GOP Wants to Deprive Poor & Middle Class
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 29th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
GOP Wants to Deprive Poor & Middle Class
Eugene Robinson, Wash Post
WASHINGTON — The hard-right conservatives who dominate the Republican Party claim to despise the redistribution of wealth, but secretly they love it — as long as the process involves depriving the poor and middle class to benefit the rich, not the other way around.That is precisely what has been happening, as a jaw-dropping new report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office demonstrates. Three decades of trickle-down economic theory, see-no-evil deregulation and tax-cutting fervor have led to massive redistribution. Another word for what's been happening might be theft.The gist…
Racism Claim Won’t Silence Obama Critics
Nolan Finley, Detroit News
Being called a racist ought to bother me more than it does. But I guess it's like any other annoyance; after a while you get used to it.I hardly flinch when that or another adjective ending in “ist” is slapped in front of my name. As a conservative, it comes with the territory — detest the entitlement state, stand up for individual responsibility and merit, oppose the swelling of a wasteful and incompetent government, fight to keep the tax man from taking more from your wallet than he leaves behind, and obviously you are a racist. And a sexist, an elitist and likely a…
Perry and Cain Aren’t Closing the Sale
Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post
I’ve been making the case for some time that Herman Cain isn’t up to the task of being president and that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a serious likability problem. The Post’s Dan Balz finds evidence that some voter agree. In observing an Ohio focus group, Dan writes:Part of this may be a huge gender gap. Women see Perry as the know-it all husband, the obnoxious neighbor or the vain boss. His uber-aggressive pose in the last debate might not have resonated so poorly with men, but women would see “jerk” in the personal attack on Mitt…
Ohio Measure Raises Dems’ 2012 Hopes
Michael Fletcher, Washington Post
A controversial law sharply curtailing collective-bargaining rights for Ohio’s public employees is sinking in the polls, raising Democratic hopes that the measure’s defeat could boost their prospects in the crucial swing state in 2012.The law’s diminishing poll numbers have coincided with a decline in the approval ratings of Republican Gov. John R. Kasich, the measure’s most visible proponent. The drop is coming as the law’s union-led opponents have waged an energetic campaign against a measure that they say represents an overreach by the…
