The Dog Ate Paul Ryan’s Homework
First he said he never requested stimulus. Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan told Cincinnati’s WCPO today that he “never” requested stimulus funds for his Wisconsin district in 2009. The...
View ArticlePresident Obama Rescued the Economy. Period.
Here’s Paul Ryan with some honesty, then a gigantic lie: “Now, let’s be candid, President Obama clearly inherited a very difficult situation. There are no two ways about that. Problem is, he made...
View ArticleYou Know Who Totally Kicked Ass This Weekend?
Chris Hayes and his staff. That’s who. They dug up an clip from 2002 showing Paul Ryan making the Obama/Democratic/Keynesian case for stimulus spending during a slow recovery, on the floor of the House...
View ArticleThis Will Make Your Brain Hurt
The Republicans featured a series of business owners who spoke at the convention yesterday as part of the “we built this” theme, ostensibly relating the notion that the government didn’t help...
View ArticleMore Republican Fiscal Contradictions and Confusion in Tampa
My Thursday column continues to dissect the Republican contradictions about the debt with a mind-boggling example: When a political party not only builds a convention theme but an entire political...
View ArticleRepublicans Cry About Lack of ‘Civility’ at DNC
My Thursday column examines the Republican definition of “civility” and “class.” Predictably, the Romney campaign and its apparatchiks at Fox News accused the Democrats of lacking “civility” during the...
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For the Thousandth Time: the Stimulus Worked!
It might surprise most of the backwards, non-reality based conservatives to know that the stimulus not only worked, but the economy isn’t nearly as bad as they’d like it to be. That’s no coincidence....
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Sorry, Republicans, But the Economy Keeps Growing
I’m sure this is a massive conspiracy by the Obama administration that demands portly Dean Chambers to unskew it, but here you go: The economy grew at a substantially faster pace in the third quarter...
View ArticleHow About More Spending or Another Stimulus?
Dare to dream, but look — the president will have cut the deficit in half within his first four fiscal years, from $1.4 trillion in 2009 to $642 billion by the end of this year. That’s far lower than...
View ArticleObama Borrows from Jan Brewer — In a Good Way
Remember last week when we learned that Jan Brewer vowed to veto everything until the Arizona legislature passed the Medicaid expansion? On the podcast, I noted that perhaps the president should take...
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