Romney Tax Plan: Robin Hood in Reverse
January 6, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Willard "Mittens" Romney is not just a member of the "one percent," oh no. Mittens is a member of the exclusive ".001 percent" of wealthy plutocrats. And he likes his wealthy plutocrat friends. A new analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center finds that the Romney tax plan is "Robin Hood in
Mitt-Math: Only count the positive
January 6, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Willard "Mittens" Romney has finally been called out on his bogus claim that he created "over 100,000 jobs" while at Bain Capital, a claim that fact-checkers have found to be unverifiable. It turns out that "Mittens" Romney is using newfangled "new math," Mitt-Math, in which you only count the positive. Steve Benen expains
December jobs report better than anticipated
January 6, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In a hopeful sign, the December jobs report produced the kind of numbers that is slowly cutting into the mass of unemployment created by the Bush Great Recession. Steve Benen reports at the Political Animal – Job growth picks up steam, unemployment drops: Mitt Romney will probably find today’s jobs report from
Why does John McCain hate democracy?
January 6, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Sen. John McCain grudgingly endorsed Mitt Romney to be the GOP nominee on Wednesday, and speaking Thursday on CBS' "The Early Show," said Republicans need to "get this thing done with as quickly as possible and get into the main event." Really? The Iowa Caucus is a glorified straw poll, not a
A typo may have led to ‘Mittens’ Romney’s win in Iowa
January 6, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Well now, this changes the media villager narrative coming out of Iowa after the Iowa Caucus. A typo may have led to "Mittens" Romney's win in Iowa . KCCI channel 8 in Des Moines is questioning the "offiical" results that are not yet certified. Could Typo Rewrite Caucus History? – KCCI Des
Will the Occupy Movement Last?
January 5, 2012
Posted by Bob Lord If you believe everything you hear at Fox and Friends, you’re certain the Occupy Movement is short-lived. But here we are, four months in, and Occupy hangs in there. Those on the right point to the lack of a coherent, uniform message from the occupiers. But is the message as simple
Clear and Convincing Evidence of What Senator (sic) Bundgaard Did
January 5, 2012
Posted by Michael Bryan So testimony is being taken in the ethics violation hearing before the Senate Ethics Committee regarding Senator Bundgaard getting loaded, beating the crap out of his gal pal, tossing her in the middle of a busy street like a piece of trash, and then claiming legislative immunity to get out of it. It's
We Can’t Wait: Tea-Publican hostage taking of America is over
January 5, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Obama administration has adopted a theme of "We Can't Wait" for taking aggressive action on the economy by using executive power to do what the administration can to overcome the Tea-Publican strategy of obstruction for purposes of partisan political warfare and their taking America hostage repeatedly to their radical hostage demands. Not since the
