In All Fairness.
Author: Raine
Date: 07/09/2012 15:46:53
From TPM: President Obama will begin pushing for a one-year extension of the Bush tax cuts for Americans making less than $250,000, reports the New York Times. The announcement from the Rose Garden Monday will signal the president’s emphasis on tax fairness as a major issue just four months from the election. Pushing the issue is also meant to make House Republicans look unreasonable as they move this month to vote on a full, permanent extension of all of the Bush tax cuts. This you will recall is exactly what the President wanted to have happen back in 2010. The tax cuts were unfortunately extended, but if you remember, it did pave the way or the repeal of Don't ask Don't Tell. From The Hill, December 1, 2010: But a letter signed by all 42 members of the Senate GOP conference threatened to block action on other legislative items until a deal on the expiring Bush era tax cuts is reached. Such time-consuming negotiations could eat up the remaining time to take care of "Don't ask, don't tell" during the lame-duck, which is expected to end by mid-December.
Supporters of repeal received a boost Tuesday when Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on the Senate to repeal the policy after the Pentagon released a study showing that allowing gays to openly serve would cause no long-term disruptions in the military. Indeed, the lame duck session of 2010 paved the way for people to serve openly in the military. The down side was that the Bush Era tax cuts were extended. Continue reading...
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Busy Day
Author: velveeta jones
Date: 07/08/2012 14:18:26
When Mitt Romney becomes president on Jan. 20, 2013 he's gonna have a busy, busy day. In fact he may need to work long into the hours of the night, demanding that Congress extend the day so that he can accomplish all he's promised. Day one of being president is mostly reserved for things like inaugural celebrations including parties, parade, fireworks, speeches, old Presidents flying away in shame, bands playing, more speeches, and of course, the actual inauguration. Often the evening is taken up with more parties and a dinner. Maybe Mitt and Anne don't want all that? Maybe they just want to ride up the the White House and have John Roberts do his swearing in thing quickly, then retreat into the house without one bell or whistle?
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Vestigial Organs. We've all got 'em. I won't delve too deeply into the philosophy of design vs. evolution, but if there is such an all-perfect, all-knowing being out there who "when it comes to the matter of deciding a thing...simply says "Be" and it is", it does make you wonder about some of the blind alleys the body has led down.
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Feeling the Heat
Author: BobR
Date: 07/06/2012 13:13:39
As we suffer through yet another scorcher of a day, there's a small voice in the back of our heads saying "global warming". A majority of climate scientists who study and understand data have predicted that our earth is warming up and will continue to do so unless we reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That evaluation and prediction has come under fire by petroleum-financed groups (ie: Republicans and FOX News) as nonsense. At some point, the terminology was changed from "global warming" to "global climate change". The oil people have mostly acquiesced that there is warming, but have successfully instilled doubt as to whether the change is natural or man-made. It really doesn't matter which it is if we aren't willing to try to make changes.
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Hyperbole Much?
Author: Raine
Date: 07/05/2012 16:09:49
This morning, CBS news published an article titled: Ann Romney: Obama's whole campaign strategy is "let's kill this guy" Some interesting snippets: "I feel like all he's doing is saying, 'Let's kill this guy," she said, seated next to her husband, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, in an exclusive interview with CBS News chief political correspondent Jan Crawford. "And I feel like that's not really a very good campaign policy. (snip)
Ann Romney said it's all part of a plan to portray her husband "in a light that is just completely wrong... they don't' get him at all." Pressed by Crawford on what qualities in her husband she sees most misrepresented, she said, that "he's not as approachable as I am or something like that. That's like, really kind of funny to me because it's all - it's all backwards."
"That'll change," Mitt Romney assured her. "That'll come with time." We are four months away from election day. Four Months. Time is running out for Rmoney. Continue reading...
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 "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" - Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1775Nothing quite brings out the scoundrel like an election year, and there's nothing quite like the Republican politician to help promote the definition of scoundrel. While elections typically involve smears and questionable ads, I can't remember in my lifetime when any Democrat ever questioned the patriotism of an opponent in a national race. Republicans, on the other hand, seem quite willing to pull that card out of their hand when all other measures have failed, and desperation is sinking in.
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Ask A Vet
Author: Will in Chicago
Date: 2012-07-03 09:30:00
Good morning, bloggers! I am posting today’s blog while TriSec is recuperating at home today. I hope that TriSec can chime in on today’s blog. Today's blog takes a look at several different issues impacting the military from mental health to education, as well as some tragic news. For some reason, I had trouble finding the most recent casualty figures from Afghanistan. However, we find the cost of war passing through $1,348,424,855,617 as of about 11:30 PM Eastern Time on July 2, 2012.
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Ahh Fast and Furious. We have been hearing a lot about it lately. We've written of the subject a bit here at Four Freedoms. You will recall last week, BobR wrote of the fabricated Scandal that has been created by the GOP -- in particular, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.). From his entry on June 28: The crux of it is that the ATF did not sell weapons - they monitored weapons sales, and then ran up against a brick wall of lax gun laws when they tried to get indictments. There was also infighting and backstabbing going on among the agents.
The big raison d'être for the start of the congressional investigation was the killing of a U.S. agent by guns supposedly sold by ATF agents to Mexican drug gangs. Except - that didn't actually happen: )
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Mexi-chusetts Blues
Author: velveeta jones
Date: 07/01/2012 14:14:11
Now that America has experienced a Kenyan President and we've come through that experience without too much harm, isn't it time that we elect a Mexican? After all, Mexico is our very close neighbor and we already have many of them living here in America, including Mitt Romney, candidate for the office of President of the United States. Romney is just one of nearly 15% of Mexicans in this country, legally and illegally, and we have to assume that he is one of the legal ones.
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This past Thursday, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which I believe is the first step towards universal health care coverage. While learning more about the ruling, I thought I should take some time to learn what some of the other nations that share our world are doing in regards to universal health care coverage. A story in the Washington Post shows that many nations, both wealthy and developing, have adopted or are adopting different forms of universal health care coverage. 6 comments )
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