"Waste, Fraud, and Abuse" has long been a battle-cry for the Grand Old Party when describing government. So now may be the time to turn that phrase on them. GOP Waste = $24 Billion wasted in the cost to our economy in the last three weeks of government shutdown and debt-ceiling brinksmanship. GOP Fraud = A false premise told to the country that the shutdown/brinksmanship would defund/delay ...
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THREE OUT OF FOUR AMERICANS DISAPPROVE OF THE GOP's HANDLING OF THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN! The Grand Old Party seems to be on a path to party self-destruction. Oh, they may hang on for a decade or more but eventually the Republican Party is either going to move back to the political center, where the American people actually are in their thinking, or they will be taken over by their fringe-winge ...
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What do the two extremely consequential Supreme Court decisions this week have in common? In one decision we have a basic gutting of the most important section of the Civil Rights Act, and in the other we have the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act --- leaving many Americans scratching their heads. The decisions appear to be liberal in the striking down of DOMA, and conservative in strik ...
We can feel it ... can't you? Just as Ronald Reagan turned the country to the hard-right, Barack Obama is turning the country to the center-left. It just doesn't seem fast enough or far enough for many on the left ---and impatience abounds. But, it is happening, while Conservatives are floundering around in the past. What a pleasure to witness our nation moving into a new future of pragmatism ...
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan are closely linked in the minds of both Conservatives and Liberals --- on both sides of "the pond." The two served as heads-of-state at the same time in the 80's, and together they transformed both nations by instituting radical free-market economic theories. As America observes the death of Margaret Thatcher and the predictable articles lauding her tenure, ...
Our nation's level of rising income inequality started in the 1980s with the GOP "theory" of Supply Side Economics --- otherwise known as "Trickle Down Economics." Their theory asserts that if taxpayers give the wealthy and corporations huge tax cuts and tax havens, that the bounty produced for the 1% will somehow "Trickle Down" to everyone else and that the entire nation will prosper. ...
RISING INCOME INEQUALITY It's easy to see that a massive wealth transfer began in America in the 1980s. The logical conclusion is that Reaganomics, a.k.a. Trickle Down Economics, has dramatically harmed our country. Eventually, the 1% will be forced to face the masses and explain just why it is fair for them to be raking in the overwhelming majority of the economic gains, while everyone ...
"First you win the argument, then you win the vote." So said Margaret Thatcher, the first woman Prime Minister of England. Eugene Robinson wrote a wonderful column this week in The Washington Post, comparing the transformational English leader Margaret Thatcher to our own Barack Obama. Mrs. Thatcher was Prime Minister from 1979 – 1990, when Ronald Reagan was President from 1981 – 1989, and th ...