September 21, 2012
Boehner Shows Us Why We Need To Go “Off The Cliff”
House Speaker John Boehner said Friday morning that even if President Obama is reelected, Republicans will still refuse to allow taxes to increase on the wealthy.
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September 18, 2012
The Romney Secret Video Disaster Is Yet Another Chapter In Republican Duality
In a video recorded secretly at a private Romney campaign fundraising event back in May, Romney said, “there are 47 percent [of Americans] who are with him [Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them.”
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September 12, 2012
Two More Reasons Tax Cuts For ‘Job Creators’ Is Nonsense
Tax cuts for high-income earners, who Republicans call “job creators,” is not only wasteful, it doesn’t work. Today we are given two more reasons why.
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September 11, 2012
Fox News Commits Malpractice with Orwellian Unemployment Statistics
Fox News has gone full-bore, balls-to-the-wall with its misrepresentation of unemployment statistics.
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September 10, 2012
Fox News Narrative: President Obama Made The Economy Worse
I’m not interested in fulfilling a narrative, I want to gets facts correct, but I will admit that I have biases like anyone else. However, I don’t consider politics to be a game like some do. Maybe I could be blamed for taking things too seriously but this country faces challenging issues and hard facts matter. The truth matters.
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September 6, 2012
DNC – Bill Clinton’s Evisceration of Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and Republicans
Last night at the Democratic National Convention, Romney campaign lies met with a smooth talkin’ boy from Arkansas, former President Bill Clinton, and the result was a political smack-down broadcast live to millions of Americans. — Here are five Romney-Ryan-Republican lies turned to dust:
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September 3, 2012
The Question: Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Four Years Ago?
If there is one line that Republicans would like to see permeate beyond last week’s Republican National Convention and into this week’s Democratic National Convention and beyond, it would be the question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? This of course is the famous Ronald Reagan question during his closing remarks at the close of a 1980 presidential debate. It defined that election and Republicans would like it to define this election.
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September 2, 2012
Robert Wolf: Why do we need taxes to go up for the wealthy?
Robert Wolf, former President of UBS Investment Bank, was on Up with Chris Hayes this morning and said the following about taxes:
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September 2, 2012
Eric Fehrnstrom and Republicans want Bad News on Jobs
Mitt Romney can say he wished Obama had succeeded and Republicans can say they wish the economy was better for Americans, but the reality is that they not-so-silently want the economy to be weak going into election day. Republicans not only will do nothing to improve the economy once they are in office, they want a bad economy now if it will improve their chances of getting into office. On CNN’s State of the Union, Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said:
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August 28, 2012
RNC – An American Dream Inspired by Republican Rick Santorum
The overarching Republican goal for government and their idea of the “American Dream”:
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