nothing new here, just deceiving the people with debt ceiling hysterics and Reagan tax increase lies...

Not shocking, just typical......The 4 Republicans  in Congressional leadership roles voted to raise the debt ceiling 19 times under GW Bush, the debt limit was in fact increased by almost 4 trillion dollars!  So now under our Democrat Barack Obama the Thugs are demanding spending cuts before they entertain the notion of a vote to raise the debt ceiling. What they are doing is pure politics and the country knows it. They will not only place our economy in peril but the world economy too. Now if you believe spending cuts will fix everything you are highly misinformed and misguided!  Surely the GOP knows that, afterall there were NO demands for drastic spending cuts with previous debt ceiling votes, in May 2003 the debt limit increase passed the Senate the same day as the $350 billion Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.  They are playing games with our economic survival, games they NEVER played with President Bush. Their plan to bring down President Obama by bringing down our economy will only backfire in 2012.


We all know this, it's not shocking news either, but I saw it on Facebook and wanted to put it on the blog because it reinforces my opinion Republicans are hypocrites and liars.... In 1982 Reagan's administration implemented the first of SEVERAL tax increases in order to REDUCE THE DEFICIT!  ( Actually Saint Ronnie raised taxes in seven of the eight years that he was President.) Even then the Republican lawmakers and conservative economists said the tax increases would hurt the economy and hinder growth, but Bruce Bartlett (former Reagan and Bush Sr. economic official) noted, “It would be hard to find an economic forecast that was more wrong in every respect“:

There was no increase in the rate of inflation, which was exactly the same in 1983 and 1984 as it was in 1982. The unemployment rate fell from 10.6 percent in December 1982 to 8.1 percent by December 1983 and 7.1 percent in December 1984.

The 1982 tax increase is the largest peacetime tax increase in U.S. history. And the same thing happened around President Bill Clinton’s 1993 tax increase: dire warnings from Republicans about economic Armageddon, followed by a booming economy.

As Center for American Progress Director of Tax and Budget Policy Michael Linden noted, over the last 50 years, lower top tax rates have coincided with weaker growth, while the strongest growth was during periods when the top tax rate was substantially higher than it is now. As he explained, “These numbers do not mean that higher rates necessarily lead to higher growth. But the central tenet of modern conservative economics is that a lower top marginal tax rate will result in more growth, and these numbers do show conclusively that history has not been kind to that theory.”
Of course, it’s not really surprising that the GOP has no idea what went on during Reagan’s term. After all, House Republicans scoffed and rolled their eyes when presented with the fact that taxes were higher under Reagan than they are under Obama.

SEE?  Hypocrites AND liars, they know it but could give 2 shits.... this is why I despise them!

WAR...HUH, What is it good for..absolutely nothing...

 I hate the wars, and I hate President Obama' s decision to bring home just a measly 10,000 troops this year and the rest by 2 friggin 14. But what I hate even more is the reaction from the Republicans starting with Tim Pawlenty, better known as Paw Paw....he called the presidents decision a GRAVE MISTAKE and was CONCERNED with the phrase "we need to end the war responsibly".  Pawlenty says we NEED TO WIN when we go to war! Oh well, we all know, the whole world in fact knows, you can not win this "war" in Afghanistan, so why doesn't Paw Paw admit to that?? How can you close out a war with a "win" when you don't even know who you are fighting?? There is not gonna be a winner and a loser! Who the hell is gonna be the loser?? And who will be called the triumphant winner??

We need to follow the generals advice Pawlenty says, well if that's the case then we will be in this "war" til the end of time.  How many yrs. will it take before the Afghans can take care of themselves, a century maybe??  The "REAL" mission is stabilizing the security of that country Pawlenty says....so we'll keep throwing money we don't have at a corrupt Afghanistan, and we'll have another 3 yrs of watching our troops come home in coffins?  What the hell do these warmongers want from our troops and the innocent Afghan civilians?

Pawlenty says "to leave now when we are so close to a successful completion is a grave mistake"....we have heard that before, many, many times before...
All that talk about nation building, yea, what about building our crumbling nation? When will you throw some of that money our way?
It's true, President Obama is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. I hate the war, I hate the decision of a slow end to the war, but we are supposed to, as patriots, support our Commander in Chief...Remember Paw Paw??

I'm not happy but I'm still supportive of our president, I don't know any other way to be....

pictures courtesy Texan's Peace on FB.

Remember what the warmongers say... we're there for nation building,,, millions if not billions of dollars spent and we see no nation building....

All these pictures were taken in 2011. Wanna dispute them? Show me your pictures of nation building....

The Republican Lie

I don't know why it is the Republican Party is doing every thing in it's power to kill off the middle class. I can't believe all those conservative men and women in Congress actually believe the utter nonsense and bullshit they preach to the unwavering, blind followers of the GOP.  The Republicans are liars, there is a massive amount of reading material on the web if you GOOGLE The Republican Tax Lie.

Republicans and the big lie about taxes.  Republicans refuse to admit the tax cuts to the top 2% has brought about such despair to our nation, it has caused our debt to balloon, our middle class to shrink, a widening of the income gap, the rich getting richer quicker, the poor getting poorer...they don't believe any of it so therefore have no ideas how to stop the insanity...or maybe they don't want to stop the insanity....maybe they like the classes just the way they are......The richest of the rich and the dreaded poorest of the poor, who BTW are "the poor" because of GOP policies. If the GOP hates poor people so much then why do they continue to make more of them?   And...NO middle class, they don't want a middle class. So if the poor people die off either from homelessness, starvation, or disease, and the middle class shrinks into the poor, then what is left of America?? THE RICH!! Get it? I hope all you middle class conservatives "get it" sooner rather than later...

I'm veering off track..back to the Republican Lie....The Republiscum lie that raising taxes on the rich will kill jobs is nothing more than a right wing talking point without a shred of truth to it. The Rethuglicans still subscribe to the lie theory that if you keep telling the lie often enough the lazy, non-thinking, conservative followers will start to believe it.

Growth and prosperity are greatest when tax rates on the rich are high, they start to decline immediately when tax rates for the rich are lowered.  This is so obvious with the Bush tax cuts, they didn't produce a flood of growth, the budget was not balanced and the standard of living for the middle class was sinking fast.

How is it the conservatives who follow the GOP like little Stepford wives, like blind sheeple, can not see the lie?? You can't possibly be any better off than the rest of us, yet you turn your backs on the party who wants the middle class to grow and prosper and continue to cling to the party who is bringing down America with you in it!

Where were the conservatives when Bush and Co., with their disastrous economic policies, turned a prosperous country with balanced budgets, into a crippled economy that resembles a Third World banana republic?? And out of a Democratic Party win in '08 comes the friggin Tea Party??? That is INSANE!!  Those teabaggers should have taken to the streets in '04!!

President Obama has done a terrific job of stopping the massive bleeding, but to our impatient Americans I hope you realize it will take years of Democratic control to turn around the damaged economy. So take off your blinders, look at the policies from the past that got us here, NOT at President Obama who is trying to keep you from going COMPLETELY under.

What is really ironic is that the Republican Party puts National Security as top priority, they want us to be number one in the world as far as our military capabilities, but they don't have a clue how to address our economic policies which is how we stay number one! With a sinking economy how can you defend your country you numb nuts??

I have never witnessed such incompetent boobs in all my life as I look at today's Republican Party. I don't know how the Americans who put party loyalty before the well being of our country can look at themselves in the mirror....




The chart obviously shows what it was intended to show, which is that the policies of Democratic presidents cause greater economic growth among the lower income levels, while the policies of Republican presidents promote more growth at the higher levels and less growth at the lower levels. But there's another inference which can be derived from the chart, which is that everyone does better when the lowest income levels are rising. For the top 5%, the income growth might be pretty much the same either way, but for everyone else, there is a correlation between income growth at the lowest levels and income growth at all levels.

BIG PHAT PHUCK

I was washing dishes tonight, minding my own business, when on MSNBC I hear Chris Christie, my buffoon governor, telling a woman who asked a logical question of her governor, "It's none of your business"! I heard him in his most arrogant, ignorant voice tell this voter (who BTW will never vote for a GOP candidate!) that it was NONE of her business where he sends his kids to school. He wants his kids to have some religion in their curriculum so they go to parochial school. Apparently they get no moral teaching at home if this is representative of his parenting skills!  The woman was asking about cuts in education funding but instead of answering her question he got all bent outta shape and bit her head off! And this is the kind of guy the GOP would love to see as POTUS?? Can you imagine in ten million yrs President Obama telling a citizen "it's none of your business what I do"!?  hell NO! But this is standard fare for the GOP, this is the kind of buffoon they rally behind. This is the kind of person the religious right holds up on a pedastal..so typical...

The People's Budget

Thanks to Dusty and her post on the Congressional Progressive Caucus, I wanted to look once more at the budget proposal and post it for all to read. The Progressives in Congress are hard at work for the middle class, with this budget and with their tour across America, which Dusty talks about.

  Can you read this budget and then compare it to Paul Ryan's plan and not sit there dumbfounded, wondering why in the hell our leaders in Washington aren't falling all over themselves to get a budget like this implemented??  I can't...

Budget of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
Fiscal Year 2012

Read the People's Budget

Read The Technical Analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (External Link)

Presupuesto del Pueblo (Español)

The People’s Budget eliminates the deficit in 10 years, puts Americans back to work and restores our economic competitiveness. The People’s Budget recognizes that in order to compete, our nation needs every American to be productive, and in order to be productive we need to raise our skills to meet modern needs.

Our Budget Eliminates the Deficit and Raises a $31 Billion Surplus In Ten Years
Our budget protects Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and responsibly eliminates the deficit by targeting its main drivers: the Bush Tax Cuts, the wars overseas, and the causes and effects of the recent recession.

Our Budget Puts America Back to Work & Restores America’s Competitiveness
• Trains teachers and restores schools; rebuilds roads and bridges and ensures that users help pay for them
• Invests in job creation, clean energy and broadband infrastructure, housing and R&D programs

Our Budget Creates a Fairer Tax System
• Ends the recently passed upper-income tax cuts and lets Bush-era tax cuts expire at the end of 2012
• Extends tax credits for the middle class, families, and students
• Creates new tax brackets that range from 45% starting at $1 million to 49% for $1 billion or more
• Implements a progressive estate tax
• Eliminates corporate welfare for oil, gas, and coal companies; closes loopholes for multinational corporations
• Enacts a financial crisis responsibility fee and a financial speculation tax on derivatives and foreign exchange

Our Budget Protects Health
• Enacts a health care public option and negotiates prescription payments with pharmaceutical companies
• Prevents any cuts to Medicare physician payments for a decade

Our Budget Safeguards Social Security for the Next 75 Years
• Eliminates the individual Social Security payroll cap to make sure upper income earners pay their fair share
• Increases benefits based on higher contributions on the employee side
Our Budget Brings Our Troops Home
• Responsibly ends our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to leave America more secure both home and abroad
• Cuts defense spending by reducing conventional forces, procurement, and costly R&D programs

Our Budget’s Bottom Line
• Deficit reduction of $5.6 trillion
• Spending cuts of $1.7 trillion
• Revenue increase of $3.9 trillion
• Public investment $1.7 trillion


Byron York, The Examiner says this about the budget... 

How can such fiscal miracles be accomplished? By tax increases that would make even some top Democrats gasp. Perhaps the most extraordinary is the caucus plan to raise the Social Security tax to cover nearly all of a taxpayer's income. Right now, the tax is imposed on the first $106,000 of earnings. For people who make more than that, the caucus would tax a full 90 percent of income -- no matter how high it goes.  so, your argument IS WHAT???
The caucus would raise the Social Security tax that employers pay as well.
The caucus would create three new individual tax brackets for the highest incomes, topping out at 47 percent. It would also raise the capital gains tax, the estate tax and corporate taxes. It would create something called a "financial crisis responsibility fee" and a "financial speculation tax." And of course it would repeal the Bush tax cuts.  Again.. SO, what's wrong with THAT??
As if anyone needed reminding, the "People's Budget" is proof that the liberal idea of budget balancing is tax, tax, tax. If you're looking for spending cuts, you'll find just one really big one: national defense. Isn't that funny cuz the American people AGREE!! The liberals would end "overseas contingency operations" -- the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- starting in 2013. YAY, not soon enough tho!!  Is this guy serious?? They would save more money by "reducing strategic capabilities, conventional forces, procurement, and research & development programs." In other words, they would gut the United States' ability to defend itself, today and long into the future.  LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!!
What would the liberals spend money on? The "People's Budget" is essentially a newer and bigger stimulus bill. Grijalva and Ellison pledge to "invest $1.45 trillion in job creation, early childhood, K-12 and special education, quality child care, energy and broadband infrastructure, housing, and research and development," along with billions more for stimulus like road and other transportation programs.  GASP!!! Imagine THAT, a budget that puts people to work AND reduces the deficit!!

What the hell is wrong with these right wingers?? President Obama, this budget is the one we NEED!!

BIG NEWS

WNYC | New York Public Radio 2 hours ago

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The AP calls it a major victory for Republican Gov. Scott Walker: Wisconsin's Supreme Court has overruled a lower court and said that the controversial union rights law can go into effect. The AP reports: Gov. Scott Walker pushed the law that eliminates... Full Article at WNYC | New York Public 

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The motherfucker rightwing extremists in Wisconsin are digging their own graves.  Make no mistake about it, the good people of Wisconsin are not defeated, they are fighters. Recalls are coming quickly that's why the fucker Nazis are pushing through their state destroying agenda. Watch Wisconsin and what happens to the extremists, this is what we will see all across America from now through 2012.  These Nazis think they can rule against the will of the people, they are delusional fools!  This will play out very favorably for the Democrats, ABSOLUTELY!!

                         NEVER GIVE UP THE FIGHT, WISCONSIN!!!!

Another try at debating the issues...

Tomorrow night, CNN, GOP debate. Better than the FOX Nooze debate, hopefully questions will be harder. Hopefully the country will be watching because this election is about whether or not a GOP candidate can do a better job of turning around the GOP disastrous economic policies of the past. HA!! 

The Right claims President Obama is incompetent, he doesn't know how to grow the economy, so we should trust the clowns who got us in this economic mess in the first place!  Will the unemployment numbers be a thorn in Obamas side? Yes, but what do the GOP candidates want to do about job growth? Same as the past GOP leaders say... CUT TAXES.  How's the lowest corporate tax rate in decades worked for America? When will it start working? Michele Bachmann wants to lower the rate to 9%! Will that spur job growth IN AMERICA? I'm not so sure cuz fact of the matter is corporations love moving the business over seas because their profits soar when they can get away with slave labor wages. Americans want living wage jobs, our society can't live on 7 dollar an hour jobs nor should we have to. Corporate greed is killing our country, not a liberal president!

 We are on the right track, we keep harping on it but it's true. All indicators are moving in the right direction. So what is wrong with businesses and why are they not hiring? Waiting for a change in Washington? I don't know what the reasoning behind that is because Pres. Obama has done much for corporate America. Guess it comes down to a black liberal in the White House is just too much for some to handle...

The Grand Old Party of long ago is no longer.....watch the debate, see for yourself. Not one of those clowns has the answers you're looking for.  I don't know about you but I want to stay the course...

 

I just saw this on Facebook.....Paul Krugman's repeated calls to Democrats and Republicans to create jobs have fallen on deaf ears. Both parties agree that the "private sector" [corporations] should create jobs; until they decide to hire, nothing will happen. This is not merely "bad policy," as liberals like Krugman like to fret about, but the conscious agenda of the rich. Corporations and rich investors love high unemployment. The Kansas City Star explains why:  "Last year [2010], for the second year in a row, U.S. companies got more work out of their employees while spending less on overall labor costs." (February 3, 2011).  It really is that simple. High unemployment creates a downward pressure on wages, allowing employers to work the remaining employees harder and thus to increase profits. This dynamic, combined with the above commodity speculation, has been the entire basis for the corporate recovery, while working people have literally seen nothing beneficial.

There is More Important News....

Too much shit going on in politics to worry about Weiner. Guess when ya fuck up ya have to pay the price. You would think in this electronic age these sex addicts would realize every single move you make, every thing you say, every picture you take and send into cyber space..... is recorded some how some way.  Good Luck Anthony Weiner....

Paul Ryan calls for the US to default on it's obligations.....what a fuckin' joke this idiot is!


Tim Pawlenty's economic plan cuts taxes for millionaires by 41 percent.....is this guy for real?? Another republiscum who ignores the will of the people!


 More signs Rudy Giuliani will make second White House run....I don't know what you think about Ole Rudy, but he makes my skin crawl. I can't picture him as POTUS at all! He's got a creepy weirdness about him.

and if you are tired this week of politics and Weiner's penis,  here's something different and educational too!   Study: Most woman fake orgasms- but why?   I will say (with a red face)... I do not!


I hope to be here this weekend to spend quality time with you....TGIT

So, you think Weiner should resign??

Vitter is so slimy, he wasn't asked to resign, he was PRAYED FOR!!!  This video is fuckin' hilarious in a sick way...Good God, these conservatives and their sick sex addictions are unbelievable. All they have to do is ask for your prayers, ask for God's forgiveness, then all is right with the world!  GAG....

the penis pictures and the hypocrites

HYPOCRITES, HYPOCRITES, OMG , WHAT HYPOCRITES!! 

Eric Cantor has called for Anthony Weiner to resign,  Reince Priebus calls for Weiner to resign.....NEITHER man  said David- sexwithprostitutes- Vitter should have resigned!!! 


In a statement, Priebus said: “Congressman Weiner's actions and deception are unacceptable and he should resign. We do not need an investigation to know he lied and acted inappropriately, we need a resignation. Either Leader Pelosi and DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz believe members of Congress are held to a different set of standards or they believe these actions demand his resignation.” 

So lying about twitter pictures is worse than soliciting prostitutes...only in the world of GOPpers...


                                              IOKIYAR!!!    

No, it's not okay if you are a republiscum!  Well, yes it is...... if you are a GOPper then you defend your own, no matter how sleazy, how slimy...David Vitter, John Ensign, Mark Sanford....   the conservative GOPpers run on a platform of family values, religious morality, and they really do claim to be morally superior to Liberal Democrats! LMAO..

 What I hate even more than Weiner's dick pictures is the Republiscums now have a sex scandal right before the 2012 election!! Oh how nice for them, they have their wet dream come true....now they can run their campaigns on moral issues even though they are morally deficient hypocrites....


OH Anthony, why did you have to put pictures of your big hard penis on twitter?? Why, oh why, did you become addicted to internet chats with women even as a married man?  Why, when exposed, did you lie? You surely had to know the family values, morally superior(their words) republiscums would come after you, and boy have they!

  Yes Anthony, I'm disappointed. You are a great Representative in the House and a voice the Democrats need,  but I forgive you and I hope you don't resign. I hope your constituents feel the same way I do. Penis pictures are not a criminal offense, soliciting prostitutes IS. 

As for the HYPOCRITE REPUBLICANS...THOSE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD NOT THROW STONES...         

THE MARCH OF THE CHRISTIANS

The religious Right came together at Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition's 2 day conference in Washington DC. 

 No surprise there, the religious right IS the republican party, they go hand in hand, now more than ever with the rising of the teabaggers..  Just look at the candidates trying to earn the vote by being all "Christian", we have Michelle Bachmann,  Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty who opened and closed his part of the 2 day event with biblical quotes.  His top 4 commonsense principals for the nation are to turn toward God, protect the unborn, support traditional marriage,  and keep America secure. Now you say what does that have to do with bringing our country back from the brink of disaster? Well, the religious believe if we do all those things then God will bless America and we will prosper. YES, they really do believe that, I have them in my own family as I'm sure some of you do too....



The conservatives say they make up 60% of the country, so therefore we could have Michelle Bachmann as POTUS ,  Or Sarah Palin as I'm starting to believe...


What about Mormons Mitt Romney and John Huntsman? Could they win the nomination? Nah, those 60% conservatives are not gonna put a cult like Mormonism in the White House. Those silly tales of magic underwear seem to turn off the evangelicals.....


Have you ever wondered why Romney isn't a Democrat?  With his knowledge of finance, plus his stance on health care, gun control, legalized abortion, and gay marriage....what's he doing in the republiscum party? All the flip flopping though destroys his believability, he could be a contender for the dems but no, he can't be trusted.......


Michelle Bachmann likes to boast about home schooling her 5 kids and her foster parenting skills, but is  she presidential material you ask ?  No, no way in hell, I even have to wonder what kind of smarts her 5 kids have.....

If the country was nervous about putting Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office, they can't possibly think Bachmann could fill the role...could they? Well, the religious Right doesn't care about brain power, as long as you claim to be a born again Christian that is good enough for them, afterall it is God who chooses our leaders.....this is why it is possible the country could turn to a Sarah Palin type.....remember, they chose GW Bush because of his Christian claims. Surely not because they thought he was smart....


In 2010, Republicans campaigned on Tea Party themes of economic austerity and small government, but they’re using their power to step up intrusions into the private lives of American women.

The republicans are frauds. They don't know how to grow the economy, they don't know how to put Americans to work in living wage jobs, in fact they don't even care about those things. What they do care about is murdered fetuses and low taxes, THAT'S ALL....


Ralph Reed, who once headed Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition, wants to lure fundamentalist churches and church-goers into a political machine that elects favored candidates. And he and his cronies don’t mind bending the law to do so.

FFC leaders are already talking about issuing bogus voter guides through churches, a legally and ethically dubious proposition. In his Christian Coalition days, Reed churned out carefully stacked guides that made Republicans look like saints and Democrats look like sinners. Partisan activity such as that cost the Coalition its tax-exempt status.

Americans United Executive Director Barry W. Lynn warned churches not to enlist in Reed’s partisan schemes.
“This kind of mixture of religion and politics,” he said, “is a grave danger to American public life.”