“One Republican in Congress warned our policies would diminish employment and diminish stock prices. Diminish stock prices. (Laughter.) The stock market has doubled since I came into office. Corporate profits are — corporate balance sheets are stronger than they have ever been — be[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Radical Republicans’
March 19th, 2015 - 5:55 pm § in Politics
Republicans predicted economic calamity if Obama won. President Obama responds.
Do governors have a right to harass scientists working for the public?
When you work for a private company, you’re expected to conform to the employer’s wishes and work for the company’s best interests. If your conscience rebels against what you’re asked to do, your options are to either go along or quit. Thus, if Shell Oil sacks a scientist f[...]
March 18th, 2015 - 8:09 pm § in Politics
Florida state employee ordered to undergo mental evaluation after speaking about climate change
A Florida state employee has been suspended from work, given a letter of reprimand, and ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation after uttering the words “climate change” at a coastal management meeting on March 9, according to a Florida blogger. Republican Gov. Rick Scott has banne[...]
Now only religious people can get married in Oklahoma
Not content to deny the legal rights of marriage to gays, Oklahoma’s crazed Republican legislature today relegated atheists and agnostics to singlehood. According to Democratic Underground, “A bill that would restrict the right to marry to people of faith and [require] all marriage lice[...]
March 18th, 2015 - 10:12 am § in Politics
Republican legislator opposes auto jobs because they might bring unions to his state
A Tennessee Republican state legislator is so upset that new manufacturing jobs at a Volkswagen plant in his district might attract unions he refused to vote for $165.8 million of state incentives for the company. (Click here for source) Photo: State Sen. Bo Watson would rather have no jobs than uni[...]
March 17th, 2015 - 1:01 pm § in Politics
Before the Senate, Tom Cotton never held a job longer than a few months
“Moreover, we have to stand up to Iran’s attempts to drive for regional dominance. They already control Tehran …. ” — Sen. Tom Cotton Before getting elected Congressman, then Senator, by Arkansas voters (what were they thinking?), Tom Cotton — despite graduating from Har[...]
March 17th, 2015 - 11:01 am § in America
Of Jews and Radical Republicans
In the context of the current debate over Netanyahu’s insulting speech before Congress, it is important to note that there has been an ongoing effort by the radical right to turn Jews from our traditional support of liberalism by appealing to Israeli security. During the GW Bush “Glob[...]
March 14th, 2015 - 8:20 pm § in Politics
President Cotton blows up world
What if Tom Cotton, the inexperienced young senator from Arkansas who wrote the infamous Iran letter, had been president during the Cuban missile crisis? I probably wouldn’t be writing this, and you probably wouldn’t be reading it. During that near-fatal confrontation, rightwing hawks pu[...]
March 11th, 2015 - 9:15 am § in Politics
Is the GOP a rudderless ship?
Departing White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer, in an interview with New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait, explains how Obama lost his innocence and realized he can’t negotiate with Republicans: “ … The original premise of Obama’s first presidential campaign was that he could reason[...]