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I think that by now you all caught yesterday's Labor Fest speech by President Obama. The President was fired up (if you haven't watched the speech yet, by the way, follow the link and you can see the video), and so was the crowd. But the President didn't go there just to rally the troops. He proposed an important new investment in the nation's infrastructure: $50 billion in new federal infrastructure spending.
Alongside it, the Obama administration is proposing two more economic investment measures: a $100 billion incentive for research and development by increasing extending the R&D credit permanently, and a $200 billion plan to let businesses write off all capital investments. Of course, Democrats and the President are still pushing for the small business jobs bill that the Republicans have been blocking in the Senate, with $30 billion in loan guarantees and $12 billion in tax cuts for small business.
Put them all together, and the Obama administration is front-loading a near-$400 billion investment in America's economy and jobs. Let's go through these investments one by one.
I so totally have a man-crush on this dude. He calls the Democrats 'socialists', says Barack Obama is 'bad for America', and wants to privatize social security.
Wish they'd actually kept it going to the point where I was also praising Jesse Helms.
Okay, the man crush thing, funny. But Jesse Helms? Wonder what you were praising Jesse Helms for?
And remember, if we don't bust our asses this November to GOTV, idiots like Erick son of Erick will be in charge this fall.
More WTFLOL at Erick's expense, and a chance to show some love to Scott McAdams at his expense below the fold.
That says it all, really. If you are pro torture you are a sociopath. Frankly, I refuse to listen to kvetching over "morality" and "values" from the people who support torture.
Anti medical care for 9/11 first responders.
Seriously? WTF?
Apparently, every thing changed on 9/11, except for the fact that Republican politicians are greedy, hate filled assholes who would throw their own national heroes down a flight of stairs if it pleased their corporate masters and hurt the Democratic President. Remember, these are the shmucks who impeached a President for blowjobs. Conservatives are patriots in the same way that a dog who eats its' puppies is a concerned mother.
I'm pissed, and on behalf of my city of birth, New York, and all of the people who risked their lives to help others on 9/11, I have a message for the Conservative movement.
That message is YOU SUCK AND I HATE YOU, and I hope YOU FAIL, you sociopathic futhermuckers!
The top 100 things Conservatives HATE and the 5 things they like plus more below the fold
If nothing else has scared you about the Republicans and their agenda, the latest comments from Michele Bachmann should be the biggest motivation as to why you should work to make sure the Republicans fail in their coup de Congress.
"I think that's all we should do," Bachmann said at the GOP Youth Convention in Washington on Thursday. "I think all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after another and expose all the nonsense that has gone on."
Democrats stand up. Seriously, we can't get Karl Rove to testify in front of Congress. We cannot allow the Republicans to step all over us with their faux "freedom loving" agenda turned witch hunts.
The Republicans will shut down the government to focus on dog and pony hearings and investigations. Never mind that we are less than two years into cleaning up the mess created by the most corrupt deceitful administration in American history. Never mind that we just sat through the pillaging and the looting of the Haliburton Cheney Presidency.
Sewell claims in her latest ad that she has "never been associated with that or any other Republican group period."
Then why did you give money to a Republican running for Congress in New Jersey? Don't take my word for it. Look at the Federal Election Commission page.
Speaking of salary - Didn't you work at Davis, Wardwell and Polk? Where you made well over six figures as a Wall Street Securities attorney?
You are making that much money and you are asking someone else to take a pay cut? Seriously?
Did either of the law firms you work at ever make layoffs? And if so did you ever take a cut? Please answer that question.
How Democrats can impeach President Obama in one easy step
Step #1.Do NOT vote in 2010
That is all it will take!
If you want a Republican majority in Congress, be certain to not vote in the elections this November, because that is what you will be likely to get.
And that Republican majority in Congress will not stop until they have dragged the Presidency of Barack Obama into the dirt. They will not care one bit about the harm it will do to America. A Republican majority in Congress will do nothing but work towards "Obama's Waterloo", and the people who do not vote for Democrats in 2010 will be just as responsible for it as the people who vote for Republicans. That is the reality of it, and the possibility of a GOP majority in Congress is something America can NOT afford.
But you can do something about it before it is too late.
Speaker Pelosi pulled a brilliant move at the end of the last weeks legislative session.
House Democrats are home for a long Memorial Day break with a gift-wrapped wedge issue delivered just in time for district campaigning. One of their final actions before adjourning late Friday was passing a measure that would strip tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas by a 215-204 vote.
On June 8, Californians will vote on several referendums, in addition to primary races. One of those referendums, Proposition 14 (aka the Top Two Primaries Act), could hugely change how those primary races are conducted, and it would definitely not be for the better. As if to add insult to injury, but it could take down a public campaign financing measure along with it.
Prop 14 was put on the ballot through the backroom dealings of State Senator (not Lt. Gov.) Abel Moldonado, the very last holdout on the budget this year. He used the budget crisis for his own profit and one of his demands was to put this measure on the ballot. Now, his reckless action is being opposed by every political party in California and numerous electoral reform groups, groups ranging from the NAACP to the Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition.
But big business wants this to pass because of the control it could give them over elections (explanation below the fold). So your help is needed - $5, $10, $100 - whatever you can chip in to prevent California from descending further into a mess of broken government.
A lot of Republicans, these days, are either calling for, or getting close to calling for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to resign. As a Democrat, I think he is doing a superb job. For us. So here is my plea to my Republican friends: please please please don't fire Michael Steel! After all, what other Republican can give the Democrats a list to publicize like this?
In the 1980s, the great tax-cutter Ronald Reagan raised taxes on unemployment benefits. The Patron Saint of GOP economic policy also shamelessly decided that your social security benefits should be taxed if you had any other income. Last year, Obama and the Democratic Congress provided relief on the first $2,400 of unemployment benefits. The Recovery Act delivered numerous tax cuts to the middle class. Health care reform adds up to the largest middle class tax cut for health insurance ever. But hey, don't look at the evidence. Parrot after me: the terrible horrible no good very bad socialist communist Democrats want to raise your taxes!
Now, the Republicans have a new complaint against the Democrats, President Obama and the landmark health care bill: they're stopping corporations from claiming a tax break on the money the taxpayers give them!
It was kind of amazing what we saw yesterday. Eric Cantor, the Republican whip in the House of Representatives gave a press conference accusing Democrats of fanning the flames in the latest political violence. That's quite a feat for Mr. Cantor. We have seen Democratic offices vandalized, Democratic members of Congress openly threatened and called racial and homophobic slurs, and Eric Cantor thinks it's the Democrats' fault.
Let me be clear: you reap what you saw, Mr. Cantor, sooner or later. Your party is responsible for ginning up this lynch mob. Your party and its leaders and members of Congress laid the seeds of fearmongering and violence a long time ago. Like when Rep. Michele Bachmann went on television in 2006 to ask for a witch hunt in Congress to find out who's "pro-America" and who's "anti-America." Or when in April of 2005, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas essentially justified the assassination of a federal judge because the judiciary was handing down decisions he did not like. Was he rebuked by the Republican party? Oh no, he got a promotion and is now the Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.
George W. Bush
Tax Cuts for the rich
Strategery
Invading Iraq
"They will welcome us as liberators"
"The oil will pay for the war"
WMD's
Mission Accomplished
Torture isn't a war crime cause my lawyer says so
Hurricane Katrina
"The fundamentals of the economy are strong"
Sarah Fucking Palin
Katie Couric - But are you ready to become the leader of the free world?
Sarah Palin - Totally. I will totally lead the world. Any world. I will lead Mars or whatever too if those guys need a world president. Or just a Mars president. I took on the ole' boys club in Alaska and I can take it on in Mars.
Katie Couric - But I'm not asking about being president of Mars.
Sarah Palin - But I am answering about being president of Mars because a president person needs to be prepared for anything. I like to reform.
If Republicans and Fox News pundits were embarrassed about looking like birthers, loony bins and white supremacists, well, they just got a whole lot more to worry about.
Recently, a truther organization called "We Are The Change" spoke to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) - a friend of (Glenn) Beck and a frequent guest on his show - about reopening an investigation into 9/11. Chaffetz agreed with the activist, and even noted that he had spoken to professor Steven Jones, leading 9/11 truther, who Chaffetz said had done "interesting work"
At a DNC fundraiser last night, President Obama had an interesting exchange with a Democratic organizer about health care reform, wherein he appeared to suggest that Congress could drop the ball and fail to pass a bill--and that voters should judge them harshly if they do.
"[I]t may be that -- you know, if Congress decides -- if Congress decides we're not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not," Obama said.
