A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll provides an interesting view into the minds of Americans. Several polls in the past have shown that a majority of Americans want to cut the deficit, even during hard economic times. However, when asked how they would cut the deficit, 70% were against making any cuts to programs […]
Esquire Magazine put together a commission to balance the budget. You may not agree with all their decisions, but at least they did it. If you want to skip to the detailed results, they are here. They did it with a combination of sensible spending cuts with a small amount of tax increases.
“Sarah Palin has a new show. She takes viewers all around Alaska, and shows them where she water-boarded Levi Johnston.” – David Letterman “A show with Sarah Palin? Did we run out of Kardashians?” – David Letterman “John McCain makes an appearance on Palin’s show. He wasn’t scheduled, he just wanders through.” – David Letterman […]
© Jack Ohman The headlines are: “McConnell Does About-Face on Earmarks” (from the conservative NRO), “McConnell Caves on Earmarks” (moderate Washington Monthly), and “McConnell blinks on earmarks” (liberal Daily Kos). At least we can all agree on something!
“President Bush is everywhere talking about his book and he’s being very candid. In one interview, he said that he used to do stupid things while he was drunk. But think about it, who among us hasn’t had a couple of drinks and invaded Iraq?” – David Letterman “The point he wants to get across […]
© Tom Tomorrow The largest increases in “average life expectancy” are actually due to a lowering of childhood death. Old people really aren’t living that much longer than they did when Social Security was originally established. And those who do live longer are primarily in the top half of income earners. Interestingly, the tax that […]
I guess we now have a new meaning of the term “nuclear option” and just how much the Republicans are willing to sell out their own country and their own principals for partisan political gain. The nuclear Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) expired in December 2009. The original START was negotiated by the Reagan administration […]
We seriously need to figure out if McCain simply can’t remember what he has said in the past. UPDATE: John McCain has changed his position on every single policy issue:
Recently, the NY Times published a “deficit-reduction calculator” that is fun to play with, but its options for reducing government spending and raising revenue are simply too limited. Ezra Klein gives some links to other similar calculators, but in case you want to skip to the ending, pretty much the only way to balance the […]
© Jen Sorensen Bipartisanship — like an abusive relationship.
I’ve been seeing a lot of frustration and anger at the new security measures going into effect in airports (especially from pilots). One issue is the new millimeter ‘backscatter’ x-ray machines. Previously, only your carryon bags were x-rayed, now they are x-raying your entire body. And since these new machines penetrate clothing, but stop at […]
Gin and Tacos has a fantastic rant about the overwhelming mandate delivered by the American people in the recent election. Yes, other pundits have attributed lots of other meanings to the election, but I think we can all agree that they have no idea what they are talking about. Ed humbly submits the following as […]
John Shimkus, Republican Congressman from Illinois, is currently on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which is responsible for energy policy, environmental initiatives, and public health. But now that control of the House is being turned over to Republicans, Shimkus is trying to become chairman of the powerful committee. What makes this ironic is […]
© Lee Judge If we keep voting for people whose only policy proposal is to attack their opponents, then we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
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