14:50"All he does is make scary noises about the deficit, with mood music, with organ music in the background about how ominous it is, and then propose a plan that would in fact increase the deficit." — Paul Krugman on Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan. (via think-progress)
(Source: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com, via stfuconservatives)
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No, both sides are not equally to blame — GOP most partisan in a century.
National Public Radio:
Keith Poole of the University of Georgia, with his collaborator Howard Rosenthal of New York University, has spent decades charting the ideological shifts and polarization of the political parties in Congress from the 18th century until now to get the view of how the political landscape has changed from 30,000 feet up. What they have found is that the Republican Party is the most conservative it has been a century.
This graph shows the ideological movement for both parties in the House. Note the steady shift towards conservatism among Republicans.
In a recent conversation Poole, who’s viewed by other political scientists as the go-to expert on this issue, explained that the data are very clear:
“This is an entirely objective statistical procedure. The graphs just reflect what comes out of the computer. Howard Rosenthal and I, we’ve been working on something called Nominate. This does all the Congresses simultaneously, which allows you to study change over time.
“The short version would be since the late 1970s starting with the 1976 election in the House the Republican caucus has steadily moved to the right ever since. It’s been a little more uneven in the Senate. The Senate caucuses have also moved to the right. Republicans are now furtherest to the right that they’ve been in 100 years.
I’d disagree with the use of the word “conservative” — the word means “cautious” and the current House GOP are reckless and reactionary. “Radical” is the word I’d go with.
In any case, what you always suspected is true; the media’s false equivalency of “both sides are just as bad” is complete bullshit. Once again, reality has a liberal bias.
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16:34"Judging from the candidates’ tax proposals, they seem to believe that the most Reagan-like candidate is the one with the biggest tax cut. But as the person who drafted the 1981 Reagan tax cut, I think Republicans misunderstand the premises upon which Reagan’s economic policies were based and why those policies can’t — and shouldn’t — be replicated today." — Bruce Bartlett, explaining why the GOP should stop invoking Reaganomics. (via wisconsinforward)
20:54"It must be tough for Republicans to love America so much but hate almost three-quarters of the people living in it." —
Jon Stewart (via xombebe)
They’ve got the worst White Savior complex. “We’re saving you from yourselves! Forget what you tell us you want! We know better and we’re here to help! Bootstraps!”
(via stfuconservatives)
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18:21"Nonetheless, the end of US military operations in Iraq—100,000 troops have already left the country, and the final 39,000 will be gone by late December—is already being spun by some Republican critics as an admission of defeat, part of a larger attempt to paint Obama and his party as soft on national security. That narrative is increasingly divorced from reality." —
Adam Weinstein on the GOP reaction to Iraq. (via motherjones)
It couldn’t possibly have been an economically driven decision, since the two wars our past administration got us into have driven our country into unbelievable and forever increasing debt.
00:12"We must not judge a man by the color of his skin, but by the way he pretends to have the content of someone else’s character." — STEPHEN COLBERT, on GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain appropriating Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech for a passage in his ridiculous book, on The Colbert Report. (via inothernews)
