In a recent PPP poll in NC, 15% of Republicans thought Mitt Romney deserved more credit for killing Osama Bin Laden, while another 56% said they weren’t sure whether Romney or Obama was more responsible. That makes a whopping 71% of NC Republicans who either think Romney had more to do with Bin Laden’s death, or they’re just not sure. A similar result was found in an Ohio poll.
No joke…Tea Party nutbag Chuck Noriss and his wife warn of a 1000 years of darkness if Obama is reelected. You tell me how a President is supposed to get things done when this crap represents a sizeable and intransigent part of the Republican base…
Counter to conservative economic dogma, there is no evidence that tax cuts for the rich result in economic growth. Anyone who paid attention through Reagan, Clinton, and GW Bush can tell you this is the case, but there’s ample analysis supporting this fact. In fact, a new study from the Congressional Research Service, “Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945”, looked at 65 years of evidence and found that tax cuts for the top rates and lowering of the capital gains rates had only one discernible effect: increasing income inequality between the richest and everyone else: … Continue reading this post
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