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Journalism is dead, and the ‘free press’ is not free—it is bought and paid for by corporate oligarchs who have spent forty years using "news" programming to deceive and misinform citizens in support of their fascist takeover of the United States.


Become the Media! Fight back against the lies that are heaped upon us daily by obscenely-paid Republican Propagandists like this fucking tool:

"America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008.
I don’t remember any attacks on American soil during that period of time."

– Eric Bolling, FOX News, July 13, 2011



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tpmmedia: TPM’s Sahil Kapur looks at the gap between what Senate Republican’s say about student loan rates and what they do: Budget measures by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) went down 41-58 and 42-57, respectively. Both let Stafford loan rates double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent, which President Obama and Democrats have been pushing to prevent. Mitt Romney and GOP leaders say they want to extend the existing rate but differ on how to pay for it. The budget votes were largely a Republican effort to embarrass President Obama and Democrats for failing to coalesce around a long-term fiscal vision. But it also presented an opportunity for Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) to needle the GOP on a contradiction. “Does this budget permit the interest rates on student loans to double on July 1?” Harkin asked of the Ryan budget, which has already passed the House. “It does,” Conrad replied. “Thank you, senator,” Harkin said. Harkin and Conrad repeated the exchange prior to the vote on the Toomey budget. “I hope that every senator who votes for this knows … they’re voting to double student interest rates on July 1,” Harkin said. The awkwardness of the situation wasn’t lost on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who voted for the Ryan plan. In a readout of a Wednesday lunch between Obama and congressional leaders, his office sent reporters notice that he affirmed his support for continuing the lower rates. “We all agreed that rates shouldn’t go up this year and that we need to resolve the differences and pass legislation together,” said McConnell.

tpmmedia:

TPM’s Sahil Kapur looks at the gap between what Senate Republican’s say about student loan rates and what they do:

Budget measures by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) went down 41-58 and 42-57, respectively. Both let Stafford loan rates double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent, which President Obama and Democrats have been pushing to prevent. Mitt Romney and GOP leaders say they want to extend the existing rate but differ on how to pay for it.

The budget votes were largely a Republican effort to embarrass President Obama and Democrats for failing to coalesce around a long-term fiscal vision. But it also presented an opportunity for Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) to needle the GOP on a contradiction.

“Does this budget permit the interest rates on student loans to double on July 1?” Harkin asked of the Ryan budget, which has already passed the House.

“It does,” Conrad replied.

“Thank you, senator,” Harkin said.

Harkin and Conrad repeated the exchange prior to the vote on the Toomey budget.

“I hope that every senator who votes for this knows … they’re voting to double student interest rates on July 1,” Harkin said.

The awkwardness of the situation wasn’t lost on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who voted for the Ryan plan. In a readout of a Wednesday lunch between Obama and congressional leaders, his office sent reporters notice that he affirmed his support for continuing the lower rates.

“We all agreed that rates shouldn’t go up this year and that we need to resolve the differences and pass legislation together,” said McConnell.

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GOP Suddenly Concerned About Being Insane Racist Misogynist Fanatics →

Money quote:

 “It’s important that voters see a Republican Party that is inclusive and is not exclusive,” Eric Cantor says. Uhh, was Eric Cantor replaced by a human? 

Ha ha, of course not. He’s just terrified because the Republicans are so full-tilt wacko this year that they’ll be lucky to keep “safe seats,” let alone a House majority.

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Moments after the House was gaveled into session this morning, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) tried to bring the Bi-Partisan Senate Payroll Tax Cut extension up for a vote.

The Republican presiding officer not only refused, but walked off the House floor and out of the room without acknowledging Hoyer’s request.

Coming January 1, 2012: THE TEABAGGER TAX HIKE.

Coming November 6, 2012: THE DEMISE OF THE GOP*

 

*see Know-Nothings and the demise of the Whig Party


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The TEABAGGER TAX HIKE, brought to you by Eric Cantor and his Scrotum of Teabaggers. underthemountainbunker: The GOP-led House is holding the payroll tax cut hostage because of Big Oil and Coal regulation Extending tax cuts for working and middle class Americans is being held up by Boehner’s House. The Republicans are trying to frame this standoff as being about length of time — that two months isn’t long enough. It’s not about the length of time. The GOP will ONLY agree if the oil and coal industries get to pollute without question or consequence: The payroll tax bill sent by House Republicans to the U.S. Senate included two polluter poison pills, the Keystone XL provision for the oil industry and Boiler MACT language to protect toxic coal pollution. In an underreported move, the Senate stripped the coal poison pill. Now GOP members of the House are “committed” to put coal back in the Christmas stocking. They are willing to let the extension of the payroll tax cut die to attack the so-called Boiler MACT rules that would save tens of thousands of lives a year… And here’s an unsurprising fact: […] Boehner, Upton, Murphy, LaTourette, and Griffith have received a combined $1,789,000 in contributions from the coal industry since 1999. If the GOP-led House gets its way and you’re a working or middle class Republican voter, what exactly did you win in this fight?

The TEABAGGER TAX HIKE, brought to you by Eric Cantor and his Scrotum of Teabaggers.

underthemountainbunker:

The GOP-led House is holding the payroll tax cut hostage because of Big Oil and Coal regulation

Extending tax cuts for working and middle class Americans is being held up by Boehner’s House. The Republicans are trying to frame this standoff as being about length of time — that two months isn’t long enough. It’s not about the length of time. The GOP will ONLY agree if the oil and coal industries get to pollute without question or consequence:

The payroll tax bill sent by House Republicans to the U.S. Senate included two polluter poison pills, the Keystone XL provision for the oil industry and Boiler MACT language to protect toxic coal pollution. In an underreported move, the Senate stripped the coal poison pill. Now GOP members of the House are “committed” to put coal back in the Christmas stocking. They are willing to let the extension of the payroll tax cut die to attack the so-called Boiler MACT rules that would save tens of thousands of lives a year…

And here’s an unsurprising fact:

[…] Boehner, Upton, Murphy, LaTourette, and Griffith have received a combined $1,789,000 in contributions from the coal industry since 1999.

If the GOP-led House gets its way and you’re a working or middle class Republican voter, what exactly did you win in this fight?

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Remember that “Teaparty mandate” election in 2010? →

Repeat after me: TEA PARTY TAX HIKE

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underthemountainbunker:

The thrill is long gone:

…a new Gallup poll out this week shows more Americans today are dissatisfied with Congress than ever before.

The governing body is now set to end 2011 with the lowest one-time approval rating in its history: 11 percent. Their annual average for 2011 came to a whopping 17 percent, which is also the lowest ever recorded.

[..] Fifty-five percent also agreed that “the political system can work fine, it’s the members that are the problem…”


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Instead of trying to ‘make a statement’ or ‘teach someone a lesson’ by not voting, like some of us did in 2010, let’s try occupying a voting booth and cleaning up this mess in 2012 — unless you actually condone policies like more tax cuts for the wealthy paid for with more austerity measures for the rest of us. Then by all means, do nothing. Your vote really doesn’t matter.

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Ladies and Germs, may I present: THE TEA PARTY TAX HIKE manicchill: Payroll Tax Cut Impact: What If It’s Not Extended? | CNN Money House Republicans on Tuesday rejected the the two-month payroll tax extension passed by the Senate. But they did so indirectly. Rather than bring the bill to the floor for a direct vote — and risking the measure actually passing — they voted to instruct House negotiators to push for a year-long extension in a conference with the Senate. The problem is that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said there would be no further negotiations until the House passes the temporary two-month extension to insure the tax cut doesn’t lapse after Dec. 31. Welcome to the latest, completely willful congressional standoff. Read More

Ladies and Germs, may I present: THE TEA PARTY TAX HIKE

manicchill:

Payroll Tax Cut Impact: What If It’s Not Extended? | CNN Money

House Republicans on Tuesday rejected the the two-month payroll tax extension passed by the Senate. But they did so indirectly.

Rather than bring the bill to the floor for a direct vote — and risking the measure actually passing — they voted to instruct House negotiators to push for a year-long extension in a conference with the Senate.

The problem is that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said there would be no further negotiations until the House passes the temporary two-month extension to insure the tax cut doesn’t lapse after Dec. 31.

Welcome to the latest, completely willful congressional standoff.

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