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The Republicans have a new plan to help the economy
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Ezra Klein: Mitt Romney’s budget plan is a fantasy and it will never happen
Ezra Klein dismantles the pure fantasy behind Romney’s fuzzy budget claims as logistically impossible (emphasis below is mine): But Ryan’s budget includes more than $700 billion in Medicare cuts over...
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“Nuns on a Bus” want Mitt Romney to join them — even for one hour
Think Progress reports “The group behind the Nuns On A Bus tour that highlighted the ill-effects of the House Republican budget in congressional districts across the country is now setting its sights...
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TPC on Mitt Romney’s tax plan: great for the wealthy, terrible for everyone else
Think Progress reports that “the non-partisan Tax Policy Center released an analysis this month showing that, in order for to Mitt Romney to achieve all of the goals he had laid out in his tax plan, he...
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GOP War on the Middle Class: the RNC dumps support for the mortgage interest...
Businessweek reports that ahead of the Republican National Convention, the GOP dumped the mortgage interest deduction from its platform (but kept donations to “charity” – like to the Mormon Church!):...
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On the GOP: “The capture of one of our great parties by fanatics is nothing...
Robert Reich laments the insanity that has taken over the Republican Party (emphasis below is mine): We’re witnessing the capture by fanatics of what was once a great and important American political...
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Once upon a time, there was an American middle class
From a Pew study showing that America’s middle class is receiving less of the nation’s income than it did 40 years ago — 17% less: The new study reviewed 2010 data from the Census Bureau and Federal...
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Wake up, Teapublican base voters
via …and the billionaires (and their Republican politicians) certainly don’t care about your little social issues either. That’s called ‘lip service’ to get you into the voting booth.
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Romney and Ryan’s super-awesome budget plan will remain a secret until after...
From ABC’s This Week transcript (h/t: politicususa): STEPHANOPOULOS: How do you make the math work without eliminating the big deductions that middle-class families rely on? RYAN: Well, first of all,...
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Under Romney’s tax “reforms,” Sheldon Adelson could reap 9 times what he’s...
Think Progress reports: “Romney’s corporate tax reforms would also provide Adelson’s casino company approximately $1.2 billion in tax breaks on overseas profits and $565 million from Romney’s proposed...
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Romney’s economic plan: there is no there there
“Mitt’s economic “plan” is just a set of goals. Imagine I came up with a plan to become rich that went: write bestselling novel, start hit restaurant chain, invent next Internet.” — Michael Tomasky
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Mr. Romney has no idea what life (and death) are like for those less...
“The Romney-Ryan position on health care is that many millions of Americans must be denied health insurance, and millions more deprived of the security Medicare now provides, in order to save money. At...
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Mitt Romney’s plan: a unicorn in every stable
“It’s easy to say that ‘My plan is to eat ice cream sundaes and chocolate cake and hamburgers as much as I want, my plan is to lose 60 pounds, and my plan is to avoid painful exercise, and those …...
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Mitt Romney said federal disaster relief is an “immoral” debt, “makes no...
Mother Jones: With Hurricane Sandy set to make landfall in the Mid-Atlantic, Mitt Romney’s policies for federal emergency management seem as relevant as ever. And the candidate’s budget, as described...
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