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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August 23, 2012
Stories You Should Be Reading, August 23, 2012
Gawker releases over 950 pages of Bain Capital financial records:
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August 19, 2012
Paul Ryan Supported Economic Stimulus Spending In 2002 Under President Bush
In 2012 Paul Ryan says he is against economic stimulus and he has repeated over and over that Obama’s economic stimulus spending in 2009 didn’t work. Up with Chris Hayes presented the following C-SPAN video from 2002 that shows Paul Ryan making the case for economic stimulus spending:
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August 18, 2012
Paul Ryan as Running Mate, Mistake or Deceptively Clever?
It’s been a week since Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, and in this past week we’ve seen Ryan running away from the two big things that he is known for. If it wasn’t for the “Ryan budget” or his love-affair with Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan would just be another congressman. And if that was the case, it’s probably safe to say he would not have been on Romney’s VP short-list. So why is Paul Ryan running away from the very things that got him on that list to begin with? Did Mitt Romney make a mistake or is this a deceptively clever plan to win the White House?
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August 17, 2012
The $716 Billion Lie: Did Obama Steal From Medicare?
This is the start of a new series on The Left Call called Right-Wing Lies. It will debunk the mountain of conservative and Republican lies, one-at-a-time. It’s a monumental task for sure, but it’s going to be done with clear and concise language. No need for thousand-word articles, or complex analysis. This series will present the cold hard facts and nothing else.
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August 16, 2012
Republicans Say Tax Cuts Do Not Stimulate The Economy
Did that get your attention? Good, stay with me for a moment. — So we all know Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and every other beltway Republican is on record as saying the “stimulus” didn’t work. When we say stimulus, we are talking about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This piece of legislation, passed in the first months of the Obama administration, contained tax incentives for companies, tax breaks for individuals, infrastructure investment, education funding, and more. Fully one-third of the “stimulus” was in the form of tax cuts.
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August 15, 2012
Paul Ryan is NOT a fiscal conservative
If you vote for massive spending increases (Medicare Part D) without corresponding revenue increases, you are not a fiscal conservative.
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August 13, 2012
Paul Ryan: Member of the Republican Obstructionist Party Controlling the House
Congress’ approval rating is lower than that of former Vice President Dick Cheney, and that’s really hard to pull off! Yet this didn’t stop Mitt Romney from choosing Paul Ryan, a member of congress, more specifically, a member of the majority obstructionist party controlling the House. In the era of the Obama administration, obstructionist is just another way of saying Republican. Mitt Romney didn’t have to choose a current member of congress, but that is exactly what he did, and so the low approval rating of congress will be part of the critique of the Romney-Ryan campaign. And President Obama wasted no time making this connection in a speech on Monday in Iowa:
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August 13, 2012
Medicare: We the People give away our Power when we Privatize Public Services
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August 13, 2012
The Republican Electoral College Math Challenge
It will be interesting to see the result of the popular vote vs. electoral college in the upcoming election. Any path to victory for Mitt Romney will involve a close popular vote and close electoral college vote. For President Obama, he could win slim in the popular vote but still win fairly large in the electoral college. The problem for Republicans in this election and future elections is demographics. Many of the most populated states are solidly Democratic and they are also states that have large minority populations that are growing larger each year. As long as the Republican Party continues to be the party of old white guys (ok, Paul Ryan is only one of those things) they will find the electoral college math increasingly challenging.
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