Banksters know that hurrying on to deficit fighting mode while the U.S. economy 95 percent of us share is still a basket case will not only ensure continued high unemployment, but even higher unemployment. Cutting government spending is just what the doctor ordered for spurring more layoffs and keeping the already jobless idle, miserable and ready to vote incumbents out – most incumbents being Democrats, of course.
Posts Tagged ‘right-wing noise machine’
Obama and the 2016 Olympics:
No good deed goes unpunished
The International Olympic Committee decided to hold the 2016 games in Rio Di Janiero, and Brazilians’ triumphant joy was exceeded only by the exuberant schadenfreude of America’s political right. The New York Times heralded the reason: For Obama, an Unsuccessful Campaign. Although Chicago might have lost to Rio de Janeiro for reasons that had little [...]
Where do you suppose killer
of census worker got that idea?
To a government-hating paranoid personality type, the heightened atmosphere of suspicion created by Bachmann and others of her fevered turn of mind could be just enough to trigger violence.
Tea parties the work of lobbyists and pols
The political right would like us all to believe their April 15 tea party protests are the spontaneous work of just plain folks — no partisan or ideological axes to grind, mind you. Predictably, that’s not the case, as is made clear in an excellent Think Progress post that tells how corporate lobbyists, Fox News [...]
Fox News — taking it to the street
O’Reilly has a history of bashing rape victims as having asked for it, and Terkel cites, verbatim, one such bashing in which he named the victim. Its sterling reputation having thus been sullied, Fox retaliated against Terkel.
On eve of Obama inauguration
wingnuttery shifts into overdrive
On the eve of Barack Obama’s history-making inauguration, you might reasonably expect right-wing noisemakers to respectfully stand down for a day or two, especially since they brought us, and for eight horrible years backed, the worst president in U.S. history. No such luck, folks . . .
Obama team report reaction predictable
The fact Blagojevich is tainted by a bad reputation and corruption charges, and ever had something — anything — to do with Obama and/or anyone close to Obama, makes this equivalent to placing a warm cow pie in range of a swarm of flies.
Blagojevich not the only one who’s got to go
Whatever the future holds for Blagojevich, Illinois Democrats need to do some serious housecleaning. The guy they chose to run for governor and helped elect didn’t get to the jam he’s in now by being honest as the day is long up until recently.
