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Bear with me if I get a little like a dog chewing on a bone about this subject, but if I had a craw one of the things that would stick in it would be the 'CRA led to the mortgage meltdown' nonsense that was the subject of one of last week's posts. Although this theory has been disproved eight ways to Sunday, there are still a few who hang on to it. One of...

A very insightful piece by former GWB staffer David Frum about how the Tea Party is driving the GOP bus right over the 2012 cliff.  ...

If you are a Colbert fan, you'll already know that he has taken on super pacs and the secret money that is infecting our elections.  By starting his own super pac, he is exposing the hypocrisy of using millions in secret money to influence elections, but has drawn Karl Rove's attorney's attention by pointing out how the crazy new rules allow money in super pacs to keep his donors secret.  Colbert confronts Rove as only...

Republican Texas State Representative Wayne Christian says that cuts to family planning agencies by the Texas legislature are about birth control as well as about abortion.(Above--Wayne Christian on the left with Texas Governor Rick Perry. These men are concerned that Texas women have access to birth control.)Here is what Representative Christian said---"The goal is to get government money out of the abortion process and if contraceptive services have to suffer a bit of collateral damage...

Republicans want you to believe that Social Security is "broke" and "a fraud."  Nothing could be farther from the truth....

http://this-small-planet.com/2011/can-government-really-create-jobs-of-course-it-can/#more-427...

Last January, newly elected Wisconsin Governor shocked voters by introducing a harsh union busting bill in the state house, cynically calling it the "budget repair bill" to make up deficits made worse by recent state tax cuts.  What surprised everyone, including his supporters, was that Walker didn't campaign on this issue.  The ensuing weeks-long battle drew national attention, thousands of protesters crowding the state capitol, and Democratic senators fleeing the state to avoid a vote. ...

Congress did not pass a bill funding the FAA before leaving Washington for their paid summer vacation.  Republicans are trying to cut a program that subsidizes small, rural airports.  This cut would save American taxpayers $16 million per year.  Congress was unable to agree on cutting this program before they left for vacation, so now the FAA is shut down.  Here are the numbers:FAA employees working without pay or out of a job:    4,000FAA construction...

Congressman Joe Walsh, (R-IL) released a video earlier this month in which he called on President Obama to "quit lying" and asked the president "Have you no shame, sir?" He also spoke of the need for a balanced budget amendment, and re-iterated his refusal to raise the debt ceiling because he "won't place one more dollar of debt on my kids."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Here's the Honorable Congressman Walsh's stance on lying, how he balances his own...

The debt ceiling talks have begun to remind me of the Cuban Missile  Crisis.(Above--Soviet missiles in Cuba. Big trouble back in 1962.)Which side will blink first?(Here are facts about the Cuban Missile Crisis.)As for the debt ceiling negotiations, I hope President Obama does not sell us out with benefit cuts and domestic spending cuts that make life tougher than it is already. The wealthy have the resources to pay more taxes. If the debt is such a...