Supposedly, if we lower taxes on our rich people, our economy will jump up and dance, and there will be good jobs available for every American who needs to work for a living. But tax rates, especially on our richest citizens, are already at the lowest rate since Truman was President, and our economy is in the tank. Guess this means the Republicans, libertarians, tea baggers, and other Koch Brothers followers who equate low taxes on the rich with a decent life for the rest of us are full of shit, doesn’t it?

Quote from a Washington Post reader:
The Tea Party bunch is simply the Religious Right a few years later, imagining the Devil and his conspiracies everywhere.They were once Birchites and later McCarthyites and they adored Ollie North. They are always there, except now, in Palin and Beck, they have leadership.”

And my reply:

Go back far enough, and the ancestors of today’s Glenn Beckovitz followers were saying, “Well, I don’t know about these radicals who say we don’t need a King. Didn’t God set the King over us? Isn’t it the Devil’s work to reject King George and try to set up our own government, especially one run by Deists like those Jefferson and Paine fellows? And what about Franklin? He puts out a good Almanack, but isn’t he a Quaker or something?”
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Every Sunday, and often on a weekday or two, millions of Americans eat Jewish flesh and drink Jewish blood. As a Jew, this scares the shit out of me.
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So, Republicans and Democrats, who will you vote for in the Florida senatorial and gubernatorial primary this Tuesday, assuming you haven’t already voted early? Let’s take a quick look at who’s running.
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Yes, there are “terror babies” among us. But most of them were planted here many years ago by Russian Communist spymasters, not recently by demented Muslims.

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Face it: we’re going to have at least two or three more years of economic decline, and Obama is a DINO who worries more about his image on Fox News than about doing anything that might actually help working Americans, so we might as well have a Congress that agrees with him.
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A Reagan-appointed Republican Federal Judge who owns a bunch of oil company stock has said the government can’t stop drilling in the gulf because, you know, just because one rig went blooie doesn’t mean others will.
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Well, those who kept crying for “deregulation” can see the fruits of their desire bubbling out of the seabed. Hope they’re happy. Yep, stop government oversight of oil drilling and the industry will police itself, just like the banking industry policed itself after Glass-Steagall was trashed. Read the rest of this entry »

Up against the wall, mom. Yee-hah!

Unions not only destroyed many once-proud American businesses, but also promulgated such evils as a 40 hour workweek (remember that?), health and safety regulations on the job that have saved many workers’ lives, paid vacations, and the now-discredited idea of defined-benefit pensions, plus a particular horror this country used to value called “job security.”

And let’s not forget that pesky minimum wage.
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