Americans Elect feels like a Koch-Brothers-type Tea Partying of the Left and Indies. Exploit the anger and frustration of the constituency and drive them together under a populist tent...that's in fact owned by the wealthy.
If I was President and Congress was like, "No way we're taxing rich people and stuff!" I would be so like, "Uh-uh, you're gonna tax rich people, bitch!" and they would be so like, "Damn! Okay! We'll tax rich people, just get out of my face!"
This morning, I kicked a foul-mouthed woman off my Facebook page. She was a totally unreconstructed PUMA, who posted this article from the UK broadsheet, The Telegraph. I've nothing against foul mouths. I can swear with the best of them...
Roosevelt did not accept the simplistic conservative meme that MACROeconomics and MICROeconomics have the same fundamental principles and that government has to "live within its means like families do"... a juvenile concept that the "rabble" can understand, even as...
What's totally oxymoronic is that Hillary has suddenly been reconstructed as the Great (and White) Progressive Hope.
How's this for an oxymoron? Her Serene Highness Queen Ratfucker Omnipotent of Medialand, otherwise known as Arianna Huffington, came to Philadelphia yesterday to address the convention of theNational Association of Black Journalists. Why, I don't know; but there's nothing Arianna ever...
Anyone who is looking forward to the time when major corporations will start hiring Americans for good paying jobs again in big numbers, are among those who don't know what the "new normal" is for corporations.
There's been a campaign going on around the blogosphere for awhile, advocating that MSNBC ban Pat Buchanan from appearing on the network. Buchanan is a political analyst, who, in the wake of the tragedy in Norway, wrote an editorial, which...
  Let’s face it… We are our own worst enemy.. and we better acknowledge that simple fact that unless we confront this cancer as a unified front then the entire nation will succumb to the bagger agenda. We ALSO need President Obama...
  Good morning, Planeteers! I trust you all are doing okay, having come through all this angst. Now that Congress is on their five-week PAID vacation, we can all step back a little and take a deep breath. They can't do...

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