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Meanwhile in Greece: Merry Crisis & Happy New Fear!
simply-war: In Greece, two riot policeman walk by graffiti that reads “Merry Crisis” and “Happy New Fear”.
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Wednesday morning’s 10 interesting things
1) Vice President Joe Biden – “But the best way to sum up the job the president has done — if you need a real shorthand — Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.” | Note: US auto...
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Tuesday morning’s 9 interesting things
GOP Drops Demand For Offsetting Payroll Tax Cut - Facing emboldened Democratic negotiators and a quickly thinning legislative calendar, House Republican leaders have offered to extend the payroll tax...
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Local, state governments have laid off 668,000 workers since the start of the...
The Republican mindset: tax cuts for the wealthy, paid for with austerity for the rest of us. In practice, bottom to top income redistribution where you agree to not call the police unless you’re being...
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Austerity on steroids: the Ryan / Romney / Republican economic ‘method’
Big spending cuts to social programs + Tax increases on lower-income people + A reduction in the size of the federal workforce = Immediate job growth and a more robust recovery? Hardly. Jamelle Bouie...
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Morning Bunker Report: Monday 5.7.2012
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS FOR TODAY—————————–— MITT ROMNEY on the other hand, is proposing the exact opposite. His tax plan would give massive tax cuts to the rich. (The top 0.1% for example,...
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Morning Bunker Report: Thursday 5.10.2012
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS FOR TODAY—————————–— BIPARTISANSHIP to the modern Republican: after defeating Sen. Dick Lugar in the Indiana primary, Richard Mourdock dismissed Lugar’s parting shot....
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Austerity
liberalsarecool: If insisting on keeping taxes low on the wealthy while cutting social programs is your reflexive position, you should really think about what kind of person you are and what type of...
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Makers, Takers, and Liars
Igor Volsky reports on Paul Ryan’s interview, yesterday, on Meet the Press, where he predicted the sequester cuts will happen but proposed nothing to avoid them. “The tone represents a sharp rhetorical...
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The U.S. will never become Greece IF we reject conservative principles and...
John Amato makes a good point about the constant threat from Republicans that America is moments away from becoming Greece because of the deficit: “…after seeing the International Monetary Fund implore...
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New hostages: the Sequester and the expiration of the Continuing Resolution
Mark your calendars: March 1 and March 27. Suzy Khimm discusses why the Republicans aren’t worried about the sequester — and why Paul Ryan seems to be one of the lead cheerleaders for letting it...
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The Red State Malingerers and the Sequester
With the sequester right around the corner, it’s important to point out that it will be Democrats fighting to reduce those automatic cuts to programs that ALL Americans rely on — and who will be trying...
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The GOP has been successful at cutting deficits to obstruct economic recovery
Brian Beutler says the GOP’s obsession with the deficit has HURT the economy: Here’s the buried lede from the Congressional Budget Office, which on Tuesday released its Budget and Economic Outlook for...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham’s “Final Solution”
I hope people actually pay attention to what Lindsey Graham is proposing here, especially with all the effort that’s been going into the rebranding and remarketing of the Republican Party and their...
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