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POPSRachel Maddow Responds to Bobby Jindal Hilarious! 1. I'm just like Obama. 2. Tax cuts cure everything. 3. Tax cuts and prayers are far more effective than monitoring possible natural disasters. 4. Sarah Palin and I are running for President in 2012 along with Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. Republicans rock!
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POPSDawn of a Newt Age So who is the real Newt—the Web-savvy wonk toiling to revitalize government, or the canny political strategist gathering ammo and identifying wedge issues for the gop? The answer, of course, is both—and neither Democrats nor Republicans ought to forget that Gingrich pulled off a political revolution once before.
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POPSThe Republican Party Must Die
More right-wing crazy talk: That you can pay down the deficit by cutting taxes, and that the God of Love who embraced lepers and prostitutes is really the God of Gay-Bashing. It's almost hilarious the things these guys come up with. John McCain was supposed to be the sane one, but he has now embraced the fringy kookiness that, over the last two decades, has become part of the DNA of the Republican party. They'll do everything they can to undercut the confidence essential to a recovery while attacking the patriotism of their opponents. The Republicans are witch-hunting again. They're on a crusade for purity. The Katrina Party must be crushed. For the good of the country, for the good of the Republicans themselves, it must die to be born again. And, really, these politicians shouldn't come back until they come up with at least one new idea about how to govern, because hearkening back to the grand old days of small government and lone cowpokes just ain't gonna to cut it anymore.
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POPSDirty politics take time and money to clean up Another right-wing cheerleader who got it wrong. He claims that since no charges stuck to Bush/Cheney while they were office is proof that the charges were unsubstantiated while ignoring the fact that no one had the balls to go up against an administration with such unprecedented power and the lack of moral restraint to use it.
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POPSRep. Nick Thompson v. Rush Limbaugh These people, Nick Thompson and his wife, out of the goodness of their hearts, allowed this stranger to live in an unused home while she tries to get on her feet. Kudos to them both. Rush Limbaugh, giant ass that he is, has the nerve to rant against the Thompsons’ as an embarrassment to Americans. For this comment and many, many others, Rush Limbaugh is an embarrassment to humanity. He views this type of charity only through the eyes of “what is in it for me”. And then his ‘ditto-head flock of sheep’ start bashing Thompson as a disgrace to Republican principles of self-responsibility. Self responsibility through helping your neighbor in time of need is the greatest show of respect we can offer each other. This is the kind of respectability that far too many Americans have forgotten. As Mr. Thompson said "Whether Republican or Democrat, the more people do small things like just helping your neighbor the better off we’d be."
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POPSHypocrisy from the Party of Pork Their pledge sounds a bit dis-ingenuous Why do we have to raise our voices before these clowns perform in the ethical manner we expect from them? They loose their shirts in an election before they say “Gee, maybe we should have done a better job” or “Wow, I guess the American people were paying attention”.
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POPSAuto rescue bill in peril, opposed by GOP senators What truly bothers me about fast-tracking a vote on this deal is what Sen. Mitch McConnell, the GOP leader, said Wednesday afternoon "Everybody is still kind of poring through it, trying to figure out exactly what it does." This sounds to me as though the vote has more of an emotional basis rather than the actual wording of the measure, Scary stuff. Yet Bush says he is supporting it. Deputy Chief of Staff Joel Kaplan told reporters at a late-morning briefing that the administration had yet to read the fine print of its "conceptual agreement" with congressional Democrats How can anyone who hasn't read this thing be for or against it? Another problem I have with this, and I know it is common pracitce, is that included in the bill is an unrelated pay-raise for federal judges. Why is this part of this vote? What does this have to do with the Big 3 bailout? Someone please explain.
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POPSBailout? What Bailout. Does acting quickly have the desired effect of appearing to know what you are doing? In the case of the $700B Wall Street bailout, the answer is apparently, No. The fact is Henry Paulson doesn’t have a clue how to best use this money and the program that was originally passed has changed. It is down right scary to know that Congress will vote for a plan without details of that plan and place unprecedented power in the hands of a man who has now clearly shown does not know what to do with the money. People are still loosing their homes and jobs, and our faith in our future is being badly shaken. CEO’s and big oil are walking away with record profits. Politicians grasp at any glimmer of hope to keep things working and no one is truly in control of anything.
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POPSConservatives plan future with Palin She's not going away. The republican party has to be pretty desperate to hang on to her as their best hope for a future run at the presidency. Despite all of her short-comings as a viable candidate they tout her 'attractiveness' and 'ability to give a great speech' as selling points. These are very shallow foundations to hedge your bet on. Personally, I don't see it.
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POPSConvicted U.S. senator welcomed back to Alaska Where is the shame? Ted Stevens brought a lot of money to the state of Alaska. Apparently, this carries more weight than honor and ethics. "there is a 100 percent certainty" that the senate would vote to expel Stevens should he win re-election and his appeals fail.
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POPSRepublican Voter Fraud Hoax An old Republican scam, never been carried out with more zeal than this year. The only actual crime here is that Acorn managed to register some 1.3m low-income (read: Democratic-leaning) voters over the past two years. The rest is, pretty much, just made up. But in the bloody and desperate trenches of the Republican war on democracy, that's more than enough to kick in a last minute surge of lies that may - with the help of a compliant and lazy corporate US media - wreak enough havoc, scare enough voters, confuse enough people and plant enough seeds to call an Obama victory into doubt on November 4. f you can't win it, steal it. If you can't steal it, claim the other guy stole it. Same old worn-out Republican strategy. Read the rest of the article to learn how ACORN verifies the legitimacy of every registration. The result: exactly ZERO FRAUDULENT VOTES.
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POPSMcCain Resorts to Atwater's Bag of Dirty Tricks Lee Atwater is a master of media manipulation. His talents as 'spin-meister' have served him well as a political consultant for Reagan and George H W Bush. His close association with the undeniably despicable Karl Rove makes him even more reptilian. Lee Atwater had a hand in designing the current seamy campaign for John McCain. McCain has basically sold his soul to the devil to win this, most people agree, his last chance at higher office. Atwater's sulfurous, rumor-mongering campaign stylle is testiment to how low someone will go to win an election. It is interesting to note how Atqater, in 2000, tore McCain apart in his campaign against G W Bush and now he is attacking Obama in favor of McCain. These guys are all willing to prostitute themselves for power and money without any regard to ethics. John McCain must be disgusted with himself for some of the choices he has made in his struggle to become president. Today, he is a very different man than he was just one yea
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POPSWho is Joe Six Pack? You think you know? Read this blog, it's really quite funny. Republicans think they know, is it code word as the blog post says. Find out for yourself.
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POPSWhat makes these millionaires worthy of a bailout? More from the article: "I've been hearing from Republicans all my life about the virtue of capitalism and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps -- but it turns out the bootstraps have to come from the government and the government also does the pulling up? How is that capitalism?" I want to know why the government turned its back while the American auto industry was loosing its shirt to foreign automakers? And why didn't the government step in to stop our industries from moving overseas and leaving nothing but minimum wage jobs behind? These corporate welfare recipients who took advantage of a federal government that allowed an unregulated wholesale ripoff of their fellow Americans deserve to loose everything they own. American ingenuity will get us through this, but it will be a lot easier to do so without Bush and his gang digging the hole deeper while we are digging our way out.
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POPSCulture Wars continue Large numbers of Americans voted for Bush because he seemed like a regular guy, someone you'd want to have a beer with. Joe Six-Pack doesn't understand why the world and his culture are changing and why he doesn't have a say in it." The GOP appealed to Joe Six-Pack by harping on cultural issues like the "three Gs," gods, guns and gays. We are being played again.
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POPSLame you can believe in Few voters know that Obama would cut taxes of the vast majority of Americans by far more than McCain would. Few know Obama would guarantee everyone access to health care or that McCain’s health plan might endanger coverage many already have. Few know that Obama has a coherent program to create new jobs through public investment in roads, bridges, transit and green technologies. Few know that McCain’s economic plan is worse than President Bush’s. McCain would add $8.5 trillion in new debt over the next 10 years. Political campaigns are supposed to be an opportunity to tell the public what you are about, it should not be used as an opportunity to attack the other party. To both candidates: Get your message out, make us 'feel' we have to vote for you and not against the other guy. Let the American public decide which one is good or bad for us. Stop the manipulation and the attack politics.
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POPSWould you pay higher taxes for Health Care? It seems there is a growing majority that would like to see the current system of Health Care abolished in favor of a Single Payer system run by the federal government. But, there are also many who do not want this to happen, i.e., insurance companies. In 2007 Insurance lobbyists paid $446 million to keep things as they are. Health care is a major money-making scheme for insurance companies and unethical doctors who manipulate the system in their favor. Higher taxes for complete coverage for all or higher insurance premiums for the few who can afford it? Which system do you want?
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POPSThe Old, White Men Convention If giving tax breaks to major corporations, continuing to occupy a country that doesn’t want us there anymore, denying basic civil rights to all Americans, putting the education of children in the hands of private schools, sending more jobs overseas, and drilling for oil while waiting for alternative energy sources to magically appear is change, then I’m Ann Coulter. And I’m not Ann Coulter.
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POPSAnd the exploitation continues The only reason McCain chose her is to get female voters, which he personally couldn't care less about. Obama campaign calls her a candidate with "the thinnest foreign policy experience in history" As if Obama's foreign policy experience is any more extensive. We are so screwed.
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POPSFrozen Katrina People will freeze to death this winter while republicans ignore assistance in favor of voting for offshore oil drilling. Last year LIHEAP was only able to assist 16% of eligible recipients forcing the poor to choose between food, medicine or heating fuel. And Bush proposed cutting the aid by $379 million. The total annual funding for this program amounts to less than what the U.S. spends every week in Iraq. They way we treat our disadvantaged, poor and homeless is atrocious.
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