Next time you hear Obama claim that he has lowered taxes for 95% of the people, you ought to be hearing, “I will absolutely raise taxes for those making less than $250,000 a year, yet I will continue to say that I won’t because the taxes will all be hidden in everything that affects your […]
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3. According to Rasmussen Reports, a leading publisher in public polling information, President Obama has only had a scant 3 days so far this year, of the 139 possible days (4 days this year did not have polls done), where his approval rate was above his disapproval rate. Even on those sporadic days, those who […]
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David Sirota via Salon: I’m always amused by popular references to the allegedly all-powerful American “left.” The term suggests that progressives today possess the same kind of robust, ideologically driven political apparatus as the right — a machine putting principles before party affiliation. This notion is hilarious because it is so absurd. Yet The New […]
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Some Douchebag at Salon: Organizers surround Kentucky’s GOP office and decry Rand Paul’s criticism of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. . . . About 20 protesters gathered outside, some with signs accusing Paul of racism. I’m wondering a couple of things about Salon’s commentary here. Some things just don’t add up. 1) His stance on […]
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I wasn’t aware that libertards and libertarians ever had a romance, much less that we are now breaking up. Though we may have a few similarities in our political platform, such as ending the war on drugs as we know it, anti-war, etc, the basis for those beliefs come from very different places, and much […]
It’s amazing how the libertarded establishment can go from “Libertarianism is great!” until it started to represent part of the Tea Party movement when it became “stupid” and “selfish” and something we should ignore.
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Gabriel Winant of Salon: It’s time to stop taking libertarianism seriously. So let me see if I can follow your argument (considering I’m apparently so fucking stupid as to actually subscribe to libertarian thought). Libertarianism is so stupid, juvenile, selfish and bratty that we should all stop taking it seriously, yet Salon has been actively […]
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Gerald F. Seib via Captital Journal of The New York Times: Meanwhile, on the Republican side, the tea-party movement is pushing Republicans to the right en masse. Even in places where tea party-styled candidates don’t win, they are likely to force more-traditional Republican candidates off center ground to survive. In what fucking world can we […]
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