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Rep. Barney Frank: Ryan/Romney budget a ‘great scam’

Rep. Barney Frank (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Rep. Barney Frank has a lot to say to TPM about "the great scam" that is the House Republican budget, none of it complementary and all of it spot on. "It's not deficit reduction when you increase military sp...

George W. Bush: ‘I wish they weren’t called the Bush tax cuts’

Miss me yet? Yeah, heh heh. You miss me. George W. Bush talks about his legacy: “I wish they weren’t called the Bush tax cuts,” the former president said as he kicked off the Bush Institute Conference on Taxes and Economic Growth in New...

Paul Ryan: I’m ‘using my Catholic faith’ to hate the poor

Good news, everyone. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget isn't about hating poor people; it's about his deeply held Catholic convictions: Paul Ryan: A person’s faith is central to how they conduct themselves in public and in private. So to me, using my Catholic...

Paul Ryan has a dozen Democratic supporters for his budget. But shhhh … they’re a secret.

Rep. Paul Ryan would love to tell you about his secret Democratic supporters. But then he'd have to kill you. (Jason Reed/Reuters) Hahahahaha: House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan told reporters in New York today that a dozen elected Democrats secretly su...

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It’s okay if you are Joe Zarelli

Joe Zarelli In Washington, Republican budget chief Sen. Joe Zarelli wants to dump the state’s Disability Lifeline with a $90 million cut. The program provides non-cash assistance to disabled adults who can’t work. Zarelli himself receives a month...

It’s okay if you are Joe Zarelli

Joe Zarelli In Washington, Republican budget chief Sen. Joe Zarelli wants to dump the state’s Disability Lifeline with a $90 million cut. The program provides non-cash assistance to disabled adults who can’t work. Zarelli himself receives a month...

Democrats refuse to give Republicans cover for their plan to end Medicare

Rep. Steve Israel, not a Ryan supporter. Republicans have tried to co-opt some of the creators of the idea of "premium supports" in Medicare to say that their plan really isn't so radical, that it's a bipartisan idea. That effort is falling flat, as ...

Republican budget: Ryan plan would cost one million students their Pell Grants

Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans don't just want lower-income Americans to be hungrier, poorer, and more unhealthy, they want them to be uneducated, too. They Ryan budget, adopted by House Republicans yesterday, would drastically cut Pell Gr...

Republican budget: Ryan Plan would hurt seniors

President Bartlett Martin Sheen explains the GOP budget cuts to Medicare. The Republican budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, endorsed by Mitt Romney, deemed the "vision" of what Republicans would do if in charge of all of government by Speaker John Bo...

Republican budget: Ryan Plan cuts fall predominantly on low-income Americans

The Paul Ryan budget passed by House Republicans, applauded by Mitt Romney, really does take us back to the Hoover administration. It gives massive tax breaks to the wealthy while slashing programs for low-income America. In fact, nearly two-thirds of...

Republican budget: Ryan Plan cuts fall predominantly on low-income Americans

The Paul Ryan budget passed by House Republicans, applauded by Mitt Romney, really does take us back to the Hoover administration. It gives massive tax breaks to the wealthy while slashing programs for low-income America. In fact, nearly two-thirds of...

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