Do you recognize any of the following quotes from Republican politicians? “It will raise your taxes, increase the deficit, and kill over one million jobs.” – Joel Hefley (R-CO) “This plan will not work. If it was to work, then I’d have to become a Democrat. … your economic program is a job killer.” – […]
One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers hits the nail on the head when he says that it is time for a different kind of rage. You should go read it, but I’ll give you a quote to whet your appetite: Republicans lecturing the country about fiscal responsibilty, economic recovery, governing — or anything else, for that […]
© August J. Pollak Or maybe they just have Institutional Alzheimer’s disease.
The propaganda technique of the “big lie” requires two things: that the lie be so outrageous that people don’t bother to rebut it, and that you keep repeating it so that people with impaired senses of reality start believing it. And indeed, when former Dubya press secretary Dana Perino claimed that there were no terrorist […]
Fox News heavily promoted the “Tea Party Express”, a bus tour around the country of tea party events. But now, it turns out that over two-thirds of the money that was donated by Tea Partiers to this event was channeled back to Republican political operatives. The Tea Party Express was organized by the political action […]
I already posted about this, but Rachel Maddow says it so much better than I ever could: Full transcript here.
While local Chambers of Commerce are generally a good thing, at the national level the US Chamber of Commerce has become a shill for multinational corporate interests. Their latest project is spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign to convince Americans to give corporations even more free reign. The Chamber is running four minute […]
Yesterday, Pat Buchanan stated on TV that the person who attempted to blow up an airliner, but only succeeded in burning his own crotch off, be denied pain medication for his burns as part of “hostile interrogation.” And then he added with a straight face “I’m not arguing for torture.” It is interesting that the […]
Republicans have often accused the Obama administration (and Democrats in general) of being soft on terrorism. Former VP Cheney even claimed that Obama’s policies were increasing the probability of a catastrophic nuclear or biological terrorist attack. Indeed, in the wake of the recent attempted airline bombing over Detroit, Republicans have tried to blame the unsuccessful […]
Washington Monthly has a scathing article about the hypocrisy of Republican politicians who unanimously oppose Obama’s health care reform bill, when most of them voted for Medicare Part D: Let’s cut the nonsense. Republicans supported Medicare Part D (Karl Rove saw it as a way of creating a “permanent” GOP majority). It was the biggest […]
MoveOn has already raised $1 million using this ad: UPDATE: This may explain why Lieberman has gone to the dark side:
A few months ago I reported on “banana evangelists” Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort and their project to distribute a new version of Darwin’s “The Origin of Species”, including an added 50-page creationist-minded introduction that, in their own words, “reveals the dangerous fruit of evolution, Hitler’s undeniable connections to the theory, Darwin’s racism, and his […]
It may surprise you that Sarah Palin was once a believer in global warming. After all, in an editorial in the Washington Post last week, she called for Obama to boycott the Copenhagen conference because of ClimateGate, and claimed that global warming is “natural” rather than caused by human activities. But when she was governor […]
On Sunday, Senator Joe Lieberman infuriated Democrats by announcing that he would vote against the latest compromise health care legislation, despite the fact that during the delicate crafting of the compromise he had told them he would support it. His stated reason? The compromise would allow people starting at age 55 to purchase health insurance […]
Astroturfing is corporations creating fake “grassroots” opinions to affect legislation, and you couldn’t ask for a better example than this: On Facebook, the political action organization “Get Health Reform Right“, which is funded by health insurance trade groups, is paying people to send anti-health care reform emails to their congressmembers. But in this case, they […]
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