Rick Perry Hates America

September 22, 2011

  Rick Perry can’t be bothered to put his hand over his heart during the playing of our National Anthem – clearly he hates America.

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She Doesn’t Judge Gays?

August 15, 2011

Crazy Eyes won the Iowa Straw Poll this past week. And then she appeared on Meet the Press today, and faced more questions about her bizarre and hateful anti-gay rhetoric – take a look: Her claims to not judging clearly and in defiance of the record. So many times she has called lgbt people so [...]

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Corporations Are People?

August 15, 2011

The “unemployed” former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, in Iowa a few days ago: Corporations are people?  It’s this kind of thinking that is causing the downfall of the middle and working classes.  Even if corporations are run by people, they don’t make the same kinds of decisions that individuals – corporations are interested in [...]

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Watch The Economy Crash

August 1, 2011

My biggest fear about this new, ridiculous debt ceiling bill is how the huge reduction in spending is going to slow the economic recovery even more than the idiotic tax cuts in the stimulus package.  What we need right now is MORE spending and HIGHER taxes on the wealthy and the end of loopholes for [...]

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No Abortion, Unless You Are Karen Santorum

June 16, 2011

An induced labor for a 20 week fetus is an abortion.  The baby, infected and fatally deformed, would not have survived. In the fall of 1996, Rick Santorum, 39, became the leader of the anti-partial-birth forces in the Senate. It’s a role that placed him at the center of what soon became a very emotional, [...]

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Why does the Tea Party Hate America?

February 19, 2011

If Wisconsin’s protests are any indication, the Teapublicans are in for a very long two years. They want nothing less than a return to feudalism with a destruction of the middle and working classes.

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repealed!

December 18, 2010

All Americans should rejoice this historic decision to repeal the seventeen year old discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy.  First put into place during the first term of the Bill Clinton Presidency, this policy had weakened our national security at a time when we we face enormous challenges.  Thousands of loyal, dedicated Americans hiding a [...]

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Earth to Obama: Grow a Pair and Face Down the Tea Party While You Still Can

November 15, 2010

Those in the higher reaches aren’t investing in creating new jobs even now, when the full Bush tax cuts remain in effect, so why would extending them change that equation? American companies seem intent on sitting on trillions in cash until the economy reboots. Meanwhile, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office ranks the extension of any [...]

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Tea Party’s Argumentum ad Absurdum

October 6, 2010

You can’t pay, you can’t play. That’s what it boils down to. The Thatcherite idea that “there is no society” is exemplified by Obion County, Tennessee’s fire protection subscription fee. If you don’t pay, or can’t afford to pay it, or you forget to pay, the fire department will let your house burn to the [...]

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Tea Party Idiocy and Other Delights

October 4, 2010

Is it really only one month before the midterm elections? At the beginning of the summer, everyone was predicting that the Republicans would make tremendous gains in state and federal elections, on the wave of the tea party anger and discontent. Democratic candidates were even starting to behave that way, running away from President Obama [...]

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