David Stockman, Reagan’s budget director, ran a scathing op-ed in the NYT yesterday: Like his new boss, Mr. Ryan has no serious plan to create jobs. America has some of the highest labor costs in the world, and saddles workers and businesses with $1 trillion per year in job-destroying payroll…
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From ThinkProgress: [Yesterday] mark[ed] the 77th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law, creating arguably America’s most successful social program. “We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have…
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From Politico: The most cutting criticism of Ryan…is that Ryan isn’t ready to be president — or doesn’t come across as ready. A youthful man who looks even younger than his 42 years, Ryan could end up labeled as Sarah Palin with a PowerPoint presentation, several operatives said. “He just…
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Mittens took great pains to keep his VP pick under wraps, even hiding the man out in the woods: Ryan returned home in the early afternoon and went inside through the back as he was locked out of his side door, telling reporters who stood watching on the sidewalk he…
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Today’s Slate wonders whether Mittens just lost Florida: In choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney: a) doesn’t get a bump in Florida from choosing homestate Senator Marco Rubio b) risks scaring off elderly people worried abour protecting their entitlements. As Marc Caputo points out in the Miami…
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Game on Mitt Romney selected his VP candidate on Saturday, enthralling Democrats everywhere. Time and time again Romney has embraced Ryan’s budget, which sets out a plan to steal money from the poor to give to the wealthy. On top of this, Ryan embraced the Personhood Amendment. He is anti-woman.…
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Part 1: What’s Next for DOMA and Marriage Equality on Trial? by Scottie Thomaston The past few weeks have seen a flurry of new developments in the courts concerning DOMA and marriage equality cases. The proponents of Prop 8 – in Perry, the challenge to the California constitutional amendment –…
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Massacre in Wisconsin, Members of Sikh Temple are Killed Another senseless tragedy has befallen America: a gun toting individual went into a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and massacred several people who were simply meditating peacefully on their lives and their relationship to all things spiritual. This senseless gun violence comes…
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