POLITICO has a great summary of the 20 horses in the race. Here is a glossary to help you understand the political terminology A ACROSSTHEBOARD- A bet on a horse to win, place and show. If the horse wins, the player collects three ways; if second, two ways; and if third, one way, losing the [&hellip[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Republicans’
December 7th, 2014 - 4:07 pm § in America
GOP congressman predicts riots if CIA torture report is disclosed
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) told CNN today that releasing a Senate report on CIA torture is a “terrible idea” because it’s likely to provoke a violent backlash in foreign countries if they find out what our last Republican administration did to their fellow citizens. Former CIA torture[...]
December 1st, 2014 - 2:19 pm § in Politics
GOP Takes Revenge Against Obama By Screwing The Working Poor
“With negotiators nearing an accord on permanent tax breaks for businesses worth $440 billion over 10 years, President Obama … promised a veto. … Left off were … a permanently expanded earned-income credit and a child tax credit for the working poor. Friday night, Republic[...]
December 1st, 2014 - 12:17 pm § in Politics
Congress creates its own science
If you don’t like what science says, just pass a law that makes the earth flat. Then it’ll be flat, it’s as simple as that. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/28/1347731/-Steve-Stockman-demands-our-nation-s-scientists-investigate-the-Stockman-Effect?detail=email# [...]
November 30th, 2014 - 12:34 pm § in America
Radical Republicans
Congress Poised To Eliminate Key Tax Breaks For Middle Class, Provide Permanent Tax Breaks For… The package of tax breaks would permanently extend relief for big multinational corporations without providing breaks for middle or lower-income families. thinkprogress.org[...]
November 30th, 2014 - 11:42 am § in Misc.
The GOP: Convergent Evolution
Convergent evolution describes the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages. Convergent evolution creates analogous structures that have similar form or function, but that were not present in the last common ancestor of those groups.[1] The cladistic term for the sa[...]
November 30th, 2014 - 10:52 am § in Misc.
RADICAL REPUGNANT REPUBLICANS
Republican staffer says Obama daughters are disrespectful and dress like bar sluts [...]
November 28th, 2014 - 12:37 pm § in Environment, Misc.
What Climate Change?
GLACIER NAT’L PARK’S FUTURE: NO GLACIERS DEA / W. BUSS via Getty Images[...]
November 27th, 2014 - 1:23 am § in America
HAPPY THNKSGIVING: Unless you work for WalMart
Based on story by Laura Clawson at Daily KOS ..(click image for her full text) Walmart workers are forced to rely on government assistance to make ends meet. But PR is all … Walmart is totally concerned for its “associates” .. expressing their sincerity like China’s corpora[...]
November 24th, 2014 - 9:34 am § in Misc.
Radical Republicans
I found the cartoonist choices of skin tines interesting. Is this a comment on Clarence Thomas and John Scott?[...]