For a group that prides itself on its reverence for the Constitution, the Tea Party sure has a lot of proposed changes to the Constitution. In particular, Tea Party members seem to want to repeal amendments 14, 16 and 17 to the Constitution and to add a few more, for good measure. What kind of […]
Real Time with Bill Maher sent filmmaker (and daughter of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi) Alexandra Pelosi to Mississippi to film voters and to get their opinions on Obama and the 2012 GOP primary. As Maher explains on the intro, the panel of interviewees were not “cherry picked” and that the intent of […]
Ronald Reagan, supposed hero of the neo conservative right, would never have made it in today’s GOP. Reagan passed massive tax cuts his first year in office, but then reversed many of them when he signed into law the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA). Former Reagan advisor Bruce Bartlett wrote in […]
I won’t be pleased with a budget deal unless the AARP and Grover Norquist both pull their hair out. Then we’ll know we made some progress. News flash: compromise and sacrifice are hard. We need to reduce spending and obligations on everything from Medicare to Defense to Ag subsidies. No sacred cows. And unfortunately, we […]
It seems that remains ongoing confusion regarding President Obama’s routine signing on March 16th of this year of “Executive Order – National Defense Resources Preparedness“. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness ] Among other things it seems several conservative based news organizations are spreading a lot of misinformation regarding this order to include claims spanning from Obama signing himself new […]