Tuesday, March 15, 2005
The Cost to You of Bush/Cheney '04, '05, '06, '07
AAA says gasoline price is 1 penny shy of record0 comments
You can thank GOP policies for this one.
posted by Gotham 9:47 PM
"The Hack" Attacks...
Sen. Harry Reid (NV) was right.0 comments
Unbelievable story.
It's surprising—considering the GOP's full-frontal attacks on teaching Evolution in schools—that they so fully support Pure Darwinian Theory in all matters financial.
GOP to America: "I've Got Mine; Fuck You."
Fed Chief: Social Security cuts are inevitable
Now that Republican Government has been proven to be fully morally bancrupt and creatively stagnant in helping the Commonweal, it's looking more and more like the 2006 elections may prove a political wasteland for GOP candidates. Indeed, this all could be heading towards "scorched earth" territory. The GOP's greed is simply consuming them.
Bush White House Financial Apologist Alan Greenspan has either flipped more times than he's flopped on tax cuts, surpluses, deficits and Social Security or flopped more times than he's flipped. It's impossible to keep track.
A couple of ideas which seem to have eluded the erudite Mr. Greenspan in his plan to Starve America's Grannies (SAG) include:
Killing the rest of Bush's tax cuts—which you and I will never see, in any event—will save an unnecessary outflow of $11 trillion, way more than enough to fund the $3 trillion shortfall facing SSI in the middle of the century when our children are geezers.
Lifting the $90,000 cap on SSI tax liability, favored by Americans in EVERY poll this year by a full and consistent 3-to-1 margin, allows well-heeled people like Alan Greenspan and the lobbyists and expense-account-lunch crowd over on Washington, D.C.'s K Street, and here in New York on Wall Street, the opportunity to help all those penniless Grandmothers, starving in the streets of Indiana and Idaho and Alabama.
I'm sure that, somewhere in the pockets of all those Armani suits, there are scraps of paper with notes on them, reminders to these successful souls to remember their humanity.
While they have any humanity left.
posted by Gotham 8:39 PM
Absolute Power Corrupts Tom DeLay Absolutely
But then, like many evil men through history, he's been working on making corruption work for him since he was a virtual nobody.0 comments
A stunning story of a stunningly corrupt politician.
Karen Tumulty of Time, often cited for plain dopey, TV talking-head hackery, herein offers an excellent overview of the sordid saga of House Majority Leader, Rep. Tom DeLay, whose ethics mess is now oozing through the GOP's hands, staining everyone who has so much as shared an elevator ride with him.
TIME Magazine: DeLay And Company
You've seen various disconnected stories along the way, now here's Tumulty's full primer with all the players named, along with the corporations which love them.
Tumulty saves the best for last: a way that you know for sure that this is not going away any time soon, and that "The Bugman's" former friends are fingering the triggers on those DDT cans. Can it be time for them to rid themselves of this pest?
A more ominous sign for DeLay: those who might succeed him have begun quietly positioning themselves to make a move if the opportunity arises, sources say. Among the possible successors most frequently mentioned are majority whip Roy Blount of Missouri, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Reynolds of New York, House Education Committee chairman John Boehner and leadership chairman Rob Portman of Ohio. Not so long ago, it looked as though the speakership would be DeLay's for the taking after [House Speaker Dennis] Hastert left the post, probably after the next election. But if DeLay is doing any praying in his office these days, it's probably to hold on to the job he has.
Ouch!
posted by Gotham 7:44 PM
Monday, March 14, 2005
GOPers Doin' Time
The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News: GOP phone jammer sentenced0 comments
Background on this from Josh Marshall.
posted by Gotham 3:05 AM
