January 2012
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“From snow to floods to tornadoes, it has been a year of record-breaking weather...”
– How 2011 Became a ‘Mind-Boggling’ Year of Extreme Weather
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BREAKING: Obama Signs Defense Authorization Bill →
justinspoliticalcorner:
This afternoon, Obama signed the controversial Defense authorization bill, despite his reservations about provisions related to the treatment of terrorism suspects. The National Journal reports:
President Obama signed on Saturday the defense authorization bill, formally ending weeks of heated debate in Congress and intense lobbying by the administration to strip...
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“It’s perfectly legitimate to criticize Paul harshly and point out the horrible...”
– Glenn Greenwald, Politifacting away his credibility.
Glenn, if an Obama supporter told you that “It’s perfectly legitimate to criticize Obama harshly and point out the horrible aspects of his belief system and past actions. But that’s worthwhile only if it’s accompanied by a similarly candid...
December 2011
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Evil Teabagger: Free Markets are Best Markets →
evilteabagger:
A lot of people in high school often repeat the same complaint while they’re in a class they don’t like. “When am I ever going to have to use trigonometry in the real world?!” I’m sure someone more inclined to like mathematics could explain why one would need to know trigonometry in order to…
As usual, our wrong-headed right-winger Evil Teabagger doesn’t know what...
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“Ron Paul is vilified for missing a few paragraphs out of hundreds of newsletters...”
– Hosanna Myers (via riverofliberty)
Ron Paul can’t manage a newsletter that spanned nearly two decades, filled with page after page of offensive material (just like his 1987 book), so he can’t manage a country. It’s that simple. Trying to smear his opponents with false...
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“In a 1990 C-Span appearance, taped between Congressional stints, Paul was...”
– Ron Paul’s World
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“Paul has frequently attacked the alleged New World Order that “elitist” cabals,...”
– Ron Paul’s World
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“Last week, after a needlessly-contentious process, Congress approved a two-month...”
– Enjoy the payroll tax break while it lasts
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“According to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics, 264 Super...”
– Outside groups overwhelm Gingrich
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With Mixed Results, Ron Paul Tries To Terrify... →
Ron Paul stood before a crowded public library conference room here and warned the packed house that the United Nations is coming to take their land and that America is this close to riots in the streets against a government that is becoming more and more like a dictatorship.
Though he was well-received, these two classic Paulisms fell somewhat flat.
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"Stop the hate! Taste the rainbow!" →
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Palin Tells Candidates to Read Her Book →
Yes, because if anyone is a boundless font of political wisdom it’s the half-term, half-wit, half-baked governor from Mayberry, Alaska.
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“I thought her husband would be the first one to leave her for another man.”
– Janet Snakehole responds to the news that Michele Bachmann’s Iowa chair quits to join the Ron Paul campaign. (via shaydonarmstrong)
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The Tea Party’s “utopian market populism”
Salon: You write that after Obama took office, “market populism was the only utopian scheme available to disgruntled Americans.” There was no liberal utopian scheme that said, “Here’s how we get out of this.”
Tom Frank: There wasn’t even a Rooseveltian scheme, which was not utopian but very practical. Just to talk about Roosevelt would have been fantastic. One of the research points in the book that I thought was really interesting … was the history of the bailouts in 1932 and 1933 — when the Hoover administration did a lot of bailouts. We don’t remember that. [These bailouts] were massively unpopular for the same reason they were unpopular this time around: really blatant cronyism. We don’t remember that a big part of Franklin Roosevelt’s campaign [in 1932] was to be against these bailouts. There were maybe five newspaper articles in 2008 that mentioned this pre-history of the bailouts. It just never came up.
Salon: It was like the party’s muscle memory of the New Deal was lost. With Obama the muscle memory of the Democratic Party is the Clintonian technocracy of the 1990s.
Tom Frank: That’s exactly right. Their message was: The technocratic way is going to solve our problems. Just leave it up to the experts who are going to figure a way out. [Obama and the Democrats] seemed to think they didn’t need to dirty their hands by making a populist appeal. They did a lot of good things — the stimulus package of 2008 was good thing — but they didn’t realize you have to sell something like that. They were like, “We know what the answer is: Keynesian stimulus. So let’s just do it.” They didn’t understand that this nation only adopted Keynesian stimulus spending back in the 1930s amidst this terrible wrenching experience, the Depression, and an enormous campaign [by FDR] to tell the nation why this was necessary.
If you don’t sell it — if you just do this spending — well, people have a lot of suspicion of government handouts. Government debt bothers people for very obvious reasons. [Obama] didn’t make any effort to make the argument. It was just “listen to the experts.” I have a quote from [Obama economic advisor] Christy Roemer where she says, “Things would be better if we listened to the experts.” And she’s one of the good guys, one of the best people in the Obama administration. That’s their view.
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““The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.” So...”
– Paul Krugman, “Keynes Was Right.”
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“Relying on private contractors has brought corporations that operate for profit...”
– Contractors’ role grows in drone missions, worrying some in the military
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“On Tuesday, there will be a contest to select the preferred candidate of a small...”
– Feel Free to Ignore Iowa
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I wonder if the same people who would go to any...
communismkills:
Since all of their ideologies were based on the same exact philosophy, how can you defend one and not the others?
Hitler was not a socialist. The Nazis were not socialists. Idiot.
From Crooks and Liars:
…the National Socialists, aka Nazis, were “Socialists” in roughly the same way that the “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” was run by...
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“In his 1987 manifesto “Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution after...”
– In early book, Rep. Ron Paul criticized AIDS patients, minority rights and sexual harassment victims
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Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with... →
theworldisconfused:
sanityscraps:
tellwiddit:
State-sanctioned rape by deception in the UK.
That’s fucking disgusting.
I am very disappointed in Her Majesty’s Government.
In one year this will be a gritty and provocative police procedural on ITV1 airing after Law and Order UK, based on “actual events.” Just wait. — Ryking
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“So why were Ron Paul or his ghostwriters engaged in racism and conspiracy...”
– The Story Behind Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters
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“First: The fate of the economy is far, far more important to the outcome of the...”
– The economy and the elections, 2012 edition
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Fox News attacks Girl Scouts with liberal... →
Faux News and the right-wing hate-o-sphere are dead on with this one. Why, just the other day my niece got her badge in dialectical materialism!
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In Book, Ron Paul Opposed Workplace Harassment... →
Sexist victim-blaming from Ron Paul? Why, I’m shocked! He also had plenty of unkind things to say about gays and people who have AIDS.
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First Thoughts: Three storylines from our Iowa... →
1) The negative TV ads against Gingrich have worked, explaining why his numbers have sunk … 2) The Tea Party support is splintered, explaining why Romney could win this thing… 3) There’s a lack of enthusiasm for Romney, explaining why he could still lose… Other observations: Paul has a high floor but perhaps a low ceiling, and Santorum and Perry have room to grow, if there’s enough time…
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“Let me summarize the political problem this way:
1. Mitt Romney is worth $250...”
– Romney’s ‘carried interest’ problem
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“On Jan Mickelson’s show on WHO radio Thursday morning, a caller noted that...”
– Michele Bachmann Says Social Media, Google On Obama’s Side
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“There is a bit of good news about the economy that the job market is healing. On...”
– Slowly but surely, the job market is healing
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WatchSamoa set for “time travel” in date line jump
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"When a smurf goes for a really long time without...
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Could Age Be an Issue for Ron Paul? →
It certainly would be — if Ron Paul had a snowball’s chance in hell of picking up the GOP nomination. But he doesn’t, so it isn’t going to be.
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Ron Paul: Only 8-10 sentences of "bad stuff" in... →
As usual, reality contradicts Ron Paul. Clearly, the man has no respect for the intelligence of American voters, that he would tell a lie so easy to expose. There are way more than just “8-10” sentences of “bad stuff.”
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WatchPBS News Hour, “How 2011 Became a ‘Mind-Boggling’ Year of Extreme Weather.”
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Kelly Clarkson's fans educate her about Ron Paul. →
And now that I’ve been educated regarding her right-wing bent, I won’t be buying any of her music. Also on my list of idiot celebrities whose work I will no longer pay for or partake of: Barry Manilow and Vince Vaughn.
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“For all of their years of claims that massive voter fraud is going on at the...”
– Republicans Require No Photo ID to Vote in Republican Iowa Caucus
We didn’t need any more proof that the GOP’s voter ID efforts were aimed at suppressing the votes of Democratic constituencies, but it’s always nice to have.
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