Last week Republican Mitch Daniels once again pushed the "means testing" argument against Social Security, saying that we can no longer "afford to send millionaires pension checks" or "pay medical bills for even the wealthiest among us."
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It’s always struck me as odd that the media could portray the tea party as a “grassroots movement.” From its corporate origins on CNBC to its corporate PR backing and its even more corporate agenda, not much about it has ever seemed grassroots to me. Odder still was the portrayal of the tea party as [...]
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OK. I think I understand why he did it. At first I didn’t think Obama’s release of his long form birth certificate would do him much good. But now I’m beginning to think the president knows exactly what he’s doing, how it could help him, and how it can potentially hurt the GOP. The White [...]
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Karl Rove’s corporate front-group Crossroads GPS is spending $750,000 to run ads explaining that unionized workers make 42% more than non-union workers. From the Politico story about the ad buy, Crossroads GPS is airing the ad on national cable. The buy is $750,000 over one week, with spots running on CNN, CNBC and Fox News. [...]
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Oh my goodness, here are some Republicans trying to help Obama pass his tax cut bill. How bipartisan of them: You may recall Crossroads GPS – the shadowy third-party group that doesn’t disclose its donors, which spent tens of millions of dollars running campaign ads in the midterms, largely against Democratic candidates. President Obama repeatedly [...]
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Politics is not rocket science. Karl Rove and the political witch doctors like to pretend they can concoct mysterious potions to steal elections, but that’s just con man puffery. Politics really is mostly common sense. Democrats just got “shellacked” in an election. The reason was simple. We had the worst economic downturn since the Great [...]
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It Won’t Work Not to pick on Kathleen Parker, but the "narrative" she suggested the Democrats take from midterm elections — "You can’t sell people what they don’t want" — is more likely to end up being the narrative the Republicans take from 2012 — if the president and the Democrats do what they need [...]
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It Hasn’t Worked Karl Rove actually gets it. Sort of. He at least understands that voters didn’t toss out the Democrats because they are "enraptured with the GOP," when he tells Republicans that it’s "time to deliver." It just too bad for the GOP — and, now, the rest of the country — that they [...]
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The votes are in, and while some close races are still being tallied, there is a clear winner from the 2010 elections: Secret corporate cash. Such unaccounted for political donations may end up allowing those accused of wrongdoing to go free. As Joshua Holland details for AlterNet, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission may have [...]
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Remember that horrible 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad that helped derail John Kerry’s 2004 presidential bid? Well, Bob Perry, the billionaire tycoon who financed that smear campaign is back, and he’s underwriting a barrage of dirty ads that target politicians he doesn’t like. And this time around, the Supreme Court gave Perry cover [...]
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