittman said that advertisers leaving the program did not have a major impact on the company and there has not been a major move among stations to drop Limbaugh…
He added that attempts by rival radio company Cumulus Media to sell a show hosted by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Limbaugh’s time slot validated Limbaugh’s status as the talk-show leader.
“It basically says Rush is the king,” he said. “Rush is certainly the leader, and we’re delighted to have him.”
As if any of us needed another reason to hate Clear Channel.
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April 6, 2012
Rachel Maddow reports on the underhanded shenanigans of the Republican Party in Michigan.
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May 2, 2012
Depending on how you look at it, the Bush economy was either okay, a bit weak or absolutely awful.
To make it look okay, you eliminate all context. You look at levels rather than trends. Unemployment was in the 5 to 6 percent range. The economy was growing. Deficits, though rising, were at manageable levels. The stock market was booming. Most Americans were living pretty well. That all sounds pretty good.
To make it look weaker, you add back in some context. Monthly job growth from March 2001 to December 2007 — so, from the end of the 2001 recession to the beginning of the 2007 recession — was 68,000. That’s one of the weakest expansions on record. Meanwhile, poverty and inequality were increasing even as median incomes were falling. Oh, and while Bush’s deficits weren’t huge, they came during a period of growth — normally, periods of growth are when you cut the deficit, as we saw in the 1990s. So these were deficits of an unusually irresponsible sort.
To make it look absolutely awful, you add in the fact that there was a huge credit bubble inflating beneath the economy that George W. Bush did nothing to stop and that his choice for Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, did much to inflate. So as weak as the decade’s economic numbers look, they’re much, much worse when you realize they were artificially pumped up by the bubble, and Bush’s record is much, much worse when you add that the economic collapse began on his watch, and the long-term cost of the tax cuts and Medicare Part D and the war in Iraq.
Klein: Yes, Bush’s economy was terrible (via kileyrae)(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
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