All worth reading. Some political, others not.
My personal favorite is the airing of Bristol Palin's grievances.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Donald Trump - racist idiot - Suffers from extreme form of ODS
To celebrate Kwanza he also went out and raped a random selection of white women. A number of right wing hacks have also attacked Obama for the same thing without mentioning Christmas. For the record George W. issued a very similar pro-forma Kwanza statement every year in office.
ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome) is in full bloom with Fox News running in people's heads 24/7 Obama can never do anything right in those suffering from the malady. They dress to casually for Church on Christmas day. They were in Hawaii where long pants are considered formal for gawd's sake. They dress too fancy/uppity (El Rushbo's words) for gala dinners, Michelle goes shopping in way too expensive places until she goes shopping at Target incognito, get's recognized and then is accused of all sorts of opportunism.
There is a direct correlation between the severity of ODS and a total incapacity to think logically in other areas. They may never realize this.
The genius amphibian's 'day of infamy'
Newt Gingrich isn't going to be President. He isn't going to even win the GOP nomination. His little surge in popularity has withered away and now his ragtag campaign couldn't even get him on the primary in his home state of Virginia. It was his campaign's excessive response that made the headlines, comparing the setback to Pearl Harbor. Calling him a pompous, bloviating ass would be an insult to pompous assholes.
It ranks up there with Steven Swartzman, multi-billionaire hedge fund manager who compared Obama's call for eliminating the tax breaks for hedge fund managers to Hitler invading Poland, from a Jew no less.
It ranks up there with Steven Swartzman, multi-billionaire hedge fund manager who compared Obama's call for eliminating the tax breaks for hedge fund managers to Hitler invading Poland, from a Jew no less.
Rick Perry - a new frontier in stupidity
“Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don’t have to buy from a foreign source,”
This line brought out one of the biggest cheers at a recent speech in Iowa proving his supporters are about as stupid as he is.
This line brought out one of the biggest cheers at a recent speech in Iowa proving his supporters are about as stupid as he is.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Scott Walker's race to the bottom continues unimpeded
We reported recentlythat Scott Walker, who promised jobs, jobs, jobs and more jobs led the nation in job losses in October as Wisconsin shed 9,700 hundred jobs in October. To make matters worse, he fed his recall opponents the perfect TV ad fodder by openly mocking the policies of neighbors, Illinois, which ironically registered the largest employment gains.
The numbers for November are out and while Illinois is no longer #1 Wisconsin is firmly anchored again at the bottom. This time Wisconsin lost 14,700 jobs, edging out Minnesota as the only two states to lose jobs. This marks the 5th straight month of job losses in Wisconsin when Walker's budget came into effect.
There is one job loss that a majority of the state will cheer, Walker's own tenuous hold on the Governor's office. Scott Walker, creating a legacy, one lost job at a time.
The numbers for November are out and while Illinois is no longer #1 Wisconsin is firmly anchored again at the bottom. This time Wisconsin lost 14,700 jobs, edging out Minnesota as the only two states to lose jobs. This marks the 5th straight month of job losses in Wisconsin when Walker's budget came into effect.
There is one job loss that a majority of the state will cheer, Walker's own tenuous hold on the Governor's office. Scott Walker, creating a legacy, one lost job at a time.
Even the Wall Street Journal recognizes the suicide pact
They're worried.
Let's ignore the usual WSJ claptrap about Obama being a 'tax and spend' liberal, planning one of the biggest tax increases ever. He's never proposed anything other than letting the Bush tax cuts expire for the richest of Americans, which considering the current state of the deficit and the low ration between tax revenues and GDP is essential to closing the deficit.
Secondly, the editorial dismisses the payroll tax cut because it's employers won't be tempted to hire based n a 2% lower payroll tax cut. Probably not, but it doesn't even occur to those 1% brains that the tax cut puts extra money in the pockets of 160 million working Americans who might actually go out and spend that money. Most estimates peg the benefit of the tax cutadding 1 to 1.5% to GDP this year as well as job losses or gains depending on which way this circle of idiocy plays out. That doesn't enter their 1% minds.
Remember this is the paper that called people collecting unemployment or those earning so little they barely paid Federal income taxes. "those lucky duckies".
GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell famously said a year ago that his main task in the 112th Congress was to make sure that President Obama would not be re-elected. Given how he and House Speaker John Boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest.
The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play.
Republicans have also achieved the small miracle of letting Mr. Obama position himself as an election-year tax cutter, although he's spent most of his Presidency promoting tax increases and he would hit the economy with one of the largest tax increases ever in 2013. This should be impossible.
House Republicans yesterday voted down the Senate's two-month extension of the two-percentage-point payroll tax holiday to 4.2% from 6.2%. They say the short extension makes no economic sense, but then neither does a one-year extension. No employer is going to hire a worker based on such a small and temporary decrease in employment costs, as this year's tax holiday has demonstrated. The entire exercise is political, but Republicans have thoroughly botched the politics.
Let's ignore the usual WSJ claptrap about Obama being a 'tax and spend' liberal, planning one of the biggest tax increases ever. He's never proposed anything other than letting the Bush tax cuts expire for the richest of Americans, which considering the current state of the deficit and the low ration between tax revenues and GDP is essential to closing the deficit.
Secondly, the editorial dismisses the payroll tax cut because it's employers won't be tempted to hire based n a 2% lower payroll tax cut. Probably not, but it doesn't even occur to those 1% brains that the tax cut puts extra money in the pockets of 160 million working Americans who might actually go out and spend that money. Most estimates peg the benefit of the tax cutadding 1 to 1.5% to GDP this year as well as job losses or gains depending on which way this circle of idiocy plays out. That doesn't enter their 1% minds.
Remember this is the paper that called people collecting unemployment or those earning so little they barely paid Federal income taxes. "those lucky duckies".
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
House Republicans prepare for mass suicide on Payroll Taxes
House Republicans decide to piss off 160 million American workers by rejecting payroll tax cut extension.
And Fox as usual puts its complete ignorance on display.
Most economists as well as a number of large banks believe extending the payroll tax cut for a year will increase GDP for 2012 by between 1-1 1/2%. That's a big deal. They also repeat the "49% of Americans don't pay any taxes" lie. No, 49% of Americans don't pay Federal Income taxes but they do pay many other taxes including Social Security taxes. They pay Federal taxes at the gas pump and on many other products. They pay state and local taxes, they pay property taxes directly if they own or indirectly if they rent. They pay sales taxes, taxes on utilities, phone service and a host of other taxes, so saying they pay no taxes at all without qualification as the Fox people would let you believe is a total lie. Par for the course.
And Fox as usual puts its complete ignorance on display.
Most economists as well as a number of large banks believe extending the payroll tax cut for a year will increase GDP for 2012 by between 1-1 1/2%. That's a big deal. They also repeat the "49% of Americans don't pay any taxes" lie. No, 49% of Americans don't pay Federal Income taxes but they do pay many other taxes including Social Security taxes. They pay Federal taxes at the gas pump and on many other products. They pay state and local taxes, they pay property taxes directly if they own or indirectly if they rent. They pay sales taxes, taxes on utilities, phone service and a host of other taxes, so saying they pay no taxes at all without qualification as the Fox people would let you believe is a total lie. Par for the course.
A short and maybe not so sweet honeymoon for Gingrich
Gingrich's super awesome baggage was bound to trip him up sooner or later once he became the latest great hope to keep Romney at bay and ascend to the While House. The 'sooner' option is making it a runaway. The latest polls show Gingrich bleeding support and with a smaller campaign organization than most of the other contenders and less money to spend he's taking it in the nuts.
Witness this pleasant exchance with an Iowa voter.
Then again, I'm with Newt on his comments on the Paul Ryan economic plan.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
"Only the little people pay taxes"
The Gingrich - Helmsley 2012 Tax Plan.
From Paul Krugman, named after the odious Leona Helmsley who issued the above statement while being sentenced for tax evasion. About 60% of Americans will be paying taxes at a higher rate than the top 1%. Not that many Americans aren't already paying at a higher rate than the 1%.
If, and there is still a big if, Gingrich is the nominee, I relish seeing him trying to explain this to the American people.
Monday, December 12, 2011
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