Since 2007, there has been a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives and a slim majority of 51-49 took over in the Senate (although Senators Tim Johnson and Robert Byrd were often unavailable.) Consequently, the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party began to use the filibuster to shut down legislation. The filibuster requires that the majority party [...]
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What’s the Matter with Massachusetts?
January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
Scott Brown, the Republican member of the Massachusetts state legislature, who appeared nude in Cosmopolitan Magazine, is the new Senator from Massachusetts. He claims to be something like a Republican-Independent-Populist-Neoconservative-tea-bagger. His claim to populism is apparently that he owns a pickup truck. He apparently also likes baseball and football, as did George W. Bush. In [...]
Tags: Brown-Coakly election·health care debate·Massachusetts politics·Neoconservatives·obstruction·populist·Scott Brown·senate majorityk health care reform
Lessons for the “Tea Baggers” on the Bush Recession and Republican Aid to the Rich
December 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, International affairs, Politics
In November of 2008, while Barack Obama was winning an election, George W. Bush was already planning his exit. In addition to the two wars he was leaving us, the Bush Administration was preparing a surprise, a giant drop in the economy. Republicans in Wall Street had engineered speculative financial instruments based on derivatives tied [...]
Tags: Bush administration·deficit·Economic meltdown·jobs·national debt·Neoconservatives·obstruction·tea parties·the Great Recession·unemployment