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Friday April 28, 2023 · 7:58 AM PDT

2023/04/28 · 07:58

The GOP has shown its true face again. The House has passed it’s demands to end the debt ceiling crisis by listing the people it wants to hurt – veterans, kids, schoolteachers and the list goes on – a 22% reduction in all discretionary spending, resulting in 750,000 lost jobs and increasing the deficit by $114 Billion over the next 10 years. They threaten to default on debts for money already spent, not reducing spending, roiling financial markets who worry that the GOP is BSC enough to actually do it this time. The last time they did this, our national credit rating was lowered.

The debt ceiling is pure and simple unconstitutional. The 14^th Amendment to the Constitution requires the country’s bills to be paid. Everyone in Congress knows this. It is a tool for chaos and hostage taking. The debt ceiling was raised quietly three times for President Trump, but no, no, not for Biden – he has a D before his name.

The GOP is voting the way their owners want them to, not in the best interest of the country. Anyone who supports this attempt to hijack the country is a destructive, immoral hostage taker who is working against America and should be voted out of office.

Pound sand!

The Iran Deal – No Better Deal, Why Not, and What About Day 2?

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Friday August 14, 2015 · 2:36 PM PDT

2015/08/14 · 14:36

I’m concerned about the shallowness of the discussion about the Iran Nuclear deal. I’d like to address three components of this decision. The first is that no better deal is available. The second asks the question of why we would refuse the deal. The third question is what happens on Day 2 of an Iran War.

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Tuesday June 03, 2014 · 2:25 PM PDT

2014/06/03 · 14:25

I’d like to give you my take on two components of the Benghazi ™ Scandal Series – the YouTube Scandal and the Video Scandal. - after Kos' devilish orange squiggle thing.

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Monday October 07, 2013 · 12:04 PM PDT

2013/10/07 · 12:04

The government is currently shut down. They can’t agree on a way to fund the government for SIX WEEKS! That’s what all this wrangling and stupidity are all about – funding for six weeks.
Exactly what do the Republicans deserve for keeping the lights on for six more weeks? NOTHING. What do the Democrats deserve for keeping the lights on for six more weeks? NOTHING!

But in GOP-land, we should defund ObamaCare, or delay ObamaCare, or approve Keystone XL or something else in their policy binders – just to agree to fund the government for six weeks.

Tell me something, GOP. What have the Democrats gotten out of this? Answer – NOTHING. Actually, they took the GOP’s budget number of $988 billion - $70 billion less than they proposed. So the Democrats have given in on a GOP demand – and the GOP wants more? Why do they deserve more?

End the Tea Party Temper Tantrum.

Let the House Vote. NOW!

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Wednesday December 14, 2011 · 11:27 AM PST

2011/12/14 · 11:27

Mitt Romney:

"He was extraordinarily weak and timid in a critical moment," Romney said on Fox News. "This will have severe implications for us long term. ... I find it incomprehensible that he didn't destroy it or go get it ... the idea of letting it fall into the hands of people who will use it against us, use the intelligence against us, was an enormous mistake on the part of this president."

Dick Cheney:

"The right response would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it," Cheney said. "You can do that from the air and, in effect, make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone,"

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The Case for a Stimulus

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Thursday September 29, 2011 · 11:03 AM PDT

2011/09/29 · 11:03

We are currently running an annual deficit of about $1.4 trillion. $700 billion is because of reduced revenues and $300 billion is for increased expenses for unemployment and other services. In other words, $1 trillion of our problem is because of the recession and $400 billion a year is, well, about what deficits we run.

Our first job is to fix the economy. Austerity programs will hurt the economy, as any fool can see. Look at what we have so far – the city with the highest crime rate (Camden NJ) lays off half of its cops, and the city with the worst education (Detroit) lays off half of its teachers. A million cops, firefighters, and teachers have lost their jobs. Tell me how laying people off helps our unemployment problem.

What we have to do is put people back to work and the economy will heal, annual deficits will go down, and we can take some time to look at our long term problems. Let’s discuss just the $1 trillion part of the budget concerned with the relationships between employment and how it affects revenues and expenses, and how they drive deficits. The other $400 billion is a separate topic.

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Thursday June 09, 2011 · 1:44 PM PDT

2011/06/09 · 13:44

The Republican mantra of Tax Cuts Increase Revenue is simply not true. I will show that revenue is adversely affected by tax cuts, and they do in fact lower revenues. The proof is out there for anyone with the Google and the ability to tell small numbers from large ones. I use revenue numbers supplied by the Tax Policy Center at the Brookings Institute.

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Wednesday June 08, 2011 · 11:11 AM PDT

2011/06/08 · 11:11

I’d love for Obama to be able to run as the President who ended three wars. I’m assuming that Libya will be a success before November 2012 and that Iraq will wind down as the treaty specifies.

That leaves us with Afghanistan. Why are we still in Afghanistan? After ten years, what more can we achieve that is worth the loss of American life? There are fewer than 100 Al Queda members in the country. We are fighting the Taliban, who are the natives. We cannot outlast them.

We also cannot defeat them militarily.

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Friday April 29, 2011 · 12:38 PM PDT

2011/04/29 · 12:38

I will show you that the Ryan Plan will end up killing seniors in large numbers with his vision of Medicare. The killer is that the “voucher” value is increased at CPI-U, where medical costs are increasing far faster.

Every year, the “voucher” has less value. After 20 years on Ryan Medicare, the “voucher” will pay for less than half of a health care insurance policy, and that the senior will be paying, on average, 82.5% of their income on medical care instead of the current 7%.

Yes, after 20 years, the Ryan Plan shifts half of the cost of health care insurance from the government to the senior. I contend that this will make many seniors go without insurance, receive inadequate medical care, and will die sooner than under the current plan.

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Friday March 11, 2011 · 1:34 PM PST

2011/03/11 · 13:34

I think that the frame we’re using for our budget discussions is all wrong. We’re looking at 2009 through 2011, when the economy is in severe stress. We should be looking at ordinary times and how to get back to them.

The GOP is pursuing policies which will increase the deficit by cutting spending, lowering demand, slowing the recovery, and extending the recession

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Monday February 21, 2011 · 12:38 PM PST

2011/02/21 · 12:38

The US has a deficit problem. A deficit occurs when expenses exceed revenues. There are two ways to eliminate the deficit – cutting spending or raising revenue. The only idea getting attention in Washington is cutting expenses. Why? Well,

Conventional wisdom says that you can’t raise taxes in a bad economy. It should be an equally conventional wisdom that you can’t cut spending in a bad economy. The question is does cutting spending or raising taxes benefit this economy more?

My proposal is that we stimulate the economy further, financing it by passing 1) a Recovery Tax that taxes all income (wages and dividends) above $10 million a year at the rate of 50% until the unemployment rate reaches 6%, at which time the tax ends, and 2) a Security Transactions Tax.

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Monday December 06, 2010 · 3:06 PM PST

2010/12/06 · 15:06

One of these days, the GOP will run out of excuses for tax cuts for the rich (not that I’m holding my breath), but until then, I guess that we simply have to shoot them down one by one until logic prevails.

The latest line of crap is that if we cut taxes on the rich, they will not invest in the small businesses that fuel job growth.

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Pound Sand, GOP!!

The Iran Deal – No Better Deal, Why Not, and What About Day 2?

The Benghazi Scandal Series

Reality Check

Idiots on Iran

The Case for a Stimulus

Tax Cuts Do Not Increase Revenue

Obama, Please End Three Wars

Ryan Plan Will Kill Seniors

Cutting the Deficit

A Recovery Tax Proposal

More Tax Cut Stupidity