May 2011
51 posts
Obama, GOP appear to agree: Big oil needs no tax...
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Obama Today, the president used his weekly radio address to suggest, in the wake of high gas prices and huge oil company profits, to remove the oil subsidies big oil companies enjoy. This might just be the time to pull it off.
GOP In this case … it appears that top GOP figures agree. John Boehner recently suggested removing corporate tax breaks for oil companies (which his...
April 2011
53 posts
“Republicans took the House Of Representatives after campaigning on jobs, debt,...”
– Dan Savage (via whiteboydanceparty)
Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying to Help... →
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(via The Onion)
Perfectly on point, as usual.
“President Obama’s decision to release his long-form birth certificate is a...”
– Wendy Kaminer at The Atlantic • Giving us some perspective on this birth certificate madness. Obama has both reason and empirical evidence on his side, but those are useless against an opponent who rejects reason and empiricism. source (via • follow)
“Suggesting that women have abortions for “convenience” diminishes the hard work...”
– Abortion Gang, Inconvenient Dreams (via tulletulle)
Forever reblog.
(via sisterhoodispowerful)
ShortFormBlog: On why Obama gave in to the birther... →
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What Obama did here is a really important thing. Not him validating that whole birth certificate drama. Instead, he separated what he’s trying to do from the spectacle around what he’s trying to do. And as a result, he should be able to get beyond the stupid drama and do what he’s been trying…
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Kansas Moves to Defund Planned Parenthood... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Preach it, Melissa McEwan!
See, the great idea Republicans are proposing is to just redirect that funding to other clinics, without regard for where those clinics are. All they care about is defunding Planned Parenthood, because it provides abortions among its many services, and if they can’t make abortion illegal, then they’ll settle for making it inaccessible,...
“[We’ll] see if Republican senators like the Ryan budget as much as their House...”
– Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid • Speaking on a conference call to reporters about his plan to force a vote on Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget in the Senate. This is prototypical “hardball” politics, and implies a more aggressive Harry Reid than we’ve typically seen. Basically, the Ryan budget calls for...
“The cuts that have been made so far don’t seem to us to have very significant...”
– Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke • Speaking at his press conference today, when asked by a reporter about the package of budget cuts congressional Democrats and Republicans agreed upon. Bernanke’s dim view of the package is very easy to understand, as the size of the cuts were incredibly...
Dear America, stop obsessing over Islamic... →
An article written under the pseudonym Mr. Y. grabbed my attention this week. The article has a bold thesis, even more surprising given who the mysterious Mr. Y turns out to be.
It argues that the United States has embraced an entirely wrong set of priorities, particularly with regard to its federal budget. We have overreacted to Islamic extremism. We have pursued military solutions instead...
If there's one thing I don't understand...
…it’s the attitude some Americans have toward immigrants speaking Spanish. Okay, there are a lot of things about the United States that I don’t understand, but this is one that really irks me. My mother says it all the time, to my chagrin: ”You’re in America; speak English!” Not that simple. Not at all.
First off, there seems to be an assumption that all...
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Judge denies feds' request on Kan. activist →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
“ACTIVIST”????
A federal judge on Wednesday refused the government’s request for a preliminary injunction to order a Kansas anti-abortion activist to stay away from a doctor who plans to offer abortion services in Wichita.
The Justice Department filed a civil complaint against Angel Dillard, 44, after she sent what it alleges was a threatening letter to Dr. Mila...
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Conducting a Presidential Straw Poll →
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evilteabagger:
Take it and reblog. Let’s see a nice stratified example of Tumblr’s political leanings.
Reblogging because this could be interesting.
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I just heard on MSNBC...
…that more people are employed working on wind energy than in coal mines.
Maybe if anyone on Capitol Hill actually cared about job creation, they’d take all the money they’re giving away to oil companies and invest it in alternative energy.
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ShortFormBlog: A majority of Americans support... →
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YES polling indicates majority support for gay marriage
In 1988, 10% of Americans supported equal marriage rights. Now, after twenty-three years of rather intense political struggles, proponents of gay rights can plausibly claim a mandate. Polling over the last eight months…
Love this story.
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The big abortion fight that may not happen →
Republican legislatures across the country are passing tough new anti-abortion laws — and while abortion rights advocates believe the new laws are unconstitutional, they’re not rushing to court to stop them.
The reason: There’s a decent chance they’d lose.
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Revisiting the murder of Dr. George Tiller →
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An interview with author Stephen Singular.
It’s been almost two years since George Tiller, who was one of the country’s few providers of later-term abortions, was gunned down in his church in Wichita, Kan. His brutal murder was followed by a heated national debate over who and what was responsible for it. Tiller’s killer, Scott Roeder, was a diagnosed...
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Keep your Boehner out of my Uterus!: How much is... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Do you ever wonder where your tax refund went? This year, it’s going to pay for a lawyer to defend DOMA. As Americans scrambled to file their taxes Monday, John Boehner filed paperwork to hire a lawyer to defend marriage inequality. But even though he’s doing the hiring, he’s not the one…
Talk about government waste! Click through to sign a petition...
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Keep your Boehner out of my Uterus!: Joycelyn... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
From The Root:
Joycelyn Elders: Any woman who has a congressperson who votes against women’s reproductive rights is headed back to the Dark Ages, when they were owned by their husbands. The fact that we have these votes [in Congress] alone is a threat. We’re still fighting. We’ve always had…
Amazing quote. Do click through.
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“The Congressional Budget Office determined that some of the out-of-pocket costs...”
– GOP Rep. Dave MicKinley • Speaking on Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposed “Path to Prosperity,” which eliminates the traditional Medicare program (essentially, guaranteed health coverage) in favor of a voucher/privatized system. Quotes like these often strike us as noteworthy, specifically because it’s rather...
“There is a country where the leading cause of death of pregnant women is murder...”
– Jessica Valenti, in “Equality begins at home: U.S. lags pathetically behind other nations in some basic rights for women.” (via thedailyfeed)
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Too Far Right?
It’s looking grim for the GoP in 2012.
According to this Politico article, polls show all potential GoP candidates trailing Obama in the general election. Mitt Romney would come within four points, Huckabee within six. Those are the closest match-ups, and personally, I find that rather telling.
Mitt Romney stands out from the rest of the Republican field as being remarkably sane in...
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WatchI saw this story on Maddow last night and had to comment.
The sad truth is that I live in Kansas. It’s bad enough having to say the words “Governor Brownback.” It’s even worse having to say that the guy who worked on Arizona’s unconstitutional show-your-papers law has written a law for Kansas.
But the worst thing is living in a state that routinely shows itself to...
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ShortFormBlog: Wisconsin: Recall campaign gains... →
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three number of GOP State Senators in Wisconsin who will face a recall election, thanks to Democratic organizing efforts
three number of seats that have to change hands in order for Democrats to gain control of the Wisconsin State Senate source
» Total Recall: Democratic…
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“Yes, Obama duped the young people of this country by not doing every single...”
– Stephen Colbert responding to Republican Tim Pawlenty when he said that Obama has duped young people. (via whyamimisterpink)
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quirkyxkayla:
“We’re happy to have the debate. We’ll have the debate on the floor of the senate or the floor of the house. Put it in a separate bill, we’ll call it up, and if you think you can overturn my veto, try it. But don’t try to sneak this through.” - President Obama speaking of the GOP’s attempts to attach a bill to the resolution to fund the government that would defund women’s health...
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“After the Clinton administration began paying down America’s debt, Republicans...”
– Nicholas Kristof (via azspot)
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Keep your Boehner out of my Uterus!: Unplanned... →
brutallyhonestbabes:
The GOP just introduced a bill in Congress to create tax-exempt status for Unplanned Parenthood, the Jesus-approved alternative to the horrible abortion death factory known as Planned Parenthood. (Did you know that 187% of the government money provided to Planned…
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Republican Irresponsibility
I just saw a Republican on MSNBC calling Democrats irresponsible and saying that Democrats don’t want to preserve programs like Medicare for the next generation.
SAY WHAT?
Do you know what the Ryan budget plan wants to do to Medicare?
Basically, he turns it into a voucher system. The government sends seniors a check; seniors go out and buy their own insurance.
Now, maybe this...
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“For my friends and colleagues, this is a factual statement. Current law already...”
– Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
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“Senate rejects defunding Planned Parenthood 42-58. 5 Republicans voted no.”
– @thinkprogress (via keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus) 