So UNH, paired, as they are on occasion, with the Boston Globe, put out the eleventy hundreth NH-Primary poll of the GOP presidential aspirant circus. Snooze. Until you dig into it and see that someone made an excellent decision to ask interesting questions of the poll respondents. Let’s start with the deficit-busting Bush tax cuts: [...]
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Frank Guinta Does “All the Right Things Politically”
By Dean Barker on November 13, 2011 in
Tags: Frank Guinta, medicare, social security, stimulus, veterans
Frank Guinta earned an up arrow this week: The first district Congressman continues to do all the right things politically. This week, he was in the paper for visiting a school, and now he is holding job fairs for veterans. Politically, Frank Guinta is doing all the right things. In terms of actual help for [...]
Don’t Let the Right Smear Social Security
Claims that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme are just part of a continuing right-wing campaign to smear our most successful, and most popular, government program. Social Security was created in 1935 to solve a problem: millions of Americans were living in poverty due to retirement or the death of the family breadwinner. The solution [...]
Frank Guinta’s Social Security Shouldn’ts
Candidate Frank Guinta, May 2010: “My kids are six and five. They shouldn’t know what Social Security is.” Congressman Frank Guinta, September 2011: we shouldn’t talk about eliminating Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid. We should talk about preserving it, protecting it, making it financially sound. People who want to represent you really shouldn’t be [...]
August 14, 1935
“We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.” [...]
On Speaking To Power, Or, When Sanity’s Gone, There’s Always Satire
By fake consultant on August 1, 2011 in
Tags: @whitehouse, #thanksalot, action, Comedy, Congress, Debt, debt ceiling, Democrats, Economics, elections, humor, medicare, Obama, politics, Republicans, satire, snark, social security, Twitter, White House
So everybody’s hearing the news, right? There is a tentative debt ceiling deal, and this Administration and Congressional Democrats seem to have won everything they wanted: Republicans get to have multiple “we don’t approve” votes before 2012 on raising the debt ceiling, there won’t be any new revenue, there’s going to be another “hostage-taking” event [...]
On Running Your Own Government, Or, Why Pay The Military?
By fake consultant on July 29, 2011 in
Tags: Congress, Debt Limit, Democrats, economy, elections, Medicaid, medicare, politics, Republicans, social security
I have not been talking about the insanity around the debt ceiling and debt and deficit and the efforts of Republicans to drive us all off the cliff, but I am today – and I’m going to do it by allowing you to grab ahold of this problem and see for yourself just how unbelievably [...]
Open Thread: TMTCTMTSTS*
* The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is an open thread.h/t: @NashuaDemocrats
Some Good News From The Hill
This just in: House Republican leaders have called off negotiations with the White House over a broad deficit reduction deal tied to an increase in the federal debt limit and will begin exclusive talks with Senate leaders to avert a government default on Aug. 2, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced Friday. Boehner told House Republicans [...]
The tax that pays for Social Security
The topic on the Exchange this morning was Social Security. Here’s a comment I posted there, to highlight one aspect of this debate that seems to be overlooked. Hope this is not redundant for many of you.One facet of the debate over Social Security that I think is often overlooked is the WAY we are [...]
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