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Facts is Facts: Supply Side Economics Has Been An Epic Failure

Republicany party public policy is a God-damn-national-disaster. Why anybody but the top 1% and enemies of the United States would want it is beyond us.

WTF?

Rick Perry today on Fox News Sunday: The idea that a commander-in-chief would stand up and signal to the enemy a date certain of when we’re going to pull our troops out I think is irresponsible. You need to be talking to your commanders in the field. You need to be working with the experts who understand what is going on in those countries, for instance. We need to finish our mission in Iraq and Afghanistan. You better believe I want out kids home as soon as we can and safe. But to give that signal that we’re pulling them out is bad public policy and, more importantly, its putting our kids lives in jeopardy[...]

Right, because lying and cheating to initiate a hugely counter productive war, where tens of thousands of our kids have been killed or maimed, isn't putting our kids lives in jeopardy, but pulling them out is. Unreal. Remember, tens of millions of Republicans love this guy.

Rentboy.com

Raw Story: It’s almost more newsworthy these days when a conservative Republican politician turns out to not be in the closet. According to Talking Points Memo, Medford, New Jersey mayor Chris Myers insists that he is not resigning in spite of a mushrooming scandal involving his purported contact with a male prostitute who he procured through the website “Rentboy.com”.

We're quite sure Rentboy.com gets most of their business from closeted Republican types. This is because if you're not part of the conservative movement you can actually admit you're gay, have relationships with other adults, keep your job, and lead a normal life. You don't have to go underground. It's pretty clear conservative philosophy not only leads to ruined economies, ruined environments, ineffective government, and bullshit wars, but also fits of criminal perversion.

Confederate Tendencies

Headline: Texas Handgun Instructor Won't Teach Muslims Or Liberals

Anybody who would publicly announce such a thing seems well on the way down the road to being the next right-wing, gun-crazy, violent, Republican terrorist. Not only does this man need to be watched, but so to do the people his does choose to train.

Mistake?

Headline: Maher Panel Rips GOP Strategist For Not Admitting Iraq Invasion Was Wrong

This panel misses the mark. We're far beyond whether Bush, Cheney and Republicans made the right decision to invade and occupy Iraq. The available evidence shows they knew they were lying about Niger yellow cake, Sadam's relationship with Bin Ladin, aluminum tubes, and curvball. They knew Sadam was not a threat because logic, past behavior, and CIA had told them so. And yet they invaded anyway. This makes them war criminals. And it makes anybody who is defending them now a very dangerous person to have around.

Clear And Present Danger

(CNN) -- Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are scheduled to march on the offices of five major banks and financial-services firms in Manhattan on Friday, a day after a California mayor apologized for a police crackdown against demonstrators that left an Iraq war veteran hospitalized.

Wall Street is not to blame. Transnational corporations are not to blame. They're no more to blame than a great white shark hunting prey. These entities exist to hunt short term profits. It's what they do. It's all they do. It's what the corporate charter demands. Just ask the stockholders.

In nature and in business we need both the predators and protection from them. To a significant degree they drive our evolution. But when it comes to business, if we (government by the people) let them, they will destroy the planet, the people on it, and eventually themselves (as their eternal drive to cut costs destroys the market). The private sector must be watched closely, regulated heavily, and if they provide essential services, regulated even more.

So let's be clear: what is to blame for the deregulation that allowed the looting of the financial system is Republican Party public policy. What is to blame for the tax policy that's increasing the gap between the rich and everybody else is Republican Party public policy. What is to blame for offshoring of jobs and corporate profit is Republican Party public policy. What is to blame for the financial meltdown we suffered in 2008-2009 is Republican Party public policy. What is to blame for the slow recovery of the job market is Republican Party public policy. What is to blame for the destruction of the environment is Republican Party public policy. Republican party public policy makes us shark bait. That's not our opinion, it's the historical record.

By Any Objective Measure

Think Progress: The Congressional Budget Office today released a new report on the growth in income that’s occurred in the U.S. over the last three decades. CBO found that, “for the 1 percent of the population with the highest income, average real after-tax household income grew by 275 percent between 1979 and 2007,” while it grew by just 18 percent for the bottom 20 percent of the income scale. “As a result of that uneven income growth, the distribution of after-tax household income in the United States was substantially more unequal in 2007 than in 1979,” CBO said.

This is another result of Reaganomics (which of course has been standard Republicans party policy since 1980). By every measure, it's a God-damn-national-disaster. The only people who can logically cheer GOP public policy are the top 1%, and enemies of the United States. It's as simple as that.