Political partisans tend to fall into the trap of mischaracterizing their opponents. This generally manifests itself as low-level innocuous stuff. Coastal liberals may think southerners are all gun-toting, bible thumpers or midwestern conservatives may think of city dwellers as metrosexual peaceniks. Most established, politically connected organizations would try to avoid getting tripped up by these common stereotypes. But most organizations are not the Heritage Foundation! Continue reading
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“There must be some kind of way out of here”
Said the joker to the thief
“There’s too much confusion,
I can’t get no relief”
This week on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher did an extended monologue in the “New Rules” segment on what a Liberal Tea Party might look like. Maher may be a terrible person, but as a political comedian he’s top notch. Regardless, it got me thinking: what might a real Liberal Tea Party look like? Continue reading
I know this ain’t Ezra Klein’s blog, but let’s wonk out for a moment.
Boehner’s debt ceiling plan really, really sucks. According to the president of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Mr. Sobbing Spray Tan’s debt ceiling deal “could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history.”
In short, the Boehner plan would force policymakers to choose among cutting the incomes and health benefits of ordinary retirees, repealing the guts of health reform and leaving an estimated 34 million more Americans uninsured, and savaging the safety net for the poor. It would do so even as it shielded all tax breaks, including the many lucrative tax breaks for the wealthiest and most powerful individuals and corporations.
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