Month: July 2012
Twice as Many Americans Favor Raising Taxes on Wealthy
44% to 22%
By a two-to-one margin the public says that raising taxes on incomes above $250,000 would help the economy rather than hurt it, while 24% say that would not make a difference, according to Pew. Moreover, 44% say a tax increase on higher incomes would make the tax system more fair, while just 21% say it would make the system less so.
Majority of Americans Want Romney to Release More Tax Returns
54%
Of Americans say Mitt Romney should release additional tax returns, while 37% say he should not, according to Gallup. Democrats and Republicans predictably disagree on the issue, while independents favor Romney’s releasing more returns.
Americans’ Satisfaction with Country’s Direction On Rise
28%
Level of Americans’ satisfaction with the direction of the country in July, up from 20% in June, roughly matching the highest levels of satisfaction seen in each of the prior two years, says Gallup. Democrats’ and independents’ satisfaction is up, but Republicans’ isn’t.
Romney Is Lying Again – Obama Was Right, ‘Business’ Does Not Build Roads, Bridges And Did Not Create the Internet
If conservatism were a legitimate ideology, Republicans would not have to lie and lie and lie to get elected. The Romney campaign, its adjunct propagandists at Fox and right-wing bloggers are having a field day claiming that Pres. Obama dissed small businesses when he said it was the government, not small businesses, that funds and builds roads and bridges, and that it was government-funded research that developed the Internet.
Here’s the snippet they have taken out of context:
PRES. OBAMA: If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Ann Romney Channels Leona: ‘We’ve Given All You People Need to Know’
We’ve given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.
– Wannabe first lady Ann Romney channeling Leona Helmsly in a television interview.
Watch Romney Being Introduced As Head of Bain in 2000 – the Year after He ‘Retroactively Retired’
Funny, isn’t it, that Romney didn’t stand up and object to the mischaracterization of his position at Bain. He had, by his own account, quit Bain a year before.
Bush Channels His Inner Barney Stinson: Eight Years As President Was ‘Awesome’ – Life After Presidency Is ‘Awesome’
Look, eight years was awesome. You know, I was famous and I was powerful, but I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I don’t want to undermine our president — whoever is president. And a former president can do that. And I think it’s bad for the presidency itself. I have found that life after the presidency is awesome.
– Former Pres. George Bush, channeling his inner Barney Stinson.
False Claims By GOP Propagandists Michele Bachmann, Lucianne Goldberg And Others in the U.S. Incite Anti-American Violence in Egypt
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It’s just politics, a day at the office, for Republican propagandists like Michele Bachmann and Lucianne Goldberg, but the ridiculous lies they are spinning — especially their tale that Pres. Obama is a secret Muslim who directed the U.S. government to rig the election in Egypt — are having serious consequences on the ground:
Oxycontin-Addict Limbaugh Attacks Obama’s Casual Drug Use 30 Years Ago
There is no clearer sign that the attacks on Mitt Romney’s contradictory statements on his tenure at Bain Capital are working — on whether he was in charge when the company off-shored thousands of jobs, as he suggested in sworn testimony in June 2002 or whether he “retroactively resigned” from the company after taking a leave of absence in 1999 — than the fact that GOP’s most listened-to propagandist offered Romney this advice on what to say to the president:
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Look, pal, when I was out creating jobs, investing in businesses, and growing this economy, you were at Columbia smoking weed and snorting coke.
This is rich coming from Limbaugh, who, just three years ago, reached a deal with prosecutors related to charges he purchased 2,0000 Oxycontin tablets over a six months period, a practice that may have been going on for years. It’s possible that Limbaugh’s voracious gobbling of opiates may have cost him his hearing.
