Tax Cuts - Who Benefits

TomCat over at Politics Plus has this graph showing the difference between the republican and Democrat tax plans.  Here is the graph.  Go to TomCat's place to read about it.

Jobs - Whose Fault Are They?

Here are a couple of interesting graphs that I have come across.  The first one compares job losses by Bush and Obama.  It is from Erza Klein, although I first saw it on Bob Cesca's site.  It compares the job losses between December 2007 to July 2009 (Bush losses) and July 2009 to July 2010.  The Bush losses includes the first six months of the Obama administration because Obama's policies had not taken effect yet.

The other graph comes from Ben Daniels.  It tracks the monthly jobs report with the stimulus spending overlaid.  The correlations is interesting.  It is hard to say that the stimulus has not improved the jobs picture.

It Might Be Worth Voting Republican

Linda McMahon has won the republican nomination for Senate from Connecticut.  She is the ex-CEO of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).  McMahon is experienced at peddling violence and mayhem to millions of people.  Can you imagine the entertainment when she brings her expertise to the Senate floor.  Take a look at this video of her to get an idea of what may lay ahead.

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It is almost enough to get me to vote republican.  Alas, I don't live in Connecticut.

Fox News' Chris Wallace Gets Schooled About Marriage

Ted Olsen, Bush's solicitor general, easily handles the republican talking points dished out by Chris Wallace.



Thanks to Pat Cunningham over at Applesauce for the info.

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Olbermann "Interviews" Angle

Olbermann gets the "Angle Interview".  Enjoy below.

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Are The Democrats Going To Wimp Out Again?

Elizabeth Warren is by far the best choice to be the first director of the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  The main complaint about her seem to be that she has been doing her job too well.  As a result, the worry is that she cannot be confirmed.  Chris Dodd has said, “What you don’t need to have is an eight-month battle for who the director or the head or chairperson of this new consumer financial protection bureau will be,”

Why the hell not?!?  Let the republicans, once again, show that they are in the pockets of big business at the expense of the American people.

So here we go again.  All the republicans have to do is threaten to filibuster, and the dems start shaking in their boots.  Of course Dodd and many other Democrats are in the pocket of the bankers and financial institutions, so they don't want a strong leader of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau either.

Again, the public will get screwed while the politicians get paid off.W

Republicans In Session

This video is too funny.  I picked it over at Applesauce.

More republican Hypocrisy

Republican hypocrisy is at work again.  From Think Progress.org comes an article about how more and more high profile republicans are signing on the the idea of repealing part of the 14th Amendment while at the same time the GOP is listing the passage of the 14th Amendment as a great GOP accomplishment.

Looks like we have another example of how poorly the republicans govern.  They don't even like their own, self-proclaimed accomplishment.  Wow.  The party that says we should follow the Constitution exactly as written, doesn't like the way THEY wrote it.

Well, tough shit, idiots!

Next time do a better job -- if there is a next time.

The American Dream by George Carlin

I picked up this video over at Randi Rhodes site on her front page. George did this show in 2005. He's a prophet. He told it like it has become.

Here's the video. Listen to it. Then spread it around. Everyone should listen to what George says. Beware, however, the language is a little rough. If there are young or sensitive ears around, turn down your sound. Alternatively, I have included the transcript of the video. Read, laugh, cry. Sadly, it is the truth.



“But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never … ever … EVER be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got. … … … BECAUSE … THE OWNERS, OF THIS COUNTRY, DON’T WANT THAT! … … I’m talking about the real owners now … … … … … the BIG owners! … … … The Wealthy … … … … … the REAL owners! … The big wealthy business interests that control things … and make all the important decisions. … … … … Forget the politicians. They are irelevant. … … The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice . . . … you dont. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. … They own and control the corporations. Theyve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. … They got you by the balls. … … They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying … . . . lobbying, … to get what they want . . . … Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but Ill tell you what they dont want . . . they dont want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. … … They dont want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. Theyre not interested in that . . . that doesnt help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. … … They dont want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly theyre getting FUCKED by a system that threw them overboard 30 FUCKING years ago. … … They dont want that! You know what they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. … And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now theyre coming for your … Social Security money. … … … They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? … … … Theyll get it . . . theyll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this FUCKING place! Its a big club, and you ain’t in it! … … … … You, and I, are not in The big club. By the way, its the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people . . . white collar, blue collar it doesnt matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means . . . continue to elect these rich COOK SUCKERS who dont give a FUCK about you. They dont give a FUCK about you . . . … they dont give a FUCK about you. …. …. They dont care about you at all . . . at all . . . at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Thats what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick thats being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. Its called the American Dream, … cause you have to be asleep to believe it . . .”