Mark Fiore – Assaulting Austerity
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John Boehner on previous GOP debt deal: ‘Blah blah blah’
From hell's heart, I giggle at thee. (Talking Points Memo)
I continue to find it hilarious and/or depressing that anyone with punditing skills above that of the average graham cracker honestly thought, even for a moment, that the House Republicans wo...
The coming right-wing clash over the ‘half that pay no taxes’
In recent years, few Republican talking points have been regurgitated as often as the myth that almost half of Americans pay no taxes. Just last week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor complained "we have to question whether that's fair," insisting "yo...
Mitt Romney’s severely conservative budget would severely hurt poor
Mitt Romney goes severe.
This must be what Mitt Romney meant when he called himself "severely conservative": He'd slash budgets beyond the tea party's wildest dreams. While there's not an actual formal budget out of the Romney campaign, HuffPo's Andr...
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...
Republican leaders haul out dusty procedure to beat defense cuts ‘sequestration’
Guess whose budget Republicans want to save
from the "sequestration" ax.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) hope to use an unusual procedural technique to keep cuts in Pentagon spending from happen...
