The 15 freshmen Republican representatives in the House Tea Party Caucus each ran in 2010 on a populist anti-Wall Street message, highlighting their opposition to bank bailouts like the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and criticizing Washington for enabling the banking sector as it became “Too Big to Fail.” After winning, all fifteen received significant PAC contributions from the banking industry — and have become a reliable vote and mouthpiece for the financial industry, a ThinkProgress analysis of campaign contributions, voting records and public statements reveals.
Feminism: Because lying about rape is a woman’s right!
Jesus fuck you’re a terrible person. If a woman cut your fucking balls off I would personally escort her to the Canadian border.
Something like 3% of reported rapists serve time. But keep up the good fight, ignorant cockbags.
Because impugning the character of your movement totally justifies sexual assault and mutilation.
Also, that 3% figure is a massive misrepresentation. For starters, a link to the page. By specifying “reported” rapists you’ve already exaggerated the figure by a factor of more than two. In fact, it would be 6.5% of reported rapists that serve time. However, that resembles something else I’ve seen, which demonstrates how even this is in and of itself still a serious misrepresentation of the facts.
Unfortunately for both of us, you’re the ignorant one. Do your damn research next time, and stop acting like the fact that women get raped makes false allegations any less serious or any less worthy of address.
Cockbag.
You’d think that people who claim to stand for social justice would have a problem with an innocent person being falsely accused of a crime. — Ryking
(Source: whoneedsmasculism)
This week, Republicans have been criticizing President Obama for his surprise trip to Afghanistan marking the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. By accusing the president of hyping the commemoration, they apparently hope to undercut the political potency of his biggest foreign policy coup. Instead, the GOP critics may merely make themselves look a bit silly.
They must think Americans are suffering from amnesia and cannot recall President George W. Bush and his “Top Gun” moment in 2003. Just in case anyone really has forgotten, allow me to recap: Bush tucked himself into a flight suit emblazoned with the words “commander-in-chief,” climbed into a Lockheed S-3 Viking fixed-wing aircraft and helped fly and land it on the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier, the Abraham Lincoln, just off the California coast. There, under a huge banner declaring “Mission Accomplished” (a banner White House officials initially denied, but finally admitted, was their creation), the president said, “In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.”
Though years premature in claiming victory, Bush and his team were clearly staging an event they thought would provide great images for future campaign ads. Bush’s spectacle makes Obama’s brief round of handshaking with troops in Afghanistan look pretty lame by comparison.
Mitt Romney commissioned these pro-America pins. They were made in China.
You mean Mitt Romney commissioned thousands of pins that politicized 9/11 and tied it into the Olympics, but wasn’t patriotic enough to have the pins made in America? I’m shocked, just shocked by his hypocrisy! — Ryking
Jon: ”This brings us to the subject of our new segment: You are aware that the frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex gives us the ability to store and recall past events as they occurred, right?”
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As The Hill notes, “It is Republican Party orthodoxy that tax cuts do not need to be offset because of the additional tax receipts they spur through economic growth.” As history has shown us, the Republican Party orthodoxy is wrong. The Bush tax cuts — at a 10-year cost of $2.5 trillion — did not inspire economic growth and instead blew a massive hole in the federal deficit, adding trillions of dollars to the debt. Without the Bush tax cuts, the dire debt situation Republicans insist is their top concern would actually be sustainable…
Aside from the debt, the economic costs of the Bush Tax Cuts were astronomical. With the money spent, the U.S. could have provided better health care, more student aid, and hired more teachers and public safety officials — thousands of which lost their jobs when federal and state budgets were crunched during the Great Recession. Even top Republicans have admitted that the GOP’s justification for the cuts — that they would create millions of jobs — was wrong.
Far from learning from their mistakes, though, Republicans are doubling down.
Republicans Won’t Offset Cost Of Extending The Bush Tax Cuts
The deficit has never been more than a phony justification for slashing and burning infrastructural and social safety net programs that the GOP has never liked. The party doesn’t actually give a shit about the deficit.
Poor women who stay at home to raise their children should be given federal assistance for child care so that they can enter the job market and “have the dignity of work,” Mitt Romney said in January, undercutting the sense of extreme umbrage he showed when Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen quipped last week that Ann Romney had not “worked a day in her life.”
The remark, made to a Manchester, N.H., audience, was unearthed by MSNBC’s “Up w/Chris Hayes,” and aired during the 8 a.m. hour of his show Sunday.
The remark, made to a Manchester, N.H., audience, was unearthed by MSNBC’s “Up w/Chris Hayes,” and aired during the 8 a.m. hour of his show Sunday.
Mitt Romney: Mothers Should Be Required To Work Outside Home Or Lose Benefits
Joe the Blogger: “I have seen more cordial exchanges of ideas scribbled on bathroom walls than I have on the comments section of any news article.”
After the way you and your wife have smeared me — repeatedly — on your STFU Conservatives blog, Joe, you’re the last one to complain about online incivility. Not that I’m claiming to be a paragon of virtue myself in the civility department, just pointing out your ever-present hypocrisy. — Ryking
(Source: joetheblogger)
Sean Hannity has mocked Barack Obama’s use of a teleprompter over 200 times, but when it comes to presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, he thinks it’s smart strategy.
“It does make some sense,” Romney said of using a teleprompter. “It keeps you from saying something you don’t mean, you get the message out.”
The unaired exchange was released by Gawker’s Fox News Mole.
Hannity, perhaps confident he would never be heard by anyone wary of his credibility, concurred.
Governor Romney calls the President out of touch. Hey, how many of y’all have a Swiss bank account?
VP Biden in New Hampshire today (via barackobama)
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Gingrich Unloads on FOX News in Private Meeting
During a meeting with 18 Delaware Tea Party leaders here on Wednesday, Newt Gingrich lambasted FOX News Channel, accusing the cable network of having been in the tank for Mitt Romney from the beginning of the Republican presidential fight. An employee himself of the news outlet as recently as last year, he also cited former colleagues for attacking him out of what he characterized as personal jealousy.
“I think FOX has been for Romney all the way through,” Gingrich said during the private meeting — to which RealClearPolitics was granted access — at Wesley College. “In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than FOX this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of FOX, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of FOX. That’s just a fact.”
Newt “I was perfectly fine with Fox’s right-wing bias until it went against me” Gingrich, ladies and gentlemen!
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