the goofy GOPThe Republicans, so eager not to do anything that might improve the economy before the mid-term elections, or give President Obama any sort of political victory, blocked a small business bill that is supported by the GOP big money patrons at the Chambers of Commerce.

The GOP Senators, wound up in themselves and just filibustering away, missed the call from their big business bosses at the Chambers of Commerce, and in lock step, like block head robots, voted: No!

No! To tax breaks for small business! No! No! No! Why? Because Mr. Obama proposed them. No! To a tax break for all companies that make large capital purchases.

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People who do not understand Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich would think that they are the Congressional odd couple. One is a Republican, the other is a Democrat. One is a Libertarian and the other is a progressive. People think of one of them as steering to the right, and the other one as steering to the left. The fact is that both gentlemen have a lot in common. Neither is anywhere near the leadership of their political party, both have anti-establishment views, both are critics of the military-industrial complex and much of U.S. foreign policy, and both want American troops out of Pakistan, and have together, introduced, in the U.S. House, a privileged resolution to invoke the War Powers Act, and to direct the President of the United States, Mr. Obama, to withdraw U.S. forces from Pakistan.

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Right Wing Hit List: Shirley Sherrod Fail.: Dumb Politics, Shirley Sherrod, Big Government, Right Wing hitlist

Shirley SherrodThe firing of Shirley Sherrod shows why honest folks should not jump to conclusions, shows how much easier it is for some among us to believe the wrongs of a person quicker than the good, shows how easy it is in this country for persons of bad intent to falsify, mislead and to undermine the public good.

Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website should be renamed "The Big Lie." Mr. Breitbart is a right-wing race baiter, a liar who manufactures lies and distortion. He created and distributed a big lie about Shirley Sherrod,  a Department of Agriculture official, who was serving the people of rural Georgia. Using a highly edited film clip that completely distorted Ms Sherrod views, libeling her, as something that he obviously is, a racist, who practice race-baiting. He created a big stinking, outrageous mess.

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I voted Republican and all I got was a pink slip!

This man has cojones!

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) called it like it is on the House floor this past Monday when he said that Republicans blocking the reauthorization of unemployment benefits are trying to revive the America of the Great Depression era.

"There was no unemployment insurance back then," Grayson said, in one of the more colorful speeches on the issue. "There was no State benefits back then. There was no help for the people who had no jobs. All they could do, like my grandfather, in desperate straits, supporting a family of seven, was to go to the dump and desperately try to find something he could sell.

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The overwhelming majority of the American people are for financial reform. The overwhelming majority of the big money boys and gals on Wall Street are against it, and are ticked with the Democrats, and are showing their displeasure by making the Democrats pay a price for financial reform, by withholding financial contributions, and by channeling that money to the Republican Party. Now, if only the large majority of the American people, who are for financial reform, will show their displeasure with those who opposed it, by withholding their votes from the Republican Party!

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Write down the name Bill Delahunt. He is the kind of Democrat who gives the party a bad name, as the party of pickpockets, whom are out to pick the pockets of Americans -- as a gang of killjoys out to rob America of "the pursuit of Happiness."

This man Delahunt is on the hunt for new ways to tax, like a mad max tax man, driven by the misguided desire to tax Americans to the limit. Does he want to tax until America can not stand? He rides at the head of a horde of mad maxes, followers / worshipers of the gods of taxation, whom are out to tax America beyond the max. If he gets his way, he could leave the countryside and the economy, during the time of what maybe a double recession, in a wreck. Is this a stretch? No.

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Senate Republicans have gone home to party for the 4th of July. They've taken a whole week off from work. One of the last things they did was to filibuster the unemployment benefits extension; bill, which passed the House by a wide margin. The GOP Senators are leaving 1.3 million Americans hanging, the number may be 1.7 million by the end of the week. What does the GOP care, if those long term unemployed Americans go without? The GOP senators will have their backyard barbecues.

Press reports say the Democrats have called Republicans on their callousness: "I challenge you to look people in the eye and tell them that you voted no," said Representative John Lewis (D-GA). "Tell them as they swallow their pride that you don't care."

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Reuters just referred to Bill Clinton as Bill “The Comeback Kid” Clinton. Where did that come from?

He’s campaigning for Democrats to try and help them retain majorities in both Houses of Congress this Fall. For one, how is that a comeback? And for two, how is it strange for a current or former president to campaign to help his party? Referencing his campaigning for Blanche Lincoln, Reuters credits Clinton with helping her overcome “anti-incumbent fervor” in her Arkansas re-election bid. I’m sure it helped people to see the home-state former governor and president out stomping for Lincoln, but that doesn’t seem like anything out of the ordinary to me. It seems like how politics work.

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