EXCERPT: CBPP: 33 States Have Raised Taxes by $32 Billion/Year
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has published State Tax Changes in Response to the Recession:
The national recession has had such a devastating effect on state finances that states took in $87 billion less in tax revenue from October 2008 through September 2009 than they collected in the previous 12 months. This 11 percent decline, the steepest on record, resulted from the impact on tax collections of lost jobs, reduced...

EXCERPT: Reference: Get Corporations out of Our Politics!
My first reaction has been to condemn the SCOTUS decision to in effect take the binders off of coorporate donations, but after thinking about it for awhile I have changed my mind.
This limit on the entity under our Constitution called a "corporation" is an anomaly that needed to be fixed.    
Hmmmm ...  Could it be that the SCOTUS is throwing down the glove to force Congress to enact legislation to fix the...

EXCERPT: Rep. DeFazio: ‘I Think Obama Is Ill-Advised By Larry Summers. Larry Summers Hates Infrastructure’»
Earlier this week, Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN) explained that funding for mass transit infrastructure projects was nixed from the stimulus proposal in order to make room for tax cuts. Despite the fact that tax cuts already comprise a bulky 33 percent of the stimulus (compared to only 7.5 percent for transportation infrastructure), conservatives are pressuring President Obama to include even...

EXCERPT: DoJ Official Blows Cover Off PATRIOT ActBy Ryan GrimSeptember 24, 2009 "Huffington Post' -- In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people's homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn't be tipped off that they're under investigation.Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? To go after drug dealers.Only three of the 763 "sneak-and-peek" requests in fiscal...

EXCERPT: Fear.  Be afraid!  Be very afraid! The socialists are coming!  The socialists are coming!    That RNC memo  Posted by Michael Tomasky Thursday 4 March 2010 13.25 GMT guardian.co.uk Washington is buzzing about the RNC memo that the Politico's Ben Smith got hold of, the one of a Power Point presentation whose slides include one of Obama as Heath Ledger's Joker and others arguing -- the presentation was made to RNC members at a...

EXCERPT:   There is a movement by the ignorant and devious among us to throw dust into our eyes concerning two major philosophies and the endgame when they deteriorate into their extreme alter ego:
(or more) party political system     Democrat Socialist Communist   Single party political system
Any Fascism According to AZ Moderate. The NAZIs Were Fascists - not Socialists! The Fascist Brown Shirts are on the......

EXCERPT: How do you guilty white liberals like your black man now. Heh
I told yas he was the worst of the worst. can you say 10% unemployed with no idea how to make it better?
good luck all of you broke ass Odummy voters...

EXCERPT: Let's examine who is driving Obama Care....
You might think it is some 'consumer advocate' alaDr. Quenton Young, a founder of the Physicians for a National Health Program and an old Chicago friend of Obama's, Dr. Sidney Wolfe, who heads Public Citizen's Health Research Group, Drs. Marcia Angell, Stephanie Woolhandler, and David Himmelstein, who are nationally known and accomplished single payer advocates or Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the fast-growing California Nurses...

EXCERPT: The delusional Dumbocrats would have you believe that NY-23 was the only importance election recently held. Nevermind that New Jersey and Virginia elected Republican Governors. It means nothing that Dear Leaders numbers continue to fall.
Forget that 40% of Americans decribe themselves as conservatives while 20% admit to being liberal. The dumbos continue to misrepresent the number of Americans who approve of their attempted takeover of the health care industry.
But now this!
November...

EXCERPT: Obama's Big SelloutThe president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveawayBy Matt Taibbi
December 09, 2009 "Rolling Stone" -- Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that...