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“You’re letting all of us down”

October 3, 2017 By fredrichlariccia 1 Comment

I was so proud of my local newspaper's - the Wakefield Daily Item - editorial today condemning Congressional inaction on gun safety control : "... While we watched the footage yesterday in numbed resignation to the fact that nothing is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: guns, katherine-clark, las-vegas, Paul Ryan, Seth Moulton

Latest Budget Deal Just Another Setback For The Far Right

November 1, 2015 By steven-j-gulitti 2 Comments

In what is shaping up to be a year of setbacks for the Republican Party's far right, last Friday's budget deal can only be seen as yet another defeat. Senator Ted Cruz labeled the deal “a slap in the face to conservatives.” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, club-for-growth, Debt Limit, Export - Import Bank, George Will, harry-reid, Heritage Action, john-boehner, medicare, mitch-mcconnell, nancy-pelosi, new-deal, Paul Ryan, republican-party, Sequestration, social-security, tea-party, Ted Cruz

Paul Ryan, Shameless Liar: School Lunch Edition

March 7, 2014 By thegreenmiles 5 Comments

For someone with a reputation in Washington as a teller of hard truths, no one tells more obvious lies than Paul Ryan. When he went on national television to accept the GOP vice presidential nomination in 2012, his speech was loaded with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: education, Paul Ryan, poverty

A Solidly Republican House Crashes Down on Grover Norquist

January 3, 2013 By steven-j-gulitti 4 Comments

At this point all I can do is laugh when I think about how some of my friends on the far right were naive as to think that sensible Republicans in Congress had failed to heed the message of the 2012 election and the current political … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-elections, barack-obama, Charles Krauthammer, Deficit Talks, Eric Cantor, Fiscal Cliff, grover-norquist, john-boehner, mitch-mcconnell, Patrick J. Toomey, Paul Ryan, tax-policy, tea-party-movement, tom-coburn

Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?

October 19, 2012 By lynne 2 Comments

The soup kitchen where veep nom Paul Ryan staged his faux cleanup photo op, against, it appears, the wishes and policy of said soup kitchen, is seeing backlash (it appears to be Republican in nature...for what, embarrassing Paul Ryan who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: charity, Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Whistling Past Reality

August 30, 2012 By steven-j-gulitti 1 Comment

I just finished watching Paul Ryan's convention speech and I was dumbstruck by this supposed policy wonk's complete and obvious ability to craft a speech that was so at variance to the facts and then expect the voters to take him seriously. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, mitt-romney, Paul Ryan, Republican National Convention

Who’s Beholden to Foreign Ideas?‏

August 21, 2012 By steven-j-gulitti 1 Comment

Ever since Sarah Palin ran around proclaiming that Barack Obama is a "Socialist" there has been an unrelenting effort by the right to portray the president as someone beholden to foreign ideas. Whether it flows from the fever swamp of right … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012 Presidential Election, Ayn Rand, barack-obama, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, mitt-romney, Paul Ryan, republican-party

NeoCon Kristol Unsettled by G.O.P. Contenders

September 28, 2011 By steven-j-gulitti Leave a Comment

William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative organ, The Weekly Standard, recently bemoaned the performance of conservative candidates during the last Republican presidential debate. He claims to be saying out loud what he implies is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-presidential-elections, barack-obama, chris-christie, Expeditionary Warfare and Public Opinion, jeb-bush, Military Operations, Mitch Daniels, mitt-romney, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, Weekly Standard, william-kristol

Gingrich’s Presidential Campaign Capsized By the Winds of Folly

June 9, 2011 By steven-j-gulitti Leave a Comment

Back in March of this year in an article on the Gingrich presidential campaign, "Newt Gingrich's Dream, Driven by the Winds of Folly?", I posed the question of why Newt Gingrich would even bother to seriously consider a run for the Oval … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-presidential-elections, Herman Cain, michele-bachmann, mitt-romney, newt-gingrich, Paul Ryan, republican-party, Rick Santorum, rush-limbaugh, sarah-palin

Barack Obama on a Roll

May 26, 2011 By steven-j-gulitti 4 Comments

I know this sort of summarization will set the fringe full mooners on the right all atwitter but the last month or so has been pretty good to President Obama:    1. He received a rock star reception in Ireland and now in England … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-elections, barack-obama, Medicare Reform, N.Y. A.D. 26 Special Election, Obama's Approval Rating, Osama bin Laden, Paul Ryan, TARP. Auto Bailout

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Look, people confused Charlie Baker "not being Donald Trump" with "trustworthy verging on infallible."

Well gosh that was never true, to say the least. #StockholmSyndrome

Kevin B. Gilnack@kgilnack

👀 https://twitter.com/bill_shaner/status/1365100351502880770

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Sydney Rachael Levin-Epstein@SYDNEYRACHAEL_

is #mapoli pronounced

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“Utter breakdown ... *it’s just not okay*” [emphasis original]

Cindy Friedman@CindyFriedmanMA

Earlier, I spoke at the #MACOVIDOversight hearing and voiced my concerns & the concerns of my colleagues and constituents. I then asked @MassGovernor what I believe was a straightforward question...and received a not-so-straightforward response.

Read my full statement below: 2

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In 2014, I was a clerk for the ME legislature's enviro committee and I'm flabbergasted by the arguments by progressive Reps (many of whom I respect) against making committee votes and testimony public. /1 #mapoli @act_on_mass @byChrisVan @statehousenews
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What conditions accounts for this?

H/T @carboncounts

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