August 22, 2011

Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

World of Class Warfare – The Poor’s Free Ride Is Over

www.thedailyshow.com

Here is another brilliant summation from Jon Stewart, this one on Republican attempts to shift more of the taxation burden to the middle and poor classes, and keep the rich fat and happy. Hopefully more people will begin to understand that we are being played like violins by the ultra-rich, who know that as long as we buy into the fiction that it’s us (the struggling middle class) versus them (the struggling poor), the rich win.

Say Something Nice!

August 22, 2011 Buck Banks

Bachmann Only Says Gaffs When Her Lips are Moving

August 22, 2011 Buck Banks

When you speak six times a day, slip-ups can occur.

— Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), quoted by First Read, addressing her repeated gaffes on the presidential campaign trail.

Don’t Blame ObamaCare for Herman Cain Being Alive

August 22, 2011 Buck Banks

If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I’d be dead.

— Herman Cain, quoted by CNN, making it plain that while medical science can cure cancer it can’t treat non sequiturs.

Give ‘Em Hell, Maxine!

August 22, 2011 Buck Banks

This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned — the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

— Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), quoted by CBS News.

Hi, Newt, Hawaii?

August 22, 2011May 22, 2014 Buck Banks

In the run for the White House, we should note
That while others campaign in N.H. and S.C., by rote,
Gingrich’s campaign sure is different —
He’s not even on the continent!
Nope, he’s off securing the all-important Hawaii vote.

House Republicans Finally Found Taxes They Are Eager to Raise

August 22, 2011August 22, 2011 Jon Ponder

Charles Babbington, Associated Press:

News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes. Impossible, right? GOP lawmakers are so virulently anti-tax, surely they will fight to prevent a payroll tax increase on virtually every wage-earner starting Jan. 1, right?

Apparently not.

Many of the same Republicans who fought hammer-and-tong to keep the George W. Bush-era income tax cuts from expiring on schedule are now saying a different “temporary” tax cut should end as planned. By their own definition, that amounts to a tax increase.

The tax break extension they oppose is sought by President Barack Obama. Unlike proposed changes in the income tax, this policy helps the 46 percent of all Americans who owe no federal income taxes but who pay a “payroll tax” on practically every dime they earn.

More evidence, if any was needed, that Republicans are out to sabotage the economy, even if it hurts their constituents, in order to ensure the election of Mitt Romney or Rick Perry next year.

Next up: Complete and utter silence from Republican Party boss Grover Norquist when these House Republicans vote en masse against extending these tax cuts, thus breaking their oath to him that they would never vote for a tax increase in any shape or fashion.

‘Liberal Media’ Ignoring Liberal Outrage at Republican Congressional Town Halls

August 22, 2011August 22, 2011 Jon Ponder

Remember the summer of 2009 when the “liberal media” rushed to broadcast every shaky, homemade video of tea baggers having hissy fits at town halls held by Democratic members of Congress in their districts?

Now, two summers later, when it’s the liberals who are showing up at Republican House members’ town halls, not a single clip from one of these outbursts has been shown on either of the two legitimate cable news networks or treated as a top story by a news magazine or major newspaper.

But that doesn’t mean the outbursts are not happening. The Hill newspaper reports on several of these incidents, none of which has made it into the national news:

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Day: August 22, 2011

FOX Begrudges the Poor Their Refrigerators

Say Something Nice!

Bachmann Only Says Gaffs When Her Lips are Moving

When you speak six times a day, slip-ups can occur.

— Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), quoted by First Read, addressing her repeated gaffes on the presidential campaign trail.

Don’t Blame ObamaCare for Herman Cain Being Alive

If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I’d be dead.

— Herman Cain, quoted by CNN, making it plain that while medical science can cure cancer it can’t treat non sequiturs.

Give ‘Em Hell, Maxine!

This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned — the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

— Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), quoted by CBS News.

Hi, Newt, Hawaii?

House Republicans Finally Found Taxes They Are Eager to Raise

‘Liberal Media’ Ignoring Liberal Outrage at Republican Congressional Town Halls

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”