© Mike Stanfill Deficits Don’t Matter? Shouldn’t Republicans recuse themselves from the deficit negotiations? After all, they created most of the problem in the first place, and stand to gain from making things worse.
Republicans have been fighting against the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and especially hard to stop Elizabeth Warren from becoming its head. The new bureau is tasked with protecting consumers from predatory lenders and was primarily a response to massive abuses by mortgage lenders that contributed to the recent mortgage crisis. One of the most […]
© Matt Bors Pretty much everyone is fed up with the government, but nobody has a good idea of how to fix it. Politicians who actually try to change the system are dismissed as “out of the mainstream” or not “serious” because they don’t raise enough money. That’s ironic, since money in politics is a […]
Business Insider put together an interesting chart showing GDP minus government spending. In other words, it shows economic growth coming from the private sector (not from stimulus spending): The shaded part is the recession, where by early 2009 (when Obama took office) the economy was shrinking by 7.5%. But less than a year later, the […]
Could this explain some of Michele Bachmann’s bizarre behavior? According to three people who have worked closely with Bachmann, the presidential candidate suffers from “debilitating” migraine headaches on a weekly basis that can “incapacitate” her for days. Not only that, but allegedly she is constantly medicated to try to prevent them. The migraines are so […]
“We’re getting closer and closer to the country going into default. We could be out of money by August 2nd. How many people are surprised by that? How many people are surprised we still have enough money to make it until August 2nd?” – Jay Leno “Will we default on our debt, and will Canada […]
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© Ed Stein Once again Ed Stein has good commentary to go along with his comic: Well, it’s come to this. The forces of evil, in the name of ideological purity, are threatening to destroy what’s left of the nation’s economy. The good guys are powerless in the face of the unrelenting assault on sanity. […]
© Lee Judge Message received, loud and clear. UPDATE: © Mike Keefe
© Jen Sorensen I’m having trouble finding good comics to post about the Debt Ceiling Mud Wrestling Match for a couple of reasons. First, I’m reluctant to post comics (like this one) that exaggerate, since the reality of the situation is bizarre enough. And second, there really isn’t much that is funny about the situation. […]
It seems apropos that when the new Sarah Palin documentary opened in (an overly optimistic) ten theaters across the nation, for at least one of those theaters the only person in the audience was a member of the press. Let us pray that her 15 minutes of fame has finally expired. Anyone who thinks that […]
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Walid Shoebat travels around the US giving speeches to police departments, churches, and universities about terrorism. His qualifications? He says he was a terrorist for the PLO who helped firebomb a bank in Israel and spent time in an Israeli jail. This supposedly makes him an expert on terrorism. The first question here is whether […]
To give you an idea of how far out of step with reality the Congressional Republicans who are demanding that we balance the budget with no tax increases are, a new Gallup poll shows that only 28% of all Republicans think that the deficit should be reduced only with budget cuts. Large majorities think we […]
[Note – this story is not completely true. While News Corp is one of the top three big companies in their utilization of tax havens, they did indeed pay taxes. They changed the way they report information in 2007, which caused confusion. See the link at the end of this posting for more info.] Rupert […]
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Conservative David Brooks points out that the Republicans in Congress are being handed “The Mother of All No-Brainers” to reduce the deficit, but they are so beholden to their more radical fringe that they would rather destroy the US economy than do what is right, as long as what is right involves compromising with the […]
© Clay Jones Until recently, Rupert Murdoch was considered an “uncrowned king” of Britain. But now his kingdom is falling apart. He’s been forced to shut down one of his newspapers after the disclosure of widespread hacking into the cellphones of possibly thousands of people, including the relatives of killed soldiers, politicians, and celebrities. They […]
