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Romney’s Cash Source

1:32 pm EST December 19th, 2011 | Republicans | Comments Off

Mitt Romney is still making millions of dollars from layoffs engineered by Bain Capital, the private equity firm he helped to start.

As revealed by the New York Times, Romney negotiated a backroom deal with Bain that gave the already wealthy Romney a share of Bain’s profits even after he left the firm.

Topic: Mitt Romney

Maryland Republicans Found Guilty Of Attempting To Suppress Black Vote

11:44 am EST December 6th, 2011 | Maryland, Republicans | 22 Comments

Paul Schurick, a former aide to Republican governor Bob Ehrlich has been found guilty on all four charges that he attempted to suppress the black vote in Maryland in 2010. As WBAL reported, “Schurick was a loyal lieutenant to Ehrlich — working on all three Ehrlich campaigns for governor — and serving as communications director for the Ehrlich administration.”

Schurick sent out a voice mail targeted to black Democrats that said the election had already been decided and that they should stay at home.

This is what Republicans do all over the country. Luckily here in Maryland, they got caught in the act.

Heck Of A Job, GOP

11:23 am EST October 19th, 2011 | Republicans | 22 Comments

In all the acrimony between Obama and Clinton in 2007-8 (and God knows I was in the thick of it), there wasn’t any instance where one of them physically touched the other in this fashion. It is amazing that the Republican frontrunner grabbed someone in the middle of a debate. What???

Topic: Mitt Romney

Dick Cheney Lies In New Book

11:14 am EST August 30th, 2011 | Conservative, Republicans | 57 Comments

The whole point of a Dick Cheney book is to lie about what happened so that the future misremembers its history and looks on the worst vice president in US history in a kinder light.

Topic: Dick Cheney

Republicans Now Support Middle Class Tax Increase, Clearly Screwing With Us Now

11:48 pm EST August 22nd, 2011 | Republicans | 13 Comments

During the time in which George W Bush was waging a poorly planned war for no reason while also presiding over the near-collapse of the global economy, we on the left were told time and time again that to get back in the good graces of the American people we had to be “serious.” But either in power, out of it, or half way there, the American right — as usual — is subject to a different, more lenient set of rules from the media and the establishment. How else to explain that the party’s flip flop in favor of increased taxes for the middle class isn’t gaining more attention?

Many of the same Republicans who fought hammer-and-tong to keep the George W. Bush-era income tax cuts from expiring on schedule are now saying a different “temporary” tax cut should end as planned. By their own definition, that amounts to a tax increase.

The tax break extension they oppose is sought by President Barack Obama. Unlike proposed changes in the income tax, this policy helps the 46 percent of all Americans who owe no federal income taxes but who pay a “payroll tax” on practically every dime they earn.

Remember, these are the “serious” people. Those of us who think the rich ought to pay a fair share — that they can afford, we’re “crazy” ones.

VIDEO: Jon Stewart Destroys The GOP’s Class Warfare

10:58 am EST August 22nd, 2011 | Conservative, Economy, Republicans | 5 Comments

I wish we had Dem politicians and liberal pundits with 1/3 the mojo of the Daily Show. In this clip Stewart, with precision, rips apart just how full of excrement the GOP’s bellyaching on class warfare is. Bonus points for pointing out the Heritage Foundation’s vile attempt to claim rich people have it good.

Did Rick Perry Have A Fake Black Guy Running A Twitter Account?

2:32 pm EST August 15th, 2011 | Republicans | 7 Comments

This is pretty funny. From Bill White, who ran against Perry:

There were also some silly things that happened that are still hard to believe. One consulting firm of his created artificial people to tweet. [The campaign] wanted to question my support in the African American community, but they couldn’t recruit an African American person to do it, so on Twitter they used a stock photo of a black person. One of the people who supported my campaign clicked on the image and found out it was a singer from Atlanta. The Twitter address was registered at the same location as one of Mr. Perry’s political consultants.

I wonder if Gov. Perry shares friends with Stephen Colbert? (via Sarah)

Topic: 2012 Election, Rick Perry

Rick “Bush” Perry

3:52 pm EST August 13th, 2011 | Politics, Republicans | 60 Comments

Yawn. I’ve seen this show before. The media swoons over a cliche-ridden Texas twang. They take his proclamations as if they’re something serious, etc. I think Perry matches up versus Obama worse than Romney, and I don’t think America is yet ready to give a chance to someone who is not only a Bush clone ideologically (most of the GOP field is that) but also physically.

He’s also a terrible judge of character.

Topic: 2012 Election, Rick Perry

Boehner Breaks “Read The Bill” Pledge. Again.

2:43 pm EST July 29th, 2011 | Republicans | 66 Comments

After his humiliating failure last night, Speaker Boehner has re-written the GOP’s doomed to fail bill on the debt ceiling. Just hours after its introduction, the bill will be voted on tonight (supposedly, they said the same thing yesterday). So whatever happened to Boehner’s promise that all major bills would be posted online for 72 hours?

This isn’t the first time this has happened with the Keystone Kongress.

Topic: John Boehner

Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh Skipped Child Support, Gave Thousands To Campaign

4:57 pm EST July 28th, 2011 | Republicans | 71 Comments

There’s a word for a guy like this… oh, right. Loser.

Last night the Chicago Sun-Times broke the story that Tea Party freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), who has spent months lecturing President Obama and Democrats on fiscal responsibility, owes $117,437 in child support to his ex-wife and three children. Laura Walsh has asked a judge to suspend his driver’s license until he pays his child support. Despite loaning his own campaign $35,000 — and paying himself back at least $14,200 for the loans — Walsh claims he failed to make the payments because he “had no money.”