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Paul "Fact challenged" Ryan.....
What a joke.
For thirty years, we've witnessed a staggering concentration of wealth from among the very top earners.
This is spelled out in compelling detail in Jacob Hacker's and Paul Pierson's recent book, Winner Take All Politics, and David Cay Johnston has been doing some in depth reporting on wealth transfer for many years.
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Right wing calls to violence
There is a current message being proffered by the right wing punditry, that the violent rhetoric is an invention of those pussy Liberals....
Here are a few examples:
- JESS KELLY (Giffords' Tea Party opponent): "it's time for them to be
afraid of us"
- MICHELLE BACHMAN: "I want my constituents to be armed and dangerous"
- JOYCE KAUFMAN, former ( Read more... ) -
Issa calls Obama administration "Most corrupt in history"
He must have slept through the last one.....With the missing emails, and visitor records, the energy companies allowed to set energy policy, no bid contracts to Cheney's company, contractors earning in a month what soldiers earn in a year, and the complete politicization of the DOJ......
Let's take a look at Mr. Issa shall we?
1. Issa Calls 9/11 ( Read more... ) -
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We live in a country that produces enough food to feed every citizen (and then some). We have massive amounts of physical resources, and can trade for any resource we may lack in sufficient quantity. We have enough people to provide enough labor, and we have the capability to build an efficient industrial base and infrastructure. We have the ( Read more... ) -
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The right wing echo chamber is impervious to facts. As journalists they are perpetuating a fraud of the first order on their audience, good for votes, terrible for our Democracy!
The RW is self sourcing it's own talking points and presenting them as facts in subsequent reports. The most recent is the ludicrous assertion that the administration is ( Read more... ) -
A bit of the old double standard!
In an interview with Univision last week, President Obama said: “If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re going to punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s going to be harder ( Read more... ) -
Dave Johnson article
There are a number things the public "knows" as we head into the election that are just false. If people elect leaders based on false information, the things those leaders do in office will not be what the public expects or needs.
Here are eight of the biggest myths that are out there:
1) President Obama tripled the deficit.
Reality: Bush's ( Read more... ) -
Really??
The right call Obama a divider, since he does not follow their ideology. They claim he is purposefully angering Republicans, and refusing to work with them, or as I see it, kowtow to their agenda.
Republicans have done everything in their power to denigrate Obama for two years! The right wing punditry labeled him a Communist/Socialist/Fascist/ ( Read more... )
