Monday, 27 August 2012
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Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball, confronts RNC Chairman Reince Priebus about his party’s attack on President Obama being not American.
Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball, confronts RNC Chairman Reince Priebus about his party’s attack on President Obama being not American.
This stems from a comment Mr. Romney made on Friday during a campaign stop in Michigan where he recounted about his wife and he living there and says:
“No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this was the place where we were born and raised.”(crowd cheers)
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Saturday, 18 August 2012
In the last week, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have condemned the statement made by Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday about the Romney-Ryan Economic Plan calling it “low.”
Hmmm…. Interesting…
I have compiled a short list of quotes from well known Republicans and those in the conservative movement over the last 4 years.
"I hope it prolongs the failure. I hope it prolongs the recession. Because people are going to have to figure out here that this is not how economies recover. Government is not the central planner… Of course I want Obama to fail. And after this stimulus bill package passes, I want it to fail."- Rush Limbaugh, 13 February 2009, regarding Obama’s stimulus plan
"I hope it prolongs the failure. I hope it prolongs the recession. Because people are going to have to figure out here that this is not how economies recover. Government is not the central planner… Of course I want Obama to fail. And after this stimulus bill package passes, I want it to fail."- Rush Limbaugh, 13 February 2009, regarding Obama’s stimulus plan
The opening pages of the book Do Not Ask What Good We Do talks about a dinner held by prominent Republicans in Washington, DC about how to retake the Congress and White House after the 2008 elections. Among those in attendance from Congress: Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan, Pete Sessions, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra, Dan Lungren, Jim DeMint, Jon Kyl, Tom Coburn, John Ensign, and Bob Corker. Also in attendance was Newt Gingrich and communications specialist Frank Luntz.
When did this dinner take place? 20 January 2009
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” – Senator Mitch McConnell (R- KY), addressing the Heritage Foundation in October 2010
Michele Bachmann has several classic quotations. Here is list of her Top 10 up until June 2011.
Here is a compilation video and I warn you, your IQ will drop 10%.
Newt Gingrich and his claim of President Obama being “The Food Stamp President”
That claim made by Gingrich was false. Nothing more than a racist, dog-whistle lie to stir up white paranoia. I am sad to say some members of my mother’s family who are surprisingly one generation ahead of me believe this nonsense.
“One thing I'm sure of is that there are people in this country… there is a radical strain of Islam in this country… it's not just over there… trying to kill Americans every week. It is a real threat, and it is a threat that is much more at home now than it was after 9/11.”
- Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL, Deadbeat Dad), August 2012
- Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL, Deadbeat Dad), August 2012
This other quote from Deadbeat Dad Joe Walsh pisses me off because you hear people chuckling while the Congressman said that Tammy Duckworth’s service meant nothing.
Tammy Duckworth served in Iraq as a helicopter pilot. She was shot down and lost both of her legs. Even though she is a double amputee, she is still serving in the Illinois National Guard.
I wonder how many of them would chuckle to her face.
Oh, and once again, he’s a Deadbeat Dad.
Who could forget this during President Obama’s address to a Joint Session of Congress in 2009 about health care reform back on 9 September 2009?
You know Jon Stewart had something to say about this on his program on Wednesday Night after the always irrelevant Sarah Palin had something to say about this.
In the montage clip, Palin asked if there were five Republicans that have ever said such hateful things.
I gave her more than five, but I don’t think she would ever get there. She has a problem getting past two.
And Mitt Romney is one to talk…
This coming from a man who has a long, well documented history of saying whatever in order to get elected.
This is not the first instance of “Republican Freak Out” in this campaign and it certainly won’t be the last.
Friday, 17 August 2012
It has been barely a week since that Saturday morning at the Battleship Wisconsin near the Nauticus Naval History Museum in Norfolk, VA, when the Republican Party’s Nominee Mitt Romney selected Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his Vice-Presidential nominee.
Representative Ryan gained national prominence as the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget in the US House during the 112th Congress. The budget passed by this committee, referred to as either its official name of “The Path to Prosperity” or its common name of the Ryan Plan, contains controversial measures behind it.
It proposes in turning Medicare and Medicaid, one of the most successful government programs for the elderly and poor, into a voucher system. “ObamaCare”, which was found to be Constitutional by a Conservative leaning Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision back in late June, would be dismantled of key provisions as part of the Republican’s goal of repealing it. VoteVets.org made an observation that the Ryan Plan makes no reference to our Veterans and their benefits. Other draconian cuts include slashing Pell Grants for college students and kicking people off the food stamp rolls. It should be noted that a good percentage of people that benefit from the food stamp program are children.
Even though this budget passed the Republican controlled House of Representatives along party lines, the bill was DOA in the Democratic controlled Senate as it failed 57-40 with some Senate Republicans crossing over to strike it down.
The most glaring of the Ryan Plan is how the government draws in revenue as specified in Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution. Under this budget, the plan to draw in revenue would be to keep the Bush Tax Cuts and then an additional $4 trillion (yes, TRILLION) in tax cuts for the Top 1% wage earners in the hopes that by some miracle that will stimulate the economy.
In the 30+ years that this country has enacted Supply Side Economics (AKA “Reganomics”) as its primary economic policy, the only people that have benefited from this are those at the top while the rest of us have seen our incomes stagnate at best.
For instance, under the Ryan Plan, Mitt Romney would pay less than 1% in taxes. According to returns for 2010, Mr. Romney and his wife, Ann, paid an effective federal tax rate of 13.9%. The burden of payment for the services we need to function as a society would shift further to those at the lower ends of the income ladder.
In the days since Mr. Romney picked Representative Ryan as his running mate, he has done what he can to distance his campaign from the Ryan Plan.
Well, it’s his now.
Well, it’s his now.
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