Archive for October 2nd, 2007

UPDATE: It is time for a war tax

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UPDATE: Al is talking about this on his show now. It should be fun listening to  the wingnuts call in and defend the status quo. _________________________________________________ A full cut and paste is the only way to do justice to this Americablog post. House Approps chair Obey: It’s time for a war tax by makeprofilelink(“John Aravosis […]

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empty walls

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[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=fkCfy4HiG9Q&mode=related&search=] great video for you Iraqi War lovers  Your empty walls… Your empty walls… Pretentious attention Dismissive aprehension

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The Gop Hearts Children

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“If the president vetoes this bill, he will be vetoing health care for almost 4 million children, and he will be putting ideology — not children — first,” Sen. Hillary Clinton But Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, wasn’t buying that argument. “This is a perfect example of the type of partisan politics that goes on in […]

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Partisanship is yucky. It makes Mike Castle and Celia Cohen cry.

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Nobody else seems to think that debating issues is a real problem. Princeton Survey Research Associates for the Kaiser Family Foundation (PDF). 8/2-8. Adults. (No trend lines) To begin… What do you think is the most important problem for the government to address? Is there another problem you think is almost as important for the […]

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Go ahead and poison yourself. See if I care.

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This proves what I’ve long suspected. Air freshener kills!

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Dow at Record High! We Rock! Say it with me…U! S! A!….U! S! A!

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Our economy is like the US hockey team……or not… “So the health is the US corporations is becoming completely decoupled from that of the US economy, which is a frankly new development. That may or may not be a good thing (it certainly is for the investor class), but it is worth flagging, as it […]

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The GOP Dating Game

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Are you old enough to remember a game show called “The Dating Game” in which a sexy babe questioned three studs (one of them being a screwball) to figure out who she wanted to go to Puerto Vallarta with? As you may recall, whoever came off as the biggest screw-ball had an excellent chance of […]

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