Dark Road to the White House. Ann Romney is an Angry White Woman - Caught Lying To NBC. Facts show, Mitt Romney is a pathological liar. What you may not know is that in Ann Romney's most recent interview with NBC (video) found here - not only did she show signs of being an angry white woman, but more importantly, she got caught lying through her teeth. In this Diary I will first prove angry Ann's big lie, then I will point out times in the interview where Ann Romney is an angry white woman.
The Big Lie: (Timestamp 1:31) Ann got visibly angry when the interviewer pressed Ann about the money she has stashed in Foreign banks and in Foreign countries. Ann was getting so angry she started moving around in her chair, almost as if she was thinking about walking out of the interview. ANN ROMNEY: There is nothing we are hiding, you know, we've had a blind trust, for how many years, we don't even know what's in there. Ann, here's how I know you are lying. 1. 2. From 2002 New York Times: Until early June, Mr. ROMNEY: “I am Amending them because it is the right thing to do.
Honest? The Dog That Voted and Other Election Fraud Yarns. In retrospect, the campaign against voter fraud was long, patient, and strategic. Sen. Kit Bond got the ball rolling in 2002 when he made sure ID requirements were part of HAVA. In 2005, a commission on voting rights headed by former president Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III gave a bipartisan blessing to photo ID rules. Thor Hearne spent the following two years barnstorming the country with dramatic tales of voter fraud. Meanwhile, the Justice Department and the Bush White House browbeat US Attorneys around the country to crack down on voter fraud, even firing a handful (including David Iglesias, then the US Attorney for New Mexico) who apparently weren't zealous enough.
And then, finally, the 2010 election brought new GOP majorities to 11 states—and with them a brand new wave of restrictive voting laws. At this point, you may be wondering if there's really anything wrong with all this. The actual rate of voter fraud in American elections is close to zero. Not an Employee? Herman Cain Had Mailing and Email Addresses at Koch's Americans For Prosperity HQ | Tea Party and the Right. October 21, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email.
As the New Yorker's Jane Mayer wrote earlier this week, members of Herman Cain's campaign staff are loath to discuss his longstanding ties to Americans for Prosperity and the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the organizing groups founded by billionaire David Koch, about whom Mayer famously wrote a comprehensive profile last year. AlterNet, which began reporting on Cain's ties to Koch last June, has learned that Cain's work for AFP at one time had all the appearances of a staff position. In Mayer's 2010 expos é, " Covert Operations," she detailed the network of right-wing think tanks and organizations funded by David Koch and his brother Charles, principals in Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in the United States, according to Forbes. Earlier this week, I asked J.
5 Facts You Should Know About the Wealthiest One Percent of Americans | Economy. October 4, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. As the ongoing occupation of Wall Street by hundreds of protesters enters its third week — and as protests spread to other cities such as Boston and Los Angeles — demonstrators have endorsed a new slogan: “ We are the 99 percent.”
This slogan refers to an economic struggle between 99 percent of Americans and the richest 1 percent of Americans, who are increasingly accumulating a greater share of the national wealth to the detriment of the middle class. It may shock you to learn exactly how wealthy this top 1 percent of Americans is. 1. As Professor Elizabeth Warren has explained, “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. More and more often, that is not occurring, giving the protesters ample reason to take to the streets. 10 Things to Know About Wall Street's Rapacious Attack on America. October 6, 2011 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. When you climb out of the subway at Wall Street, you might wonder why there are no protestors in the cavernous alley by the stock exchange. That’s because since 9/11, Wall Street has been barricaded shut to prevent possible attacks. There you’ll find a festive group of about 1,000 people, mostly young folks having a good time accompanied by the occasional cluster of old lefties singing songs. And my recurring thought is, “It’s about f’ing time.” What took us so long? There’s no telling where this Occupy Wall Street can lead, especially if a virtuous media feedback loop continues: The more protestors, the more coverage, the more protestors. If unions throw into the mix full force, we may have something powerful in the making. Already you can hear the chattering classes mumble about the lack of focus, the lack of consensus and the lack of a coherent agenda in this nascent movement.
Poll: Middle-class pain necessary, but widely unpopular - Behind the Numbers. Posted at 12:01 AM ET, 10/11/2011 Oct 11, 2011 04:01 AM EDT TheWashingtonPost More than eight in 10 Americans say the middle class will have to make financial sacrifices to reduce the nation’s budget deficit, but about as many oppose tax increases on middle-income families and broad-based entitlement cuts, according to a new Washington Post-Bloomberg News poll. Some approaches to deficit reduction, however, are popular: Most Americans support raising taxes on wealthy families, and a slim majority backs reducing military spending as a way to shave the burgeoning budget gap. Fully 81 percent of adults think that to reduce the nation’s budget deficit, the middle class will need to make financial sacrifices.
Social Security and Medicare benefits cuts — when described as blanket reductions — are enormously unpopular across the political spectrum. In the new poll, military spending cuts draw a decidedly partisan verdict. Read the full poll results. Bottom 60% of Americans lost wealth between 1983 and 2009. Last week, I wrote about the recent collapse of median household wealth and the gaps, or maybe chasms, between races when it comes to wealth. Well, here's another chasm. This EPI graph represents the breakdown of who got the wealth accumulated in the United States between 1983 and 2009. Lawrence Mishel writes: All of the gains in wealth accrued to the upper fifth, with 40.2 percent of the gains going to the upper 1 percent and 41.5 percent going to the next wealthiest 4 percent of households.
This translated to gains of $4.5 million per household in the richest 1 percent and a gain of roughly $1.2 million per household in the next richest 4 percent of households. To emphasize, this isn't a measure of what people had in 1983, at the start of the period the graph represents. As we know, 2009 was an especially bad year, with median household wealth having declined from its 2005 point due to the housing collapse and other factors.
Camila Vallejo – Latin America's 23-year-old new revolutionary folk hero | World news | The Observer. As the Friday afternoon sun dipped towards the horizon, some students at the University of Chile played ping pong or football and couples lounged and kissed in the last warmth of the day. But others had more serious matters on their minds: the wildly popular student uprising that has transformed the nation's political agenda. And for many of the protesters involved and those who sympathise with its aims, the face of the uprising is Camila Vallejo. In a basement auditorium a group of 60 student leaders planned the next steps in their burgeoning revolution for free university education, with Vallejo centre stage.
Vallejo sat behind her battered laptop, a small blue notebook on her desk and a rapt audience in front of her. When she speaks, her hands fly about, like birds snatching invisible prey. The government response has reminded many older Chileans of that same dark era. "At first, we resisted, but it was intolerable," she told the Observer. Police repression has been frequent. Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for American Revolution.
CREW's Most Corrupt Members of Congress. Bush-Obama Spending Chart. Taxes. FY2012 Progressive Budget. Budget of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Fiscal Year 2012 Read the People's Budget Read The Technical Analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (External Link) Read And Share The One-Page Handout Presupuesto del Pueblo (Español) The People’s Budget eliminates the deficit in 10 years, puts Americans back to work and restores our economic competitiveness. Our Budget Eliminates the Deficit and Raises a $31 Billion Surplus In Ten Years Our budget protects Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and responsibly eliminates the deficit by targeting its main drivers: the Bush Tax Cuts, the wars overseas, and the causes and effects of the recent recession.
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Sarah Palin's Official PAC. Yesterday the House passed H.R. 1363, which funds our Department of Defense and our military for the rest of the year at their current levels. It allows for the continuation of current military operations, which is pretty important when you’re fighting three wars. It also funds the government for another week and cuts $12 billion in wasteful spending. So why would the Commander in Chief declare that he will veto this? Why would he play politics at the expense of our troops who are putting everything on the line to protect us?
Memo to the President: I doubt the insurgents will stop and wait for a government shutdown to end before resuming actions. Like me, you might be asking yourself: Why on earth would he threaten to veto funding for the troops? The House GOP does not want a shut down. Let’s look at the numbers. Where is President Obama in all of this? Real leadership means leading by example. This is profoundly unfair to the American people. . - Sarah Palin. OOPS! Historic 'Spending Cut' Bill Increased Spending By $3 Billion. Republicans stormed Capitol Hill in January vowing to slash discretionary spending by $100 billion right off the bat. In their pledge to America, they promised that, "[w]ith common-sense exceptions for seniors, veterans, and our troops, we will roll back government spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels, saving us at least $100 billion in the first year alone. " As time went on, it became clear that they wouldn't get the whole loaf, and the key question became: How many billions of dollars in spending would Democrats agree to cut, without risking massive Republican defections, and, perhaps, a protracted government shutdown?
A few weeks after they cut the deal, we have an answer. It turns out the six-month spending bill Congress passed in April increased discretionary outlays through the remainder of the fiscal year by a bit over $3 billion. Republicans have pointed out fairly that reducing budget authority will reduce spending in the coming fiscal year. Social Security is Easy! Reihan Salam says that although Alan Simpson may have proven himself to be a moron when it comes to life expectancies and Social Security, we lefties shouldn't laugh quite so hard: But here’s the thing: what really matters in a pay-as-you-go system is the dependency ratio, i.e., the ratio of workers paying into the Social Security system to the number of Social Security beneficiaries.....The dependency ratio is the pressing issue, not increasing life expectancy per se. So while some of our friends poke fun at Alan Simpson, I’d suggest that the rest of us think through the implications of the changing dependency ratio.
At the risk of repeating myself endlessly on this topic: no, we don't need to think through the implications of the changing dependency ratio. Or life expectancies. Or immigration rates. Or productivity levels. Why not? This is the great thing about Social Security from a policy point of view: it's pretty easy. POSTSCRIPT: Go ahead! The Tea Party Wants to Teach Your Kids About the Constitution. Jack Kurtz/Zuma Come September, public schoolkids could be receiving a tea party-fueled tutorial in the Constitution—or at least, the movement's version of it. In 2004, at the urging of the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), Congress required any school accepting public money to teach students about the Constitution during the week of September 17. Most people are unaware of this "Constitution Week" requirement, and few schools have apparently complied with the mandate. Enter the Tea Party Patriots, one of the nation's largest tea party umbrella groups, which has seized on this obscure congressional mandate, urging its members to "adopt a school" during Constitution Week.
Teaching kids about the Constitution is certainly a laudable goal, especially given the many public surveys showing that most Americans can't even name the three branches of government. Last year, I took one of the center's classes on the Constitution. House Democrats Say Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids Contain Toxic Ingredients.
Workers' Uprising: Walker Unveils Disastrous New Budget, Threatens Democrats With Teacher Layoffs; Protesters Ejected from Speech | News & Politics. February 27, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The protests in Wisconsin continue into their third week, with thousands holding strong in the capitol in Madison, a huge showing of support for the economic rights of union members and the restoration of a strong middle class. The following is a collection of updates and items on what's happening in Wisconsin and the rest of the country. Update: Last night Gov. Under the plan, Walker would reduce spending by $4.2 billion over two years. In his address, Walker shamelessly threatened the 14 Democratic Senators who left the state to block passage of the Governor's union-busting legislation.
Last night on the Ed Show three of the 14 State Senators, from their undisclosed location, took the chance to strike back against Walker on his budget proposal --specifically the huge cuts to education funding he's proposing--and the tactic he's chosen to use: blaming them. Watch the video:
The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement | Economy. April 16, 2010 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The Tea Party movement's dirty little secret is that its chief financial backers owe their family fortune to the granddaddy of all their hatred: Stalin's godless empire of the USSR. The secretive oil billionaires of the Koch family, the main supporters of the right-wing groups that orchestrated the Tea Party movement, would not have the means to bankroll their favorite causes had it not been for the pile of money the family made working for the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s and early 1930s, building refineries, training Communist engineers and laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure. The comrades were good to the Kochs. Today Koch Industries has grown into the second-largest private company in America. I first learned about the Kochs in February 2009, when my colleague Mark Ames and I were looking into the strange origins of the then-nascent Tea Party movement.
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