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Big Businesses, Not the Poor, are Federal Freeloaders
Tweet Share on Facebook September 23, 2011 Comment (4)Now that we're fighting a class war, I decided to send readers of the Thomas Jefferson Street Blog an occasional dispatch from the front line.
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Tea Party and Democrats Both Ignore the Poor
Tweet Share on Facebook September 16, 2011 Comment (19)The Tea Party presidential debate this week included one of the darkest moments in modern Americans politics. When Wolf Blitzer of CNN asked Rep. Ron Paul, a doctor, if he would let a 30-year-old man without private health insurance die, a man in the audience yelled "yeah" and the crowd in the hall cheered.
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Obama's Speech and Jobs Plan Don't Go Far Enough
Tweet Share on Facebook September 9, 2011 Comment (11)If the president was running for re-election in isolation, he would be in big trouble. But fortunately he's not running against nobody. He's running against the gang that couldn't talk straight.
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For Michele Bachmann, Ignorance is Bliss
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2011 Comment (58)What a wonderful world! My daughter brought me a satellite radio for my birthday and I have been listening to the classic hits of the'50s. I call the station "50s on the Five for 50-Somethings." Unfortunately every time I hear the classic 1950s song "What a Wonderful World" by the great Sam Cooke, I think of Michele Bachmann. Why? Because of the opening words, "Don't' know much about history. Don't know much biology."
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Questions for Rick Perry and the Tea Party GOP
Tweet Share on Facebook August 24, 2011 Comment (13)My post last week about the party formerly known as the GOP was such a hit that I decided to quickly follow it up with my latest observations on the Party of Tea (POT, for short). To be honest, the post wasn't a hit but a lot of readers did want to hit me. So here is this week's Party of Tea Hit Parade courtesy of Casey Kasem.
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The Tea Party Makes a Train Wreck of the GOP
Tweet Share on Facebook August 17, 2011 Comment (21)The car wreck President Obama saw on the side of the road on his bus trip in Iowa was what was left of the GOP presidential race after the Tea Party's demolition derby in Ames.
Watching the Tea Party's presidential nomination campaign is like watching George Romero's classic zombie movie Night of the Living Dead. The campaign is repulsive but you can't take your eyes off it.
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Time to Turn National Focus From Debt to Jobs
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Time for Democrats to Put Up or Shut Up on Jobs
Tweet Share on Facebook August 4, 2011 Comment (14)Congress is off on vacation and the only thing that jobless Americans will get is a tee shirt, from China probably, that says "Congress got a new committee and all I got was this lousy tee shirt."
The new deficit deal just shows you that no person's life, liberty, or property is secure while this legislature is in session unless you're a banker, billionaire, corporate jet setter, hedge fund manager, or oil company executive. Then you're okay. But if you are unemployed, the deficit deal will cut funding for the extension of unemployment benefits. This creates a real hardship when there are six Americans chasing every single available job here. But if jobless Americans are wiling to move to Bangladesh, big business will gladly use its federal tax freebies to create jobs for them there at $1 per day.
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More Proof That the Republicans Aren't Serious About Fiscal Discipline
Tweet Share on Facebook July 28, 2011 Comment (17)The lame stream media has really drunk the Kool-Aid if it thinks the GOP is the party of fiscal discipline.
You do the math.
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GOP Wheeling and Dealing May Bite Them
Tweet Share on Facebook July 22, 2011 Comment (32)Wednesday was the anniversary of the day in 1944 when Democrats nominated Franklin Roosevelt for a fourth term. If he could see the wheeling and dealing in D.C. during the current budget deficit debate, FDR wouldn't be surprised. Republicans are still trying to kill Social Security, and the GOP is still cozy with bankers, billionaires, and big business.
