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The usual gang of idiots over at MAD Magazine have come up with what I think is one of their funniest political spreads over. Hitting newsstands next week will be a "Banana Republican" catalogue and readers of my Huffington Post blog get to see it first.
Republicans who support subsidies should stop their mass-manipulation. Rather than hiding behind hypocritical pro-market rhetoric, it is time to admit they have embraced their very own entitlement-boom that rivals the dreams of any European welfarist.
So what the hell -- sorry Governor, what the heck -- is wrong with Mitt Romney? Romney, a man who gives nearly a fifth of his income to charity, has allowed himself to be defined as the most indifferent candidate to the poor in recent memory.
Barack Obama should take Newt Gingrich out for a beer. Heck, maybe even dinner. Newt is unleashing a scorched-earth campaign on Mitt Romney with such ...
Americans are basically moving money from their left pocket to their right pocket... with Congress as the conduit.
Maybe, 2012 is the year craziness becomes so 2011, and intelligence becomes the new trending topic on Twitter. In 2012, maybe being hip will be replaced by being smart, and red states will be replaced by well read states.
This month the Republicans took a stand against tax cuts because of the fiscal implications of those cuts. For the first time in recent memory, Milton Friedman and the Republican Party of my grandfather were redeemed. This was a significant point that should not be lost.
The Republican leadership's collapse in the battle over extending the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits could be a turning point moment that shifts the political momentum just as we enter the pivotal 2012 election year.
If a year-long payroll tax cut was so important to Rep. Gardner, if he felt so passionately about it that he would risk passage of any bill, even one supported by Senate Republicans, why didn't we hear about it the week before the vote?
What a way to ring in the new year -- a tax hike in our pay checks. We can't return this gift because, thanks to the House Republicans, all we got was coal.
Republican congressional leaders persist in the belief that advancing economic expansion at the expense of environmental protection is a winning strategy. They never learn.
The fate of the fiscal stability of the United States was sealed on the weekend of December 4-5, 2010.
It isn't the size of the crowd, or how it's dressed, or how it wears its hair, or how loud it is, or how disruptive it is. A "mob" is a crowd of people saying something you don't like.
The biggest priority of the men who pull the strings of the Republican party is not to make Obama a "one-term President." It is to guarantee precisely the opposite.
Hey, right-wing corporate machine! Go ahead! Win the day! Cut health care! Abolish the FDA! Strip education! Let seniors "fend for themselves"!
In a surprise announcement, Governor Rick Perry has declared that he will sign an executive order recalling all of Texas' firefighters and implementing an "emergency mandatory day of prayer and fasting."
